Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) has a beta value of 1.20 and has seen 1.86 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $18.30B, closed the recent trade at $32.11 per share which meant it gained $0.82 on the day or 2.62% during that session. The LUV stock price is -12.49% off its 52-week high price of $36.12 and 26.56% above the 52-week low of $23.58.
The consensus among analysts is that Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 3.04. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 8 out of 16 have rated it as a Hold, with 8 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.51.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) trade information
Sporting 2.62% in the green today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the LUV stock price touched $32.11 or saw a rise of 2.04%. Year-to-date, Southwest Airlines Co shares have moved -4.50%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 6.04%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) have changed 25.62%.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $33.5, which means that the shares’ value could jump 4.15% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $28.0 while the price target rests at a high of $36.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -12.11% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 12.8% from the levels at last check today..
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 1.03% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 2.40%.
14 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 7.3B for the current quarter. 14 have an estimated revenue figure of 7.06B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 7.35B and 6.87B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will shrink by -0.79% for the current quarter and 2.40% for the next.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -29.29% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 22.38% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 52.16%.
LUV Dividends
Southwest Airlines Co is expected to release its next earnings report in June this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 0.72 at a share yield of 2.24%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV)’s Major holders
The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 67.6 million shares worth more than $1.93 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 11.286% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, with the holding of over 57.92 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $1.66 billion and represent 9.6694% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD CHESTER FUNDS-Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . As of Dec 31, 2024 , the former fund manager holds about 4.42% shares in the company for having 25.17 shares of worth $811.74 million while later fund manager owns 18.79 shares of worth $606.02 million as of Dec 31, 2024 , which makes it owner of about 3.30% of company’s outstanding stock.
