In today’s recent session, 2.02 million shares of the Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) have been traded, and its beta is 1.25. Most recently the company’s share price was $34.46, and it changed around $0.48 or 1.41% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $19.64B. LUV at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $36.12, offering almost -4.82% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $23.58, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 31.57% since then. We note from Southwest Airlines Co’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 10.06 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 12.14 million.
Southwest Airlines Co stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.88. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 2 out of 24 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 2 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 11 recommended LUV as a Hold, whereas 5 deemed it a Buy, and 4 rated it as Underweight.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) trade information
Instantly LUV has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 1.41% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 34.81 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 1.01%. The company’s shares are currently up 27.91% year-to-date, but still up 3.14% over the last five days. On the other hand, Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) is 2.93% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 47.5 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 4.11 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $34, which translates to bulls needing to decrease their stock price by -1.35% from its current value. Analyst projections state that LUV is forecast to be at a low of $33 and a high of $34.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a negative earnings growth rate of -29.29%. Southwest Airlines Co earnings are expected to increase by 13.23% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 52.60% per year for the next five years.
LUV Dividends
Southwest Airlines Co’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Apr-23. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 2.09 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.72. It is important to note, however, that the 2.09% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 1.03 per year.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 1.07% of Southwest Airlines Co shares, and 94.04% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 95.05%. Southwest Airlines Co stock is held by 1080.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 11.286% of the shares, which is about 67.6 million shares worth $1.93 billion.
CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, with 9.6694% or 57.92 million shares worth $1.66 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
VANGUARD CHESTER FUNDS-Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 25.37 shares worth $872.72 million, making up 4.45% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund held roughly 18.7 shares worth around $643.15 million, which represents about 3.28% of the total shares outstanding.
