In last trading session, Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) saw 8.7 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.25. Company’s recent per share price level of $37.41 trading at $0.28 or 0.75% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $21.32B. That closing price of LUV’s stock is at a discount of -1.18% from its 52-week high price of $37.85 and is indicating a premium of 36.97% from its 52-week low price of $23.58. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 10.93 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 11.93 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Southwest Airlines Co (LUV), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.96. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 16 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 8 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 8 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 0.75%, in the last five days LUV remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Thursday, 07/10/25 when the stock touched $37.41 price level, adding 1.16% to its value on the day. Southwest Airlines Co’s shares saw a change of 35.89% in year-to-date performance and have moved 8.31% in past 5-day. Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) showed a performance of 17.90% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 47.5 million shares which calculate 4.11 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 34 to the stock, which implies a fall of -10.03% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 33 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 34. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 11.79% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 11.79% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -29.29% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 11.53% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 52.21%.
LUV Dividends
Southwest Airlines Co is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-23 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 1.92%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.72 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 1.03%.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 1.07% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 94.04 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 95.05%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 94.04% institutions for Southwest Airlines Co that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at LUV for having 67.6 million shares of worth $1.93 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 11.286 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, which was holding about 57.92 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.6694 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $1.66 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD CHESTER FUNDS-Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 25.37 shares of worth $949.22 million or 4.45% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 18.7 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $699.53 million in the company or a holder of 3.28% of company’s stock.
