Southwest Airlines/$LUV
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About Southwest Airlines
Southwest Airlines is the largest domestic air carrier in the United States by passengers boarded. Southwest operates nearly 800 aircraft in an all-Boeing 737 fleet. Despite offering some longer routes and a few perks for business travelers, the airline predominantly specializes in short-haul, leisure flights operated with a simple cabin configuration in a point-to-point network. In early 2026, Southwest modified its cabins to offer some rows with extra legroom, its ticketing process and merchandising to offer assigned seats, and more fare categories to include a basic economy class that appears for the first time in travel aggregators' search results and more directly competes with other airlines' offerings.
Ticker
$LUV
Sector
Mobility
Primary listing
NYSE
Employees
73,401
Headquarters
Website
LUV Metrics
BasicAdvanced
$24bn
31.92
$1.53
1.16
$0.72
1.48%
Price and volume
Market cap
$24bn
Beta
1.16
52-week high
$55.11
52-week low
$28.98
Average daily volume
6.3m
Dividend rate
$0.72
Financial strength
Current ratio
0.478
Quick ratio
0.367
Long term debt to equity
76.291
Total debt to equity
93.033
Dividend payout ratio (TTM)
47.12%
Interest coverage (TTM)
8.07%
Profitability
EBITDA (TTM)
2,213
Gross margin (TTM)
23.01%
Net profit margin (TTM)
2.83%
Operating margin (TTM)
3.35%
Effective tax rate (TTM)
21.44%
Revenue per employee (TTM)
$390,000
Management effectiveness
Return on assets (TTM)
1.94%
Return on equity (TTM)
10.06%
Valuation
Price to earnings (TTM)
31.923
Price to revenue (TTM)
0.874
Price to book
3.53
Price to tangible book (TTM)
4.11
Price to free cash flow (TTM)
-67.143
Free cash flow yield (TTM)
-1.49%
Free cash flow per share (TTM)
-0.725
Dividend yield (TTM)
1.48%
Forward dividend yield
1.48%
Growth
Revenue change (TTM)
4.72%
Earnings per share change (TTM)
72.40%
3-year revenue growth (CAGR)
5.18%
10-year revenue growth (CAGR)
3.71%
3-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
13.02%
10-year earnings per share growth (CAGR)
-7.70%
3-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
25.99%
10-year dividend per share growth (CAGR)
9.15%
What the Analysts think about LUV
Analyst ratings (Buy, Hold, Sell) for Southwest Airlines stock.
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LUV News
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Airline stocks shrug as State Department tells Americans to exercise ‘worldwide caution' in travel warning
Fast Company·2 days ago
Southwest MAX Incident Revives Headline Risk for Boeing and Airline Stocks
MarketBeat·2 weeks ago
US airlines' spent over $6 billion on monthly fuel in May amid Iran war — up 84% from year ago
New York Post·2 weeks ago
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