Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) open the trading on Wednesday, with a bit cautious approach as it glided -1.41% to $30.10, before settling in for the price of $30.53 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, LUV posted a 52-week range of $23.58-$36.12.
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The company of the Industrials sector’s yearbook sales growth during the past 5- year span was recorded 16.11%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -29.29%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 72.08%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $593.31 million, simultaneously with a float of $585.90 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $17.84 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $31.33, while the 200-day Moving Average is $29.88.
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) Ownership Facts and Figures
Sometimes it helps to make our mind if we keep our tabs on how bigger investors are working with the stock of the Airlines industry. Southwest Airlines Co’s current insider ownership accounts for 1.14%, in contrast to 86.82% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Jan 30 ’25, this organization’s Director bought 118 shares at the rate of 31.28, making the entire transaction reach 3,691 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 118. Preceding that transaction, on Dec 06 ’24, Company’s Chief Administration Officer sold 3,849 for 34.40, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 132,386. This particular insider is now the holder of 89,376 in total.
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) Earnings and Revenue Records
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.83 per share during the current fiscal year.
Southwest Airlines Co’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 72.08% and is forecasted to reach 2.50 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 49.42% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the -29.29% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Southwest Airlines Co (LUV). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.85. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.19. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $42.38, and its Beta score is 0.99. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.65.
In the same vein, LUV’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 0.71, a figure that is expected to reach -0.17 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 2.50 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Southwest Airlines Co (LUV)
[Southwest Airlines Co, LUV] recent stats showed that its last 5-days Average volume was superior the volume it posted in the year-ago period. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 39.90% While, its Average True Range was 1.35.
Raw Stochastic average of Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 28.97%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 48.18% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 45.51% that was higher than 30.06% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
