Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) kicked off on Monday, up 1.26% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $31.73. Over the past 52 weeks, LUV has traded in a range of $23.58-$36.12.
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Annual sales at Industrials sector company grew by 16.11% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 81.16%. With a float of $585.82 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $593.31 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 72450 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 16.52%, operating margin of 1.47%, and the pretax margin is 2.18%.
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Airlines Industry. The insider ownership of Southwest Airlines Co is 1.15%, while institutional ownership is 86.82%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 12 ’25, was worth 150,150. In this transaction Director of this company bought 5,000 shares at a rate of $30.03, taking the stock ownership to the 19,011 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 13 ’25, when Company’s Director bought 3,268 for $30.58, making the entire transaction worth $99,935. This insider now owns 11,243 shares in total.
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.83 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 81.16% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 51.93% during the next five years compared to -29.29% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) Trading Performance Indicators
Take a look at Southwest Airlines Co’s (LUV) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.85. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.69.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.71, a number that is poised to hit -0.16 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.75 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Southwest Airlines Co (LUV)
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) saw its 5-day average volume 22.7 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 10.53 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 78.02%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.18.
During the past 100 days, Southwest Airlines Co’s (LUV) raw stochastic average was set at 52.92%, which indicates a significant decrease from 88.03% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 46.20% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 29.97% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $31.20, while its 200-day Moving Average is $29.95. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $32.54 in the near term. At $32.95, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $33.42. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $31.66, it is likely to go to the next support level at $31.19. The third support level lies at $30.78 if the price breaches the second support level.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 19.04 billion has total of 592,661K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 27,483 M in contrast with the sum of 465,000 K annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 6,930 M and last quarter income was 262,000 K.
