Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) kicked off on Monday, up 1.48% 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 4.15% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 20.65%. With a float of $563.08 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $569.87 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 72450 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 18.43%, operating margin of 1.99%, and the pretax margin is 2.55%.
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) Insider Updates
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 1.19%, while institutional ownership is 93.34%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Jun 06 ’25, was worth 688,790. Before that another transaction happened on Apr 30 ’25, when Company’s Director bought 3,670 for $27.29, making the entire transaction worth $100,169. This insider now owns 14,881 shares in total.
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) Performance Highlights and Predictions
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 20.65% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 52.95% 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 0.72. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.67.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.84, a number that is poised to hit 0.52 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.51 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Southwest Airlines Co (LUV)
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) saw its 5-day average volume 10.99 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 11.93 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 17.34%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.02.
During the past 100 days, Southwest Airlines Co’s (LUV) raw stochastic average was set at 73.39%, which indicates a significant increase from 24.86% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 30.05% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 49.58% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $29.80, while its 200-day Moving Average is $30.98. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $32.63 in the near term. At $33.07, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $33.45. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $31.81, it is likely to go to the next support level at $31.43. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $30.99.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) Key Stats
The company with the Market Capitalisation of 18.35 billion has total of 569,866K 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 6,428 M and last quarter income was -149,000 K.
