On Monday Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) was 0.87% up from the session before settling in for the closing price of $32.16. A 52-week range for LUV has been $23.58 – $36.12.
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Industrials Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -29.29% over the last five years. When this article was written, the company’s average yearly earnings per share was at 19.98%. With a float of $563.08 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $569.87 million.
The firm has a total of 72450 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. 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 Activity
Also, it is sometimes useful to examine the sentiment of large-scale investors toward Southwest Airlines Co stocks. The insider ownership of Southwest Airlines Co is 1.19%, while institutional ownership is 93.35%. 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) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 19.98% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 52.90% 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
You can see what Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) is doing with its current performance indicators. In the most recent quarter, the stock posted 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)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Southwest Airlines Co, LUV], we can find that recorded value of 11.12 million was lower than the volume posted last year of 11.91 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 67.01%.
During the past 100 days, Southwest Airlines Co’s (LUV) raw stochastic average was set at 75.49%, which indicates a significant increase from 44.12% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 28.47% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 49.66% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $30.84, while its 200-day Moving Average is $31.08. Now, the first resistance to watch is $32.62. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $32.81. The third major resistance level sits at $33.10. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $32.14, it is likely to go to the next support level at $31.85. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $31.66.
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) Key Stats
There are 569,866K outstanding shares of the company, which has a market capitalization of 18.49 billion. As of now, sales total 27,483 M while income totals 465,000 K. Its latest quarter income was 6,428 M while its last quarter net income were -149,000 K.
