A new trading day began on Friday, with Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) stock price up 0.20% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $29.56. LUV’s price has ranged from $23.82 to $37.96 over the past 52 weeks.
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Annual sales at Industrials sector company slipped by -29.29% over the past five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -6.26%. With a float of $519.38 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $525.19 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 72450 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 32.57%, operating margin of 1.16%, and the pretax margin is 1.84%.
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) Insider Updates
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Airlines Industry. The insider ownership of Southwest Airlines Co is 1.11%, while institutional ownership is 101.01%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 05 ’25, was worth 45,008. In this transaction Director of this company bought 1,500 shares at a rate of $30.01, taking the stock ownership to the 14,229 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 06 ’25, when Company’s Director bought 3,345 for $30.03, making the entire transaction worth $100,447. This insider now owns 23,644 shares in total.
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) Performance Highlights and Predictions
In its latest quarterly report, released on 9/30/2024, the company reported earnings of 0.15 per share, which was $0.1 higher than the consensus estimate of $0.26. In terms of return on equity, this company recorded -19.55% in contrast with 50.0% return on Investment (trailing twelve months). Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.71 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -6.26% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 50.48% 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
Here are Southwest Airlines Co’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.49. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 0.57.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.67, a number that is poised to hit -0.05 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.32 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Southwest Airlines Co (LUV)
Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) saw its 5-day average volume 7.72 million, a negative change from its year-to-date volume of 11.96 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 7.69%.
During the past 100 days, Southwest Airlines Co’s (LUV) raw stochastic average was set at 41.04%, which indicates a significant increase from 3.29% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 1.02 in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 1.08 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $33.18, while its 200-day Moving Average is $31.64.
