Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV) started the day on Wednesday, with a price increase of 0.38% at $42.64, before settling in for the price of $42.48 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, LUV posted a 52-week range of $23.82-$43.54.
In the past 5-years timespan, the Industrials sector firm’s annual sales growth was -29.29%. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was -29.29%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 0.24%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $517.16 million, simultaneously with a float of $510.75 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $22.05 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $36.29, while the 200-day Moving Average is $32.85.
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Airlines Industry. Southwest Airlines Co’s current insider ownership accounts for 1.24%, in contrast to 100.18% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Dec 05 ’25, this organization’s EVP Operations sold 8,085 shares at the rate of 37.36, making the entire transaction reach 302,056 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 61,860.
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) Earnings and Revenue Records
Southwest Airlines Co’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 0.24% and is forecasted to reach 3.01 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 58.12% 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 0.42. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $64.98, and its Beta score is 1.15. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.80.
In the same vein, LUV’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 0.66, a figure that is expected to reach 0.58 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 3.01 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Southwest Airlines Co (LUV)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE: LUV), its last 5-days Average volume was 7.72 million that shows plunge from its year to date volume of 8.06 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 75.69% While, its Average True Range was 75.68.
Raw Stochastic average of Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 93.70%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 77.91% 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 0.94 that was lower than 1.04 volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
