Southwest Airlines
LUV
Market cap $18.9B

31.59 USD

-1.99

5.93%

At close Apr 1, 4:00 PM EDT

After hours

31.38

-0.21

0.66%

1 day

-5.93%

5 days

-9.22%

1 month

3.20%

3 months

-5.33%

6 months

5.72%

Year to date

-5.33%

1 year

8.26%

5 years

-1.40%

10 years

-27.30%

About: Southwest Airlines is the largest domestic air carrier in the United States by passengers boarded. Southwest operates over 800 aircraft in an all-Boeing 737 fleet. Despite offering some longer routes and a few perks for business travelers, the airline predominantly specializes in short-haul, leisure flights operated in a single, open-seating cabin configuration in a point-to-point network. In 2025, Southwest will modify its cabins to offer some seats with extra legroom and will update its ticketing process to offer assigned seats.

Employees: 74,081

Industrials Air Transportation, Scheduled

0

Funds holding %

of 7,398 funds

0

Analysts bullish %

of 6 analysts

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

48% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 133 | Existing positions closed: 90

15% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $16.1B [Q3] → $18.5B (+$2.38B) [Q4]

11% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 9 [Q3] → 10 (+1) [Q4]

4% more funds holding

Funds holding: 781 [Q3] → 810 (+29) [Q4]

0.95% more ownership

Funds ownership: 90.94% [Q3] → 91.89% (+0.95%) [Q4]

15% less repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 238 | Existing positions reduced: 279

31% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $371M | Put options by funds: $541M

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Research analyst outlook

6 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

Low target

$30

5%

downside

Avg. target

$33

3%

upside

High target

$36

14%

upside

6 analyst ratings

0 positive

0%

3 neutral

50%

3 negative

50%

Citigroup Stephen Trent 46% 1-year accuracy 17 / 37 met price target	5%downside $30	Sell Maintained	28 Mar 2025
UBS Thomas Wadewitz 13% 1-year accuracy 4 / 32 met price target	14%upside $36	Neutral Upgraded	20 Mar 2025
Melius Research Conor Cunningham 100% 1-year accuracy 2 / 2 met price target	8%upside $34	Hold Upgraded	20 Mar 2025
JP Morgan Jamie Baker 20% 1-year accuracy 3 / 15 met price target	5%downside $30	Underweight Maintained	18 Mar 2025
Susquehanna Christopher Stathoulopoulos 44% 1-year accuracy 8 / 18 met price target	8%upside $34	Neutral Maintained	4 Feb 2025

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Financial journalist opinion

Based on 58 articles about LUV published over the past 30 days

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