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Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) is a leading airlines business based in the US. Southwest Airlines is listed on the NYSE and employs 57,931 staff. All prices are listed in US Dollars.
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52-week range | $22.465 - $58.6045 |
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50-day moving average | $46.713 |
200-day moving average | $40.3278 |
Wall St. target price | $54.6 |
PE ratio | 108.4118 |
Dividend yield | $0.72 (2.13%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | $0.305 |
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Valuing Southwest Airlines stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Southwest Airlines's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Southwest Airlines's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 108x. In other words, Southwest Airlines shares trade at around 108x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Southwest Airlines's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 28.5732. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Southwest Airlines's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Southwest Airlines's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $229 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Southwest Airlines's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
Revenue TTM | $12.8 billion |
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Gross profit TTM | $7 billion |
Return on assets TTM | -1.71% |
Return on equity TTM | -16.78% |
Profit margin | -12.95% |
Book value | $16.55 |
Market capitalisation | $28 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
There are currently 17.4 million Southwest Airlines shares held short by investors – that's known as Southwest Airlines's "short interest". This figure is 17% up from 14.9 million last month.
There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Southwest Airlines shares can be evaluated.
Southwest Airlines's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Southwest Airlines shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Southwest Airlines shares traded daily (recently around 7.4 million). Southwest Airlines's SIR currently stands at 2.35. In other words for every 100,000 Southwest Airlines shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2350 shares are currently held short.
However Southwest Airlines's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Southwest Airlines shares, or, against the total number of tradable Southwest Airlines shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Southwest Airlines's short interest could be expressed as 0.03% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Southwest Airlines shares in existence, roughly 30 shares are currently held short) or 0.0376% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Southwest Airlines shares, roughly 38 shares are currently held short).
Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Southwest Airlines.
Find out more about how you can short Southwest Airlines stock.
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Southwest Airlines.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 29.94
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Southwest Airlines's overall score of 29.94 (as at 01/01/2019) is pretty weak – landing it in it in the 61st percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Southwest Airlines is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 8.72/100
Social score: 11.49/100
Governance score: 4.73/100
Controversy score: 2/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. A high-profile company, Southwest Airlines scored a 2 out of 5 for controversy – the second-highest score possible, reflecting that Southwest Airlines has, for the most part, managed to keep its nose clean.
Southwest Airlines Co was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
Total ESG score | 29.94 |
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Total ESG percentile | 61.04 |
Environmental score | 8.72 |
Social score | 11.49 |
Governance score | 4.73 |
Level of controversy | 2 |
We're not expecting Southwest Airlines to pay a dividend over the next 12 months. However, you can browse other dividend-paying shares in our guide.
Southwest Airlines's shares were split on a 3:2 basis on 16 February 2001. So if you had owned 2 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 3 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Southwest Airlines shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 33.3% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Southwest Airlines shares which in turn could have impacted Southwest Airlines's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Southwest Airlines's shares have ranged in value from as little as $22.465 up to $58.6045. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Southwest Airlines's is 1.2269. This would suggest that Southwest Airlines's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
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Southwest Airlines Co. operates a passenger airline that provides scheduled air transportation services in the United States and near-international markets. As of December 31, 2019, the company operated a total of 747 Boeing 737 aircraft; and served 101 destinations in 40 states, the District of Columbia, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, as well as 10 near-international countries, including Mexico, Jamaica, the Bahamas, Aruba, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Belize, Cuba, the Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos. It also offers inflight entertainment and connectivity service on Wi-Fi enabled aircraft; and sells points and related services to business partners participating in the Rapid Rewards loyalty program, such as car rental agencies, hotels, and restaurants. In addition, the company provides a suite of digital platforms to support customers' needs across the travel journey, including Southwest.com, mobile.southwest.com, an iOS app, an iPadOS app, and an android app; and SWABIZ, an online booking tool. Further, it offers ancillary services, such as Southwest's EarlyBird Check-In, upgraded boarding, and transportation of pets and unaccompanied minors. Southwest Airlines Co. was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
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