Southwest Airlines Co [NYSE: LUV] closed the trading session at $12930000.0 on 2025-06-30. The day’s price range saw the stock hit a low of $32.03, while the highest price level was $32.5.
The stocks have a year to date performance of 14.02 percent and weekly performance of 1.76 percent. The stock has been moved at -5.56 percent over the last six months. The stock has performed -3.77 percent around the most recent 30 days and changed -3.42 percent over the most recent 3-months.
If compared to the average trading volume of 12.93M shares, LUV reached to a volume of 9700541 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about Southwest Airlines Co [LUV]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for LUV shares is $29.45 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on LUV stock is a recommendation set at 2.88. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
Deutsche Bank have made an estimate for Southwest Airlines Co shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Buy, with their previous recommendation back on May 29, 2025. The new note on the price target was released on May 27, 2025, representing the official price target for Southwest Airlines Co stock. Previously, the target price had yet another raise to $28, while Jefferies analysts kept a Underperform rating on LUV stock. On March 20, 2025, analysts increased their price target for LUV shares from 29 to 36.
The Price to Book ratio for the last quarter was 1.97, with the Price to Cash per share for the same quarter was set at 14.48.
LUV stock trade performance evaluation
Southwest Airlines Co [LUV] gain into the green zone at the end of the last week, gaining into a positive trend and gaining by 1.76. With this latest performance, LUV shares dropped by -3.77% in over the last four-week period, additionally sinking by -5.56% over the last 6 months – not to mention a drop of -3.51% in the past year of trading.
Southwest Airlines Co [LUV]: An insightful look at the core fundamentals
Operating Margin for any stock indicates how profitable investing would be, and Southwest Airlines Co [LUV] shares currently have an operating margin of 2.86% and a Gross Margin at 18.09%. Southwest Airlines Co’s Net Margin is presently recorded at 2.00%.
Return on Equity for this stock inclined to 1.59%, with Return on Assets sitting at 1.59%.
Earnings per share (EPS) analysis for Southwest Airlines Co [LUV] stock
The progress of the company may be observed through the prism of EPS growth rate, while Wall Street analysts are focusing on predicting the 5-year EPS growth rate for LUV. When it comes to the mentioned value, analysts are expecting to see the 5-year EPS growth rate for Southwest Airlines Co go to 52.90%.
Southwest Airlines Co [LUV]: Institutional Ownership
There are presently around $94.14%, or 95.15% of LUV stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of LUV stocks are: VANGUARD GROUP INC with ownership of 67.6 million shares, which is approximately 11.286%. CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, holding 57.92 million shares of the stock with an approximate value of $$1.66 billion in LUV stocks shares; and CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS, currently with $$1.43 billion in LUV stock with ownership which is approximately 8.332%.
