NYSE:LUVSouthwest Airlines Stock Price, Forecast & News

Southwest Airlines' stock was trading at $42.49 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, LUV stock has decreased by 17.0% and is now trading at $35.25.
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21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Southwest Airlines in the last year. There are currently 7 hold ratings, 13 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Southwest Airlines is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, October 22nd 2020.
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Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) released its earnings results on Thursday, July, 23rd. The airline reported ($2.67) EPS for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of ($2.53) by $0.14. The airline earned $1.01 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $867.19 million. Southwest Airlines had a net margin of 0.99% and a negative return on equity of 4.11%. The business's quarterly revenue was down 82.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.37 earnings per share.
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Southwest Airlines declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, January 29th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, March 4th will be paid a dividend of $0.18 per share on Wednesday, March 25th. This represents a $0.72 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.04%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, March 3rd.
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21 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Southwest Airlines' shares. Their forecasts range from $36.00 to $67.00. On average, they expect Southwest Airlines' stock price to reach $49.15 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 39.4% from the stock's current price.
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News headlines about LUV stock have trended very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Southwest Airlines earned a news impact score of -3.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news headlines about the airline a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future.
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Southwest Airlines saw a drop in short interest in June. As of June 30th, there was short interest totaling 15,680,000 shares, a drop of 12.5% from the June 15th total of 17,910,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 25,140,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 0.6 days.
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Some companies that are related to Southwest Airlines include Delta Air Lines (DAL), United Continental (UAL), Alaska Air Group (ALK), JetBlue Airways (JBLU), Copa (CPA), Allegiant Travel (ALGT), SkyWest (SKYW), Spirit Airlines (SAVE) and Hawaiian (HA).
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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Southwest Airlines investors own include Delta Air Lines (DAL), Boeing (BA), Walt Disney (DIS), NVIDIA (NVDA), Bank of America (BAC), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Micron Technology (MU), AT&T (T) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM).

Southwest Airlines trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LUV."

Southwest Airlines' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include FIL Ltd (0.89%), Provident Trust Co. (0.50%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.21%), First Trust Advisors LP (0.21%), Principal Financial Group Inc. (0.14%) and Columbus Circle Investors (0.15%). Company insiders that own Southwest Airlines stock include Andrew M Watterson, Berkshire Hathaway Inc and John T Montford.
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LUV stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including First Trust Advisors LP, WS Management Lllp, LSV Asset Management, Ensign Peak Advisors Inc, Strs Ohio, Bank of Nova Scotia, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V., and Prudential Financial Inc.. Company insiders that have sold Southwest Airlines company stock in the last year include Andrew M Watterson, and Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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LUV stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FIL Ltd, Columbus Circle Investors, Lateef Investment Management L.P., Zweig DiMenna Associates LLC, Avalon Investment & Advisory, Federated Hermes Inc., Raymond James & Associates, and Assenagon Asset Management S.A..
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Shares of LUV can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of LUV stock can currently be purchased for approximately $35.25.

Southwest Airlines has a market capitalization of $20.79 billion and generates $22.43 billion in revenue each year. The airline earns $2.30 billion in net income (profit) each year or $4.27 on an earnings per share basis. Southwest Airlines employs 60,800 workers across the globe.

The official website for Southwest Airlines is www.southwest.com.

Southwest Airlines' mailing address is 2702 LOVE FIELD DRIVE P O BOX 36611, DALLAS TX, 75235. The airline can be reached via phone at 214-792-4000.