Southwest Airlines Company (LUV): Price and Financial Metrics

LUV POWR Grades

• LUV scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 90.09% of US stocks.
• LUV's strongest trending metric is Value; it's been moving up over the last 160 days.
• LUV ranks lowest in Stability; there it ranks in the 13th percentile.

LUV Stock Summary

• LUV has a higher market value than 90.01% of US stocks; more precisely, its current market capitalization is $26,890,921,375.
• LUV's went public 36.07 years ago, making it older than 92.74% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• LUV's current price/earnings ratio is 13,445.46, which is higher than 99.96% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Southwest Airlines Co, a group of peers worth examining would be JOB, CHGG, VCEL, RDY, and MLP.
• LUV's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Southwest Airlines Co's official web site, go to www.southwest.com.

LUV Valuation Summary

• In comparison to the median Industrials stock, LUV's price/sales ratio is 9.09% lower, now standing at 3.
• LUV's price/sales ratio has moved up 0.7 over the prior 243 months.
• Over the past 243 months, LUV's price/earnings ratio has gone down 40.5.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LUV.

LUV Growth Metrics

The 2 year price growth rate now stands at -43.92%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -257.45%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -33.45%.

LUV's revenue has moved down $7,480,000,000 over the prior 67 months.

The table below shows LUV's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-09-30	12,752	1,479	2
2021-06-30	9,866	1,004	-1,601
2021-03-31	6,866	-104	-2,864
2020-12-31	9,048	-1,127	-3,074
2020-09-30	12,765	294	-1,653
2020-06-30	16,611	2,435	163

LUV's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• LUV has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 88.21% of graded US stocks.
• LUV's asset turnover comes in at 0.351 -- ranking 54th of 137 Transportation stocks.
• JBLU, DAL, and UAL are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LUV.

The table below shows LUV's key quality metrics over time.