Southwest Airlines Company (LUV): Price and Financial Metrics

LUV POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where LUV ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 90.89% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LUV is in Growth, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• LUV's current lowest rank is in the Stability metric (where it is better than 17.19% of US stocks).

LUV Stock Summary

• Southwest Airlines Co's market capitalization of $26,850,857,330 is ahead of 90.17% of US-listed equities.
• LUV's went public 36.27 years ago, making it older than 92.84% of listed US stocks we're tracking.
• As for revenue growth, note that LUV's revenue has grown 74.51% over the past 12 months; that beats the revenue growth of 88.5% of US companies in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to LUV, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are MKL, NTRS, MTB, CCEP, and VIV.
• 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

Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at -18.76%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 116.25%.
• Its 3 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 46.81%.

LUV's revenue has moved down $5,183,000,000 over the prior 52 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
2021-12-31	15,790	2,322	977
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

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.