Southwest Airlines Company (LUV): Price and Financial Metrics

LUV POWR Grades

• LUV scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 64.05% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LUV is in Quality, which has been heading down over the past 179 days.
• LUV's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 19.93% of US stocks).

LUV Stock Summary

• SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO's market capitalization of $17,221,413,951 is ahead of 89.17% of US-listed equities.
• SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO's stock had its IPO on January 1, 1986, making it an older stock than 93.61% of US equities in our set.
• SOUTHWEST AIRLINES CO's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 17.34%, greater than the shareholder yield of 89.36% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to LUV, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are KNX, HIG, RF, WTW, and IP.
• 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 36.36% lower, now standing at 0.7.
• LUV's price/sales ratio has moved down 1.5 over the prior 243 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LUV.

LUV Growth Metrics

The 2 year price growth rate now stands at 56.72%.
• Its 4 year revenue growth rate is now at 5.03%.
• Its 5 year price growth rate is now at -48.95%.

LUV's revenue has moved up $2.302e+09 over the prior 34 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
2022-12-31	23,814	3,790	539
2022-09-30	22,693	3,458	827
2022-06-30	21,152	2,649	996
2022-03-31	18,432	2,748	584
2021-12-31	15,790	2,322	977
2021-09-30	12,752	1,479	2

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.