How is Southwest Airlines (LUV) doing?
Southwest Airlines is a company in the airlines, airports & air services industry, based in Dallas, TX, worth $20.4B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.
Updated Oct 9, 2026
Middling
Southwest Airlines shares are up 28% over the past year, 11 points ahead of the S&P 500. Its type is Bellwether. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 79th percentile on market beat, the 53rd on staying power and the 54th on business growth. It appears on 11 of our dashboards, including 2nd on “Which stocks are cheap for their growth?”.
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Financials, earnings and news on Stox ›The past year
Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.
What kind of stock is it?
Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.
Bellwether
Beating the market, steadily, with a growing business and buyers adding. Everything is lined up.
Bellwether this month; Hot Hand before that.
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How is it doing against its group?
Its group is Travel & leisure, 42 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Airlines, hotels, cruises and casinos — the reopening trade.
Southwest Airlines is +28% over the past year, against +6% for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 9th of 42 in Travel & leisure.
How much does it move?
Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.
Calmer than usual Southwest Airlines typically moves 2.8% in a day, calmer than usual for it, and it swings more than 69% of large US stocks.
LUV on our dashboards
Every question where Southwest Airlines appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with LUV highlighted. Select a column to sort.
| Question | Reading | Place | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Which stocks are analysts upgrading and downgrading? Events | 1Upgraded | 26 of 60 | Upgrades 1 · Downgrades 0 · Latest change Rothschild & Co: Sell to Neutral, Sep 18 |
| Who reports next, and what is expected? Earnings | 2Cut | 64 of 106 | Estimate change, 1M −5.1% · Expected EPS growth −37% · Stock vs S&P, 1M +4.9 pts |
| How much do stocks move on earnings? Earnings | 86Big mover | 56 of 60 | Reports 2026-10-21 · Typical move 8.3% · Largest 17% |
| Who beat, and did it stick? Earnings | 6Miss | 32 of 60 | Next day −3.8% · Next month −3.0% |
| Which companies do analysts expect to grow fastest? Earnings | 95Fast | 25 of 60 | EPS growth +43% · This year 3.21 · Next year 4.59 |
| Whose cash flow backs up their earnings? Business quality | 3Weak | 53 of 60 | 3 years -100% · Last year -74% · Free cash flow −$621.0M |
| Which stocks are cheap for their growth? Value | 100Cheap | 2 of 60 | PEG 0.31 · Forward P/E 13.3× · Expected EPS growth +43% |
| Who is buying back their own stock? Dividends and buybacks | 97Shrinking | 14 of 60 | Shares, 1Y −7.9% · Bought back $1.6B · % of value 7.3% |
| Which companies return the most cash to shareholders? Dividends and buybacks | 91Generous | 44 of 60 | Total 9.0% · Dividends 1.7% · Buybacks 7.3% |
| Where is trading volume surging? Who’s buying and selling | 93Heavy | 37 of 60 | vs normal 1.4x · Traded a day $305.8M · 5D −1.9% |
| Which stocks move with oil? Funds and commodities | 0Falls with oil | 22 of 45 | Sensitivity -0.30 · Correlation -0.34 · 3M −13% |
Go deeper on Stox
LUV’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.
How to read this page
How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.
Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.
Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.
Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.
Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.
For financial statements, earnings and news, see LUV’s full profile on Stox.
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