XNYS · Airlines
Last stored close · Sep 18, 2026
Close · Sep 18, 2026
$40.98+1.59%
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TickerWhale Score
62/100
Positive
Score components
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Southwest Airlines Company scores 62 out of 100 overall, which we rate positive. Quality & growth is its strongest area and Technical its weakest.
What helps
- Quality & growth
- Valuation
- Risk
What to watch
- Technical
- Sentiment Signal
Quality & growth
30%78Strong
- Revenue growth 9.5%
- EPS growth 163.3%
Valuation
25%63Positive
- P/E 24.1
- EV/Sales 0.7
Southwest Airlines is the largest domestic air carrier in the United States by passengers boarded. Southwest operates nearly 800 aircraft in an all-Boeing 737 fleet. Despite offering some longer routes and a few perks for business travelers, the airline predominantly specializes in short-haul, leisure flights operated with a simple cabin configuration in a point-to-point network. In early 2026, Southwest modified its cabins to offer some rows with extra legroom, its ticketing process and merchandising to offer assigned seats, and more fare categories to include a basic economy class that appears for the first time in travel aggregators' search results and more directly competes with other airlines' offerings.
#462 by market cap in our coverage · ~73,456 employees · Listed 1973-01-02 · www.southwest.com
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Market intelligence
Peer position
#26 / 203sector rank by TickerWhale Score
TickerWhale Score 62 vs sector average 49.1 (+12.9)
Revenue growth (industry)Top 50%
Return on equity (industry)Top 80%
P/E (industry)Insufficient peer sample
Technical analysis
our read · what classic indicators sayTickerWhale technical read
43/100Weak vs universe
Ranks 43rd of 100 covered names on our technical composite — the composite itself scores 44/100 · 25% of the TickerWhale Score
Classic chart indicators
Sell
3 buy · 4 sell · 1 neutral of 8 votes
TickerWhale rates LUV's technical setup weak — 43rd percentile of the covered universe. Classic chart indicators lean sell, pointing the same way.
Moving averages
4 / 9constructive
- vs 200-day-5.5%
- vs 50-day-5.7%
Momentum
Mixed
- RSI (14)51 · neutral
- Stochasticsell
- CCIbuy
- Williams %Rsell
Trend
Mixed
- ADX (14) trend strength35· trending
- MACD (12,26,9)buy(histogram 0.447)
How the classic verdict is reached
Moving averages (9) agree on sell — 4 buy vs 5 sell — and carry one vote between them.
Oscillators (7) vote individually: 3 buy · 3 sell · 1 neutral.
Result — 3 buy vs 4 sell of 8 votes = Sell. Neutral votes never decide the verdict.
Fundamentals & valuation
2026-09-18 · revised_latestValuation multiples
- P/E (TTM)24.1
- P/S (TTM)0.7
- P/B2.9
- EV/EBITDA—
- EV/Sales0.7
- PEG—
Profitability & returns
- Gross margin—
- Net margin2.8%
- ROE12.0%
- Debt/Equity0.84
Growth
- Revenue growth (YoY)9.5%
- EPS growth (YoY)163.3%
Green favourable · red stretched — multiples and D/E vs industry peers, margins and growth vs absolute thresholds.
Market capitalisation — $20.2B
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Peers
| Company | Score | Pulse | P/E | P/E fwd | P/B | EV/Sales | Price | Chg | Estimate | Upside | Rev. gr. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LUVCurrentSouthwest Airlines Company | 62 | 44 | 24.1 | — | 2.9 | 0.7 | $40.98 | +1.59% | +9.5% | ||
| ACAArcosa | 79 | 78 | 14.6 | — | 2.4 | 3.0 | $145.84 | +0.27% | +9.7% | ||
| IESCIES Holdings | 79 | 46 | 14.3 | — | 5.3 | 1.6 | $322.16 | +1.58% | +22.7% | ||
| KFYKorn Ferry | 79 | 55 | 14.3 | — | 2.0 | 1.2 | $76.78 | -0.44% | +6.9% | ||
| GEOGeo Group | 76 | 70 | 14.4 | — | 2.8 | 2.0 | $31.76 | -1.18% | +15.3% | ||
| DALDelta Air Lines | 74 | 54 | 13.3 | — | 2.4 | 0.9 | $79.62 | +0.24% | +10.3% |
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