LUV Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Southwest Airlines Company | NYSE:LUV)

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 in a single, open-seating cabin configuration in a point-to-point network. In early 2026, Southwest will modify its cabins to offer some rows with extra legroom and will update its ticketing process and merchandising to offer assigned seats and more fare categories, including a basic economy class that will more directly compete with other airlines' offerings and appear for the first time in travel aggregators' search results.

Southwest Airlines Company trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol LUV.

As of January 26, 2026, LUV stock price climbed to $42.03 with 5,605,974 million shares trading.

LUV has a beta of 1.52, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. LUV has a correlation of 0.32 to the broad based SPY ETF.

LUV has a market cap of $21.74 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Southwest Airlines Company reported $7 billion in Revenue and $.11 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $878,088 and exceeded earnings estimates by $.13.

In the last 3 years, LUV traded as high as $45.02 and as low as $21.91.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that LUV belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, VO, IVV, SPY.

LUV has outperformed the market in the last year with a return of +33.9%, while the SPY ETF gained +14.8%. In the last 3 month period, LUV beat the market returning +33.4%, while SPY returned +3.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks LUV has underperformed the stock market by returning -5.6%, while SPY returned -0.2%.

LUV support price is $41.23 and resistance is $42.67 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that LUV shares will trade within this expected range on the day.