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.

What symbol and exchange does Southwest Airlines Company shares trade?

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

What is Southwest Airlines Company stock price doing today?

As of December 5, 2025, LUV stock price climbed to $37.85 with 13,816,393 million shares trading.

What is Southwest Airlines Company's Beta?

LUV has a beta of 1.49, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. LUV has a correlation of 0.33 to the broad based SPY ETF.

How much is Southwest Airlines Company worth?

LUV has a market cap of $19.57 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

How much money does Southwest Airlines Company make?

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.

What is the highest and lowest price Southwest Airlines Company traded in the last 3 year period?

In the last 3 years, LUV traded as high as $39.90 and as low as $21.91.

What are the top ETFs holding Southwest Airlines Company?

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

Is Southwest Airlines Company (LUV) a good investment?

LUV has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +10.7%, while SPY returned +14.2%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in LUV shares. However, LUV has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +20.6% and +15.4%, while SPY returned +6.2% and +4.0%, respectively. This indicates LUV has been having a stronger performance recently.

What are the support and resistance levels for Southwest Airlines Company (LUV)?

LUV support price is $34.94 and resistance is $36.68 (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.