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Southwest Gas Holdings Inc is a utility company engaged in the purchasing, distributing, and transporting of natural gas in the American Southwest. The company segments its activities into natural gas distribution segment. The Natural gas distribution segment encompasses the company's core natural gas business as distributors in the states of Arizona and Nevada. Its division is responsible for roughly half of Southwest Gas' total revenue through the sale of natural gas to mainly residential and small commercial customers.
Southwest Gas Hldgs trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol SWX.
As of April 15, 2026, SWX stock price declined to $91.26 with 99,884 million shares trading.
SWX has a beta of -0.09, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. SWX has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.
SWX has a market cap of $6.60 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.
Last quarter Southwest Gas Hldgs reported $481 million in Revenue and $1.36 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-105 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.02.
In the last 3 years, SWX traded as high as $93.44 and as low as $53.79.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that SWX belongs to (by Net Assets): IJH, VTI, IWM, VB, DVY.
SWX has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +30.0% while the SPY ETF gained +31.0%. However, in the short term, SWX had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +10.0% vs +1.5% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, SWX shares have been beat by the market, returning +5.0% compared to an SPY return of +7.5%.
SWX support price is $90.00 and resistance is $92.76 (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 SWX shares will trade within this expected range on the day.