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Southwest Airlines (LUV)

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$29.74 USD

29.74
1,899,678

+0.18 (0.61%)

Updated Aug 8, 2025 11:38 AM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy23.75%
2Buy17.82%
3Hold9.58%
4Sell5.28%
5Strong Sell2.61%
S&P50011.30%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

  • Value Score A
  • Growth Score A
  • Momentum Score A
  • VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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A Value C Growth F Momentum C VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Top 38% (92 out of 244)

Industry: Transportation - Airline

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Indexes Stay Green; American Cancels Almost 2000 Flights

American Airlines (AAL) has something of a damper for all this heated market excitement this morning: after cancelling 1800 flights or so over the weekend.

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SkyWest (SKYW) Q3 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates, Rise Y/Y

SkyWest's (SKYW) Q3 results reflect significant improvement on a year-over-year basis due to increase in block hours on completed flights as air-travel demand recovers.

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Spirit Airlines (SAVE) Posts Narrower-Than-Expected Q3 Loss

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Ryder (R) Beats on Q3 Earnings & Revenues, Lifts 2021 EPS View

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Triton (TRTN) Beats on Q3 Earnings & Revenues, Hikes Dividend

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Airline Stock Roundup: AAL, LUV, JBLU & HA Report Q3 Loss

High fuel costs hurt the Q3 bottom-line performances of the likes of American Airlines (AAL), JetBlue (JBLU) and Hawaiian Holdings (HA).

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Wabtec (WAB) Beats on Q3 Earnings, Alters 2021 Sales, EPS View

Disappointing performance of the transit segment dents Wabtec's (WAB) Q3 results.

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Norfolk Southern (NSC) Q3 Earnings Beat Estimates, Up 22% Y/Y

Norfolk Southern's (NSC) Q3 results benefit from higher revenues across all segments. Total volumes remain flat year over year amid supply chain disruptions.

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Earnings or Oil: What Will Impact the Airlines ETF Ahead?

Airlines earnings have been decent in recent times. However,

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C.H. Robinson (CHRW) Q3 Earnings & Revenues Beat, Rise Y/Y

C.H. Robinson's (CHRW) Q3 results reflect significant improvement on a year-over-year basis owing to higher pricing and volumes across most of the company's service lines.

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JetBlue Airways (JBLU) Posts Narrower-Than-Expected Q3 Loss

Uptick in passenger revenues aid JetBlue's (JBLU) Q3 results.

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UPS' Q3 Earnings & Revenues Surpass Estimates, Increase Y/Y

Strong performance across all segments aids UPS' Q3 results.

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Entering The Core Of Q3 Earnings Excitement

Mega-cap tech is up to bat and their market moving results could set the tone for the remaining weeks of 2021 trading

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Trinity (TRN) Q3 Earnings & Revenues Beat Estimates, Rise Y/Y

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Southwest (LUV) Incurs Narrower Than Expected Loss in Q3

Southwest's (LUV) Q3 results reflect a significant year-over-year improvement owing to uptick in air-travel demand. However, its performance is partly hurt by Delta-variant-led softness in bookings.

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Southwest Airlines (LUV) Reports Q3 Loss, Tops Revenue Estimates

Southwest (LUV) delivered earnings and revenue surprises of 14.81% and 2.13%, respectively, for the quarter ended September 2021. Do the numbers hold clues to what lies ahead for the stock?

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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Alaska Air

The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Alaska Air

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Airline Stocks to Watch for Earnings on Oct 21: ALK, AAL, LUV

Escalated fuel costs are likely to have dented the Q3 performances of Alaska Air (ALK), American Airlines (AAL) and Southwest Airlines (LUV).

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Airline Stock Roundup: DAL's Warning on Fuel Cost, ALGT, CPA in Focus

Delta (DAL) outperforms in Q3. Allegiant's (ALGT) September traffic improves.

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What's in the Offing for Southwest (LUV) in Q3 Earnings?

Southwest's (LUV) Q3 performance is expected to have been hurt by Delta-variant woes and high fuel costs. However, the top line is likely to have benefited from improved travel demand.

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Delta (DAL) Raises Fuel Cost Alarm: Other Airlines to Follow?

Delta's (DAL) unfavorable forecast for fuel price per gallon drags down the share prices of other carriers too.

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The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Southwest Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech

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Best Single Trading Day in Months for Dow, Nasdaq, S&P

The indexes had been trying to turn around a steep drop to the start of the week, and finally managed on Thursday.

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Southwest Airlines (LUV) May Report Negative Earnings: Know the Trend Ahead of Next Week's Release

Southwest (LUV) doesn't possess the right combination of the two key ingredients for a likely earnings beat in its upcoming report. Get prepared with the key expectations.