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Southwest Airlines (LUV)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$29.62 USD

29.62
7,082,052

+0.06 (0.20%)

Updated Aug 8, 2025 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $29.60 -0.02 (-0.07%) 7:58 PM 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

Zacks News

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How Will American Airlines (AAL) Fare This Earnings Season?

American Airlines' (AAL) Q1 performance is expected to have benefited from an uptick in March bookings. However, higher non-fuel unit costs might have hurt the bottom line.

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Will Uptick in Travel Demand Lift Southwest (LUV) Q1 Earnings?

Southwest's (LUV) Q1 is expected to have benefited from gradual improvement in air-travel demand in 2021, compared with 2020. This is likely to reflect sequentially in passenger revenues.

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Delta's (DAL) Q1 Loss Wider Than Expected, Revenues Beat

Passenger revenues at Delta (DAL) plummet 70% in first-quarter 2021 from the first-quarter 2019 level.

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CSX to Report Q1 Earnings: Will Low Coal Volumes Mar Results?

Persistent weakness in coal volumes is likely to have hurt CSX's first-quarter performance. However, higher intermodal volumes are expected to have partly offset the adversity.

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Southwest Airlines (LUV) Stock Moves -0.32%: What You Should Know

Southwest Airlines (LUV) closed the most recent trading day at $63.03, moving -0.32% from the previous trading session.

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Airline Stock Roundup: AAL, UAL's Dim Q1 Views, AZUL's Dull Traffic Data & More

Carriers like United Airlines (UAL) and American Airlines (AAL) expect significant declines in their respective Q1 revenues from the first-quarter 2019 levels.

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Boeing Beats Airbus on Orders: How Will the Rivals Fare Ahead?

Boeing (BA), for the first time in more than two years, has toppled archrival, Airbus SE, courtesy of higher net quarterly orders.

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    Southwest (LUV) Recalls Flight Attendants to Meet Summer Demand

    Southwest (LUV) recalls more than 2,700 flight attendants from a voluntary leave program to take advantage of the increased demand during summers.

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    Airline Stock Roundup: LUV's Pilot Recall News, GOL's Dull Traffic Report & More

    Gol Linhas (GOL) and Ryanair (RYAAY) falter in March due to renewed coronavirus cases in Brazil and Europe, respectively.

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    The Zacks Analyst Blog Highlights: Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Delta Air Lines, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines

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    Southwest (LUV) Recalls 209 Pilots As Travel Demand Improves

    Southwest (LUV) calls back pilots to meet the anticipated increase in air-travel demand during the summer season.

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    CDC's New Guidance Makes the Skyline Sunnier for U.S. Airlines

    CDC's latest travel manual provides a further impetus to the U.S. airline stocks like Delta (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV) and American Airlines (AA), which are scaling an outstanding graph on the bourses this year.

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    Southwest Airlines (LUV) Gains But Lags Market: What You Should Know

    Southwest Airlines (LUV) closed at $61.30 in the latest trading session, marking a +0.39% move from the prior day.

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    Will U.S. Airlines' Expansion Spree Boost Summer Trips?

    The current uptick in leisure air-travel demand in the United States prompts carriers like Delta (DAL), Southwest Airlines (LUV) and United Airlines (UAL) to announce route extension plans for the impending summer.

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    Southwest (LUV) to Offer Pre-Clearance on Travel to Hawaii

    Southwest (LUV) customers traveling to Hawaii from California can now avail the Hawaii Safe Travels program to bypass the mandatory 10-day quarantine on arrival in the island state.

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    American Airlines (AAL) Provides Optimistic Update on Q1

    Management at American Airlines (AAL) states that the seven-day moving average as of Mar 26 pertaining to the net bookings is roughly 90% of the level achieved in 2019.

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    Airline Stock Roundup: AAL Issues Bullish Q1 Projection, UAL, DAL & LUV in Focus

    To fulfill the anticipated spike in air-travel demand in the United States this summer, United Airlines (UAL) and Southwest Airlines (LUV) intend to expand their respective domestic bases.

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    Southwest (LUV) Announces Deal for 100 Boeing 737 MAX Jets

    Southwest's (LUV) order for additional Boeing 737 MAX aircraft is part of its fleet modernization efforts.

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    Delta (DAL) Aims to Boost Iceland Base With Multiple Routes

    Delta (DAL) intends to initiate daily flights on the Boston-Keflavik route come May 20.

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    Southwest (LUV) Announces a Major Summer Service Expansion

    Anticipating an increase in air-travel demand during summer, Southwest (LUV) plans to begin nonstop service to 37 cities from Austin, TX.

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    Southwest Airlines (LUV) to Add Routes for Summer Travel

    Southwest Airlines (LUV) aims to commence flight operations to Myrtle Beach International Airport on May 23.

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    Delta (DAL) to Add Routes to Enrich Summer Vacation Package

    As part of Delta's (DAL) strategy to extend its domestic network, the carrier decides to operate more nonstop flights from its hubs to seven leisure spots.

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    Airline Stock Roundup: GOL Reports Q4 Loss, ALK, RYAAY & AAL in Focus

    With air-travel demand picking up pace in the United States, American Airlines (AAL) renews deal with Fareportal. Meanwhile, Latin American carrier Gol Linhas (GOL) underperforms in Q4.

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    Southwest Airlines (LUV) Gains As Market Dips: What You Should Know

    Southwest Airlines (LUV) closed the most recent trading day at $57.70, moving +0.14% from the previous trading session.