Southwest Airlines
About: Southwest Airlines is the largest domestic air carrier in the United States by passengers boarded. Southwest operates over 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 2025, Southwest will modify its cabins to offer some seats with extra legroom and will update its ticketing process to offer assigned seats.
Employees: 74,081
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2024 Q2 SEC filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
20% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $639M | Put options by funds: $534M
13.69% more ownership
Funds ownership: 75.95% [Q1] → 89.64% (+13.69%) [Q2]
8% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $14.2B [Q1] → $15.3B (+$1.19B) [Q2]
0% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 8 [Q1] → 8 (+0) [Q2]
3% less funds holding
Funds holding: 769 [Q1] → 747 (-22) [Q2]
20% less first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 90 | Existing positions closed: 112
21% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 224 | Existing positions reduced: 284
Research analyst outlook
10 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
10 analyst ratings
Barclays Brandon Oglenski 48% 1-year accuracy 19 / 40 met price target | 6%upside $32 | Equal-Weight Maintained | 15 Oct 2024 |
Susquehanna Christopher Stathoulopoulos 96% 1-year accuracy 25 / 26 met price target | 1%downside $30 | Neutral Maintained | 9 Oct 2024 |
Jefferies Sheila Kahyaoglu 73% 1-year accuracy 11 / 15 met price target | 6%upside $32 | Hold Upgraded | 9 Oct 2024 |
Citigroup Stephen Trent 79% 1-year accuracy 15 / 19 met price target | 4%upside $32 | Neutral Maintained | 3 Oct 2024 |
Jefferies Sheila Kahyaoglu 73% 1-year accuracy 11 / 15 met price target | 21%downside $24 | Underperform Maintained | 2 Oct 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 79 articles about LUV published over the past 30 days
