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 Q3 regulatory filings by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
57% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 108 | Existing positions closed: 69
13% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 8 [Q2] → 9 (+1) [Q3]
4% more funds holding
Funds holding: 747 [Q2] → 775 (+28) [Q3]
3% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $15.7B [Q2] → $16.1B (+$404M) [Q3]
0.64% less ownership
Funds ownership: 91.71% [Q2] → 91.07% (-0.64%) [Q3]
16% less call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $488M | Put options by funds: $580M
31% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 216 | Existing positions reduced: 312
Research analyst outlook
9 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
9 analyst ratings
Susquehanna Christopher Stathoulopoulos 95% 1-year accuracy 19 / 20 met price target | 15%upside $34 | Neutral Maintained | 4 Feb 2025 |
B of A Securities Andrew Didora 88% 1-year accuracy 14 / 16 met price target | 5%upside $31 | Underperform Downgraded | 17 Jan 2025 |
Citigroup Stephen Trent 73% 1-year accuracy 24 / 33 met price target | 0%upside $30 | Sell Downgraded | 16 Jan 2025 |
UBS Thomas Wadewitz 45% 1-year accuracy 13 / 29 met price target | 2%downside $29 | Sell Maintained | 7 Jan 2025 |
Raymond James Savanthi Syth 47% 1-year accuracy 7 / 15 met price target | 36%upside $40 | Outperform Maintained | 30 Dec 2024 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 81 articles about LUV published over the past 30 days









