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Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV)

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Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) reported revenue of $8.4 billion for Q2 FY2026, the quarter ended 30 June 2026, up 16.4% on the same quarter a year earlier. Net income was $233 million, up 9.4% on the year, and diluted earnings per share $0.47. The figures are the company's own, from the 10-Q it filed with the SEC on 23 July 2026.

Revenue$8.4 billionup 16.4%
Net income$233 millionup 9.4%
Diluted EPS$0.47
QuarterQ2 FY2026ended 30 June 2026

Ratios

From the filings

ROE11.8%
ROCE9.6%
Operating margin3.5%
Net margin2.8%
FCF margin-1.5%
Interest cover5.21
Debt to equity0.54
Cash conversion3.02
Share count, 1 year-6.9%
Sales CAGR, 3 years5.6%
Profit CAGR, 3 years-6.5%
EPS, TTM$1.58

At the close of 21 September 2026

Price$41.77
Market cap$20.4 billion
Stock P/E26.44
Price to book2.89
EV / EBITDA7.84
Dividend yield1.7%
Market cap / sales0.68
52-week high$54.80
52-week low$29.67
Price, 1 year28.4%
Price CAGR, 3 years14.2%
Price CAGR, 5 years-3.8%

Every figure is arithmetic on the filed lines (hover a name for the formula); the priced ones use the latest daily close, CBOE delayed quotes, daily history, by CBOE, for splits. Debt to equity here stands on the one borrowings figure Southwest Airlines Co. files, which has finance leases inside it; operating leases are a separate line. Nothing here is a valuation or a view.

Price, 17 September 2021 to 21 September 2026

Daily closes from CBOE delayed quotes, daily history, by CBOE, for splits; the last is 21 September 2026. P/E is the close over the trailing four quarters' EPS as filed at each filing date, on the current share count; the dashed line is the median over the range shown. Sales and margin are quarterly revenue and the operating margin from the tables above. EV/EBITDA, price to book and market cap to sales use the latest filed balance sheet and share count at each date. Drawn in your browser; the range and overlay you pick are remembered here only.

The public record on LUV

Filings23 in twelve months: 13 current reports (8-K), about 4 material agreement; 4 new financial obligation; 4 results of operations; 3 officer or director change; 2 regulation fd disclosure
Planned insider sales2 Form 144 notices in twelve months, $800,056; latest 25 February 2026
Options tapeput/call 0.57 by open interest on 23 September 2026; the straddle prices a 3.2% move to 25 September 2026
Holders9 of the followed funds hold it; largest Elliott Investment Management; 5 Schedule 13D or 13G filings in twelve months
Insider trading2 sales and 0 purchases on Form 4 in twelve months
Congress1 House trade disclosed in six months
Short interest28.2 million shares short, 6.41 days to cover at 31 August 2026
Documentsthe 10-K, the 10-Qs, the proxy and 4 earnings press releases, each linked

Quarterly results, the last 12 quarters

Q3 FY2023Q4 FY2023 *Q1 FY2024Q2 FY2024Q3 FY2024Q4 FY2024 *Q1 FY2025Q2 FY2025Q3 FY2025Q4 FY2025 *Q1 FY2026Q2 FY2026
Revenue6,5256,8236,3297,3546,8706,9306,4287,2446,9497,4427,2498,432
Operating income117-404-39339838.0278-22322535.0391330285
Operating margin2%-6%-6%5%1%4%-3%3%1%5%5%3%
Interest expense63.0n/a65.063.063.058.046.039.035.047.054.064.0
Pre-tax income237-285-29847889.0329-19228068.0407285306
Tax rate19%n/an/a23%25%20%n/a24%21%21%20%24%
Net income193-252-23136767.0262-14921354.0323227233
Net margin3%-4%-4%5%1%4%-2%3%1%4%3%3%
Diluted EPS$0.31-$0.36-$0.39$0.58$0.11$0.46-$0.26$0.39$0.10$0.56$0.45$0.47
Operating cash flow616426-104-23.01134768604012872941,418530
Capital expenditure842707583494517460501635678859630818
Free cash flow-226-281-687-517-40416.0359-234-391-565788-288
Buybacksn/an/a0.00.00.02507501,50025050.01,2500.0
Dividends paid2140.02150.0216-1.01071031890.093.088.0
Shares outstanding596m597m598m599m600m593m570m525m517m491m489m489m
Filing10-Q10-K10-Q10-Q10-Q10-K10-Q10-Q10-Q10-K10-Q10-Q

* The fourth quarter is the full year less the first three quarters, because the company files the year and not the quarter on its own. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and the share count are as they are. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Cash flow lines filed year to date are the difference between two filings. Shares outstanding are at the period end where the balance sheet tags them, otherwise the count on the filing's cover page. A derived fourth-quarter EPS is left blank when a split in the year makes the arithmetic meaningless.

Profit and loss, 12 fiscal years and the trailing twelve months

FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025TTM
Revenue18,60519,82020,42521,17121,96522,4289,04815,79023,81426,09127,48328,06330,072
Operating income2,2254,1163,5223,4073,2062,957-3,8161,7211,0172243214281,041
Operating margin12.0%20.8%17.2%16.1%14.6%13.2%-42.2%10.9%4.3%0.9%1.2%1.5%3.5%
Interest expense130121122114131118n/an/a340259249167200
Pre-tax income1,8163,4793,4503,2653,1642,957-4,2561,3257286335985631,066
Income tax6801,2981,267-92.0699657-1,182348189168133122229
Effective tax rate37.4%37.3%36.7%-2.8%22.1%22.2%n/a26.3%26.0%26.5%22.2%21.7%21.5%
Net income1,1362,1812,1833,3572,4652,300-3,074977539465465441837
Net margin6.1%11.0%10.7%15.9%11.2%10.3%-34.0%6.2%2.3%1.8%1.7%1.6%2.8%
Diluted EPS$1.64$3.27$3.55$5.79$4.29$4.27-$5.44$1.61$0.87$0.76$0.76$0.79$1.58
Filing10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K

Income statement lines from each year's 10-K, the year linked to its filing; TTM is the sum of the last four quarters. Free cash flow is operating cash flow less capital expenditure; the effective tax rate is income tax over pre-tax income; margins are the line over revenue. Gross profit is revenue less cost of revenue, and operating income is revenue less the company's own total costs, where the statement does not print those lines. Those four are arithmetic on the filed numbers; everything else is as filed. Money is in $ million as the company files it, or in $ billion by the switch above the tables; per share figures and share counts are as they are. † The year as the company last restated it in a later filing; rest on a figure for the one first filed. EPS is as filed.

Cash flow and capital returned

FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025TTM
Operating cash flow2,9023,2384,2933,9294,8933,987-1,1272,3223,7903,1644621,8422,529
Capital expenditure1,7482,0412,0382,1231,9221,0275155053,9243,5202,0542,6732,985
Free cash flow1,1541,1972,2551,8062,9712,960-1,6421,817-134-356-1,592-831-456
Free cash flow margin6.2%6.0%11.0%8.5%13.5%13.2%-18.1%11.5%-0.6%-1.4%-5.8%-3.0%-1.5%
Depreciation and amortisation9381,0151,2211,2181,2011,2191,2551,2721,3511,5221,6571,5601,564
Share-based compensation21.029.033.037.046.055.017.058.084.086.045.099.0n/a
Buybacks9551,1801,7501,6002,0002,0004510.00.00.02502,5501,550
Dividends paid1391802222743323721880.00.0428430399370
Dividend per share$0.22$0.28$0.38$0.47$0.60$0.70$0.18n/a$0.18$0.72$0.72$0.72n/a
Diluted shares, weighted696m669m633m603m574m539m565m609m642m640m643m558m493m
Shares outstanding at period endn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a489m
Filing10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K

Buybacks and dividends are the cash paid in the year, from the cash flow statement; the dividend per share is as declared. Diluted shares are the weighted average for the year; a falling count is the buybacks net of issuance. TTM sums the last four quarters; the share counts are the latest quarter's.

Balance sheet at year end

FY2014 FY2015 FY2016 FY2017 FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025TTM
Total assets19,72321,31223,28625,11026,24325,89534,58836,32035,36936,48733,75029,06130,122
Cash and equivalents1,2821,5831,6801,4951,8542,54811,06312,4809,4929,2887,5093,2313,791
Receivablesn/an/an/an/an/an/a46.058.011710447.098.078.0
Goodwill970970970970970970970970970970970970970
Long-term debtn/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a8,0978,0126,6974,929n/a
Long-term debt including finance leases2,4342,5412,8213,3202,7711,84610,11110,2748,0467,9785,0694,5773,790
Operating lease liabilitiesn/an/an/an/a0.09781,5621,3151,1189851,031768660
Finance lease liabilitiesn/an/an/an/an/a54245937714775.069.053.0n/a
Shareholders' equity6,7756,7627,7849,6419,8539,8328,87610,41410,68710,51510,3507,9817,082
Filing10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K10-K

At the fiscal year end; the TTM column is the latest quarter end. A line the company does not tag under the usual name is left out.

Compounded growth

10 years5 years3 yearsTTM
Sales growth, compounded3.5%25.4%5.6%9.5%
Profit growth, compounded-14.8%n/a-6.5%113.0%
Return on equity, average10.6%5.8%4.8%5.5%

Compounded growth is the latest fiscal year over the year that many years earlier, annualised; the TTM column is the last four quarters over the four before. Return on equity is net income over shareholders' equity at each year end, averaged over the window (the TTM column is the latest year alone); equity is the parent's shareholders' equity as tagged in the 10-K. Arithmetic on filed numbers, nothing forecast.

Peers: Air Transportation, Scheduled

CompanyMarket capP/EROEOp. marginSales growth
TTM
Debt to equityDiv. yield
Delta AIR Lines, Inc. DAL$54.3 billion13.7018.1%8.1%10.3%0.590.8%
United Airlines Holdings, Inc. UAL$37.1 billion10.7220.9%7.7%8.5%1.46n/a
Southwest Airlines Co. LUV$20.4 billion26.4411.8%3.5%9.5%0.541.7%

The names on this site in the same industry (the SEC's SIC description), by market capitalisation. Each figure is the same arithmetic as the ratio box above, on each company's own filings and latest close.

Filings

FilingPeriodFiledWhere
10-Q30 June 202623 July 2026EDGAR
10-Q31 March 202623 April 2026EDGAR
10-K/A31 December 20256 February 2026EDGAR
10-K31 December 20255 February 2026EDGAR
10-Q30 September 202523 October 2025EDGAR
10-Q30 June 202524 July 2025EDGAR
10-Q31 March 202525 April 2025EDGAR
10-K31 December 20247 February 2025EDGAR
10-Q30 September 202428 October 2024EDGAR
10-Q30 June 202429 July 2024EDGAR

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