Southwest Airlines
$42.47Change from previous close: +1.51%Absolute change: +$0.63
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $20.78B
- Enterprise value
- $23.57B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 26.6
- Forward P/E
- 9.02
- PEG
- 0.20
- Price/book
- 2.93
- Price/sales
- 0.69
- EV/EBITDA
- 10.1
- EV/revenue
- 0.78
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 22.4%
- Operating margin
- 3.4%
- Net margin
- 2.8%
- ROE
- 11.1%
- ROA
- 2.3%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 16.4%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- 20.5%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $3.79B
- Total debt
- $6.89B
- Debt/equity
- 0.97
- Current ratio
- 0.49
- Quick ratio
- 0.38
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $0.72
- Dividend yield
- 1.7%
- Payout ratio
- 45.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- September 3, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $49.53
- Median price target
- $50.00
- High price target
- $65.00
- Low price target
- $34.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 23
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $4.71
- EPS estimate, current year
- $3.10
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 1.12
- Average volume
- 5.35M
- Shares outstanding
- 489.21M
- Float
- 484.13M
- Institutional ownership
- 93.9%
- Insider ownership
- 1.0%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 6.0%
- Short ratio (days)
- 4.76