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Southwest Airlines Company Common Stock
Industrials · Airlines · NYSE · United States
$40.98+1.59%
Market cap $20.0BNext earnings 2026-10-28Updated Sep 20, 2026
FAIR VALUE · 6-MODEL CONSENSUS
$40.98+0.0%
confidence-weighted across 6 models
Now $40.98
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$54.14$89.11
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⚠ Investor warnings · 3 flags
  • high
    Deeply negative free cash flow
    FCF is -$831M despite revenue growth of 12.8%, signaling heavy capital consumption that may pressure liquidity or require debt financing.
  • moderate
    Thin operating margins
    Operating margin of only 4.5% and net margin 2.8% leave little buffer against fuel cost spikes or demand softness.
  • moderate
    Elevated short interest
    Short interest at 8.4% reflects meaningful bearish conviction; above typical airline peers and warrants monitoring for squeeze or fundamental concern.
Reports in 37 days, last quarter beat by 0.8%.

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Snapshot

Growth80Value67Quality48Momentum61Total64
Valuation
Trailing P/E
25.6x
Forward P/E
8.1x
PEG
1.25
P/B
2.83x
EV / Revenue
0.8x
Book value/sh
$14.48
Enterprise value
$23.1B
Profitability
ROE
11.1%
FCF yield
-4.15%
ROIC
2.8%
Health and risk
Debt / equity
0.61
Dividend yield
1.78%
Beta
1.12