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Southwest Airlines LUV Earnings yield

Earnings yield at other companies

Delta Air Lines logo
Delta Air LinesDAL
10.3%-2.7pp
United Airlines Holdings logo
United Airlines HoldingsUAL
12.3%-3.9pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$7.2B+12.8%
Operating income$330.0M+248%
Net income$227.0M+252%
EPS (diluted)$0.45+273%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$3.3B-59.1%
Total debt$6.4B-20.0%
Total equity$6.9B-26.6%
Total assets$29.4B-11.6%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$1.4B+64.9%
CapEx$630.0M+19.5%
Free cash flow$788.0M+137%

Valuation

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Market cap$23.45B-7.3%
Enterprise value$26.51B+8.9%
P/E28.7×-17.6×
P/S0.8×-0.1×

Profitability

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Operating margin3.4%+1.6pp
Net margin2.8%+0.8pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity10.1%+4.5pp
Debt / equity0.9×+0.1×
Current ratio0.5×-0.3×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Southwest Airlines’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Southwest Airlines’s 10-Q, filed April 23, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Southwest Airlines's earnings yield?
Southwest Airlines (LUV) reported earnings yield of 4.4% in Q1 2026.
How has Southwest Airlines's earnings yield changed year-over-year?
Southwest Airlines's earnings yield increased by 61.4% year-over-year, from 2.7% to 4.4%.
What is the long-term trend for Southwest Airlines's earnings yield?
Over 2 years (2021 to 2025), Southwest Airlines's earnings yield has grown at a 28.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from -5.6% to 9.2%.
What does earnings yield mean?
The company's annual profit as a percentage of its market price — the flip side of the P/E.
How do you interpret earnings yield?
Higher means more earnings per dollar invested. Easy to compare directly against bond yields to judge the relative attractiveness of equity.
How does earnings yield compare across companies?
Comparable across profitable companies and against fixed-income yields; undefined when earnings are negative.