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Southwest Airlines LUV Pre-Tax Income

Pre-Tax Income at other companies

Delta Air Lines logo
Delta Air LinesDAL
$2.01B-22.0%
United Airlines Holdings logo
United Airlines HoldingsUAL
$1.03B-17.8%
Alaska Air Group logo
Alaska Air GroupALK
-$214M-190%
JetBlue Airways logo
JetBlue AirwaysJBLU
-$271M-188%
ALG
Allegiant TravelALGT
$66.02M+57.4%
Frontier Group Holdings, Inc. logo
Frontier Group Holdings, Inc.ULCC
-$94M-34.3%

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$8.4B+16.4%
Operating income$285.0M+26.7%
Net income$233.0M+9.4%
EPS (diluted)$0.47+20.5%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$3.8B+9.1%
Total debt$6.9B+29.0%
Total equity$7.1B-11.5%
Total assets$30.1B+4.9%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$530.0M+32.2%
CapEx$818.0M+23.9%
Free cash flow-$288.0M-11.2%

Valuation

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Market cap$21.71B+34.6%
Enterprise value$24.81B+37.9%
P/E25.9×-15.2×
P/S0.7×+0.1×

Profitability

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Operating margin3.5%+2.3pp
Net margin2.8%+1.4pp
FCF margin-1.5%+0.5pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity11.1%+6.9pp
Debt / equity+0.3×
Current ratio0.5×-0.1×

Where this comes from

Reported directly by Southwest Airlines in its filing.

Tagged under the XBRL concept us-gaap:IncomeLossFromContinuingOperationsBeforeIncomeTaxesExtraordinaryItemsNoncontrollingInterest.

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

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Questions, answered.

What is Southwest Airlines's pre-tax income?
Southwest Airlines (LUV) reported pre-tax income of $306M in Q2 2026.
How has Southwest Airlines's pre-tax income changed year-over-year?
Southwest Airlines's pre-tax income increased by 9.3% year-over-year, from $280M to $306M.
What is the long-term trend for Southwest Airlines's pre-tax income?
Over 2 years (2021 to 2025), Southwest Airlines's pre-tax income has grown at a -34.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from $1.33B to $564M.
What does pre-tax income mean?
Total income from all sources — operating income plus non-operating items like interest income, investment gains, and other income — before the provision for income taxes.