Southwest Airlines LUV Interest coverage
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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 interest coverage?
- Southwest Airlines (LUV) reported interest coverage of 5.6× in Q1 2026.
- How has Southwest Airlines's interest coverage changed year-over-year?
- Southwest Airlines's interest coverage increased by 162.6% year-over-year, from 2.1× to 5.6×.
- What does interest coverage mean?
- How many times the company's operating profit covers its interest bill.
- How do you interpret interest coverage?
- Higher is safer; below ~2× is a warning that earnings provide little cushion against the debt burden. Debt-free companies have no interest expense and the ratio is left blank.
- How does interest coverage compare across companies?
- Comparable across leveraged non-financials; less relevant for net-cash companies with negligible interest.