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Southwest Airlines LUV Price / earnings

Price / earnings at other companies

Delta Air Lines logo
Delta Air LinesDAL
9.7×+2.0×
United Airlines Holdings logo
United Airlines HoldingsUAL
8.1×+1.9×

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$22.81B-7.3%
Enterprise value$25.87B+8.9%
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 the most recent quarter.

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 price / earnings?
Southwest Airlines (LUV) reported price / earnings of 22.6× in Q1 2026.
How has Southwest Airlines's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
Southwest Airlines's price / earnings decreased by 38.0% year-over-year, from 36.4× to 22.6×.
What does price / earnings mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
How do you interpret price / earnings?
Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
How does price / earnings compare across companies?
Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.