Southwest Airlines has grown revenue 6.2% a year over three years and 25% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 21%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: +6.2% (Airlines median +9.3%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +25%, growth has slowed since the five-year average. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +21%, earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders. Years of annual history on file: 19, FY2007 to FY2025, as filed.

LUVSouthwest Airlines

Industrials

$41.65+31% 1Y

$41.65

$29.2952 weeks$54.33

Is it growing?

Good

Growing: earnings up +142% year on year and operating margin widening (+2.4 points).

2 good, 1 neutral

Revenue trend+9% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings. Five-year pace: +25% a year.

Earnings trend+142% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing faster than revenue, so margins or the share count are helping.

Margin direction+2.4 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 3.4% now against 1.1% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 30, 2026.

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is LUV growing?

Southwest Airlines has grown revenue 6.2% a year over three years and 25% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at 21%.

+6.2%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Airlines median +9.3% · steady growth, ahead of inflation · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +25%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · +6.2% over three · growth has slowed since the five-year average
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: +21%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue +6.2% · earnings outgrew revenue: margins or the share count worked for shareholders
Years of annual history on file: 19
Years of annual history on file · FY2007 to FY2025, as filed