LUVSouthwest Airlines
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: in its normal P/E range and in line with its sector.
In its normal range: P/E 26.0 vs a 22.1 median over 35 quarters (+18% vs median).
Sector median 23.3× across 246 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.
What LUV's price assumes
Southwest Airlines trades at 26.0× earnings against 9.82× for the median Airlines name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Airlines median 9.82 · 2.65× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.78
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- Price / book
- 3.31
Price / book · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- EV / sales
- 0.85
EV / sales
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 3.31
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 24.6
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
- 0.85
- Industrials median P/E440 names
- 26.5
- Airlines median P/E16 names
- 9.82
- Market capitalisation
- $23.4B
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $17.43 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $35.28 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $60.85 |
| 52-week range | $29.29 – $54.33 |
| Today | $41.65 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
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