LUVSouthwest Airlines
Is the price fair?
Neither cheap nor expensive: nothing decisive, though cheap vs its sector.
In its normal range: P/E 20.4 vs a 21.6 median over 36 quarters (−6% vs median).
Sector median 21.2× 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 20.4× earnings against 9.25× for the median Airlines name, more expensive than its own group.
Trailing P/E · Airlines median 9.25 · 2.20× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 0.65
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026
- Price / book
- 2.79
Price / book · today's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026
- EV / sales
- 0.72
EV / sales
Details›
- Price / booktoday's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026
- 2.79
- EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026
- 16.4
- EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Sep 30, 2026
- 0.72
- Industrials median P/E434 names
- 26.2
- Airlines median P/E16 names
- 9.25
- Market capitalisation489.6 million shares, counted Oct 21, 2026
- $20.4B
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $22.51 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $44.22 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $77.43 |
| 52-week range | $29.29 – $54.33 |
| Today | $41.75 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Against its own past
Its multiples now against their own history, and how much of the price move came from earnings rather than the multiple.
Airlines
The closest names by size in the same industry