Investigating a stock’s 52-week price history, covering the range of low and high prices, can provide significant information about its present state and future potential. Southwest Airlines Co’s current trading price is -11.05% away from its 52-week high, while its distance from the 52-week low is 36.26%. The stock’s price range during this period has varied between $23.58 and $36.12. The company, active in the Industrials sector, saw a trading volume of around 15.04 million for the day, considerably higher average daily volume of 9.56 million observed over the last three months.
Southwest Airlines Co had a pretty favorable run when it comes to the market performance. Over the past year, the company’s stock reached a high of $36.12 on 12/05/24, while the lowest price during the same period was $23.58 on 08/05/24.
How Financial Performance Impacts Market Capitalization
Southwest Airlines Co (LUV) has experienced a quarterly decline of -4.32% in its revenues when compared to the same period in the previous year. Presently, the company has a total market capitalization of 19.04B and boasts a workforce of 72450 employees.
The Role of Moving Averages and Trading Volume in Technical Analysis
Based on Barchart.com data, the company’s moving average over the 100-day period was 31.74, with a change in price of +1.15. Similarly, Southwest Airlines Co recorded 8,746,688 in trading volume during the last 100 days, posting a change of +3.71%.
How LUV’s Debt-to-Equity Ratio Affects Financial Health
A company’s financial condition and market reputation can be evaluated using the debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio. This ratio, calculated by dividing a company’s total liabilities by its shareholders’ equity, indicates the proportion of debt a company employs to back its assets in relation to its shareholders’ equity. At the time of writing, the total D/E ratio for LUV stands at 0.78. Similarly, the long-term debt-to-equity ratio is also 0.59.
LUV Stock Stochastic Average
As of today, the raw stochastic average of Southwest Airlines Co over the past 50 days is 66.30%. This is a decrease compared to the raw stochastic average of the last 20 days, which was recorded at 88.03%. Additionally, the Stochastic %K and %D values for the company were 78.02% and 66.55%, respectively, over the past 20 days.
LUV Stock Price Performance Analysis
A mixed performance in the stock price over the year has left investors with either an optimistic or pessimistic outlook, depending on their point of view. Until today this year the stock’s price performance recorded a decrease of -4.43%. However, over the last six months, the performance has been weaker by 11.29%. The price of LUV increased 7.35% over the last 30 days. And in the last five days, it has surged by 14.02%.
