Company Valuation: Southwest Airlines Co.

Data adjusted to current consolidation scope
Fiscal Period: December 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027
Capitalization 1 27,513 25,358 19,992 17,216 20,163 20,806 - -
Change - -7.83% -21.16% -13.88% 17.12% 3.19% - -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 24,510 20,581 15,788 13,749 18,137 21,894 22,660 20,374
Change - -16.03% -23.29% -12.91% 31.92% 20.72% 3.5% -10.09%
P/E ratio -8.57x 26.6x 38.7x 35.7x 44.2x 37.1x 16.2x 11.3x
PBR 2.97x 2.44x 1.87x 1.63x 1.93x 2.19x 1.96x 1.63x
PEG - -0x -0.8x -5.18x -7.16x 1.3x 0x 0.3x
Capitalization / Revenue 3.04x 1.61x 0.84x 0.66x 0.73x 0.74x 0.69x 0.66x
EV / Revenue 2.71x 1.3x 0.66x 0.53x 0.66x 0.78x 0.76x 0.64x
EV / EBITDA -6.49x -2,287x 6.39x 5.68x 8.58x 9.42x 6.6x 4.92x
EV / EBIT -4.87x -16.1x 14.1x 15.3x 39.7x 33.3x 13.9x 8.94x
EV / FCF -14.9x 11.3x -118x -38.6x -11.4x -42.1x 35.1x 162x
FCF Yield -6.7% 8.83% -0.85% -2.59% -8.78% -2.38% 2.85% 0.62%
Dividend per Share 2 0.18 - - 0.72 0.72 0.7488 0.7685 0.8297
Rate of return 0.39% - - 2.49% 2.14% 2.05% 2.1% 2.27%
EPS 2 -5.44 1.61 0.87 0.81 0.76 0.9835 2.248 3.226
Distribution rate -3.31% - - 88.9% 94.7% 76.1% 34.2% 25.7%
Net sales 1 9,048 15,790 23,814 26,091 27,483 28,102 29,983 31,609
EBITDA 1 -3,777 -9 2,471 2,422 2,114 2,324 3,434 4,141
EBIT 1 -5,032 -1,281 1,120 900 457 658 1,632 2,279
Net income -3,074 977 539 498 465 - - -
Net Debt 1 -3,003 -4,777 -4,204 -3,467 -2,026 1,089 1,854 -431.8
Reference price 2 46.61 42.84 33.67 28.88 33.62 36.51 36.51 36.51
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 590,273 591,920 593,752 596,115 599,737 569,866 - -
Announcement Date 1/28/21 1/27/22 1/26/23 1/25/24 1/30/25 - - -
1USD in Million2USD
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P/E ratio, Detailed evolution

P/E (Y) EV / Sales (Y) EV / EBITDA (Y) Dividend Yield (Y) Capi.($)
37.12x0.78x9.42x2.05% 20.81B
15.36x0.66x6.98x-.--% 8.25B
17.42x1.4x5.83x1.19% 3.83B
21.36x1.9x7.95x4.09% 2.46B
16.42x1.56x5.19x0.58% 1.52B
8.33x0.83x3.63x6.48% 1.33B
-13.55x1.37x7.65x-.--% 938M
22.34x0.94x6.11x-.--% 912M
-29.43x1.28x11.99x - 637M
-4.77x1.18x3.89x-.--% 525M
Average 9.06x 1.19x 6.86x 1.6% 4.12B
Weighted average by Cap. 25.26x 0.94x 8.02x 1.65%
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