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 21,069 - -
Change - -7.83% -21.16% -13.88% 17.12% 4.49% - -
Enterprise Value (EV) 1 24,510 20,581 15,788 13,749 18,137 23,001 23,482 23,343
Change - -16.03% -23.29% -12.91% 31.92% 26.82% 2.09% -0.59%
P/E ratio -8.57x 26.6x 38.7x 35.7x 44.2x 50.4x 15.5x 12.1x
PBR 2.97x 2.44x 1.87x 1.63x 1.93x 2.6x 2.34x 1.96x
PEG - -0x -0.8x -5.18x -7.16x 7.87x 0x 0.4x
Capitalization / Revenue 3.04x 1.61x 0.84x 0.66x 0.73x 0.75x 0.69x 0.66x
EV / Revenue 2.71x 1.3x 0.66x 0.53x 0.66x 0.82x 0.77x 0.73x
EV / EBITDA -6.49x -2,287x 6.39x 5.68x 8.58x 10.6x 6.86x 5.74x
EV / EBIT -4.87x -16.1x 14.1x 15.3x 39.7x 47.2x 12.9x 10.3x
EV / FCF -14.9x 11.3x -118x -38.6x -11.4x -44.4x -493x 60.8x
FCF Yield -6.7% 8.83% -0.85% -2.59% -8.78% -2.25% -0.2% 1.64%
Dividend per Share 2 0.18 - - 0.72 0.72 0.72 0.7531 0.805
Rate of return 0.39% - - 2.49% 2.14% 1.77% 1.85% 1.98%
EPS 2 -5.44 1.61 0.87 0.81 0.76 0.8087 2.633 3.377
Distribution rate -3.31% - - 88.9% 94.7% 89% 28.6% 23.8%
Net sales 1 9,048 15,790 23,814 26,091 27,483 28,139 30,422 31,939
EBITDA 1 -3,777 -9 2,471 2,422 2,114 2,177 3,424 4,068
EBIT 1 -5,032 -1,281 1,120 900 457 487.3 1,816 2,258
Net income 1 -3,074 977 539 498 465 429.4 1,382 1,670
Net Debt 1 -3,003 -4,777 -4,204 -3,467 -2,026 1,932 2,414 2,274
Reference price 2 46.61 42.84 33.67 28.88 33.62 40.74 40.74 40.74
Nbr of stocks (in thousands) 590,273 591,920 593,752 596,115 599,737 517,155 - -
Announcement Date 1/28/21 1/27/22 1/26/23 1/25/24 1/30/25 - - -
1USD in Million2USD
Estimates

P/E ratio, Detailed evolution

P/E (N) EV / Sales (N) EV / EBITDA (N) Dividend Yield (N) Capi.($)
49.25x0.8x10.34x1.81% 20.6B
27.77x0.7x7.39x-.--% 9.99B
28x1.73x9.29x1.41% 4.11B
28.59x2.12x9.18x3.24% 3.22B
19.05x1.82x5.51x0.5% 1.81B
9.1x0.99x4.24x7.09% 1.47B
-35.21x1.03x6.48x-.--% 1.46B
-7.99x1.59x9.26x-.--% 1.33B
-9.64x1.25x3.92x-.--% 866M
Average 12.10x 1.34x 7.29x 1.56% 4.98B
Weighted average by Cap. 32.91x 1.04x 8.83x 1.44%
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