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Southwest Airlines (LUV)

(Delayed Data from NYSE)

$27.03 USD

27.03
16,105,615

-0.23 (-0.84%)

Updated Apr 26, 2024 04:00 PM ET

After-Market: $26.95 -0.08 (-0.30%) 7:58 PM ET

Zacks Rank:

This is our short term rating system that serves as a timeliness indicator for stocks over the next 1 to 3 months. How good is it? See rankings and related performance below.

Zacks Rank Definition Annualized Return
1Strong Buy24.20%
2Buy18.04%
3Hold9.52%
4Sell5.20%
5Strong Sell2.60%
S&P50011.13%

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3-Hold of 5     3    

Style Scores:

The Style Scores are a complementary set of indicators to use alongside the Zacks Rank. It allows the user to better focus on the stocks that are the best fit for his or her personal trading style.

The scores are based on the trading styles of Value, Growth, and Momentum. There's also a VGM Score ('V' for Value, 'G' for Growth and 'M' for Momentum), which combines the weighted average of the individual style scores into one score.

Value Score A
Growth Score A
Momentum Score A
VGM Score A

Within each Score, stocks are graded into five groups: A, B, C, D and F. As you might remember from your school days, an A, is better than a B; a B is better than a C; a C is better than a D; and a D is better than an F.

As an investor, you want to buy stocks with the highest probability of success. That means you want to buy stocks with a Zacks Rank #1 or #2, Strong Buy or Buy, which also has a Score of an A or a B in your personal trading style.

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B Value F Growth C Momentum C VGM

Industry Rank:

The Zacks Industry Rank assigns a rating to each of the 265 X (Expanded) Industries based on their average Zacks Rank.

An industry with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #1's and #2's will have a better average Zacks Rank than one with a larger percentage of Zacks Rank #4's and #5's.

The industry with the best average Zacks Rank would be considered the top industry (1 out of 265), which would place it in the top 1% of Zacks Ranked Industries. The industry with the worst average Zacks Rank (265 out of 265) would place in the bottom 1%.

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Bottom 42% (145 out of 252)

Industry: Transportation - Airline

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Zacks News

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                Stock Market News for January 22, 2016

                Benchmarks ended higher on Thursday helped by a rebound in oil prices

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                      The robust financial health of most U.S. carriers has prompted them to invest substantially toward improving the flying experience for travelers, in a bid to stay afloat in the competitive airline space.

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                              Are Good Times Over for the Airline Industry?

                              Close on the heels of the sell-off came the news of a probe by the Department of Justice (DOJ) on the possibility of unlawful coordination by some carriers.

                                Airline Industry Stock Outlook - July 2015

                                It has not been all bad news for the industry over the past few months. At its annual meeting, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) predicted that the airline industry will continue to see good times through 2015.

                                  Airline Industry Stock Outlook - July 2015

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                                    Bear of the Day: Southwest Airlines (LUV)

                                    Is the golden moment over for US airlines?

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                                                Three Steps to Stock Picking Success

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