Growth Metrics

Southwest Airlines (LUV) EBITDA Margin (2016 - 2025)

Southwest Airlines (LUV) has disclosed EBITDA Margin for 12 consecutive years, with 58.07% as the latest value for Q4 2020.

  • For the quarter ending Q4 2020, EBITDA Margin fell 6968.0% year-over-year to 58.07%, compared with a TTM value of 42.19% through Dec 2020, down 5537.0%, and an annual FY2025 reading of 1.53%, up 36.0% over the prior year.
  • EBITDA Margin was 58.07% for Q4 2020 at Southwest Airlines, up from 78.69% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, EBITDA Margin topped out at 23.7% in Q2 2016 and bottomed at 111.81% in Q2 2020.
  • Average EBITDA Margin over 5 years is 0.39%, with a median of 13.92% recorded in 2016.
  • The sharpest move saw EBITDA Margin soared 270bps in 2017, then crashed -12819bps in 2020.
  • Year by year, EBITDA Margin stood at 11.96% in 2016, then increased by 23bps to 14.66% in 2017, then fell by -2bps to 14.38% in 2018, then fell by -19bps to 11.61% in 2019, then plummeted by -600bps to 58.07% in 2020.
  • Business Quant data shows EBITDA Margin for LUV at 58.07% in Q4 2020, 78.69% in Q3 2020, and 111.81% in Q2 2020.