Growth Metrics

Southwest Airlines (LUV) Return on Equity (2016 - 2025)

Southwest Airlines (LUV) has disclosed Return on Equity for 13 consecutive years, with 0.09% as the latest value for Q3 2021.

  • For the quarter ending Q3 2021, Return on Equity rose 7.0% year-over-year to 0.09%, compared with a TTM value of 0.09% through Sep 2021, up 7.0%, and an annual FY2025 reading of 0.05%, changed 0.0% over the prior year.
  • Return on Equity was 0.09% for Q3 2021 at Southwest Airlines, up from 0.22% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Equity topped out at 0.4% in Q1 2017 and bottomed at 0.33% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Return on Equity over 5 years is 0.15%, with a median of 0.28% recorded in 2019.
  • The sharpest move saw Return on Equity tumbled -56bps in 2020, then rose 7bps in 2021.
  • Year by year, Return on Equity stood at 0.35% in 2017, then dropped by -11bps to 0.32% in 2018, then dropped by -26bps to 0.23% in 2019, then plummeted by -242bps to 0.33% in 2020, then skyrocketed by 72bps to 0.09% in 2021.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Equity for LUV at 0.09% in Q3 2021, 0.22% in Q2 2021, and 0.33% in Q1 2021.