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

Southwest Airlines (LUV) has disclosed Return on Sales for 13 consecutive years, with 0.45% as the latest value for Q3 2021.

  • For the quarter ending Q3 2021, Return on Sales rose 19.0% year-over-year to 0.45%, compared with a TTM value of 0.45% through Sep 2021, down 32.0%, and an annual FY2025 reading of 0.02%, changed 0.0% over the prior year.
  • Return on Sales was 0.45% for Q3 2021 at Southwest Airlines, up from 0.54% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Sales topped out at 0.2% in Q2 2017 and bottomed at 0.91% in Q2 2020.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.11%, with a median of 0.11% recorded in 2017.
  • The sharpest move saw Return on Sales tumbled -103bps in 2020, then skyrocketed 37bps in 2021.
  • Year by year, Return on Sales stood at 0.14% in 2017, then grew by 3bps to 0.14% in 2018, then tumbled by -37bps to 0.09% in 2019, then crashed by -604bps to 0.45% in 2020, then changed by 0bps to 0.45% in 2021.
  • Business Quant data shows Return on Sales for LUV at 0.45% in Q3 2021, 0.54% in Q2 2021, and 0.62% in Q1 2021.