Growth Metrics

Southwest Airlines (LUV) Short-term Investments (2016 - 2025)

Southwest Airlines has reported Short-term Investments over the past 17 years, most recently at $116.0 million for Q3 2025.

  • Quarterly Short-term Investments fell 86.8% to $116.0 million in Q3 2025 from the year-ago period, while the trailing twelve-month figure was $116.0 million through Sep 2025, down 86.8% year-over-year, with the annual reading at $1.2 billion for FY2024, 44.37% down from the prior year.
  • Short-term Investments was $116.0 million for Q3 2025 at Southwest Airlines, down from $364.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • Over five years, Short-term Investments peaked at $3.3 billion in Q1 2023 and troughed at $116.0 million in Q3 2025.
  • The 5-year median for Short-term Investments is $2.4 billion (2021), against an average of $2.1 billion.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Short-term Investments: surged 48.1% in 2021 and later plummeted 94.5% in 2025.
  • Tracing LUV's Short-term Investments over 5 years: stood at $3.0 billion in 2021, then fell by 7.41% to $2.8 billion in 2022, then fell by 21.93% to $2.2 billion in 2023, then tumbled by 44.37% to $1.2 billion in 2024, then crashed by 90.46% to $116.0 million in 2025.
  • According to Business Quant data, Short-term Investments over the past three periods came in at $116.0 million, $364.0 million, and $118.0 million for Q3 2025, Q2 2025, and Q1 2025 respectively.