Southwest Airlines LUV Institutional Ownership

Updated Oct 11, 2026

Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) was held by 928 institutional investors that filed 13F reports for the quarter ended June 30, 2026.

• These investors held 92.87% of Southwest Airlines' outstanding shares at the end of Q2 2026, up from 87.38% in Q1 2026.
• Total holdings of LUV shares rose 4.41% from Q1 2026, and the holder count rose 17.62% from Q2 2025.
• Of the 928 holders, 474 added to their positions, 280 reduced their stakes and 174 left their positions unchanged in Q2 2026.
• Institutional investors held 454.31Mn shares of Southwest Airlines in total at the end of Q2 2026, up 19.17Mn from the prior quarter and down 37.39Mn from a year earlier.
• Primecap Management Co was the top holder of Southwest Airlines as of June 30, 2026, with 48.8Mn shares, or 9.97% of shares outstanding.
• Holders that added the most shares of Southwest Airlines in Q2 2026 were Goldman Sachs Group Inc (+6.89Mn shares), JPMorgan Chase & Co (+4.46Mn shares), Crake Asset Management LLP (+4.15Mn shares), UBS Group AG (+3.99Mn shares) and First Trust Advisors LP (+3.49Mn shares).
• The largest position reductions in LUV for Q2 2026 were by Elliott Investment Management L.P. (-6.04Mn shares), Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership (-4.71Mn shares), Qube Research & Technologies Ltd (-3.28Mn shares), Jane Street Group, LLC (-1.67Mn shares) and Amundi (-1.03Mn shares).
• According to Business Quant data, the leading holders of LUV for Q2 2026 were Primecap Management Co (48.8Mn shares), Franklin Templeton Inc (46.58Mn shares), Vanguard Capital Management LLC (31.61Mn shares), BlackRock, Inc. (29.92Mn shares), State Street Corp (29.33Mn shares), Elliott Investment Management L.P. (24.31Mn shares), Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC (24Mn shares), T. Rowe Price Associates Inc (13.91Mn shares), Geode Capital Management, LLC (12.74Mn shares) and Ameriprise Financial Inc (10.78Mn shares).