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How Southwest Airlines Co. stacks up
LUV · against 195 other Industrials companies of similar size
Profitability
39/ 100
Near the bottom of its peers.
Ranked #169 of 196 · scores higher than 13% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score15 peers with a profitability score of 30–39, including LUV · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 39?
Weighted metrics compared with all Industrials companies.Mainly because of its operating margin, which is weaker than most Industrials peers.
- a thinner operating margin: weaker than 75% of peers. Operating margin: 3.5% vs peer median 7.7%
- Return on assets is close to the peer norm. Return on assets: 2.8% vs peer median 3.1%
- Return on invested capital is close to the peer norm. Return on invested capital: 8.9% vs peer median 7.1%
Metric by metric
Position: dot = LUV, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | LUV | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 182 reported | 8.9% | 12.1% | 33% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 198 reported | 3.5% | 12.3% | 6% | 33% | |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 189 reported | 2.8% | 5.0% | 24% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 186 reported | 11.1% | 15.7% | 31% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 198 reported | 22.4% | 30.8% | 31% | Context only |
Ranking by profitability score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around LUV| Rank | Company | Market cap | Profitability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1.71T JPY (≈$11.6B) | 100 | 75 | |
| 1 | 2.78T INR (≈$33.3B) | 100 | 72 | |
| 1 | 25.6B USD | 100 | 50 | |
| 4 | 1.29T INR (≈$15.5B) | 99 | 69 | |
| 4 | 11.2B USD | 99 | 70 | |
| 164 | 15.8B EUR (≈$17.4B) | 41 | 50 | |
| 164 | 17.5B USD | 41 | 44 | |
| 164 | 192.8B DKK (≈$28.9B) | 41 | 48 | |
| 169 | 14.4B USD | 39 | 40 | |
| 169 | 21.3B USD | 39 | 49 | |
| 171 | 157.6B HKD (≈$20.2B) | 38 | 67 | |
| 171 | 23.5B EUR (≈$25.8B) | 38 | 54 | |
| 173 | 1.83T JPY (≈$12.5B) | 37 | 47 | |
| 173 | 2.05T JPY (≈$13.9B) | 37 | 45 |
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score