Benzinga · Sep 24, 2026
UBS Maintains Buy on Southwest Airlines, Raises Price Target to $53
UBS analyst Atul Maheswari maintains Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV) with a Buy and raises the price target from $49 to $53.
NYSE · LUV
Southwest Airlines Co.
Industrials · Airlines, Airports & Air Services
$42.28
Down-$0.40 (-0.94%)
Updated Sep 29, 2026, 2:10 AM
SID Score
5.3/10
Composite research score
Smart Money
62/100
Neutral
- Market cap
- 21.08B
- P/E ratio
- 58.94
- Dividend yield
- 2.13%
- 52-week range
- $35.73 – $55.11
- Volume
- 5.97M
- Avg. volume
- 9.29M
Price performance · LUV
LUV price history
1M range · 20 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
Prices through Sep 28, 2026
LUV closed at $42.28 after 20 trading sessions, up 9.73% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $42.28
- Period change
- +9.73%
- Period low
- $37.68
- Period high
- $42.68
Daily close
View OHLC price history
| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 2026 | $41.54 | $42.96 | $41.30 | $42.28 | 5.97M |
| Sep 25, 2026 | $42.19 | $42.77 | $41.19 | $42.68 | 6.98M |
| Sep 24, 2026 | $40.74 | $41.855 | $40.45 | $41.55 | 6.02M |
| Sep 23, 2026 | $41.55 | $41.79 | $40.99 | $41.04 | 5.66M |
| Sep 22, 2026 | $42.75 | $43.195 | $41.63 | $42.08 | 7.72M |
| Sep 21, 2026 | $41.68 | $41.78 | $40.93 | $41.77 | 6.34M |
| Sep 18, 2026 | $40.51 | $41.34 | $40.49 | $40.98 | 14.08M |
| Sep 17, 2026 | $40.00 | $41.025 | $39.87 | $40.34 | 7.97M |
| Sep 16, 2026 | $39.95 | $40.00 | $38.16 | $39.15 | 7.68M |
| Sep 15, 2026 | $39.74 | $39.76 | $38.65 | $39.28 | 5.21M |
| Sep 14, 2026 | $38.43 | $39.88 | $38.35 | $39.52 | 6.7M |
| Sep 11, 2026 | $39.67 | $39.67 | $39.01 | $39.24 | 5.38M |
| Sep 10, 2026 | $38.25 | $39.025 | $38.10 | $38.69 | 4.61M |
| Sep 9, 2026 | $37.89 | $38.82 | $37.75 | $38.68 | 4.38M |
| Sep 8, 2026 | $39.11 | $39.32 | $38.67 | $38.67 | 3.63M |
| Sep 4, 2026 | $38.75 | $39.755 | $38.70 | $39.62 | 5.47M |
| Sep 3, 2026 | $38.58 | $39.05 | $38.16 | $38.73 | 4.75M |
| Sep 2, 2026 | $38.62 | $39.05 | $38.20 | $38.61 | 4.61M |
| Sep 1, 2026 | $38.10 | $38.47 | $37.58 | $37.68 | 4.34M |
| Aug 31, 2026 | $39.14 | $39.36 | $38.45 | $38.53 | 4.54M |
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Company profile
Southwest Airlines is the largest domestic air carrier in the United States by passengers boarded. Southwest operates nearly 800 aircraft in an all-Boeing 737 fleet. Despite offering some longer routes and a few perks for business travelers, the airline predominantly specializes in short-haul, leisure flights operated in a single, open-seating cabin configuration in a point-to-point network. In early 2026, Southwest will modify its cabins to offer some rows with extra legroom and will update its ticketing process and merchandising to offer assigned seats and more fare categories, including a basic economy class that will more directly compete with other airlines' offerings and appear for the first time in travel aggregators' search results.
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Consensus and target data currently published for this company.
- Consensus
- —
- Average target
- $38.67
- Implied upside
- —
- Analysts
- —
| Date | Firm | Rating | Target |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 24, 2026 | UBS | Buy | — |
| Sep 18, 2026 | Rothschild & Co | Neutral | — |
| Sep 11, 2026 | Barclays | Overweight | — |
| Sep 10, 2026 | UBS | Buy | — |
| Aug 24, 2026 | TD Cowen | Buy | — |
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