Southwest Airlines Co (LUV): Today's Featured Transportation Winner
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) pushed the Transportation industry higher today making it today's featured transportation winner. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1%. By the end of trading, Southwest Airlines rose 17 cents (1.9%) to $9.18 on average volume. Throughout the day, 5.7 million shares of Southwest Airlines exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 6.7 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $8.99-$9.22 after having opened the day at $9.01 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $9.01. Other companies within the Transportation industry that increased today were:
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), up 11.9%,
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), up 7.1%,
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), up 6.8%, and
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), up 4.6%.
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Southwest Airlines Co. engages in the operation of a passenger airline that provides scheduled air transportation in the United States. Southwest Airlines has a market cap of $6.75 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 14.1, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 6.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are six analysts that rate Southwest Airlines a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Southwest Airlines as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its compelling growth in net income, good cash flow from operations, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, increase in stock price during the past year and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company shows low profit margins.
- You can view the full Southwest Airlines Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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), down 11.2%,
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), down 9.7%,
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), down 9.1%, and
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), down 8.9%, were all laggards within the transportation industry with
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) being today's transportation industry laggard.
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iShares Dow Jones Transportation
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) while those bearish on the transportation industry could consider
ProShares UltraShort Industrials
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).
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