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Neharika Jain

What You Need to Know Ahead of Southwest Airlines' Earnings Release

Valued at a market cap of $18.4 billion, Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) is a passenger airline company that provides scheduled air transportation services. The Dallas, Texas-based company is scheduled to announce its fiscal Q1 earnings for 2026 in the near future.  

Ahead of this event, analysts expect this airline company to report a profit of $0.50 per share, up 484.6% from a loss of $0.13 per share recorded in the year-ago quarter. The company has topped Wall Street’s earnings estimates in three of the last four quarters, while missing on another occasion. In Q4 2025, LUV’s EPS of $0.58 surpassed the consensus estimates by 3.6%. 

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