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Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines mainly operates in the airline sector. The global airline companies gained around 69 percent worldwide over the last 10 years. Measured since 2011 the sector is 101 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a plus of 69 percent.

The past year gave good returns for Southwest Airlines investors

Over the last 12 months, that were profitable period for the investors in Southwest Airlines, the stock gained around 17 percent. Southwest Airlines' stock rose the past 5 years at around 509 percent. Southwest Airlines's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very constant and moved between 17,09 billion dollars and 19,82 billion dollars. Southwest Airlines's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very fluctuating and moved between 178 million dollars and 2,18 billion dollars.

The American company paid out dividends in the past 5 years. On average the Southwest Airlines stock yielded a delivered a dividend yield of around 0,69 percent over the past 5 years. In the period 2011 till 2015 Southwest Airlines paid it's investors each year a higher dividend per share. So because of the yearly raised dividends per share Southwest Airlines is a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Southwest Airlines financed with relatively low debt

At the end of 2015 the American company had a balance sheet of 21,31 billion dollars. Last year the total debt of the company was 13,95 billion dollars. This equals around 65,47 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 Southwest Airlines's price/earnings-ratio equaled 13. So investors paid for 1 stock 13 times the earnings per share of 2015. We could say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding multiplied by the stock price) of the airline company equaled around 28,04 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 675,59 million stocks listed on the stock exchange(s).

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