Southwest Airlines Ownership

Who are the major shareholders and have insiders been buying or selling?


Recent Insider Transactions

NYSE:LUV Recent Insider Transactions by Companies or Individuals
DateValueNameEntityRoleSharesMax Price
28 Oct 24SellUS$35,912,934Elliott Management CorporationCompany1,203,920US$29.83
28 Oct 24SellUS$43,355,000Elliott Management CorporationCompany1,450,000US$29.90
01 Oct 24BuyUS$106,698,764Rakesh GangwalIndividual3,600,000US$30.00
30 Sep 24BuyUS$1,001,348Gary KellyIndividual33,921US$29.52
30 Aug 24SellUS$3,990Niranjan PatelIndividual157US$26.23
27 Aug 24SellUS$85,650,760Elliott Management CorporationCompany3,028,000US$28.40
23 Aug 24BuyUS$243,564,000Elliott Management CorporationCompany9,140,000US$28.05
13 Aug 24BuyUS$647,660,505Elliott Management CorporationCompany25,648,500US$25.55
09 Aug 24BuyUS$101,140Gregg SaretskyIndividual4,000US$25.29
09 Aug 24BuyUS$485,603Joshua GotbaumIndividual19,162US$25.34
09 Aug 24BuyUS$50,500Easwaran SundaramIndividual2,000US$25.25
09 Aug 24BuyUS$498,082Michael CawleyIndividual19,765US$25.20
09 Aug 24BuyUS$70,868Sarah FeinbergIndividual2,800US$25.31
09 Aug 24BuyUS$251,585C. CushIndividual10,000US$25.16
09 Aug 24BuyUS$102,234Niranjan PatelIndividual4,064.22US$25.56
05 Aug 24BuyUS$460,677,000Elliott Management CorporationCompany17,300,000US$28.71

Insider Trading Volume

Insider Buying: LUV insiders have bought more shares than they have sold in the past 3 months.


Ownership Breakdown

What is the ownership structure of LUV?
Owner TypeNumber of SharesOwnership Percentage
State or Government469,6590.0783%
Individual Insiders6,230,9921.04%
General Public39,341,7276.56%
Hedge Funds59,666,5009.95%
Institutions494,028,34182.4%

Dilution of Shares: Shareholders have not been meaningfully diluted in the past year.


Top Shareholders

Top 25 shareholders own 77.95% of the company
OwnershipNameSharesCurrent ValueChange %Portfolio %
11.4%
The Vanguard Group, Inc.
68,227,067US$2.2b0.92%0.03%
9.95%
Elliott Management Corporation
59,666,500US$1.9b-2.37%14.66%
9.61%
Capital Research and Management Company
57,620,166US$1.9b-0.74%0.09%
8.28%
PRIMECAP Management Company
49,669,524US$1.6b-0.48%1.16%
6.39%
State Street Global Advisors, Inc.
38,303,866US$1.2b-3.51%0.05%
6.05%
Putnam LLC
36,256,753US$1.2b76.5%0.99%
5.67%
BlackRock, Inc.
34,014,617US$1.1b0%0.02%
4.51%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.
27,050,295US$875.3m-25.1%0.08%
2.31%
Geode Capital Management, LLC
13,832,575US$447.6m-1.14%0.03%
1.82%
Artisan Partners Limited Partnership
10,912,174US$353.1m1.2%0.28%
1.58%
Columbia Management Investment Advisers, LLC
9,492,971US$307.2m-0.76%0.07%
1.1%
American Century Investment Management Inc
6,596,486US$213.5m-4.75%0.1%
0.96%
Invesco Capital Management LLC
5,758,874US$186.4m-12.2%0.07%
0.96%
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP
5,739,321US$185.7m-1.52%0.03%
0.93%
FMR LLC
5,600,200US$181.2m31.4%0.01%
0.9%
Morgan Stanley, Investment Banking and Brokerage Investments
5,382,351US$174.2m16.2%0.02%
0.81%
Provident Trust Company
4,878,640US$157.9m-37.7%2.72%
0.75%
Northern Trust Global Investments
4,496,678US$145.5m-2.48%0.02%
0.61%
BNY Asset Management
3,662,295US$118.5m-2.65%0.02%
0.6%
Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc
3,623,333US$117.3m609%0.44%
0.6%
Rakesh Gangwal
3,606,311US$116.7m57,000%no data
0.57%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.
3,400,904US$110.1m-7.15%6.87%
0.56%
Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc.
3,377,660US$109.3m1.38%0.02%
0.53%
Bank of America Corporation, Asset Management Arm
3,158,794US$102.2m39.4%0.03%
0.52%
UBS Asset Management AG
3,140,688US$101.6m-67.4%0.01%