The Utah Retirement Systems Sells 14200 Shares of Southwest Airlines Company (LUV)

Southwest Airlines Co. has a consensus outperform rating from 18 Wall Street analysts, and the number of shares now sold short amount to at least 1.2% of shares outstanding.

Southwest Airlines announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program on Wednesday, May 17th that authorizes the company to buyback $2.00 billion in shares.

Dugout more deeply and try to find that, does LUV earnings expected to grow/drop in the future? for this we can take help from price to earnings growth ratio that is 1.36, it is determining a stock's value while taking into account the earnings' growth. About 7 shares traded. About shares traded. Lee Enterprises, Incorporated (NYSE:LEE) has declined 2.01% since August 29, 2016 and is downtrending. It has outperformed by 20.93% the S&P500.

Among 9 analysts covering Radware (NASDAQ:RDWR), 6 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 3 Hold. Therefore 57% are positive. Radware had 21 analyst reports since July 29, 2015 according to SRatingsIntel. Cowen & Co maintained it with "Outperform" rating and $62 target in Friday, April 28 report. Wedbush maintained the shares of POOL in report on Tuesday, February 14 with "Outperform" rating. On Thursday, September 3 the stock rating was maintained by Imperial Capital with "Outperform". The company was maintained on Thursday, May 25 by Stifel Nicolaus. The firm has "Market Perform" rating given on Monday, May 16 by Keefe Bruyette & Woods. The firm has "Buy" rating by FinnCap given on Wednesday, January 11. The company now has a consensus rating of "Buy" and an average target price of $65.66. The firm has "Strong-Buy" rating given on Tuesday, August 18 by Vetr. Shares for $492,238 were sold by Romo Tammy. KELLY GARY C had sold 1,427 shares worth $81,648 on Wednesday, May 17. The insider Lamb Jeff sold $1.21 million. $226,035 worth of stock was sold by Shaw Mark R on Tuesday, May 23.

Investors sentiment decreased to 0.83 in Q4 2016. Its up 0.38, from 1.15 in 2016Q3.

A number of other hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the stock. 484.24 million shares or 6.71% more from 453.81 million shares in 2016Q3 were reported. The average investment recommendation on a scale of 1 to 5 (1 being a strong buy, 3 a hold, and 5 a sell) is 1.90, which implies that analysts are generally bullish in their outlook for LUV over the next year.

Southwest Airlines Co. operates Southwest Airlines, a passenger airline that provides scheduled air transportation in the United States and near-international markets. Cetera Advisors Ltd reported 0.06% of its portfolio in Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV). West Oak Capital Limited Co reported 0% of its portfolio in Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV). Fuller Thaler Asset invested in 101,355 shares. Mitsubishi Ufj Trust & Corp owns 326,496 shares. It also upped Liberty Media Corp Delaware stake by 197,525 shares and now owns 1.15M shares. Accuvest Global Advsr holds 0.45% or 10,000 shares. BlackRock Inc. now owns 34,983,319 shares of the airline's stock valued at $1,880,703,000 after buying an additional 34,162,752 shares during the period.

Most of the investors recently have been curious over the performance of Southwest Airlines Co. Fayez Sarofim holds 0.04% or 152,389 shares. Therefore 73% are positive. Glendon LP reported 2.21% in Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV). Cowen & Co maintained the stock with "Outperform" rating in Friday, July 22 report. The rating was upgraded by Evercore on Tuesday, July 26 to "Buy". As per Friday, January 27, the company rating was maintained by Imperial Capital. The stock of Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) earned "Overweight" rating by Stephens on Tuesday, March 29. As per Thursday, May 25, the company rating was maintained by Stifel Nicolaus. JP Morgan upgraded Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) on Thursday, July 30 to "Overweight" rating. The firm earned "Equal-Weight" rating on Friday, April 15 by Barclays Capital. The stock has "Overweight" rating by JP Morgan on Thursday, October 27. Prudential reported 255,758 shares stake. 39 funds opened positions while 80 raised stakes. 5 were accumulated by Sun Life Finance Inc. Altfest L J And Inc holds 0.79% or 31,856 shares. Kingdon Capital Mngmt Limited Liability Com owns 259,200 shares for 0.62% of their portfolio. Johnson Inv Counsel reported 0.01% stake. The company had revenue of $5.74 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.73 billion. The institutional investor owned 67,441 shares of the airline's stock after selling 389 shares during the period. Teacher Retirement Of Texas accumulated 0% or 3,371 shares. Moreover, Insight 2811 has 0.19% invested in CBRE Group Inc (NYSE:CBG) for 7,548 shares. $182.73's average target is -7.06% below currents $196.61 stock price. The insider Wells Gregory D sold $302,626. The insider ValueAct Holdings - L.P. sold $264.00 million. It increased, as 35 investors sold Pool Corporation shares while 99 reduced holdings. (NASDAQ:FRTA) reached at $3.78 price level during last trade its distance from 20 days simple moving average is -38.26%, and its distance from 50 days simple moving average is -48.91% while it has a distance of -74.86% from the 200 days simple moving average. It is down 37.63% since August 29, 2016 and is uptrending.