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Southwest Airlines Co.

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LUV in the last 90 days

Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV) had no congress transactions and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 22,075,369 shares held short, 4.5 days to cover, down 21.6% from the report before.

  • Delay: each filing below shows how many days passed between the trade and its publication. None of this is real-time.

Latest filing on file: 17 JUN 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the filings show

What the filings show · last 90 days

1 of 4 sources

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The disclosed money is leaning into this name, on what has actually been filed. This reads on one source only, so treat it lightly.

Short interest
Short interest fell 30.1% — 31,577,502 to 22,075,369 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
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This summarises filings that have already been published — it is not a forecast, a rating of the company, or advice. Every figure above is listed in full further down this page, with the document it came from.

FINRA short interest

Settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · shares held short

22,075,369shares held short

Days to cover

4.50

Avg daily volume

4,908,286

Since last report

-21.58%

As of 15 September 2026, 22,075,369 Southwest Airlines Co. shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 6,075,154 shares fewer than the previous report, a 21.58% decrease. At the average daily volume of 4,908,286 shares, that position represents 4.50 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.

This is the most recent figure that exists, and it is 17 days old. FINRA collects short interest twice a month, on a settlement date, and publishes it about eight business days later. So nobody has a live short-interest number for LUV — not us, and not anyone quoting one. We print the settlement date on the figure so you always know which day you are looking at.

Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has risen from 20,445,702 shares on 31 March 2026 to 22,075,369 today, a change of 8.0%. The highest reading in that window was 32,904,494 shares on 31 July 2026.

SettlementShares shortDays to cover
15 SEPT 202622,075,3694.50
31 AUG 202628,150,5236.41
14 AUG 202625,062,8445.46
31 JUL 202632,904,4945.67
15 JUL 202631,577,5026.14
30 JUN 202631,162,8293.75
15 JUN 202632,024,4775.70
29 MAY 202629,255,4904.08
15 MAY 202623,540,2033.66
30 APR 202622,685,5402.88
15 APR 202619,343,1972.61
31 MAR 202620,445,7022.41
What is LUV's short interest?
22,075,369 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.
What percentage of the float is short?
We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.
How current is this?
It is 17 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.
What does days to cover mean?
It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 4.50. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.
Where does this come from?
FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.

Disclosed insider buying on file

—no purchase on file passed the price check

Open-market purchases only — the amount is a fact, not a verdict.

On file here

Short positions0

Insider purchases0

Congress transactions7

Latest change17 JUN 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 0CONGRESS · 7

Congress transactions on file

7 disclosed · newest first · every row links to its filing

WhoAmount as filedTradedFiledLag
Hon. Matthew Robert Van EppsSOLD$1,001 – $15,00016 JUN 202617 JUN 20261 day
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00005 SEPT 202510 OCT 202535 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosSOLD$1,001 – $15,00005 AUG 202512 SEPT 202538 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00003 JUL 202514 AUG 202542 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosSOLD$1,001 – $15,00026 FEB 202506 MAR 20258 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00024 JAN 202511 FEB 202518 days
Hon. James ComerSOLD$1,001 – $15,00031 DEC 202410 JAN 202510 days
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