Southwest Airlines

LUV · Industrials

Sustainability score

46.4Rank 355 overall / 64 in Industrials

Southwest Airlines's distance from the ideal is driven mostly by FCF margin and ESG risk score. It sits closest to the frontier on Net debt / EBITDA.

29th percentile of the index, 23th percentile of Industrials

Environmental

Social

Financial/Operational

Distance-to-ideal decomposition

Emissions intensity

12%

ESG risk score

25%

Controversy level

Asset turnover

15%

Net margin

10%

FCF margin

34%

Net debt / EBITDA

Pillar weight shares: Environmental 24%, Social 23%, Financial/Operational 53%

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Net-zero scenario

LUV · Southwest Airlines

Laggard · bottom 20% of Industrials · score 18.0 · rank 82/83

Cleanup cost: 1.52 yrs · $4.2bn; Sector median 0.01 yrs
Revenue at risk: 100%; Sector median 0%
Revenue upside: 0%; Sector median 0%
Can it pay: 0.8x debt load; FCF margin -2% · sector median 1.6x

Verdict: SELLNo position to stressData: estimatedHeld at benchmark

Cleanup bill by source

Purchased electricity	$6.2M
On-site fuel combustion	n/a
Vehicle fleets	$4.2bn
Process emissions	n/a
Fugitive emissions	n/a

Why

Benchmark: burden 1.52 years of earnings (sector median 0.01 years), fossil revenue 100%, beneficiary revenue 0%, net debt/EBITDA 0.8x; largest gaps to the sector ideal: beneficiary revenue share and fossil revenue share.

Southwest Airlines

Sustainability score

Net-zero scenario

LUV · Southwest Airlines

Cleanup bill by source

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Southwest Airlines

Sustainability score

Net-zero scenario

LUV · Southwest Airlines

Cleanup bill by source

Why

Industrials peers

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