Short interest in Southwest Airlines Co (NYSE:LUV) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 42.66M to 39.78M. This put 8.42% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Southwest Airlines gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Southwest Airlines's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 9.01M shares traded per day, it would take 4.41 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.