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Strategies & Market Trends : Value Investing
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To: Graham Osborn who wrote (55629)7/7/2015 2:05:59 PM
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A couple of points:

LUV has more cash and short term investments than long term debt. So a hike in interest rates will be negligible.

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Furthermore, their capital structure could improve with some high cost debt coming due shortly.

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Southwest hedges fuel costs perhaps better than any other airline. In 2014 their average price of jet fuel was roughly 2.80 per gallon. In the first quarter of 2015 it was 2.00. Furthermore they are buying new planes that are more fuel efficient. They have on order 170 Boeing 737 Max 8 which will start arriving in 2017.

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Of the five major airlines, Southwest has the lowest break even load factor and has been profitable the last forty-two years.
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