Southwest Airlines Co vs Sibanye Stillwater Ltd — how do they compare? Southwest Airlines Co trades at $45.21 (market cap $22.27B), while Sibanye Stillwater Ltd trades at $10.92 (market cap $7.54B). The key difference: Southwest Airlines Co is far larger — about 3× Sibanye Stillwater Ltd's market cap, and Sibanye Stillwater Ltd pays the higher dividend (2.93%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| LUV | SBSW | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $22.27B | $7.54B |
Sector | Industrials | Basic Materials |
52-Week High | $54.80 | $21.12 |
52-Week Low | $29.67 | $7.27 |
Enterprise Value | $25.37B | $9.19B |
Dividend Yield | 1.58% | 2.93% |
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Southwest Airlines is the largest domestic carrier in the United States, as measured by the number of originating passengers boarded. Southwest operates over 700 aircraft in an all-Boeing 737 fleet. Despite expanding into longer routes and business travel, the airline still specializes in short-haul leisure flights, using a point-to-point network. Southwest operates a low-cost carrier business model.
Read more on LUV →Sibanye Stillwater Ltd is a South Africa-focused mining company. The Group currently owns and operates five underground and surface gold operations in South Africa: the Cooke, DRDGOLD, Driefontein, and Kloof operations in the West Witwatersrand region, and the Beatrix Operation in the southern Free State province. In addition to mining, the company owns and manages extraction and processing facilities at its operations, where gold-bearing ore is treated and beneficiated to produce gold dore. The gold dore is further refined at Rand Refinery into gold bars with a purity of at least 99.5% and is then sold on international markets. Sibanye holds a 44% interest in Rand Refinery, global refiners of gold, and the largest in Africa. Rand Refinery markets gold to customers around the world.
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