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Today Boeing Company (BA) is the best performer in the DJIA
By: Thom Hartle | April 24, 2024
• Today (8:32 CST), the best performer in the DJIA is Boeing Company. BA
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Boeing $BA just reported earnings: Double Beat
By: Evan | April 24, 2024
• Boeing $BA just reported earnings
EPS of -$1.13 beating expectations of -$1.72
Revenue of $16.6B beating expectations of $16.3B
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Boeing Slows Production of Its 787 Jet. Relax, It's Not a Quality Problem
By: Barron's | April 23, 2024
Boeing is set to slow production of its twin-aisle 787 Dreamliner jets. Shares are unaffected. Investors appear to be giving the company a pass since it isn't a quality problem — and because they hear from Boeing Wednesday morning when it reports first-quarter earnings.
The production slowdown is due to a parts shortage, according to Reuters, citing an internal memo. Boeing confirmed the memo's accuracy but declined to comment further citing its quiet period ahead of quarterly earnings.
Boeing produced about five 787 jets a month in 2023. The company also ended the year with about 50 built, but undelivered jets in its inventory, a consequence of a year-long delivery pause starting in 2021 to fix quality problems.
The current slowdown doesn't appear to be related to old issues. "We continue to manage through supplier shortages on a few key parts," reads part of the memo. "To that end, we have shared with our customers that we expect a slower increase in our rate of production and deliveries."
Supply-chain issues have been relatively common since COVID-19. Boeing peer Airbus cited supply chain challenges at its annual shareholder meeting on April 10.
Boeing stock hasn't been affected by the report yet. Shares were up 0.2% in premarket trading, at $170.85 a share, while S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average futures were up 0.1%.
Coming into Tuesday's trading, Boeing shares were down about 35% year to date. Most of that drop happened after an emergency door plug blew out of a 737 MAX 9 jet operated by Alaska Air on Jan. 5. The incident has led to slower MAX production, compensation paid to airline customers, and more Federal Aviation Administration oversight.
Boeing delivered 13 787 jets in the first quarter of 2024, up from nine in the first quarter of 2023. Boeing delivered a total of 63 787 jets in 2023.
Investors will get a chance to hear from management about the 787, 737, production, quality, and other topics when Boeing reports first-quarter results on Wednesday morning.
Wall Street is looking for a per-share loss of $1.63 from sales of $16.2 billion, according to FactSet. A year ago, Boeing reported a per-share loss of $1.27 from $17.9 billion in sales.
The company hosts a conference call at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time.
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Boeing Is Maintained at Equal-Weight by Barclays
By: Dow Jones Newswires | April 22, 2024
• (12:49 GMT) Boeing Price Target Cut to $190.00/Share From $235.00 by Barclays
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RBC cuts Boeing's PT on expectations for fewer 2024, 2025 737 MAX deliveries
By: Reuters | April 16, 2024
** RBC Capital Markets cuts PT on Boeing BA on expectations for fewer 737 MAX deliveries in 2024, 2025
** Stock edged up 0.11% at $167.93 in premarket trade
** Cuts PT by $10 to $215, expects Boeing to remain at a low production rate on the MAX for much of 2024
** Also expects co to eventually acquire Spirit AeroSystems SPR, but adds co's execution on expected rate increases would require substantial investments
** "We do not believe BA has the financial flexibility to launch this (new narrrowbody jet) in the near-term, but its share position in the important narrowbody market will likely necessitate some action here" - Brokerage
** Median PT on the stock is $240, as per LSEG data
** YTD, BA down ~36%
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Sold sone April $230 covered calls a while back for $20. They will expire worthless this Friday and I will sell them again when this rose blooms again.
Inverse Boeing chart looks ready to absolutely take flight
By: TrendSpider | April 13, 2024
• Inverse Boeing chart looks ready to absolutely take flight.
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BOEING IS DYING BECAUSE OF ITS MENTALLY ILL MANAGEMENT!!!!!!!!!!
Bear of the Day: Boeing (BA)
By: Zacks Investment Research | April 12, 2024
Boeing (BA) has been the premier manufacturer of commercial jetliners for decades. The company’s premier jet aircraft, along with varied defense products, positions it as one of the largest defense contractors in the United States.
Analysts have taken their earnings expectations lower across the board, landing the stock into a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell).
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Let’s take a closer look at how the company currently stacks up.
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Shares have faced turbulence year-to-date, down 33% and representing one of the worst-performing S&P 500 stocks in 2024. Operational issues have become a significant thorn in the company's side, souring investors’ opinions overall.
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Analysts have fully noted the issues, reflected in their negative revisions. The safety issues are undoubtedly expected to impact the company significantly, and the FAA has stated it won’t allow Boeing to ramp up production for any of its Max family of aircraft.
Mike Whitaker, FAA Administrator, said, “This won’t be back to business as usual for Boeing. We will not agree to any request from Boeing for an expansion in production or approve additional production lines for the 737 MAX until we are satisfied that the quality control issues uncovered during this process are resolved.”
We’ll undoubtedly hear more about the situation during the company’s next quarterly release, expected on April 24th. Revenue revisions for the quarter-to-be-reported have similarly been slashed, with the $18.9 billion Zacks Consensus Sales estimate down 8.2% since mid-January.
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Bottom Line
Analysts' negative earnings estimate revisions, resulting from operational issues, paint a challenging picture for the company’s shares in the near term.
Boeing (BA) is a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell), indicating that analysts have taken a bearish stance on the company’s earnings outlook.
For those seeking strong stocks, a great idea would be to focus on stocks carrying a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) or a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). These stocks sport a notably stronger earnings outlook and the potential to deliver explosive gains in the near term.
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Boeing won’t even consider moving HQ back to Seattle
By: CNN | April 11, 2024
It’s been a brutal six years for Boeing, with two fatal jet crashes kicking off a series of safety crises — and raising concerns about the quality and safety of the planes rolling off its assembly lines.
As Boeing scrambles to repair its reputation, some critics and shareholders are asking: Why not move headquarters away from the shadow of Washington, D.C., and back home to its roots in Seattle?
But Boeing has now made clear: We are not interested.
An individual Boeing stockholder, Walter Ryan, wanted to put the question of a move up for a vote during the company’s May 17 annual shareholder meeting. He filed his proposal in October for the shareholder vote, which would have been non-binding — but in February, Boeing went to the Securities and Exchange Commission, ultimately winning approval to block the vote.
Ryan, who owns 10,000 shares of Boeing stock, lives in Las Vegas and has never been to Seattle. But he believes that if Boeing is to fix its current quality and safety problems, the company’s top management should be back in Seattle — near where most of its commercial aircraft are still manufactured.
“I think they need some hands-on overseeing, and by som ebody who has skin in the game,” Ryan told CNN.
Boeing’s corporate offices had been in Seattle from its founding in 1916 until it relocated to Chicago in 2001. Then in 2022, Boeing corporate moved again — this time to Arlington, Virginia, near the Pentagon and across the river from Capitol Hill. Most manufacturing, however, remains more than 2,300 miles away in Seattle.
“They want to be next to government,” Ryan said. “Is that a sound idea? I don’t think so.”
It isn’t only shareholders like Ryan who believe a return to Seattle would benefit Boeing.
“Part of it would be symbolic,” said Shem Malmquist, a Boeing 777 pilot and instructor of aviation safety at Florida Tech. “But it’s also going to be better culturally. In the end, the closer the top management is to the production and what’s going on and the engineers, the better.”
Boeing’s response
In his proposal he wanted presented to shareholders, Ryan said the corporate move from Seattle and separation from the core manufacturing business resulted in major issues related to “engineering and quality problems, and Boeing’s historic credibility,” — concerns he said are now foremost “in the minds of both travelers and shareholders.”
Ryan wrote the proposal even before a headline-grabbing incident in January, when the door panel of a Boeing 737 Max blew off in the middle of an Alaska Airlines flight, later found to be because the aircraft left the factory missing crucial bolts needed to keep it in place.
Boeing’s attorneys argued to the SEC that this isn’t an appropriate issue for shareholder vote: “The proposal seeks to ‘micro-manage’ the company by probing too deeply into matters of a complex nature upon which shareholders, as a group, would not be in a position to make an informed judgment.”
Further, Boeing’s attorneys dismissed the premise of Ryan’s argument, calling it “an unsupported theory that certain manufacturing issues experienced by Boeing would have been avoided simply because the company’s headquarters were located in a particular city, emphasizing, among other things, management’s ability to walk the factory floor.”
The SEC agreed that Boeing it did not need to put Ryan’s proposal on its proxy statement, which was released Friday. Boeing told CNN it did not have any comment beyond those included in its filing to the agency.
Ryan said he believes his proposal — which would have allowed shareholders only to “recommend” a move back to Seattle, not mandate it — would have won had it been put up for a vote.
“That’s why I sent it in. I thought it would pass, and thought it would be a good idea,” he told CNN.
Speaking broadly, however, even shareholder proposals that are put to a vote are not likely to pass — especially recently.
According to Institutional Shareholder Services, which tracks shareholder votes, only 5.4% of votes held in 2023 on shareholder proposals received majority support. That’s down sharply from 12.6% in 2022, and 19.5% in 2021.
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Yes, and 95% (so far) of those headlines about incidents with Boeing aircraft are about things that weren’t the fault of Boeing.
They were clearly the fault of the airlines using Boeing aircraft. This can be proven with very little digging into the incident investigations!
I’m not saying Boeing is an innocent little lamb. They clearly have some issues.
But it’s just as plain that they are getting blamed for things that they are clearly blameless in.
Name a company with more consistently bearish headlines than Boeing...
By: TrendSpider | April 10, 2024
• Name a company with more consistently bearish headlines than Boeing...
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BOEING'S DEI POLICY IS KILLING THE COMPANY!!!!!!!!
BA IS COLLAPSING!!!!!!!!!!!!
FIRE THE ENTIRE BOD.... THEY ARE ALL INCOMPETENT!!!!!!!
Of COURSE it does. 100% of the incidents mentioned here on this board since the Door Plug problem on that Alaska Air aircraft can be attributed to parts, pilot or maintenance failures that have ZERO to DO with Boeing itself!
The plain fact of the matter is that for some reason, people LOVE to blame the aircraft manufacturer when there is an incident. When in ACTUALITY? The fact is that it is usually NOT the case.
MOST of the incidents (except for that door plug issue) that have been highlighted here have happened on aircraft that have been in service for YEARS. And they have been directly attributed to bad piloting, bad maintenance or bad parts.
Boeing should not be held responsible for the way some pilots mishandle the aircraft, the way maintenance procedures are sometimes not followed, or for the failure of "on condition" parts.
But it certainly seems as if that is the case.
Boeing $BA $500K Calls
By: Theta Warrior | April 8, 2024
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Boeing (BA) Stock Falls After Another In-Flight Issue, Bear Note
By: Schaeffer's Investment Research | April 8, 2024
• A Boeing 737-800 engine cover flew off during a Southwest Airlines flight
• Bernstein lowered its price objective to $240 from $272
Boeing Co (NYSE:BA) is in the spotlight yet again, after news that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is investigating an incident in which a Boeing 737-800 engine cover flew off during a Southwest Airlines (LUV) flight and hit the aircraft's wing flap on Sunday. Additionally, CEO David Calhoun reportedly earned a 45% raise to $33 million last year.
The equity also attracted a price-target cut from Bernstein to $240 from $272. The analyst in question said the equity is in a "purgatory situation" amid recent issues. Brokerages are still bullish, however, with 15 of the 21 firms in coverage calling the stock a "buy" or better, while the 12-month consensus target price of $244.80 is a 33.7% premium to current levels.
The shares were last seen down 0.2% to trade at $182.73. The 20-day moving average is acting as pressure, but a new floor has also emerged at the $180 level. BA is down 29.4% in 2024.
While calls outpace puts on an absolute basis, Boeing stock's 50-day put/call volume ratio over at the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Cboe Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX) stands higher than 98% of annual readings. This means puts have been getting picked up at a quicker-than-usual clip lately.
What's more, the equity's Schaeffer's Volatility Scorecard (SVS) sits at a high 98 out of 100. This means BA exceeded option traders' volatility expectations in the past 12 months.
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Yes, it’s a nice little story.
Most likely has ZERO to do with a Boeing design issue. Or a Boeing factory issue.
This aircraft most likely had maintenance work performed by Southwest maintenance personnel and the engine cowling was probably incorrectly latched shut after the work was performed.
The incident will be investigated and I’m sure the cause of the cowl departure will eventually be revealed.
I’m betting Boeing had ZERO to do with it.
Southwest flight from Denver makes emergency landing after 'mechanical issue,' airline says
By: ABC News | April 7, 2024
A Southwest Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing Sunday morning after the engine cover detached during takeoff, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which had been scheduled to fly from Denver to Houston, landed safely back at Denver International Airport just after 8:00 a.m. and was towed to the gate, according to the airport and airline.
According to the FAA, which is now investigating the incident, crew members aboard the flight said "the engine cowling fell off during takeoff and struck the wing flap."
In a statement, Southwest Airlines said the flight "landed safely after experiencing a mechanical issue." Customers were rebooked on other flights, and maintenance teams are now inspecting the plane, the airline said.
Footage taken by some passengers showed what appeared to be part of the plane hanging off and flapping in the breeze.
"It all blew away," one person can be heard saying in a video taken by passenger Lisa C., after which several people on board can be heard breaking out in cheers as the plane touches back down.
The engine cowling "peeled off within the first 10 minutes" of the flight, Lisa C. told ABC News.
"We all felt kind of a bump, a jolt, and I looked out the window because I love window seats, and there it was," she said.
Another passenger, Cooper Glass, told ABC News the experience was "frightening."
"People in the exit row across from me started yelling up to the flight attendants and showed them the damage," Glass said.
Glass praised the pilot, whom he said "did a great job on landing."
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Almost EVERY ITEM brought up here on this board that trashes Boeing isn't even valid! Notice I said "almost". Does Boeing have some quality control issues? Of course. That is obvious. And they have to deal with those. And they will.
BUT - most items highlighted here have already been directly attributed to either part failures or pilot/maintenance screw-ups of the airline operating the aircraft - and NOT fault of the aircraft manufacturer.
"The beleaguered aerospace giant’s outgoing chief executive made $32.8 million in 2023"
THEFT FROM SHAREHOLDERS..... THIS INCOMPTENT A'HOLE SHOULD PAY BOEING $30M INSTEAD FOR ALL THE DAMAGE HES HAS DONE!!!!!!!
Boeing MAX Production Is at a Crawl. It Would Take 20 Years to Fill the Backlog at This Rate
By: Barron's | April 5, 2024
Boeing's 737 MAX production has slowed to a crawl. That's probably a good thing though airline customers might not agree. Boeing suppliers, on the other hand, should be all right — if Boeing can get its act together.
Boeing's targeted and Federal Aviation Administration-permitted MAX production rate is currently 38 a month. The company delivered 42 MAX jets in January and February. Boeing will report March deliveries in a few days. Investors shouldn't expect a big number.
"Cirium data shows that Boeing only test flew 13 MAX planes in March, similar to the 11 that it flew in February," wrote Vertical Research Partners analyst Rob Stallard in a report Thursday. Cirium is an aviation consultancy used by the industry and Wall Street.
All signs point to another month of around 20 MAX deliveries. Along with new production, Boeing is still delivering MAX jets built and parked during the worldwide MAX grounding between March 2019 and November 2020 following two deadly crashes within five months.
Melius analyst Robert Spingarn believes the first-quarter production rate will end up lower than 20 per month. There is a good reason for lower production. Boeing is working "to minimize traveled work," wrote the analyst in a report Friday.
Traveled work refers to doing jobs on the production line somewhere other than originally designed. Less travel work is a sign Boeing is trying to get its production system under better control. That change came in the aftermath of the early January emergency door plug blowout on a 737 MAX 9 operated by Alaska Air.
More control and better quality is a positive, but it does put short-term and long-term estimates at risk. Wall Street expects Boeing to deliver about 450 MAX jets in 2024, up from 387 delivered in 2023. In the long term, Boeing expects to produce 50 MAX jets a month. "Given the current state of the 737 ramp, Boeing's targeted rate of 50/month in 2025/2026 seems unlikely," added Spingarn.
Boeing has some 4,800 unfilled orders for 737 MAX jets. At 20 a month, that's 20 years of backlog. It's great to have a big backlog but Boeing's airline customers would balk. Things should improve, still, at 40 a month Boeing has 10 years of backlog and some airlines would be waiting longer than expected for new jets.
That has some implications for Boeing as well as the airlines. Jefferies analyst Sheila Kahyaoglu noted in a report that Boeing paid Alaska $160 million in compensation for the MAX 9 grounding and lost airline capacity. Extrapolating that payment to other airlines lacking MAX capacity is difficult — only one door plug blew off — but she expects Boeing to report more than $420 million payments to airlines for the first quarter. Boeing "expects additional compensation to be provided beyond Q1, the terms of which are confidential," added the analyst.
The production delays make life harder for the airlines and Boeing. There will eventually be an impact on suppliers too. Spirit AeroSystems and Hexcel are two at the biggest risk of estimate cuts, Kahyaoglu wrote. Both companies' estimates imply production rates closer to 38 a month; she now expects an average of about 30 MAX jets made a month in 2024.
Boeing can still take parts at a higher rate than it is making planes, but investors should, at least, be aware of the potential for cuts given how the year has started.
At 30 a month, it would take Boeing some 13 years to work through its existing MAX backlog. Production rates shouldn't stay at that level forever. Still, the entire aerospace value chain — from suppliers to airlines — is waiting for things to improve.
Boeing stock was up 0.4% in premarket trading Friday, while S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average futures rose 0.4% and 0.5%, respectively.
Coming into Friday trading, Boeing stock has fallen about 30% this year. MAX troubles have weighed on investor sentiment.
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Boeing Secures 5-Year Extension to Manage US Air Force Testing Facility in Utah
By: MT Newswires | April 2, 2024
Boeing BA secured a five-year extension to its operation and maintenance contract, worth up to $559 million, for the Little Mountain Test Facility at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, by the US Air Force.
The site tests the functionality of critical defense systems, including intercontinental ballistic missile force and nuclear modernization programs, among other projects.
Boeing has managed the facility for 50 years, the company said Tuesday.
Boeing shares were down about 1% in recent trading.
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$BA made a higher low on the weekly, if you think the uptrend will hold, you could long here with a stop under the last higher low, targeting a gap fill at the least
By: TrendSpider | March 29, 2024
• Trade idea using asymmetric reward-to-risk:
$BA made a higher low on the weekly, if you think the uptrend will hold, you could long here with a stop under the last higher low, targeting a gap fill at the least.
R/R ratio: 2.78
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MORE BOEING PROBLEMS.... ANOTHER 777 MAKES AN EMERGENCY LANDING!!!!!!!!!!
Bar, Here's the next generation VTOL for the military - Bell V-280 Valor (see below).
Btw, those small VTOL companies (JOBY, ACHR), are not penny stocks -> market caps are 3.7 bil and 1.4 bil respectively. Fwiw, they look considerably safer than this Bell V-280 Valor. Lose an engine or two (or three) and the Joby or Archer just keep on flying. With the Bell V-280 Valor you're in a heap of trouble -
Bell V-280 Valor -
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Boeing $BA Bulls looking to catch a relief bounce. A variety of OTM calls just hit the tape
By: Cheddar Flow | March 27, 2024
• $BA Bulls looking to catch a relief bounce
A variety of OTM calls just hit the tape
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Moody's places Boeing ratings on review for downgrade
By: Reuters | March 26, 2024
Moody's Investors Service on Tuesday said it was considering downgrading Boeing's BA "Baa2" senior unsecured rating and "Prime-2" short-term ratings.
"Placing the ratings on review for downgrade follows Moody's belief that Boeing will be unable to deliver 737 narrow-body aircraft at the volumes required for it to materially expand its free cash flow and retire debt in a reasonable timeframe," the agency said.
The Baa2 backed long-term revenue bond and VMIG 2 backed short-term revenue bond, issued by the Miami-Dade County Industrial Development Authority, were also placed on review for downgrade.
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WELL WELL WELL ..... WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT BOEINGS GROSSLY INCOMPETENT MANAGEMENT??????
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!
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