2024-04-24 07:36:26 ET
Boeing Co (NYSE: BA) is trading up in premarket on Wednesday after coming in ahead of Street estimates for its fiscal first quarter.
Why else is Boeing stock up on Wednesday?
Shareholders are content also because the aerospace giant expressed confidence that its supply chain is now stabilising. Dave Calhoun – the chief executive of Boeing Co said in a press release today:
We are absolutely committed to doing everything we can to make certain our regulators, customers, employees, and the flying public are 100 percent confident in Boeing.
grew its backlog in the recently concluded quarter to $529 billion. On the downside, though, both commercial aeroplanes and defense, space, and security businesses of the New York listed behemoth were in loss in Q1.
Boeing stock is now down roughly 30% versus the start of 2024.
Boeing Q1 earnings snapshot
Lost $355 million versus the year-ago $425 million
Per-share loss also narrowed from 69 cents to 56 cents
Adjusted loss printed at $1.13 as per the earnings report
Revenue jumped 8.0% year-over-year to $16.57 billion
Consensus was $1.76 a share loss on $16.23 billion in revenue
Boeing reported billion in adjusted free cash flow for the recently concluded quarter. CEO Calhoun also said on Wednesday:
Boeing took a big hit to deliveries in Q1
Earlier in April, Boeing said it delivered 83 planes in total in the first quarter – down a whopping 47% versus last year as Invezz reported here .
Continued struggles with quality and safety of the airliners also made Dave Calhoun announce plans of stepping down as the chief executive of at the end of 2024 – and a recent report suggests its director Dave Gitlin (CEO of Carrier Global) is an excellent candidate for the top role at the New York listed giant.
This is a developing story. Check back in a few minutes for more updates!
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