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The Boeing Company

$BA·$185B·Aerospace & Defense·Industrials
$207.78-1.0%YTD+8.7%1Y-12.5%
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$BAThe Boeing Company
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

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Today's AI verdict on what's driving $BA, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Comeback attemptStalledAI verdict · as of 2026-08-31

The move has stalled — likely just drifts unless something new shows up.

The Boeing turnaround is grinding in place — a $131B F-15 IDIQ, 737 production accelerating, and an authorized engineer strike vote all landing in the same week.

Boeing is the global aerospace duopoly leg (with Airbus) — commercial airliners, defense systems, satellites, launch. It's midway through the multi-year fix from the MAX crisis and door-plug incident, and the tape has been stuck below both moving averages for months while the operational recovery grinds forward.

  • The revenue trajectory is genuinely re-accelerating: Q1 revenue grew 14% year-over-year to $22.2B, prior quarters ran 30-57%, and consensus models a swing to positive $4.02 EPS in FY27 from -$0.81 in FY26 — that's the shape a real fix would take, and the FY28 estimate of $8.00 reflects a normalized 737 monthly rate.
  • The defense side just added a real leg: the $131.2B F-15 IDIQ contract ceiling is a needle-mover on a $185B market cap, and gives Boeing a multi-year defense revenue commitment that hedges any commercial-side setbacks — the specific catalyst bulls near $210 point to.
  • The near-term risk is the labor front: engineers authorized an October strike vote, and Monday's negotiation session was flagged as stalled — a strike would slow the 737 rate right as management was leaning into production increases, and would push the FY27 EPS trajectory out.
  • Balance-sheet flexibility improved: the new $3.0B 364-day unsecured revolving credit facility (Citi/JPM) replaces the prior $3B and gives management working capital during the operational grind — supportive, but not a fix.

The path if the turnaround holds is Oct 28 Q3 showing 737 deliveries continuing to climb and no strike-related disruption — the tape breaks the stall upward on visible normalization. What confirms the stall (or breaks it lower) is a strike vote passing that stops production, or another 737-related quality event that would remind holders the recovery is fragile — that's when the FY27 EPS number gets pushed to FY28 and the 8% YTD gain gives back.

Agrees with X sentimentThe mixed X split is a fair read of a stuck stock: bulls treating the $131.2B F-15 IDIQ contract ceiling as a needle-mover buy-the-dip catalyst near $210, chartists pointing to a broken trendline and a 3-3 down month, Trump's own position sitting 13% underwater from $242 and a $1.26M put buyer at the $250 strike — both sides describe the same setup, which is why 'stalled' rather than 'accelerating' is the honest trajectory.

What to watch: The Oct 28 Q3 print and the outcome of the October engineer-strike authorization vote — no strike plus continued 737 rate improvement breaks the stall upward; a strike vote passing or another 737-related quality event is what pushes the FY27 recovery out and gives back the year's gains.

On the calendar: 2026-10-28 — Q3 2026 earnings

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Mixed sentiment38 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-31

Sentiment is split and heavy on politics. Bulls anchor on the $131.2B F-15 IDIQ contract and the Boeing-Archer defense partnership, while a running subplot notes Trump personally bought up to $500k of Boeing the same day the Navy awarded an $880M contract. Chartists and bears counter that the stock is bleeding below trendlines and could break $200, with several traders staying nimble via day-trade setups rather than committing.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Designs and manufactures commercial airliners (737, 787) and military aircraft, navigating production and quality recovery.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Aerospace & Defense sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $BA.

Aerospace & Defense · Industrials

Defense budget tailwinds — NATO spending commitments and Pentagon procurement acceleration — support backlogs at prime contractors. Commercial space is a separate driver: launch cadence and satellite constellations are pulling RKLB and LUNR on their own momentum, independent of traditional defense spending.

What this means for $BA

Partial — upstream oil & gas exposure ties to commodity price cycle; The Boeing Company is a global aerospace powerhouse speciali.

Top industry ETF

$ITAiShares U.S. Aerospace & Defense ETF
+16.3%YTD
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Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
77.7How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-7.7%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-5.9%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
-0.6%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
1.8Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-87.2%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
4.8%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
7.9Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Past earnings

QuarterReportedActualEstimateSurprise
Q2 2026Jul 28, 2026$-0.76$-0.34-123.5%
Q1 2026Apr 22, 2026$-0.20$-0.68+70.8%
Q4 2025Jan 27, 2026$9.92$-0.44+2362.1%
Q3 2025Oct 29, 2025$-7.47$-5.16-44.8%
Next earningsWed, Oct 28·consensus EPS $-0.15

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q1 FY26$22.2B+14.0%11.5%2.0%$-0.11$-1.5B
Q4 FY25$23.9B+57.1%7.6%-3.4%$10.59$-1.2B
Q3 FY25$23.3B+30.4%-10.2%-20.6%$-7.14$1.8B
Q2 FY25$22.7B+34.9%10.7%-1.2%$-0.92$-200.0M

Forward consensus

5-year forecast · up to 20 analysts
FYRevenueRangeEPSRangeAnalysts
FY26$98.1B$95.3B – $100.0B-$0.81-$3.03 – $3.7117
FY27$112.4B$107.7B – $115.3B$4.02$2.04 – $5.4119
FY28$123.0B$114.9B – $135.0B$8.00$5.16 – $12.7320
FY29$134.7B$129.3B – $140.5B$12.12$11.49 – $12.8011
FY30$144.6B$138.8B – $150.8B$14.93$14.15 – $15.7711

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.8×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.43%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.-4.8%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-4.6%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatHigh float · 758.5M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today0.6% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β1.225-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

Insider activity

Recent open-market buys and sells by officers and directors — flagged when multiple insiders cluster.

Recent transactions

BuyMay 20Bradley D TildenDirector1.4K sh$299K
+ 25 other (22 awards · 2 inkinds · 1 gift) in window

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SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

8-KMaterial agreementAug 288-K — Item 1.01: Material agreement · Item 2.03: Material debt obligation
AI summary

Boeing entered into a new $3.0 billion 364-day unsecured revolving credit facility on August 22, 2026, co-arranged by Citibank and JPMorgan Chase, replacing its prior $3.0 billion revolving credit facility. The facility matures August 23, 2027, bears interest at Term SOFR plus a spread ranging from 1.25% to 1.70% depending on Boeing’s credit ratings, and is available for general corporate purposes including commercial paper backup. Borrowings are also subject to a 0.10% SOFR adjustment; a facility fee applies to the entire commitment regardless of usage. This refinancing maintains Boeing’s core liquidity backstop on substantially similar terms as it navigates its ongoing operational and financial recovery.

8-KOfficer or director changeAug 218-K — Item 5.02: Officer or director change
3New insider — initial holdingsJun 263
AI summary

Donald W. Ruhmann, Boeing's newly appointed Chief Aerospace Safety Officer, filed a Form 3 on June 26, 2026, disclosing initial beneficial ownership of 13,364.836 shares of Boeing common stock directly (including 10,484.290 restricted stock units vesting in tranches from February 2027 through February 2029) and 110.837 shares indirectly via Boeing's 401(k) plan. No derivative securities were reported. This is a routine administrative Section 16 initial-ownership filing for a new officer — no market transaction occurred.

8-KShareholder voteApr 178-K — Item 5.07: Shareholder vote
AI summary

BA held its Annual Meeting of stockholders around 2026-04-17 (8-K Item 5.07). Stockholders elected 11 directors to the board. A non-binding say-on-pay vote on executive compensation was conducted. Independent auditor ratification was approved. Routine governance event — monitor for unusually high withhold votes as an activist signal.

+ 14 other (4 proxys · 3 13Gs · 2 10-Qs · 2 earnings 8-Ks) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

Boeing Stock Analysis: Sales Increase 8% to $24.6 Billion. Time to Buy?fool.com·5h agoPentagon Seeks To Accelerate Missile Production With New Agreementsforbes.com·6h agoBoeing, engineers union agree to resume contract talks on Sept 8, union saysreuters.com·7h agoBoeing: Don't Let The Delivery Drop Fool Youseekingalpha.com·12h agoThe Boeing Deal Just Changed Everything For Archer Aviationseekingalpha.com·1d ago

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