Boeing stock: buy or sell?
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February 27th, 2020
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The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sales, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide.
Should I buy Boeing stock?
Trading stocks requires experience and discipline, and your buying and selling decisions must come following a methodology. Trading strategies are meant for helping you in the decision process of what stocks to pick and when is the best time to buy them. At Stocks2.com, we like to use very simple but trusted and powerful trend following trading strategies. Simple things usually work the best.None of our preferred buy setups matches with Boeing stock situation right now, therefore this is not a suitable entry point.
| Buy setup | Elegible |
|---|---|
| New all-time high | No |
| New 52 week high | No |
| Price crossing up 200d MA | No |
| 100d MA crossing up 200d MA | No |
Is Boeing stock a buy?
Everyday, hundreds of stock ratings are posted by financial analysts to indicate a particular stock's attractiveness.
Unfortunately, we couldn't detect any rating for BA stock for the last month.Boeing stock analysis
Daily outlook
Boeing shares plunged -5.83% to $287.76 today.
Boeing plunged a dreadful -5.83% and closed at $287.76. Since last December when BA stock price broke down the SMA200d line, it slid $-76.25 per share (-20.95%).
Weekly outlook
Shares of Boeing collapsed a spooky -12.90% this week. Early February BA climbed a brilliant 5.49% in just one week.
Since price and 40-weeks moving average lines crossed down early December, BA fell $-76.25 per share (-20.95%). Trading stocks that are under the 40-weeks (that is, 200-days) moving average mark is not recommended by many experts, as it indicates that the stock has not enough institutional support.
Boeing stock price history
Boeing stock historical price chart
BA stock reached all-time highs with a price of $435.56.
Boeing stock price target
How much a stock will be priced tomorrow or next week is quite unpredictable However, many stock price predictions are published every day by banks, financial institutions and independent analysts. You should not follow the analysts' BA stock price predictions in the hope that they will be met as they may be wrong and not met. For the last 30 days we have not found any price forecast for Boeing stock by any trusted analyst.Financials and fundamental analysis
Earnings date and Earnings per Share
After posting its last earnings report on April, Boeing . As soon as we get its actual EPS from the earnings report, we will extend this report.| Quarter | Reporting date | Estimated EPS | Actual EPS | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-Q2 | - | n/a | 2.89 | n/a |
| 2017-Q3 | 2017-10-25 | 2.66 | 2.72 | 2.3% |
| 2017-Q4 | 2018-01-31 | 2.89 | 3.06 | 5.9% |
| 2018-Q1 | 2018-04-25 | 2.59 | 3.64 | 40.5% |
| 2018-Q2 | 2018-07-25 | 3.45 | 3.33 | -3.5% |
| 2018-Q3 | 2018-10-24 | 3.45 | 3.58 | 3.8% |
| 2018-Q4 | 2019-01-30 | 4.52 | 5.48 | 21.2% |
| 2019-Q1 | 2019-04-23 | 4.29 | n/a | n/a |
| 2019-Q2 | - | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| 2019-Q3 | - | n/a | n/a | n/a |
Annual financial results
Compared to 2017, last anual sales report draw a pretty good gain of 7.58% to $101,127.00 M USD. Instead, its income margin (compared to sales) grew to 10.34%, that is $10,460.00 million. To have an updated picture of the financial situation of Boeing, we have calculated the trailing twelve month (TTM) sales and income figures. TTM values are the sum of the last 4 quarters and aproximate to an annual fiscal report ending in 2019-Q1 that can be compared to 2018 fiscal year results. Annual Boeing TTM sales up to March 2019 were $100,662.00 and earnings were $10,132.00 million USD. If we compare this TTM figures with the last reported annuality, we can review Boeing business evolution since December 2018: Annual turnover up to March, compared to lastest yearly report, stayed constant a neutral -0.46%. In the same way, profit margin (net income/revenues) remained stable at 10.34%.| Year | Sales | YoY | Income/(margin) | YoY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | $86,620 M | - | $4,580 M5.3% | - |
| 2014 | $90,762 M | 4.78% | $5,446 M6.0% | 18.91% |
| 2015 | $96,114 M | 5.90% | $5,176 M5.4% | -4.96% |
| 2016 | $94,571 M | -1.61% | $4,895 M5.2% | -5.43% |
| 2017 | $94,005 M | -0.60% | $8,458 M9.0% | 72.79% |
| 2018 | $101,127 M | 7.58% | $10,460 M10.3% | 23.67% |
| TTM | $100,662 M | -0.46% | $10,132 M10.1% | -3.14% |
Quarterly financial results
Boeing reported $22,917.00 M in sales for 2019-Q1, a -19.14% decline compared to previous quarter. Reported quarter income marked $2,149.00 M with a profit margin of 9.38%. Profit margin declined a -2.70% compared to previous quarter when profit margin was 12.08%. When comparing turnover to same quarter last year, Boeing sales marked an ugly correction and depreciated a -1.99%.| Quarter | Sales1 | QoQ2 | Income1/(margin) | QoQ2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-Q2 | $22,740 M | - | $1,760 M7.7% | - |
| 2017-Q3 | $24,310 M | 6.90% | $1,850 M7.6% | 5.11% |
| 2017-Q4 | $24,157 M | -0.63% | $3,059 M12.7% | 65.35% |
| 2018-Q1 | $23,382 M | -3.21% | $2,477 M10.6% | -19.03% |
| 2018-Q2 | $24,258 M | 3.75% | $2,196 M9.1% | -11.34% |
| 2018-Q3 | $25,146 M | 3.66% | $2,363 M9.4% | 7.60% |
| 2018-Q4 | $28,341 M | 12.71% | $3,424 M12.1% | 44.90% |
| 2019-Q1 | $22,917 M | -19.14% | $2,149 M9.4% | -37.24% |
Boeing ownership
When you are planning to invest in shares of a stock, it's always worth to check its ownership structure.Management staff in all public traded companies that hold equity is required to report every transaction to the SEC. For Boeing, 0.10% of all outstanding shares are owned by its staff.
In case of Boeing stock, 68.59% of its shares are held by institutions (mutual funds, pension funds, big banks and other large financial institutions). Bearish positions for BA stock account 0.00%, no big difference from last month.
The following table compares ownership indicators for other stocks related to Boeing:
| BA | |
|---|---|
| Market cap | $161.9 B |
| Total shares | 562.8 M |
| Float shares | 531.8 M |
| - Institutional holdings (%) | 68.6% |
| - Insider holdings (%) | 0.1% |
| Shares in short selling | 0.0% |
Boeing summary
| Thursday, February 27th, 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Open | $300.37 |
| Close | $287.76 |
| Day range | $284.29 - $301.00 |
| Previous close | $305.59 |
| Session gain | -5.83% |
| Average true range | $8.85 |
| 50d mov avg | $326.30 |
| 100d mov avg | $340.73 |
| 200d mov avg | $346.26 |
| Daily pattern | |
| Weekly pattern | lt03c |
Boeing performance
To better understand Boeing performance you must becnhmark its gains with other related stocks in same sector or industry. We compared Boeing against in the following table:| Stock | 3m | 6m | 12m |
|---|---|---|---|
| BABoeing | -20.95% | -20.03% | -33.13% |
Boeing competitors
Unfortunately, we could not find any public company that could be defined as Boeing competitor. This doesn't mean Boeing does not have any competitor in the market, it's just we could not detected it.Latest Boeing stock news
- Seeking AlphaDefense And Aerospace Industry Is Soaring High Above BoeingAugust 1, 2019
- Seeking AlphaAir Canada: A Buy Despite The Boeing 737 Max GroundingAugust 1, 2019
- InvestorPlaceBoeing Stock Can Be Lifted by a Relief RallyAugust 1, 2019
- Seeking AlphaOctober Approval To Restart The Boeing MAX - Impact On Stock Is AsymmetricalJuly 26, 2019
- InvestorPlaceStock Market Today: Boeing, Tesla Tumble on More WorriesJuly 25, 2019