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Boeing highlights rising aircraft output, certification progress and a record $715 billion backlog as it targets stronger cash flow and growth.
After years of business issues and stock market decline, Boeing's (NYSE: BA) latest earnings proved sufficiently strong to generate both a regular session rally and to prompt Jim Cramer to declare that the firm is ‘at last ready to run.'
The Boeing Company (BA) Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Two Dow Jones blue chips are stealing the spotlight Tuesday afternoon as
Boeing NYSE: BA reported second-quarter revenue of $24.6 billion, up 8% from a year earlier, as higher commercial airplane deliveries and increased defense volume lifted results across its three business segments. The company posted a core loss per share of $0.76, an improvement from the prior year, and generated $631 million of positive free cash flow.
Interest rates have not moved since December's quarter-point cut to a range of +3.50-3.75%.
Boeing booked $280 million in additional charges on the VC-25B presidential aircraft program during the second quarter of 2026, the single line item that pushed the company's Defense, Space & Security segment into the red and drove a wider-than-expected loss.
Boeing (BA) stock is extending gains on Tuesday morning even though the airplane maker posted a wider-than-expected loss for its fiscal second quarter (Q2). Investors are cheering BA mostly because the bottom-line weakness did not disrupt management's full-year outlook for up to $3 billion in free cash flow.
BA's Q2 revenues beat estimates and backlog hits a record $715.3 billion, but a wider-than-expected adjusted loss tempered the stronger sales performance.
While the top- and bottom-line numbers for Boeing (BA) give a sense of how the business performed in the quarter ended June 2026, it could be worth looking at how some of its key metrics compare to Wall Street estimates and year-ago values.
Boeing (BA) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.76 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.34. This compares to a loss of $1.24 per share a year ago.