Boeing Co (BA): Today's Featured Aerospace/Defense Laggard

Boeing was a leading decliner within the aerospace/defense industry, falling 75 cents (-1.1%) to $70.04 on average volume.
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Boeing

(

BA

) pushed the Aerospace/Defense industry lower today making it today's featured Aerospace/Defense laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 1.3%. By the end of trading, Boeing fell 75 cents (-1.1%) to $70.04 on average volume. Throughout the day, four million shares of Boeing exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.5 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $69.96-$71.36 after having opened the day at $71 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $70.79. Other companies within the Aerospace/Defense industry that declined today were:

CPI Aerostructures

(

CVU

), down 7.2%,

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings

(

SPR

), down 4.3%,

Heico Corporation

(

HEI

), down 4.1%, and

Breeze-Eastern Corporation

(

BZC

), down 3.6%.

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The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, engages in the design, development, manufacture, sale, and support of commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide. Boeing has a market cap of $53.12 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 12.4, below the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 3.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 20 analysts that rate Boeing a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and two rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Boeing as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, good cash flow from operations, increase in stock price during the past year and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.

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