Dow Jones (DJIA) Today: Boeing (BA) Lower
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The
Dow Jones Industrial Average
(
^DJI
) is trading down 118.0 points (-0.6%) at 18,085 as of Wednesday, Mar 4, 2015, 1:36 p.m. ET. During this time, 165.7 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 376.2 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,074 issues advancing vs. 1,922 declining with 167 unchanged.
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Holding back the Dow today is
(NYSE:
), which is lagging the broader Dow index with a 68-cent decline (-0.4%) bringing the stock to $154.89. This single loss is lowering the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 5.15 points or roughly accounting for 4.4% of the Dow's overall loss. Volume for Boeing currently sits at 2.6 million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of five million shares.
Boeing has a market cap of $108.33 billion and is part of the industrial goods sector and aerospace/defense industry. Shares are up 19.7% year-to-date as of Tuesday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 2.4%.
The Boeing Company, together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, sells, services, and supports commercial jetliners, military aircraft, satellites, missile defense, human space flight, and launch systems and services worldwide.
TheStreet Ratings rates Boeing as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.
- You can view the full Boeing Ratings Report.
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