The Boeing Company awarded $319,905,801

The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA). Last Market Price: 61.46, Change: +1.95, % Change: (3.28%). Shares trade in the range of 60.00 – 61.58 dollars. It has a market capitalization of 45.55B dollars, making it a Large Cap Stock and has 741.09M outstanding shares. The company has a beta of 1.27, indicating, the stock to be more volatile than the market. As per the most recent quarterly report, the net income per share (EPS) is 4.72; P/E of 13.02. It operates in Capital Goods sector and belongs to Aerospace and Defense industry. Percentage shares held by institutional investors is 73%. The company has a 52 week high of $ 80.65 and a 52 week low of $ 56.01. Average volumes of shares traded daily are 6,380,000. Volume traded in the last session was at 2,190,000, 0.34 times the average volume.

• The Boeing Company is being awarded a $319,905,801 modification to a previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-fee contract (N00019-09-C-0022) for spares, support equipment and tools, etc.

For Q2 (Jun ’11), It had a Net profit margin of 5.69%, an Operating margin of 9.27%. Other Key stats and ratios are : Return on average assets of 5.36%, Return on average equity of 87.41%. The organization has an employee strength of 160,500

Consensus Recommendation is a Outperform.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Sep-11 show a mean of 18,034.00 million dollars, an estimate high of 19,303.90 million dollars and an estimate low of 17,225.00 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 18,885.20 million dollars.

Estimate for sales for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 19,841.40 million dollars, an estimate high of 20,972.00 million dollars and an estimate low of 18,958.40 million dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 19,310.10 million dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Sep-11 show a mean of 1.06 dollars, an estimate high of 1.16 dollars and an estimate low of 0.94 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 1.29 dollars.

Estimate for EPS for the Quarter Ending Dec-11 show a mean of 1.14 dollars, an estimate high of 1.32 dollars and an estimate low of 0.85 dollars. A year ago the figures stood at 1.37 dollars.

Sales for Quarter Ending Jun-11 was estimated at 16,475.80 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 16,543.00 million dollars, 67.16 million dollars more than estimates.

Sales for Quarter Ending Mar-11 was estimated at 15,165.20 million dollars, however the actual sales figure stood at 14,910.00 million dollars, 255.19 million dollars less than estimates.

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