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Boeing BA Return on equity

Discontinued — last reported Q1 '19

Return on equity at other companies

General Dynamics logo
General DynamicsGD
18%-0.3pp
Raytheon Technologies logo
Raytheon TechnologiesRTX
11.4%+3.8pp
L3Harris Technologies logo
L3Harris TechnologiesLHX
8.9%+0.4pp
Textron logo
TextronTXT
12.2%+0.5pp
Lockheed Martin logo
Lockheed MartinLMT
67.6%-14.9pp
Northrop Grumman logo
Northrop GrummanNOC
28.5%+3.1pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$22.2B+14.0%
Gross profit$2.5B+5.3%
Operating income$448.0M-2.8%
Net income-$4.0M+89.2%
EPS (diluted)-$0.11+31.3%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$9.4B-6.9%
Total equity$6.0B+280%
Total assets$164.79B+5.3%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow-$179.0M+88.9%
CapEx$1.3B+89.2%
Free cash flow-$1.5B+36.5%

Valuation

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Market cap$177.86B+21.9%
P/E78.4×
P/S1.9×-0.2×

Profitability

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Gross margin4.8%+3.7pp
Operating margin4.6%+2.6pp
Net margin2.5%+1.3pp

Returns & leverage

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Debt / equity10.4×
Current ratio1.2×-0.1×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Boeing’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Boeing’s 10-Q, filed April 29, 2020, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

Questions, answered.

What does return on equity mean?
How much profit the company earns on the money shareholders have invested.
How do you interpret return on equity?
Higher is better, but very high ROE can be manufactured by leverage — a thin equity base inflates the ratio. Read it next to debt-to-equity and ROIC to tell genuine returns from balance-sheet engineering.
How does return on equity compare across companies?
Comparable across peers, with the leverage caveat. Negative or near-zero equity makes ROE meaningless, so it is suppressed there.