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Boeing to sell at least $10B in shares to plug cash drain

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32 points bookofjoe | 4 comments | 15 Oct 24 21:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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game_the0ry ◴[15 Oct 24 21:50 UTC] No.41853479[source]▶
Not a bad move considering Dow and S&P are at all time highs.
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1. prewett ◴[15 Oct 24 22:18 UTC] No.41853690[source]▶
That's a terrible reason to buy a company, it's completely unrelated! You could just as well argue it's a terrible time to buy a struggling company, because the market is likely to drop, so you should have waited until then. The real question is, is this company a good quality company likely to grow in the future? (Or if you are the gambling type, "do I think this stock will go up?") The, secondarily, "is the price reasonable?"

I think it is clear the Boeing is not a good quality company at this time, and the fact that they have a cash-flow problem is not encouraging, since it means they are one step away from bankruptcy restructuring.

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2. michaeljx ◴[15 Oct 24 22:23 UTC] No.41853744[source]▶
I think his point is that it's a bullish market, so they will find plenty of buyers
3. bell-cot ◴[15 Oct 24 22:24 UTC] No.41853755[source]▶
> That's a terrible reason to buy a company...

Perhaps. But it is an excellent reason to sell a company - which Boeing is doing, by selling shares.

4. s1artibartfast ◴[15 Oct 24 22:33 UTC] No.41853819[source]▶
I read it as it being a good time for Boeing to sell stock, given that the market is so high.

If you have a company and you think it is overpriced, that means it's a good time to issue stock and convert share price to cash.

Tesla is one of the best examples of in history of companies doing this. They used the inelasticity of Tesla stock price to raise tens of billions of dollars in secondary stock offerings after their IPO