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Boeing Crashes: $43 Billion in Share Buybacks Turn into Existential Threat
by Wolf Richter • Mar 11, 2020 • 7 Comments
Of immediate concern is how much cash Boeing is burning due to the 737 MAX fiasco and now the coronavirus, and how much cash it can pile up to avoid a liquidity crisis.
By Wolf Richter for WOLF STREET.
Boeing’s shares [BA] came unglued, plunging 18.1% today, after having already plunged over the past four weeks. Since February 12, shares are down 46%, and since the peak on March 1, 2019, they’re down 57%:
Today’s plunge came after a flurry of disclosures and leaks in the morning about Boeing, including:
Sources said that Boeing is planning to draw down entirely and much quicker than expected its new credit facility of $13.825 billion as early as Friday, apparently worried that banks might freeze the credit facility later, and banks did during the Financial Crisis.
Boeing disclosed that it had negative net orders of -28 aircraft for the first two months of 2020, with cancellations of the 737 MAX exceeding orders for all models;
It imposed a hiring freeze to “preserve cash”
Trying to forestall a liquidity crisis.
Of immediate concern is how much cash Boeing is burning to deal with the 737 MAX fiasco, and how much cash it can pile up to avoid a liquidity crisis.