{"id":896400,"date":"2026-10-27T13:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896400\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T13:48:11","slug":"boeing-ba-q3-2026-earnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/896400\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeing (BA) Q3 2026 earnings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boeing<\/a> narrowed its loss in the third quarter after defense sales rose, but CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff that the manufacturer has “more work to do.”<\/p>\n

For the three months ended Sept. 30, Boeing reported a net loss of $116 million, or 26 cents a share, compared with a $5.34 billion loss, or $7.14 per share, a year earlier. Adjusting for one-time items, the company posted a loss of 34 cents a share. A year earlier, Boeing had taken a nearly $5 billion charge<\/a> on its long-delayed 777X aircraft program.<\/p>\n

Revenue climbed 4% on the year to $24.19 billion. Free cash flow rose to $464 million from $238 million in the third quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n

The company’s defense unit revenue jumped 15% in the third quarter from a year earlier to $7.94 billion.<\/p>\n

Here’s what Boeing reported for the third quarter compared with what Wall Street analysts expected, according to consensus estimates from LSEG:<\/p>\n

Loss per share: 34 cents adjusted vs. a loss of 21 cents expectedRevenue: $24.19 billion vs $23.84 billion expected.<\/p>\n

Boeing delivered 161 commercial airplanes in the third quarter, one more jet than a year earlier. <\/p>\n

Revenue in the all-important commercial aircraft business fell 3% to $10.72 billion. The unit had a negative operating margin of 6.5% because of a “less favorable delivery mix, higher projected costs associated with future production rate adjustments and higher estimated supply chain costs,” Boeing said.<\/p>\n

Stabilizing production<\/p>\n

The company is working on stabilizing production of its best-selling 737 Max aircraft, work that will likely continue through this year<\/a>, Ortberg reiterated Tuesday.<\/p>\n

“I know everybody wants us to go faster but we’re going to do it right,” Ortberg told CNBC’s Phil LeBeau<\/a> in an interview Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Boeing has been producing about 47 of its 737 Max planes a month, but is aiming for more.<\/p>\n

“Looking ahead, expectations are rising, and they should,” Ortberg said in a note to staff on Tuesday. “That means elevating our performance through lean, productivity and efficiency improvements in our day-to-day work while upholding our high levels of safety and quality.”<\/p>\n

Aircraft production and deliveries are key to Boeing’s recovery since the bulk of an aircraft’s price is paid when the customer receives it.<\/p>\n

Certification wins<\/p>\n

The manufacturer had some wins lately. The U.S. Navy tapped Boeing to develop its next-generation fighter jet.<\/p>\n

And the Federal Aviation Administration last week signed off on the 737 Max 10<\/a>, the largest in the Max family. That followed the approval of the 737 Max 7<\/a> in August and marked the final certifications for the aircraft line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boeing narrowed its loss in the third quarter after defense sales rose, but CEO Kelly Ortberg told staff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9178,4324,21993,448,10906,28,122,11588,8084,72883,132120,271,221017,6145,2427,2924,21],"class_list":["post-896400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-aerospace-and-defense-industry","tag-airlines","tag-boeing-co","tag-breaking-news-business","tag-breaking-news-earnings","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-dividends","tag-earnings","tag-frontier-group-holdings-inc","tag-ishares-u-s-aerospace-defense-etf","tag-life","tag-spdr-sp-aerospace-defense-etf","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-united-airlines-holdings-inc","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}