CLAIM #9205 · The Boeing Company (BA) · 2024Q3 earnings call · Oct 23, 2024 · due Apr 23, 2026
“We're constantly evaluating our capital structure and liquidity levels to ensure that we could satisfy our debt maturities over the next 18 months while keeping confidence in our credit rating as investment grade.”
Brian West · CFO
In context
“e to take a tough but necessary actions to preserve cash and safeguard our future. We've worked across our supply chain partners to significantly reduce expenditures while balancing the associated trade-offs. We shared plans to reduce our workforce to align with our financial reality and a more focused set of priorities. We're decisively implementing reductions to our discretionary spending across the company. As we move through this process, we'll maintain our steadfast focus on safety, quality and delivery for our customers. We remain committed to managing the balance sheet in a prudent manner with two main objectives: First, prioritize the investment-grade credit rating; and second, allowing the factory and supply chain to reset, which will take longer as a result of the work stoppage. We're constantly evaluating our capital structure and liquidity levels to ensure that we could satisfy our debt maturities over the next 18 months while keeping confidence in our credit rating as investment grade. The actions we've recently taken, including establishing the universal shelf registration, which is now effective, directly support these priorities, and we have a plan to comprehensively address the balance sheet in the near term that could include an offering of equity and equity-linked securities. We're confident that overtime, the business performance and capital structure will return to levels fully aligned with an investment-grade profile. Near term, we're focused on reaching an agreement with our representative workforce to allow our factories in the Puget Sound area to resume and then ramp production in a stable fashion for years to come. Stepping back, the markets we serve are significant, and our product portfolio is well positioned, demonstrated by our backlog of more than $0.5”
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SEC filings for BA ↗ · Claim quote is verbatim from the 2024Q3 earnings call.