Boeing company annual report

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1. Go to www.msn.com/en-us/money and type your company’s name or trading symbol in the search box and press Enter. Scroll down to the horizontal toolbar that has titles like Summary, Financial, Analysis, Options, etc. and click on each item on toolbar to see charts and ratios for various performance metrics. After exploring a little, select Analysis on the toolbar, and as you scroll down you see your company result and INDUSTRY results for several ratios under Financial Health and Management Effectiveness.

Discuss how your company compares to the overall industry in each of these categories. Based on your study of this company, what do you perceive their position is in this industry? Are they at the top, middle, or bottom of the industry overall based on these metrics?

2. Go to finance.yahoo.com, then enter your company’s name or symbol. Using the Cash Flow statement from the Yahoo Finance web site (in the toolbar select Financials and then Cash Flow), evaluate the trends in the following items over the three periods presented in the report. Discuss how each section of the company’s cash flows are helping or hindering the company’s success (how is the use of cash improving or hurting the company). For example, are they buying other companies or selling them, or are operating cash flows generating cash to pay dividends? Each company will be unique so evaluate each category on the Cash Flow statement and discuss the significance of items within that category.

a. Operating Cash Flows

b. Investing Cash Flows

c. Financing Cash Flows

3. Forecasting – put together a growth rate trend analysis for sales, cost of sales and net income based on analysis of the past three years of income statement information shown on Yahoo Finance’s web site. Develop and present (show me) a growth analysis table for these items. Project a growth rate for the next year in each category based on your analysis. Looking at the Income Statement over the years presented in the report, what do you believe the prospects are for this company’s future? Discuss your thoughts and support them with information from the Income Statement.

In two or three paragraphs, explain what you learned about your company’s financial condition and if your questions were answered. Be concise but thorough.