It’s interesting, because Boeing is just as much a defense contractor, while Airbus is primarily in civil aviation. They do military stuff, but it’s not nearly as large as Boeing’s department.
Marketcap on American companies mean jack shit.
They are magically kept high by forces not fully disclosed.
Look at tesla: Their sales go down and their cap goes up.
Look at Boeing. Their sales (and planes) go down, their cap goes up.
Christ, Look at the entire S&P.: The US goes down (administration goes nut’s and declare trade war on the rest of the world) and S&P goes up
A bar chart with an unmarked offset in the y axis is manipulative, not beautiful.
Boeing has had planes crashing down because of design fault. Im surprised their market cap hasnt crashed even more
I was in AeroE coursework back around 2000 in college. One of the classes had a structural project using the Boeing 777 as the reference. We were doing beam optimization and were basically seeing if we’d meet or exceed what Boeing designed for one of their structural components. Many of us came to around the same conclusion as Boeing for the design requirements. Some of us did more fancy work with FEA and did more optimization on removing weight from the rib structure and shape of the beam. Funny thing, the one group that did this best had a pretty fancy design that was quite a bit better in weight than the Boeing design. We had no reference material, but the professor stated that that group’s project matched what Airbus was doing with their designs of a similar structural element. Even in 2000, Airbus was making efforts to out engineer Boeing and succeeding. A company thrives on the talent it acquires and/or cultivates. The higher skill and experience available to you, the better that products will become. From there, you can market better and push revenue growth more rapidly. Equally, better people means better focus on the opposite side: waste reduction and optimization. Talent = higher revenue and lower costs. The result is a steeper growth curve, and all you have to do is wait your time. I have no idea the underpinnings of Airbus, know nothing about their company, but I can see why they have solid growth if they had already been doing markedly better 25 years ago in their product design. All they ever needed was time.
With a lot of US companies laying off staff, jumping on the AI bandwagon, and Boeing especially moving around and mass firing staff, we are seeing what’s effectively a brain drain of numerous major industries. That skill set, experience, and knowledge is lost forever and likely worse: hired on by a competitor. Or they spin up their own businesses that become your competitors.
Leave it to the McDonalds Douglas MBAs to mess this market dominance up.
Air bus vs bus from the air
While the revenue of Boeing is $67 billion (decreasing) and Airbus is $81 billion (increasing) which is a lot more important.
I will never really understand the fixation of market cap. It is so unfathomably uninteresting and useless in my opinion.
This taught me that market cap doesn’t mean a damn thing
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It’s interesting, because Boeing is just as much a defense contractor, while Airbus is primarily in civil aviation. They do military stuff, but it’s not nearly as large as Boeing’s department.
Marketcap on American companies mean jack shit.
They are magically kept high by forces not fully disclosed.
Look at tesla: Their sales go down and their cap goes up.
Look at Boeing. Their sales (and planes) go down, their cap goes up.
Christ, Look at the entire S&P.: The US goes down (administration goes nut’s and declare trade war on the rest of the world) and S&P goes up
A bar chart with an unmarked offset in the y axis is manipulative, not beautiful.
Boeing has had planes crashing down because of design fault. Im surprised their market cap hasnt crashed even more
I was in AeroE coursework back around 2000 in college. One of the classes had a structural project using the Boeing 777 as the reference. We were doing beam optimization and were basically seeing if we’d meet or exceed what Boeing designed for one of their structural components. Many of us came to around the same conclusion as Boeing for the design requirements. Some of us did more fancy work with FEA and did more optimization on removing weight from the rib structure and shape of the beam. Funny thing, the one group that did this best had a pretty fancy design that was quite a bit better in weight than the Boeing design. We had no reference material, but the professor stated that that group’s project matched what Airbus was doing with their designs of a similar structural element. Even in 2000, Airbus was making efforts to out engineer Boeing and succeeding. A company thrives on the talent it acquires and/or cultivates. The higher skill and experience available to you, the better that products will become. From there, you can market better and push revenue growth more rapidly. Equally, better people means better focus on the opposite side: waste reduction and optimization. Talent = higher revenue and lower costs. The result is a steeper growth curve, and all you have to do is wait your time. I have no idea the underpinnings of Airbus, know nothing about their company, but I can see why they have solid growth if they had already been doing markedly better 25 years ago in their product design. All they ever needed was time.
With a lot of US companies laying off staff, jumping on the AI bandwagon, and Boeing especially moving around and mass firing staff, we are seeing what’s effectively a brain drain of numerous major industries. That skill set, experience, and knowledge is lost forever and likely worse: hired on by a competitor. Or they spin up their own businesses that become your competitors.
Leave it to the McDonalds Douglas MBAs to mess this market dominance up.
Air bus vs bus from the air
While the revenue of Boeing is $67 billion (decreasing) and Airbus is $81 billion (increasing) which is a lot more important.
I will never really understand the fixation of market cap. It is so unfathomably uninteresting and useless in my opinion.
This taught me that market cap doesn’t mean a damn thing
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