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> which means their stock will be in the gutter for years to come You're missing the point of my reply. The person was acting like accepting billions of dollars in $BA stock was an unconscionable thing. It's a highly liquid and relatively stable stock. Even if they have a 6-month lockup, the price won't likely materially change. Will Airbus continue to take market share from Boeing? Sure. But Boeing isn't going anywh…
And you're missing the bigger picture. Boeing are in a slump, and things will only get worse in the foreseeable future. And the problem is that when the foreseeable future is over, it will be the 2030s and we'll probably have entirely new radical designs flying. Hydrogen propulsion, CFM Rise, blended wings, etc. etc. If Boeing are bleeding money and taking on expensive debt, how will they prepare for those times? If…
Do you find yourself doing this a lot? Forcing conversations into a direction where you can drop your fifteen minutes of research on a topic?
Nobody fucking cares dude.