Boeing stock takes off thanks to President Trump as the plane maker scores its biggest order ever

Aerospace elephantine Boeing (BA) has rapidly emerged arsenic a apical beneficiary of President Trump's dealmaking abroad.

Shares deed 52-week highs connected Wednesday aft the level shaper scored its largest-ever order from Qatar Airways. The woody follows different orders that originated overseas implicit the past week.

Boeing banal has surged 50% since its April lows, pursuing President Trump's unveiling of his "Liberation Day" tariff argumentation — a melodramatic reversal for a institution that conscionable past twelvemonth was mired successful information crises, accumulation delays, and enactment turmoil.

"[It] could beryllium argued that Trump's instrumentality to the White House has benefited Boeing," Fundstrat strategists wrote earlier this week, pointing to the president's "stump for Boeing abroad."

Last week, during the announcement of a US-UK commercialized deal, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick highlighted a $10 cardinal craft order, aboriginal confirmed to beryllium from British Airways' genitor company, IAG.

"That turned retired to beryllium conscionable an appetizer," the Fundstrat analysts said. The medication has reportedly sought akin commitments from different countries arsenic President Trump travels done the Middle East this week.

The landmark statement signed successful Qatar connected Wednesday includes a $96 cardinal statement to get up to 210 American-made Boeing 787 Dreamliner and 777X craft powered by GE Aerospace (GE) engines.

The Arab state precocious offered Trump a Boeing 747 pitchy to usage arsenic an interim Air Force One, a acquisition that has come nether scrutiny. Trump has defended his determination to person it, saying, "Only a FOOL would not accept" it.

On Tuesday, Boeing besides announced an bid of up to 30 planes from AviLease, a planetary craft lessor headquartered successful Saudi Arabia.

The American level shaper has besides go a bargaining chip.

On Tuesday, Beijing lifted its monthlong ban connected Boeing deliveries pursuing China-US commercialized talks successful Switzerland that produced a impermanent truce. The prohibition had been imposed successful April, conscionable aft President Trump announced a 145% tariff connected Chinese imports.

Meanwhile, arsenic countries wrong the European Union await their crook astatine the negotiating table, the EU has threatened retaliatory tariffs connected Boeing craft and US-made cars if talks with the Trump medication neglect to easiness tensions, according to a Bloomberg report.

Boeing's turnaround is particularly striking fixed the institution went done a terrible play in 2024 pursuing a "door plug” incidental on an Alaska Airlines (ALK) flight.

That lawsuit triggered a question of lawsuits, authorities investigations, plunging banal prices, declining margins, and lasting reputational harm — yet starring to a leadership overhaul.