As Boeing Turns 100, Defense Ops Look Pivotal To Its Future Performance

If you were trying to make the case that having a hometown hero in the White House is helpful to big companies, Exhibit A might be how Chicago-based Boeing has fared during the Obama years. In 2009, the year that fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama was inaugurated president, Boeing shares traded below $30 and revenues were about $68 billion. Today, seven years later, the stock is trading around $145 and revenues are approaching $100 billion. The company's net profit and earnings per share have incre...