Boeing profit rises 57 percent

(Reuters) - Boeing Co reported a 57 percent rise in profit for the first quarter on Wednesday, while also raising its full-year forecast for earnings per share and cash flow.

The world's biggest planemaker, which sold a record 763 aircraft last year and has already announced a rise in commercial deliveries in the first three months of the year, raised its full-year operating cash flow forecast to a range of $15.0 billion-$15.5 billion from about $15 billion, previously.

(Reporting by Ankit Ajmera in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)