Wall Street analysts and traders viewed the results favorably, sending Boeing shares up about 2 percent in midday trading.

“Taken together, the 737 items are a bit less than we feared,” said Jonathan Raviv, an analyst at Citi. “But we acknowledge they’re both moving numbers lacking regulator clarity.”

This was the company’s first quarterly earnings report with David L. Calhoun at the helm, after the ouster of the previous chief executive, Dennis A. Muilenburg.

Since taking over this month, Mr. Calhoun has tried to set himself apart from Mr. Muilenburg, who was pushed out after alienating airline customers and the Federal Aviation Administration with overly optimistic projections about when the Max would return to service.

“We recognize we have a lot of work to do,” Mr. Calhoun said in a statement. “We are focused on returning the 737 Max to service safely and restoring the longstanding trust that the Boeing brand represents with the flying public. We are committed to transparency and excellence in everything we do.”

There is still no precise timeline for the return of the Max. Last week, Boeing said it did not expect regulators to approve the plane to fly until June or July, though that estimate was conservative. If regulators do not find any additional problems with the plane, the Max could return to service before then, though new issues cropped up earlier in the process.

The company has enjoyed rare bits of good news in recent weeks. It successfully completed the first flight test of the 777X, its new wide-body jet. And the trade deal that the White House struck with China included a commitment for the sale of new American aircraft to Chinese customers.