Consumer Cyclical
Live Price
Offline$78.81
-0.36% today
1Y Change
+71.43%
Window
Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Coverage: 244 bars · Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Blue Bird Corporation (BLBD) is a Consumer Cyclical stock with a market cap of $2.00B. The stock last traded around $78.81 and up 71.4% across the available one-year price window (Jun 30, 2025 → Jun 18, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +9.9%, EPS growth of +22.6%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue +9.9%, EPS +22.6%, free cash flow +60.0% with operating margin 11.5% and ROIC 31.1%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 15.5 and price/sales 1.3. Stock Foundry combines BLBD price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Cyclical peers on this page.
Benchmark Edge
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
Relative Read
BLBD is 50.57 pts ahead over the shared 1Y window.
BLBD had 14.31 pts deeper max drawdown than SPY.
BLBD beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.
BLBD
+71.43%
Normalized return
SPY
+20.86%
S&P 500
Excess Return
+50.57 pts
Relative to SPY
BLBD Max Drawdown
-23.45%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Uses the longest available daily history for BLBD and SPY.
| Year | BLBD | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +58.23% | +6.71% | +51.53 pts | BLBD |
| 2025 | +7.95% | +11.19% | -3.25 pts | SPY |
Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$684.0M
-14.6% YoY
FY Net Income
-$289.0K
+99.4% YoY
Free Cash Flow
-$66.5M
-115.1% YoY
Revenue Growth
+9.9%
EPS Growth
+22.6%
Gross Margin
21.0%
Net Margin
8.7%
Income statement
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.5B | 1.3B | 1.1B | 801M | 684M |
| Gross Profit | 304M | 256M | 139M | 37M | 72M |
| Operating Income | 167M | 139M | 52M | -41M | 7M |
| EBITDA | 192M | 152M | 60M | -24M | 21M |
| Net Income | 128M | 106M | 24M | -46M | -289K |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
USD
| Metric | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 229M | 128M | 79M | 10M | 12M |
| Total Assets | 625M | 525M | 418M | 366M | 356M |
| Total Liabilities | 370M | 365M | 378M | 365M | 389M |
| Shareholder Equity | 255M | 160M | 40M | 1M | -33M |
| Total Debt | 90M | 96M | 132M | 174M | 221M |
| Net Debt | -139M | -32M | 53M | 164M | 209M |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
54M
-122.0% YoY
Capital Expenditures
12M
-89.2% YoY
Free Cash Flow
66M
-115.1% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
21.0%
Operating Margin
11.5%
Net Margin
8.7%
ROE
55.3%
Debt / Equity
0.33x
Next Step
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