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Blue Bird Corporation

BLBD Industrials Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery

Blue Bird Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended September 2025) was $1.5 billion, up 9.87% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 29.9%, EPS grew 366.4%, free cash flow fell 58.6% and total debt rose 25.4%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue growth for five consecutive years; insiders bought in the last twelve months.

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Market cap: $1.8B
P/E: 6.7×
Fwd P/E: 14.9×
Dividend yield: —
F-score: 7/9
Altman Z: 6.76
Beneish M: −3.43
Dividend safety: n/a

Overview Business Profile Financial Analysis Income Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics & Ratios 10-Q 10-K

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total buys 0.06

Total sells 2.33

Totals in millions of $.

	Dec 25			Mar 26			Jun 26			Sep 26
Buy	—	1	—	—	—	—	1	—	—	1	—	—
Sell	—	3	—	1	1	—	—	—	—	—	1	—

Insider Ownership 9.75%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 1,760.00

Revenue 1,612.24

Net Income 281.81

Free Cash Flow 153.14

Net Debt (2.05)

Current Ratio 1.64

Debt/Equity 0.18

P/E ratio 6.65

Fwd P/E 14.90

P/S ratio 1.20

P/B ratio 2.94

Past 5Y EPS Growth 53.86%

This Y EPS Growth 9.80%

Next Y EPS Growth (7.66%)

Next Y revenue growth 18.37%

Next 5Y EPS Growth 8.62%

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Valuation vs history

EV/Sales, ten years

P/E against its own 10 years 0.29%

10-year low 10-year high

P/S against its own 10 years 90.07%

10-year low 10-year high

P/B against its own 10 years 0.56%

10-year low 10-year high

EV/Sales against its own 10 years 90.84%

10-year low 10-year high

EV/FCF against its own 10 years 36.76%

10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio —

Annual Dividend Rate —

Annual Dividend Yield —

	total	individual payouts
2022	Powerpack
2021	Powerpack
2020	Powerpack
2019	Powerpack
2017	Powerpack

special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

	2023	2024	2025	Q'26
Cash	79	128	229	117
Receivables	13	59	21	53
Inventory	135	128	139	302
Other	9	9	22	41
	236	323	412	514

	2023	2024	2025	Q'26
Payables	137	143	151	175
ST’ Debt	20	5	5	5
Other	24	14	6	42
	230	236	237	313

Compound Annual Growth %

	10y	5y	3y
Sales	4.88%	10.98%	22.73%
Cash Flow	22.39%	119.49%	0.00%
Earnings	26.17%	59.99%	0.00%
Book Value	0.00%	0.00%	469.61%

Revenue $m

	Dec	Mar	Jun	Sep	Year
’26	333	353	517	—	—
’25	314	359	398	409	1,480
’24	318	346	333	350	1,347
’23	236	300	294	303	1,133
’22	129	208	206	258	801
’21	130	165	197	192	684
’20	153	255	189	281	879

Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

	Dec	Mar	Jun	Sep	Year
’26	37	48	31	—	—
’25	26	28	57	65	176
’24	0	55	1	55	111
’23	20	25	39	36	120
’22	(33)	22	(43)	30	(24)
’21	(11)	0	(3)	(40)	(54)
’20	(86)	38	(30)	82	3

Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

	Dec	Mar	Jun	Sep	Year
’26	31	40	22	—	—
’25	22	19	52	60	153
’24	(3)	52	(4)	50	96
’23	19	22	37	34	111
’22	(35)	20	(44)	28	(31)
’21	(15)	(3)	(5)	(42)	(66)
’20	(95)	33	(33)	80	(15)

Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

	Dec	Mar	Jun	Sep	Year
’26	0.94	0.90	5.27	—	—
’25	0.86	0.79	1.12	1.11	3.88
’24	0.81	0.79	0.85	0.73	3.16
’23	(0.35)	0.22	0.29	0.58	0.74
’22	(0.15)	(0.38)	(0.20)	(0.72)	(1.48)
’21	(0.06)	(0.02)	0.16	(0.09)	(0.01)
’20	(0.02)	(0.02)	0.05	0.44	0.45

Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Group	Line	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026e
Price, $
Price, $	Low	7.61	15.35	15.67	16.37	8.40	14.31	7.14	10.84	24.09	30.04	Analyst estimates 2026–2028 Powerpack
	High	18.05	21.90	26.95	23.29	23.99	28.90	22.10	28.80	59.40	61.95
People
People	Employees	2,160	2,311	2,237	2,300	1,736	1,790	1,596	1,830	1,948	2,012
	Revenue/emp, $m	0.43	0.43	0.46	0.44	0.51	0.38	0.50	0.62	0.69	0.74
Income, $m
Income, $m	Revenue	932	991	1,025	1,019	879	684	801	1,133	1,347	1,480
	Gross margin, %	13.88	12.86	11.90	13.10	10.94	10.55	4.56	12.26	19.01	20.51
	EBT	10	37	27	30	10	(2)	(53)	26	127	170
	EBT margin, %	1.05	3.77	2.62	2.91	1.19	(0.29)	(6.63)	2.28	9.42	11.46
	Net income	7	29	31	24	12	0	(46)	24	106	128
	Depreciation	16	14	13	13	16	15	18	17	16	16
Per share, $
Per share, $	Revenue	43.85	42.44	40.58	38.51	32.74	25.20	25.81	35.32	41.75	46.45
	Earnings	0.14	0.79	1.15	0.92	0.45	(0.01)	(1.48)	0.74	3.27	4.01
	Cash flow	1.18	2.04	1.91	2.11	0.13	(2.00)	(0.79)	3.74	3.44	5.53
	Capex	(0.45)	(0.39)	(1.27)	(1.34)	(0.70)	(0.42)	(0.21)	(0.27)	(0.47)	(0.72)
	Free cash flow	0.73	1.65	0.64	0.77	(0.57)	(2.42)	(1.00)	3.47	2.97	4.81
	Book value	(4.09)	(2.51)	(1.12)	(2.56)	(1.98)	(1.20)	0.04	1.25	4.94	8.02
	Shares, m	21	23	25	26	27	27	31	32	32	32
Valuation, ×
Valuation, ×	P/E	81.17	27.01	22.88	20.92	26.74	0.00	0.00	28.49	14.67	14.32
	P/S	0.33	0.49	0.60	0.49	0.37	0.83	0.32	0.60	1.15	1.24
	P/B	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	187.42	16.90	9.70	7.18
	EV/Sales	0.44	0.58	0.68	0.61	0.53	1.12	0.53	0.64	1.12	1.14
	EV/FCF	26.43	14.94	42.74	30.62	(30.11)	(11.72)	(13.61)	6.54	15.81	11.05
Cash, $m
Cash, $m	Operating cash flow	25	48	48	56	3	(54)	(24)	120	111	176
	Capex	(10)	(9)	(32)	(35)	(19)	(11)	(6)	(9)	(15)	(23)
	Free cash flow	16	38	16	20	(15)	(66)	(31)	111	96	153
Balance, $m
Balance, $m	Working capital	2	22	1	2	5	31	10	6	87	175
	Total debt	152	151	142	187	180	214	172	131	95	90
	Net debt	100	89	82	116	135	202	161	52	(33)	(139)
	Shareholders’ equity	(87)	(59)	(28)	(68)	(53)	(33)	1	40	160	255
Returns, %
Returns, %	ROA	1.11	6.43	9.59	7.22	3.57	(0.09)	(12.67)	6.08	22.39	22.21
	ROIC	129.77	123.62	40.94	56.75	16.71	2.40	(15.64)	34.96	68.63	89.74
	ROE	(1.96)	(15.67)	(42.49)	(46.09)	(20.13)	0.67	292.63	115.09	105.78	61.55

Negative figures in brackets.

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Fiscal years to Sep 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

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TEX Terex Corporation	$6.0B	25.5×	17.6×	+50.50% (above 0%: growing)	−11.82% (below 0%: shrinking)	+21.79% (above 0%: growing)	19.84%	8.36%	Compare
ALG Alamo Group, Inc.	$1.9B	18.2×	14.3×	+7.55% (above 0%: growing)	−0.77% (below 0%: shrinking)	+147.74% (above 0%: growing)	24.59%	10.15%	Compare
BLBD Blue Bird Corporation	$1.8B	6.7×	14.9×	+29.94% (above 0%: growing)	+366.38% (above 0%: growing)	−58.60% (below 0%: shrinking)	19.99%	12.12%
LNN Lindsay Corporation	$1.2B	21.4×	22.2×	−5.13% (below 0%: shrinking)	−14.44% (below 0%: shrinking)	−105.43% (below 0%: shrinking)	29.75%	11.52%	Compare
ASTE Astec Industries, Inc.	$892.9M	45.0×	21.3×	+23.55% (above 0%: growing)	−36.99% (below 0%: shrinking)	−44.57% (below 0%: shrinking)	26.17%	5.00%	Compare
AEBI Aebi Schmidt Holding AG	$856.0M	34.9×	16.6×	+78.73% (above 0%: growing)	n/m	+19.42% (above 0%: growing)	19.60%	5.45%	Compare
MTW The Manitowoc Company, Inc.	$783.3M	38.7×	31.2×	+10.27% (above 0%: growing)	+875.00% (above 0%: growing)	+94.02% (above 0%: growing)	20.69%	5.23%	Compare
HY Hyster-Yale, Inc.	$582.6M	— (loss-making)	— (loss-making)	−15.02% (below 0%: shrinking)	n/m	−84.57% (below 0%: shrinking)	15.70%	(2.26%)	Compare
WNC Wabash National Corporation	$546.3M	— (loss-making)	— (loss-making)	−9.06% (below 0%: shrinking)	n/m	+174.99% (above 0%: growing)	3.67%	(6.06%)	Compare
Median of peers	$874.4M	30.2×	19.5×	+8.91%	−11.82%	+20.61%	20.27%	5.34%

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Blue Bird Corporation (BLBD) key facts

Strength: Blue Bird Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended September 2025) was $1.5 billion, up 9.87% from fiscal 2024.
Blue Bird Corporation (BLBD) is a Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery company in the Industrials sector, listed on Nasdaq.
As of October 9, 2026, BLBD traded at $56.29, a market capitalization of $1.8 billion.
Return on equity was 61.6% and debt-to-equity 0.18.
Its Piotroski F-score is 7 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 6.76 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

Source: company filings (standardised) and stockrow calculations.