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Blue Bird Corp BLBD

Truck & Bus Bodies · CIK 0001589526 · Fiscal year ends 1003

Revenue
$1.48B
Fiscal year ended 2025-09-27
Operating income
$167.17M
Fiscal year ended 2025-09-27
Free cash flow
Unavailable
Fiscal year ended 2025-09-27

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$1.03BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-03-29
Float per share$32.60Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income8.1×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue0.7×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity4.0×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-03-29, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-09-27 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

8.1× earnings today, against a median of 9.5× across 6 years on record. Below its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-03-29$1.03B8.1×
2024-09-28$1.23B11.7×
2020-04-04$135.40M11.1×
2019-03-30$250.40M10.3×
2018-03-31$270.30M8.8×
2017-04-01$172.10M6.0×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

Blue Bird Corp (BLBD) reported revenue of $1.48B and net income of $127.72M for the fiscal year ended 2025-09-27. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from Blue Bird Corp’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Truck & Bus Bodies.

Income

Blue Bird Corp income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-09-272024-09-282023-09-302022-10-012022-09-302021-10-022020-10-032019-09-282018-09-292017-09-30
Revenue$1.48B$1.35BUnavailable$800.64M$800.64M$684.00M$879.22M$1.02B$1.02B$990.60M
Cost of revenue$1.18B$1.09BUnavailable$764.09M$764.09M$611.85M$783.02M$885.40M$902.99M$863.23M
Gross profit$303.51M$256.16MUnavailable$36.55M$36.55M$72.14M$96.20M$133.47M$121.99M$127.37M
Operating income$167.17M$139.33MUnavailable-$40.70M-$40.70M$6.52M$21.99M$43.83M$35.08M$59.53M
Net income$127.72M$105.55MUnavailable-$45.76M-$45.76M-$289.00K$12.18M$24.30M$30.82M$28.80M
Research & development$15.20M$9.40MUnavailable$6.10M$6.10M$5.20M$6.40M$11.50M$8.50M$7.40M
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 32.88Mshares 33.35MUnavailableshares 31.02Mshares 31.02Mshares 27.14Mshares 27.09Mshares 27.04Mshares 28.62Mshares 24.88M
Pretax income$169.56M$126.94MUnavailable-$53.05M-$53.05M-$1.98M$10.49M$29.63M$26.87M$37.35M
Income tax expense$43.93M$33.23MUnavailable-$11.45M-$11.45M-$1.19M$1.52M$7.57M-$2.62M$11.86M
Diluted EPS$3.88$3.16Unavailable$-1.48$-1.48$-0.01$0.45$0.90$1.08$0.74
Selling, general & administrative$136.35M$116.82MUnavailable$77.25M$77.25M$65.62M$74.21M$89.64M$86.91M$67.84M
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

Blue Bird Corp balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-09-272024-09-282023-09-302022-10-012022-09-302021-10-022020-10-032019-09-282018-09-292017-09-30
Cash & equivalents$229.31M$127.69MUnavailable$10.48MUnavailable$11.71M$44.51M$70.96M$60.26M$62.62M
Total assets$625.26M$524.89MUnavailable$366.13MUnavailable$356.02M$317.42M$365.41M$307.43M$295.82M
Current assets$411.63M$323.38MUnavailable$174.48MUnavailable$156.07M$116.90M$172.09M$149.84M$160.45M
Total liabilitiesUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Current liabilities$236.80M$235.97MUnavailable$164.77MUnavailable$124.78M$111.65M$169.68M$148.86M$138.76M
Total equity incl. NCI$255.42M$159.56MUnavailable$1.38M$1.38M-$32.66M-$53.23M-$67.81M-$28.34M-$58.51M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$139.47M$127.80MUnavailable$142.98MUnavailable$125.21M$56.52M$78.83M$57.33M$76.16M
Accounts receivable$20.65M$59.10MUnavailable$12.53MUnavailable$9.97M$7.62M$10.54M$24.07M$10.15M
Goodwill$18.82M$18.82MUnavailable$18.82MUnavailable$18.82M$18.82M$18.82M$18.82M$18.82M
Long-term debt$85.32M$89.99MUnavailable$130.39MUnavailable$149.57M$164.20M$173.23M$132.24M$143.22M
Accounts payable$151.48M$143.16MUnavailable$107.94MUnavailable$72.27M$57.60M$102.27M$95.78M$87.33M

Cash flow

Blue Bird Corp cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-09-272024-09-282023-09-302022-10-012022-09-302021-10-022020-10-032019-09-282018-09-292017-09-30
Operating cash flow$176.21M$111.11MUnavailable-$24.44M-$24.44M-$54.24M$3.46M$55.71M$48.35M$47.64M
Capital expendituresUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Investing cash flow-$23.87M-$15.82MUnavailable-$6.45M-$6.45M-$11.31M-$18.80M-$35.47M-$32.10M-$9.20M
Financing cash flow-$50.72M-$46.60MUnavailable$29.66M$29.66M$32.75M-$11.11M-$9.54M-$18.60M-$28.13M
Net change in cash$101.63M$48.70MUnavailable-$1.23M-$1.23M-$32.80M-$26.45M$10.70M-$2.36M$10.31M
Stock-based compensation$14.78M$8.61MUnavailable$3.69M$3.69M$5.94M$4.14M$4.27M$2.63M$1.27M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchases$9.89M$1.18MUnavailable$1.71M$1.71M$517.00K$3.57MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Depreciation & amortization$15.59M$14.82MUnavailable$14.05M$14.05M$13.45M$14.40M$10.38M$9.04M$8.18M

Derived

Blue Bird Corp derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-09-272024-09-282023-09-302022-10-012022-09-302021-10-022020-10-032019-09-282018-09-292017-09-30
Free cash flowUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Gross margin20.5%19.0%Unavailable4.6%4.6%10.5%10.9%13.1%11.9%12.9%
Operating margin11.3%10.3%Unavailable-5.1%-5.1%1.0%2.5%4.3%3.4%6.0%
FCF marginUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
SBC / revenue1.0%0.6%Unavailable0.5%0.5%0.9%0.5%0.4%0.3%0.1%
Current ratio1.74x1.37xUnavailable1.06xUnavailable1.25x1.05x1.01x1.01x1.16x
Revenue YoY growth9.9%UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable17.1%-22.2%-13.7%-0.6%3.5%Unavailable
Net margin8.6%7.8%Unavailable-5.7%-5.7%-0.0%1.4%2.4%3.0%2.9%
R&D / revenue1.0%0.7%Unavailable0.8%0.8%0.8%0.7%1.1%0.8%0.7%
CapEx / revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Long-term debt / equity0.33xUnavailableUnavailable94.35xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate25.9%26.2%UnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable14.5%25.6%-9.7%31.7%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open BLBD in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-08-05View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-02-04View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2025-11-24View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-05-07View SEC filing

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Reconciliation checks needing review

2 periods on this page do not reconcile under this site’s normalization. Read that as a limitation here before an observation about the company: the figures are the filer’s own, the filings linked above are authoritative, and a difference usually means the concepts this site selected do not match how this filer presents its statements. Nothing is adjusted to make a check pass.

balance equationinconsistent2023-09-30

Withheld: assets, equity, liabilities could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2023-09-30

Withheld: cost revenue, revenue could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.