Blue Bird (BLBD) Stock Forecast, Price & News

5 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Blue Bird in the last twelve months. There are currently 5 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "buy" BLBD shares.
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5 equities research analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Blue Bird's stock. Their BLBD share price forecasts range from $23.00 to $29.00. On average, they expect the company's stock price to reach $25.88 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 25.9% from the stock's current price.
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Blue Bird's stock was trading at $10.71 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, BLBD shares have increased by 92.0% and is now trading at $20.56.
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Blue Bird saw a increase in short interest in September. As of September 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,150,000 shares, an increase of 28.4% from the August 31st total of 895,600 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 309,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.7 days. Currently, 4.9% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, December 11th 2023.
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Blue Bird Co. (NASDAQ:BLBD) posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, August, 9th. The company reported $0.42 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.24 by $0.18. The business earned $294.28 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $300 million. Blue Bird had a negative net margin of 1.65% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 2,698.15%.

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Blue Bird issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 10th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.10B-, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.11 billion.

25 employees have rated Blue Bird Chief Executive Officer Phil Horlock on Glassdoor.com. Phil Horlock has an approval rating of 49% among the company's employees. This puts Phil Horlock in the bottom 25% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 56.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Blue Bird to a friend.

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Blue Bird trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "BLBD."

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One share of BLBD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $20.56.

Blue Bird (NASDAQ:BLBD) has a market capitalization of $661.42 million and generates $800.64 million in revenue each year. The company earns $-45,760,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.56) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 1,596 workers across the globe.

Blue Bird's mailing address is 3920 Arkwright Road 2nd Floor, Macon GA, 31210. The official website for the company is www.blue-bird.com. The company can be reached via phone at (478) 822-2801 or via email at investors@blue-bird.com.