Blue Bird - BLBD Stock Forecast, Price & News

2 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Blue Bird in the last year. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "buy" BLBD shares.
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2 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Blue Bird's shares. Their BLBD share price forecasts range from $13.00 to $29.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $21.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 69.9% from the stock's current price.
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Blue Bird's stock was trading at $15.64 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, BLBD shares have decreased by 21.0% and is now trading at $12.36.
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Blue Bird is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, August 10th 2022.
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Blue Bird will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, August 10th at 4:30 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link.

Blue Bird Co. (NASDAQ:BLBD) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, May, 12th. The company reported ($0.33) EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.08) by $0.25. The company earned $207.66 million during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $155 million. Blue Bird had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 6.12% and a negative net margin of 1.97%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $0.03 earnings per share.

Blue Bird issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, June, 9th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $800.00 million-$900.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $751.20 million.

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."

Blue Bird's stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include North Star Investment Management Corp. (1.11%), Olstein Capital Management L.P. (0.63%), Willis Investment Counsel (0.24%), Mitsubishi UFJ Kokusai Asset Management Co. Ltd. (0.10%) and Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. (0.02%). Insiders that own company stock include Asp Bb Holdings Llc, Paul Yousif and Phil Horlock.
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One share of BLBD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $12.36.

Blue Bird (NASDAQ:BLBD) has a market capitalization of $395.41 million and generates $683.99 million in revenue each year. The company earns $-290,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.46) on an earnings per share basis.

Blue Bird employs 1,790 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.