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 twelve months. 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 12-month price targets for Blue Bird's shares. Their BLBD share price forecasts range from $14.50 to $29.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $20.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 40.7% from the stock's current price.
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Blue Bird's stock was trading at $10.71 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BLBD shares have increased by 36.0% and is now trading at $14.57.
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Blue Bird saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 15th, there was short interest totaling 602,700 shares, a decrease of 9.7% from the December 31st total of 667,400 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 172,400 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.5 days. Currently, 2.9% of the shares of the stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 8th 2023.
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Blue Bird will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, February 8th at 4:30 PM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at 412-317-6671 with passcode "10174816".

Blue Bird Co. (NASDAQ:BLBD) posted its earnings results on Monday, December, 12th. The company reported ($0.67) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $0.04 by $0.71. The company had revenue of $257.67 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $232 million. Blue Bird had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 181.06% and a negative net margin of 5.72%.

Blue Bird issued an update on its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Monday, December, 12th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $900.00M-$1.00 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $999.57 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 number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Deroy & Devereaux Private Investment Counsel Inc. (0.61%) and North Star Investment Management Corp. (0.55%). Insiders that own company stock include Asp Bb Holdings Llc, Paul Yousif and Phil Horlock.
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Shares of BLBD stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of BLBD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.57.

Blue Bird (NASDAQ:BLBD) has a market capitalization of $466.68 million and generates $800.64 million in revenue each year. The company earns $-45,760,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($1.45) 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.