NASDAQ:BLBD - Blue Bird Stock Price, Forecast & News

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

Blue Bird Corp (NASDAQ:BLBD) issued its earnings results on Wednesday, December, 11th. The company reported $0.74 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.77 by $0.03. The company earned $343.53 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $332.50 million. Blue Bird had a net margin of 2.38% and a negative return on equity of 56.27%. View Blue Bird's Earnings History.

Blue Bird is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Blue Bird.

Blue Bird issued an update on its FY 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Wednesday, December, 11th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $$1.02-1.05 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $$1.03 billion.

2 brokerages have issued twelve-month target prices for Blue Bird's stock. Their forecasts range from $23.00 to $23.00. On average, they expect Blue Bird's share price to reach $23.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Blue Bird.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Blue Bird in the last year. There are currently 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Blue Bird.

Press coverage about BLBD stock has trended extremely negative this week, according to InfoTrie. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Blue Bird earned a media sentiment score of -5.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media stories about the company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Blue Bird.

Blue Bird saw a increase in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 557,400 shares, an increase of 56.8% from the December 15th total of 355,400 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 97,200 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 5.7 days. Currently, 4.1% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Blue Bird's Current Options Chain.

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Blue Bird's stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Assenagon Asset Management S.A. (0.46%) and Tocqueville Asset Management L.P. (0.22%). Company insiders that own Blue Bird stock include Asp Bb Holdings Llc and Daniel J Hennessy. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Blue Bird.

BLBD stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Tocqueville Asset Management L.P.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Blue Bird.

BLBD stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A.. View Insider Buying and Selling for Blue Bird.

Shares of BLBD can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BLBD stock can currently be purchased for approximately $22.03.

Blue Bird has a market capitalization of $583.27 million and generates $1.02 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $24.30 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.49 on an earnings per share basis. Blue Bird employs 2,300 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Blue Bird.

The official website for Blue Bird is http://www.blue-bird.com/.

Blue Bird's mailing address is 3920 Arkwright Road 2nd Floor, Macon GA, 31210. The company can be reached via phone at 478-822-2801 or via email at [email protected]