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Blue Bird Corp. BLBD

13 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$1.5B
▲ 9.9% YoY
$127.7M
▲ 21.0% YoY
$153.3M
▲ 60.0% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Blue Bird Corporation designs and manufactures school buses. At September 27, 2025, it employed 2,012 employees, of which 2,008 were full-time. Its corporate headquarters are located in Macon, Georgia, with an additional small satellite office in Troy, Michigan. The company presents its business in two reportable segments: the Bus segment, which involves the design, engineering, manufacture and sale of school buses and extended warranties, and the Parts segment, which includes the sale of replacement bus parts. The Company was incorporated in Delaware on September 24, 2013 as a special purpose acquisition company. In connection with the closing of the Business Combination, the Company changed its name from Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. to Blue Bird Corporation. It has sold more than 619,000 buses since its formation in 1927.

Written from the business description in BLUE BIRD CORPORATION's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 24 November 2025. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 1.5B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 13-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 1.5 · Net income 0.1
0.5B1.0B2013201520172019202120232025
Compound annual growth
+22.7%
+11.0%
+4.9%
+60.0%
+23.9%
+53.9%
+20.7%
+7.9%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +11.0% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +60.0%, earnings per share at +53.9%.

The share count rose from 0.03B to 0.03B over the period.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
9 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 11.3% · Net 8.6%
5%10%-2%-4%2013201520172019202120232025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 61.6%
50%100%2013201520172019202120232025
Gross margin20.5%
Operating margin11.3%
Net margin8.6%
Return on assets22.2%
EBITDAUSD 182.8M

Each USD of equity produced 62 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 5.2M
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 153.3
80.0M-25.0M-50.0M2013201520172019202120232025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 5.2
80.0M160.0M-25.0M-50.0M2013201420152016202020212022202320242025
Dividends paid—
Net buybacksUSD 5.2M
Share of profit4.1%
Consecutive raises—

USD 5.2M in buybacks — 4% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 625.3M
EquityUSD 255.4M
CashUSD 229.3M
Gross debtUSD 90.3M
Net debtUSD -139.0M
Current ratio1.74×

The company holds more cash than debt.

The 13-year record
13 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD
row low → row highnegative
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013
Revenue $B1.51.31.10.80.70.91.01.01.00.90.90.90.8
Operating income $B0.20.10.1−0.00.00.00.00.00.10.00.00.00.0
EBITDA $B0.20.20.1−0.00.00.00.10.00.10.00.00.00.0
Income tax $B0.00.00.0−0.0−0.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.0−0.0
Net income $B0.10.10.0−0.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.1
Free cash flow $B0.20.10.1−0.0−0.1−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.00.0
EPS, diluted $3.883.160.74−1.48−0.010.450.901.080.740.140.590.132.46
Dividend / sh $·············
Payout %·········0082270
ROE %61.6105.8115.1··········
Shares out B0.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.030.020.020.020.02·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 63 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 13 of 19 fiscal years. 32 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityTruck & Bus Bodies
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsOctober 3
Data on record since2013

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