BLBD Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Blue Bird | NASDAQ:BLBD)

Blue Bird Corp is an American bus manufacturing company. It is an independent designer and manufacturer of school buses. The company operates in two segments; the Bus segment which involves the design, engineering, manufacture, and sales of school buses and extended warranties; and the Parts segment which includes the sales of replacement bus parts. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from its customers in the United States and the rest from Canada and Rest of the world.

Blue Bird trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol BLBD.

As of May 18, 2026, BLBD stock price climbed to $72.74 with 785,658 million shares trading.

BLBD has a beta of 1.14, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. BLBD has a correlation of 0.12 to the broad based SPY ETF.

BLBD has a market cap of $2.30 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Blue Bird reported $353 million in Revenue and $1.00 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $16 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.13.

In the last 3 years, BLBD traded as high as $81.51 and as low as $17.59.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that BLBD belongs to (by Net Assets): AVUV, VTI, IWM, CTEF, VXF.

BLBD has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +78.2% while the SPY ETF gained +25.6%. BLBD has also outperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +18.8% and +15.7%, respectively, while the SPY returned +7.9% and +2.9%, respectively.

BLBD support price is $70.05 and resistance is $73.69 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that BLBD shares will trade within this expected range on the day.