Blue Bird Corp (NASDAQ:BLBD) does about 591.22K shares in volume on a normal day but saw 1401173 shares change hands in Tuesday trading. The company now has a market cap of 1.53B USD. Its current market price is $47.44, marking a decrease of -6.78% compared to the previous close of $50.89. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $59.40 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $17.59.
Blue Bird Corp (BLBD) has a 20-day trading average at $54.86 and the current price is -20.13% off the 52-week high compared with 169.70% distance from its 52-week low. The 50-day simple moving average of the closing price is $49.13 and its 200-day simple moving average is $31.92. If we look at the stock’s price movements over the week, volatility stands at 6.16%, which decreases to 4.64% over 1 month. It is also key to look at other market indicators of price movement for the stock, where we see that the relative strength index (RSI) is at 34.51 to suggest the stock is neutral.
The consensus objective for the share price is $53.57, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 11.44% over the period.
The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on February 29, 2024 when Needham initiated the stock to “Buy” and issued a price target of $44.
Blue Bird Corp (BLBD) stock is down -12.59% over the week and -16.79% over the past month. Its price is 75.96% year-to-date and 111.03% over the past year.
The stock last released its quarterly earnings report for quarter ended 3/31/2024, with the company’s earnings per share (EPS) of 0.44 above consensus estimates by 0.19. The company’s next earnings report forecasts estimating quarterly EPS at 0.51 and 2.76 for whole year. Expected sales for next quarter are $334.59M, which analysts say will come at $1.33B for the current fiscal year and next year at $1.47B. In addition, estimates put the company’s current quarterly revenue at an average of $328.6M.
To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 11.44 percent from here.
The company has a return on investment of 40.38% and return on equity of 153.15%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 19.32 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 15.15. The beta has a value of 1.63. Price to book ratio is 14.48 and price to sales ratio is 1.22.
