Blue Bird Corp (NASDAQ:BLBD) shares, rose in value on Friday, June 20, with the stock price up by 0.31% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $41.97.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $41.84, falling within a range of $41.835 and $42.41. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 1.4 whereas the PE ratio was 12.96 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $57.80, and the low was $30.04. On the whole, BLBD has fluctuated by 2.82% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Blue Bird Corp currently standing at about $1.32 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-07.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that BLBD’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Buy while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 1.54, with the price of BLBD currently trading nearly 4.39% and 9.96% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 64.76, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 0.80% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.54%. Furthermore, Blue Bird Corp (BLBD)’s beta value is 1.40, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.23.
A comparison of Blue Bird Corp (BLBD) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. BLBD showed an intraday change of 0.31% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -24.91%%.
Data on historical trading for Blue Bird Corp (NASDAQ:BLBD) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 0.36 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 436.28K. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 31.67 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 1.69% of Blue Bird Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 116.00% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 5.0 million shares as on 2025-05-30, resulting in a short ratio of 11.96. According to the data, the short interest in Blue Bird Corp (BLBD) stood at 1850.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-05-30; the number of short shares registered in 2025-04-30 reached 5.23 million. The stock has risen by 8.65% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the BLBD stock heading into the next quarter.
