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BLBD BLUE BIRD CORP

2026Q2 · CUSIP 095306106 · Sector: Industrials

Normal

Fund flows are within the usual range

Funds that own it
297
Institutions that reported holding it to the SEC
Net increase in holders
+14
Last quarter 283 → now 297
How unusual is that
Above average
Stronger buying than 77% of US stocks
What the filings say, in one paragraph

297 funds held BLBD at the end of 2026Q2, up 14 from the quarter before. Fund flows are within the usual range — nothing unusual. On the business itself, revenue over the last 12 months was $1.6B(YoY +13.5%), the P/E is 7.4x, return on equity is 43.0%. BLBD has had 7 buying rushes in its history, and the price moved +8.2% on average over the six months after (that is the raw price move, not how much it beat the market by). It sits in the Industrials sector.

How many funds owned it, quarter by quarter

Bars = net change in institutional holders, positive (green) or negative (red). Line = total institutional holders.

2015Q2: holders=34 2015Q3: holders=34 2015Q4: holders=38 2016Q1: holders=44 2016Q2: holders=49 2016Q3: holders=65 2016Q4: holders=76 2017Q1: holders=79 2017Q2: holders=76 2017Q3: holders=77 2017Q4: holders=88 2018Q1: holders=85 2018Q2: holders=84 2018Q3: holders=82 2018Q4: holders=84 2019Q1: holders=85 2019Q2: holders=88 2019Q3: holders=86 2019Q4: holders=99 2020Q1: holders=88 2020Q2: holders=95 2020Q3: holders=84 2020Q4: holders=75 2021Q1: holders=90 2021Q2: holders=90 2021Q3: holders=78 2021Q4: holders=76 2022Q1: holders=80 2022Q2: holders=75 2022Q3: holders=72 2022Q4: holders=72 2023Q1: holders=94 2023Q2: holders=128 2023Q3: holders=132 2023Q4: holders=158 2024Q1: holders=188 2024Q2: holders=243 2024Q3: holders=257 2024Q4: holders=233 2025Q1: holders=234 2025Q2: holders=233 2025Q3: holders=270 2025Q4: holders=267 2026Q1: holders=283 2026Q2: holders=297 -55 -27.5 +0 +27.5 +55 30171312 15Q216Q317Q419Q120Q221Q322Q424Q125Q226Q2 Net change in holders (bars) Total funds holding (line)

What happened after each past buying rush 7 times in its history

Quarter of the rush How unusual then Price, next 3 months Price, next 6 months
2025Q3 Top 10% +21.0% +30.6%
2024Q2 Top 5% -20.0% -26.6%
2024Q1 Top 10% -9.8% -31.5%
2023Q2 Top 5% -8.7% +65.7%
2023Q1 Top 10% -3.4% -9.2%
2016Q3 Top 10% +13.4% +20.1%
2015Q2 Top 10%

These are the raw price moves, not how much it beat the market by. Compare them against the market over the same months — in a strong bull market almost everything is up.

Show all the numbers (large funds, value held, options…) ▾
Of them, large funds
161
Change in large funds
+11
Total value they hold
$2.5B
Funds buying for the first time
59
Funds that sold out entirely
45
Price change that quarter
-16.8%
Funds holding puts (bearish)
4
Funds holding calls (bullish)
4

These are for people who want to dig. Skip them if they do not mean anything to you — the three numbers above are enough.

8,697 institutions have filed for this quarter. 13F permits late filing and a small number arrive in the weeks after the deadline, so the holder counts and changes below may tick up.

Fundamentals

PE (TTM)
7.4
EPS (TTM)
$8.22
EPS YoY
+136.2%
Revenue (TTM)
$1.6B
Revenue YoY
+13.5%
Net margin
17.5%
ROE
43.0%
Debt ratio
43.9%
FCF (TTM)
$153M
Dividend (TTM)
No dividend
Quarterly Revenue & EPS
2022-01-01: EPS -0.15 2022-04-02: EPS -0.38 2022-07-02: EPS -0.20 2022-09-30: EPS -0.75 2022-10-01: EPS -0.75 2022-12-31: EPS -0.35 2023-04-01: EPS 0.22 2023-07-01: EPS 0.29 2023-09-30: EPS 0.58 2023-12-30: EPS 0.81 2024-03-30: EPS 0.79 2024-06-29: EPS 0.85 2024-09-28: EPS 0.71 2024-12-28: EPS 0.86 2025-03-29: EPS 0.79 2025-06-28: EPS 1.12 2025-09-27: EPS 1.11 2025-12-27: EPS 0.94 2026-03-28: EPS 0.90 2026-06-27: EPS 5.27 0M 259M 517M $M -0.82 2.49 5.80 2016201720182019202020212022202320242025202606/26 Revenue EPS

Quarterly figures, revenue up to 10 years back; EPS split-adjusted, early quarters hidden when not calibrable

P/E (TTM) over time
4Y median 16 7 17 27 2023202420252026

P/E = close around day 47 after quarter-end ÷ TTM EPS then; this is a consistent valuation date, not the company’s actual filing date; loss quarters hidden

Quarterly free cash flow
-95M-8M80M 20162017201820192020202120222023202420252026
Latest quarter $40M (2026-03-28)

FCF = operating cash flow − capex, computed from SEC XBRL; banks/insurers have no standard cash-flow structure and are hidden

As of 2026-06-27 · SEC filings (XBRL)

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