Blue Bird (BLBD) Operating Margin (2014 - 2026)

Blue Bird (BLBD) recorded quarterly Operating Margin of 11.09% in Q1 2026, down 1.93% quarter-over-quarter from 11.31% in Q4 2025, and up 170.0% on a YoY basis from 4.11% in Q1 2025.

Blue Bird (BLBD) Operating Margin (2014 - 2026) Analysis & Trends

Blue Bird's Operating Margin history runs 13 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 11.09% for Q1 2026.

  • In Q1 2026, Operating Margin rose 170.0% year-over-year to 11.09%; the TTM figure through Mar 2026 stood at 11.87% (up 213.0% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 11.29%, up 95.0% from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin was 11.09% for Q1 2026 at Blue Bird, down from 11.31% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 12.58% in Q2 2025 to a low of 16.09% in Q3 2022.
  • Historically, Operating Margin has averaged 5.56% across 5 years, with a median of 9.51% in 2025.
  • The sharpest annual moves came in 2022 and 2023: Operating Margin tumbled 873 bps in 2022, then soared 2572 bps in 2023.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 3.98% in 2022, then surged by 400 bps to 11.95% in 2023, then declined by 12 bps to 10.53% in 2024, then advanced by 7 bps to 11.31% in 2025, then dropped by 2 bps to 11.09% in 2026.
  • The last three Operating Margin figures came in at 11.09% (Q1 2026), 11.31% (Q4 2025), and 12.3% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.

Peer Comparison

# Company Market Cap Enterprise Value Gross Profit (Qtr) Operating Margin (Qtr)
1 Caterpillar 424.10 Bn 420.03 Bn 6.11 Bn 17.71%
2 Deere 156.25 Bn 148.36 Bn 13.06 Bn 16.73%
3 Paccar 63.14 Bn 62.45 Bn 1.36 Bn -63.36%
4 Oshkosh 8.32 Bn 8.07 Bn 311.90 Mn 3.54%
5 Terex 6.12 Bn 5.73 Bn 206.00 Mn -4.73%
6 Blue Bird 2.24 Bn 1.97 Bn 70.65 Mn 11.09%
7 Alamo 1.85 Bn 1.65 Bn 104.81 Mn 10.11%
8 Lindsay 1.21 Bn 1.02 Bn 42.35 Mn 8.41%
9 Astec Industries 1.18 Bn 1.11 Bn 99.10 Mn 2.27%
10 Hyster-Yale 619.64 Mn 623.94 Mn 124.80 Mn -3.52%

Historic Data

Download Data
DateValue
Mar 28, 2026 11.09%
Dec 27, 2025 11.31%
Sep 27, 2025 12.30%
Jun 28, 2025 12.58%
Mar 29, 2025 9.39%
Dec 28, 2024 10.53%
Sep 28, 2024 7.30%
Jun 29, 2024 11.92%
Mar 30, 2024 10.43%
Dec 30, 2023 11.95%
Sep 30, 2023 9.63%
Jul 1, 2023 6.60%
Apr 1, 2023 4.15%
Dec 31, 2022 -3.98%
Sep 30, 2022 -16.09%
Jul 2, 2022 0.53%
Apr 2, 2022 -8.04%
Jan 1, 2022 -1.58%
Jul 3, 2021 4.11%
Apr 3, 2021 0.69%