Growth Metrics

Blue Bird (BLBD) Operating Margin (2016 - 2025)

Blue Bird has reported Operating Margin over the past 12 years, most recently at 11.31% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Operating Margin at 11.31% for Q4 2025, up 78.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 11.46% (up 145.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 11.29%, up 95.0%.
  • Operating Margin for Q4 2025 was 11.31% at Blue Bird, down from 12.3% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Operating Margin for BLBD hit a ceiling of 12.58% in Q2 2025 and a floor of 16.09% in Q3 2022.
  • Median Operating Margin over the past 5 years was 6.95% (2024), compared with a mean of 4.68%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Operating Margin: plummeted -873bps in 2022 and later surged 2572bps in 2023.
  • Blue Bird's Operating Margin stood at 4.11% in 2021, then plummeted by -197bps to 3.98% in 2022, then soared by 400bps to 11.95% in 2023, then fell by -12bps to 10.53% in 2024, then rose by 7bps to 11.31% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Operating Margin were 11.31% (Q4 2025), 12.3% (Q3 2025), and 12.58% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.