Growth Metrics

Blue Bird (BLBD) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Blue Bird has reported Return on Invested Capital over the past 11 years, most recently at 0.36% for Q4 2025.

  • Quarterly results put Return on Invested Capital at 0.36% for Q4 2025, down 111.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Dec 2025 was 0.36% (down 111.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 0.6%, down 63.0%.
  • Return on Invested Capital for Q4 2025 was 0.36% at Blue Bird, down from 0.38% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, Return on Invested Capital for BLBD hit a ceiling of 1.54% in Q3 2024 and a floor of 1.93% in Q4 2022.
  • Median Return on Invested Capital over the past 5 years was 0.26% (2021), compared with a mean of 0.28%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Invested Capital: crashed -196bps in 2022 and later skyrocketed 279bps in 2023.
  • Blue Bird's Return on Invested Capital stood at 0.16% in 2021, then tumbled by -1268bps to 1.93% in 2022, then surged by 145bps to 0.86% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 70bps to 1.47% in 2024, then plummeted by -75bps to 0.36% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Invested Capital were 0.36% (Q4 2025), 0.38% (Q3 2025), and 0.56% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.