Is it safe?
Can BLBD take a bad year?
Blue Bird Corporation holds $188M more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
$188M
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Altman Z-score
- 7.84
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 26.9×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $88M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $276M
- Net cash
- $188M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $193M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $177M
- Debt / equity
- 0.29×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.46×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 44%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −74%
- Below its 52-week high
- −26%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Ranks #3 of 12 by Smart Score