Blue Bird Corporation (BLBD)
NASDAQ
Market Cap
$1.74B
Sector
Consumer Cyclical
Industry
Auto—Manufacturers
Rank in Sector
295 of 389
Rank in Industry
5 of 10
Largest Insider Buys in Sector
BLBD Stock Price History Chart
BLBD Stock Performance
About Blue Bird Corporation
Blue Bird Corporation designs, engineers, manufactures, and sells school buses and related parts in the United States, Canada, and internationally. It operates through two segments, Bus and Parts. The company offers Type C, Type D, and specialty buses; and alternative fuel applications through its propane powered, gasoline powered, compressed natural gas powered, and electric powered school buses. Blue Bird Corporation sells its products through a network of dealers, as well as directly to fleet operators, the United States government, and state governments; and maintains a parts distribution center. Blue Bird Corporation was formerly known as Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp. The company was founded in 1927 and is headquartered in Macon, Georgia.
Insider Activity of Blue Bird Corporation
Over the last 12 months, insiders at Blue Bird Corporation have bought $0 and sold $257.81M worth of Blue Bird Corporation stock.
On average, over the past 5 years, insiders at Blue Bird Corporation have bought $101,300 and sold $88.47M worth of stock each year.
There was no buying activity among insiders over the last 12 months.
The last purchase of 5,000 shares for transaction amount of $101,300 was made by Horlock Phil (CEO) on 2021‑08‑19.
List of Insider Buy and Sell Transactions, Blue Bird Corporation
| 2024-02-29 | Sale | Smith Britton | President | 6,228 0.0193% | $33.49 | $208,607 | +9.52% | |
| 2024-02-22 | Sale | Radulescu Razvan | Chief Financial Officer | 15,662 0.0476% | $30.49 | $477,534 | +17.57% | |
| 2024-02-21 | Sale | Radulescu Razvan | Chief Financial Officer | 3,285 0.0103% | $30.08 | $98,813 | +22.39% | |
| 2024-02-21 | Sale | ASP BB Holdings LLC | 10 percent owner | 4.04M 13.8267% | $32.90 | $133M | +22.39% | |
| 2024-02-20 | Sale | BEDI GURMINDER S | director | 8,719 0.0279% | $31.45 | $274,213 | +20.13% | |
| 2024-02-15 | Sale | Horlock Phil | Chief Executive Officer | 57,562 0.1853% | $33.00 | $1.9M | +7.44% | |
| 2024-02-08 | Sale | Horlock Phil | Chief Executive Officer | 17,438 0.061% | $33.00 | $575,454 | +19.75% | |
| 2024-02-01 | Sale | Horlock Phil | Chief Executive Officer | 75,000 0.2464% | $31.00 | $2.33M | +17.34% | |
| 2024-01-29 | Sale | Horlock Phil | Chief Executive Officer | 50,000 0.1536% | $29.00 | $1.45M | +22.89% | |
| 2023-12-26 | Sale | Horlock Phil | Chief Executive Officer | 40,000 0.121% | $27.00 | $1.08M | +22.91% | |
| 2023-12-19 | Sale | ASP BB Holdings LLC | 10 percent owner | 2.5M 7.4889% | $25.10 | $62.75M | +30.40% | |
| 2023-12-14 | Sale | Horlock Phil | Chief Executive Officer | 30,000 0.0931% | $25.97 | $779,100 | +30.38% | |
| 2023-12-14 | Sale | Radulescu Razvan | Chief Financial Officer | 15,000 0.0464% | $25.89 | $388,350 | +30.38% | |
| 2023-09-14 | Sale | ASP BB Holdings LLC | 10 percent owner | 1.26M 3.9881% | $21.00 | $26.51M | +47.00% | |
| 2023-09-14 | Sale | Coliseum Capital Management, LLC | director | 1.24M 3.9092% | $21.00 | $25.99M | +47.00% | |
| 2023-06-12 | Sale | ASP BB Holdings LLC | 10 percent owner | 1.73M 4.9746% | $20.00 | $34.5M | +10.97% | |
| 2023-06-12 | Sale | Coliseum Capital Management, LLC | 3.45M 9.9491% | $20.00 | $69M | +10.97% | ||
| 2023-03-08 | Sale | Horlock Phil | director | 14,749 0.045% | $22.00 | $324,478 | -6.04% | |
| 2023-03-02 | Sale | Horlock Phil | director | 251 0.0008% | $22.00 | $5,522 | -2.26% | |
| 2022-03-02 | Sale | Yousif Paul | General Counsel & Treasurer | 3,720 0.0112% | $20.75 | $77,190 | -44.78% |
Insider Historical Profitability
15.39%
| ASP BB Holdings LLC | 10 percent owner | 0 12.5554% | $53.77 | 1 | 6 | +44.24% |
| Horlock Phil | Chief Executive Officer | 299812 1.1099% | $53.77 | 1 | 16 | <0.0001% |
| Radulescu Razvan | Chief Financial Officer | 97362 0.3126% | $53.77 | 0 | 3 | |
| Smith Britton | President | 87250 0.271% | $53.77 | 0 | 1 | |
| BEDI GURMINDER S | director | 18896 0.0587% | $53.77 | 0 | 1 | |
| Coliseum Capital Management, LLC | director | 0 0% | $53.77 | 2 | 18 | +16.14% |
| Hennessy Capital LLC | 10 percent owner | 1615703 5.0179% | $53.77 | 1 | 0 | |
| Hennessy Capital Partners I, LLC | 10 percent owner | 1615703 5.0179% | $53.77 | 1 | 0 | |
| Charlton Kevin M. | President and COO | 67000 0.2081% | $53.77 | 1 | 0 | |
| Terry Mark Ashburn | Chief Commercial Officer | 38055 0.1182% | $53.77 | 0 | 1 | |
| Yousif Paul | General Counsel & Treasurer | 30420 0.0945% | $53.77 | 0 | 5 | |
| Lowrey Charles B II | EVP, CFO and Secretary | 18000 0.0559% | $53.77 | 1 | 0 | |
| HENNESSY DANIEL J | director | 5053 0.0157% | $53.77 | 1 | 4 | |
| FEINBERG STEPHEN | 0 0% | $53.77 | 0 | 2 |
Institutional Investor Ownership
Top Shareholders
Top Buyers
Top Sellers
New Shareholders
Sold-Out Shareholders
| Westwood Holdings Group, Inc. | $83.82M | 6.77 | 2.19M | New | +$83.82M | 0.68 | |
| BlackRock | $83.09M | 6.71 | 2.17M | +16.27% | +$11.63M | <0.01 | |
| The Vanguard Group | $73.29M | 5.92 | 1.91M | +35.97% | +$19.39M | <0.01 | |
| Wellington Management Company | $64.07M | 5.17 | 1.67M | -8.4% | -$5.87M | 0.01 | |
| AllianceBernstein | $59.09M | 4.77 | 1.54M | -5.43% | -$3.39M | 0.02 | |
| 325 Capital | $44.64M | 3.6 | 1.16M | 0% | +$0 | 20.61 | |
| First Trust | $41.16M | 3.32 | 1.07M | +53.61% | +$14.37M | 0.04 | |
| Evr Research Lp | $35.66M | 2.88 | 930,000 | +3.33% | +$1.15M | 7.99 | |
| Driehaus Capital Management LLC | $32.08M | 2.59 | 836,594 | +17.96% | +$4.88M | 0.32 | |
| DeRoy & Devereaux | $31.66M | 2.56 | 825,731 | -0.32% | -$99,992.21 | 1.94 | |
| Nuveen | $30.46M | 2.46 | 794,387 | +20.72% | +$5.23M | 0.01 | |
| Marshall Wace | $25.91M | 2.09 | 675,847 | -32.21% | -$12.31M | 0.03 | |
| Intrinsic Edge Capital Management Llc | $25.08M | 2.03 | 654,107 | New | +$25.08M | 2.13 | |
| State Street | $23.15M | 1.87 | 603,933 | +13.22% | +$2.7M | <0.01 | |
| Geode Capital Management | $20.26M | 1.64 | 528,311 | +6.82% | +$1.29M | <0.01 | |
| Kennedy Capital Management Inc | $17.56M | 1.42 | 458,088 | -14.4% | -$2.96M | 0.37 | |
| Blair William Co Il | $16.05M | 1.3 | 418,627 | -1.45% | -$235,484.28 | 0.05 | |
| Boston Partners | $15.59M | 1.29 | 415,310 | +279.48% | +$11.48M | 0.02 | |
| Federated Hermes | $14.84M | 1.2 | 386,989 | +115.44% | +$7.95M | 0.03 | |
| Prospect Capital Advisors LLC | $13.82M | 1.12 | 360,350 | -6.5% | -$960,417.00 | 6.15 | |
| Epoch Investment Partners Inc | $13.51M | 1.09 | 352,373 | -11.87% | -$1.82M | 0.06 | |
| Lord Abbett | $12.64M | 1.02 | 329,574 | +91.5% | +$6.04M | 0.04 | |
| Brightline Capital Management Llc | $12.58M | 1.02 | 328,000 | +21.48% | +$2.22M | 7.57 | |
| AQR Capital | $12.57M | 1.02 | 327,877 | -11.56% | -$1.64M | 0.02 | |
| JPMorgan Chase | $12.37M | 1 | 322,647 | +358.45% | +$9.67M | <0.01 | |
| Oberweis Asset Management Inc | $11.47M | 0.93 | 299,100 | +4.33% | +$475,416.00 | 0.83 | |
| GAMCO Investors | $11.09M | 0.9 | 289,290 | -5.37% | -$628,776.02 | 0.12 | |
| Renaissance Technologies | $10.75M | 0.87 | 280,418 | -10.96% | -$1.32M | 0.02 | |
| Morgan Stanley | $10.46M | 0.85 | 272,822 | -48.16% | -$9.72M | <0.01 | |
| SEB | $10.33M | 0.83 | 269,468 | -23.98% | -$3.26M | 0.05 | |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors | $9.48M | 0.77 | 247,143 | +360.8% | +$7.42M | <0.01 | |
| Citadel Advisors LLC | $9.35M | 0.76 | 243,926 | -63.46% | -$16.24M | 0.01 | |
| Two Sigma Advisers LP | $9.11M | 0.74 | 237,500 | -28.7% | -$3.67M | 0.02 | |
| Prudential Financial | $8.9M | 0.72 | 232,019 | +133.38% | +$5.08M | 0.01 | |
| Northern Trust | $8.52M | 0.69 | 222,164 | +7.87% | +$621,606.44 | <0.01 | |
| Charles Schwab | $8.1M | 0.65 | 211,263 | +1.77% | +$140,669.45 | <0.01 | |
| Two Sigma | $8.06M | 0.65 | 210,186 | -52.52% | -$8.91M | 0.01 | |
| Bank of America | $7.61M | 0.62 | 198,571 | +0.58% | +$43,860.96 | <0.01 | |
| North Star Investment Management Corp | $6.73M | 0.54 | 175,487 | 0% | +$0 | 0.47 | |
| Divisadero Street Capital Management Lp | $6.47M | 0.52 | 168,851 | New | +$6.47M | 1.52 | |
| Man Group Plc | $6.06M | 0.49 | 158,149 | New | +$6.06M | 0.02 | |
| Clean Energy Transition Llp | $5.76M | 0.47 | 150,155 | -54.99% | -$7.03M | 0.57 | |
| Russell Investments Group Ltd | $5.69M | 0.46 | 148,520 | +149.06% | +$3.41M | 0.01 | |
| Hillsdale Investment Management Inc. | $5.52M | 0.45 | 143,900 | New | +$5.52M | 0.46 | |
| CastleArk Management, LLC | $5.32M | 0.43 | 138,760 | +6.57% | +$327,806.97 | 0.22 | |
| ICON Advisers, Inc. | $4.61M | 0.37 | 120,000 | -25% | -$1.54M | 1.03 | |
| Goldman Sachs | $4.38M | 0.35 | 114,259 | -47.04% | -$3.89M | <0.01 | |
| GlobeFlex Capital | $4.3M | 0.35 | 112,059 | New | +$4.3M | 0.42 | |
| Rice Hall James & Associates, LLC | $4.15M | 0.34 | 108,355 | New | +$4.15M | 0.25 | |
| Qube Research & Technologies | $4.11M | 0.33 | 107,266 | -43.78% | -$3.2M | 0.01 |