Blue Bird's (NASDAQ:BLBD) Shareholders Are Down 31% On Their Shares
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It is a pleasure to report that the Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ:BLBD) is up 33% in the last quarter. But that is minimal compensation for the share price under-performance over the last year. In fact the stock is down 31% in the last year, well below the market return.
Check out our latest analysis for Blue Bird
In his essay The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville Warren Buffett described how share prices do not always rationally reflect the value of a business. By comparing earnings per share (EPS) and share price changes over time, we can get a feel for how investor attitudes to a company have morphed over time.
Unfortunately Blue Bird reported an EPS drop of 26% for the last year. We note that the 31% share price drop is very close to the EPS drop. Given the lower EPS we might have expected investors to lose confidence in the stock, but that doesn't seemed to have happened. Rather, the share price is remains a similar multiple of the EPS, suggesting the outlook remains the same.
The company's earnings per share (over time) is depicted in the image below (click to see the exact numbers).
It might be well worthwhile taking a look at our free report on Blue Bird's earnings, revenue and cash flow.
A Different Perspective
While the broader market gained around 7.6% in the last year, Blue Bird shareholders lost 31%. Even the share prices of good stocks drop sometimes, but we want to see improvements in the fundamental metrics of a business, before getting too interested. Longer term investors wouldn't be so upset, since they would have made 0.6%, each year, over five years. If the fundamental data continues to indicate long term sustainable growth, the current sell-off could be an opportunity worth considering. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Blue Bird better, we need to consider many other factors. Even so, be aware that Blue Bird is showing 5 warning signs in our investment analysis , and 1 of those is potentially serious...
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Please note, the market returns quoted in this article reflect the market weighted average returns of stocks that currently trade on US exchanges.
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