How Blue Bird makes money

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FY2025

How does Blue Bird make money? This Sankey traces every dollar of revenue through the income statement — into cost of revenue, R&D, SG&A, and taxes — and shows what's left as profit. Pick any fiscal year, recent quarter, or the trailing twelve months. Straight from SEC filings.

Blue Bird Corporation · FY2025 · year ended 2025-09-27

Revenue$1.5BGross profit$304M · 21%Cost of revenue$1.2B · 79%Operating income$172M · 12%Operating expenses$136M · 9%R&D$15M · 1%Other opex$121M · 8%Net income$128M · 9%Income tax$44M · 3%

Each fiscal year from SEC filings. Percentages are share of revenue, so the green profit nodes read directly as gross / operating / net margin. Line items a company doesn't break out are derived from their siblings so the flows balance; small residuals show as “Other.” For informational purposes only.