# BLUE BIRD CORPORATION (BLBD) FY2026 YTD Q3 Statement of Cash Flows

- Company: BLUE BIRD CORPORATION (BLBD)
- Period: 2025-09-28 to 2026-06-27
- Filing: Q3 FY2026 10-Q, filed 2026-08-05, accession number 0001589526-26-000049
- Page: https://plicit.ai/financials/blbd/fy2026-ytd-q3-cash-flow
- Chart image: https://plicit.ai/charts/blbd-fy2026-ytd-q3-cash-flow-sankey.png

## Chart details

Cash flows for Sep 28, 2025 through Jun 27, 2026. Cash basis: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash. Beginning cash: Sep 27, 2025. Ending cash: Jun 27, 2026. Beginning and ending cash are dated balances. Positive cash flows add cash; negative cash flows reduce it.

- **Beginning cash on Sep 27, 2025**: 229,313,000 US dollars. Beginning cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Operating activities**: 115,377,000 US dollars. Net cash provided.
- **Net income**: 245,312,000 US dollars
- **Loss on disposal of fixed assets**: 52,000 US dollars
- **Other assets**: negative 3,097,000 US dollars
- **Deferred income tax expense (benefit)**: 95,000 US dollars
- **Accounts payable**: 7,663,000 US dollars
- **Accounts receivable**: negative 32,848,000 US dollars
- **Accrued expenses, pension and other liabilities**: 36,372,000 US dollars
- **Inventories**: negative 17,894,000 US dollars
- **Equity in net income of non-consolidated affiliates**: negative 2,224,000 US dollars
- **Share-based compensation expense**: 5,564,000 US dollars
- **Depreciation and amortization expense**: 16,791,000 US dollars
- **Non-cash interest expense**: 236,000 US dollars
- **Amortization of deferred actuarial pension losses**: 315,000 US dollars
- **Pension plan settlement loss (Note 14)**: 19,562,000 US dollars
- **Remeasurement gain**: negative 160,522,000 US dollars
- **Investing activities**: negative 72,526,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Equity investment in affiliates (Note 11)**: negative 190,000 US dollars
- **Cash paid for fixed assets**: negative 22,695,000 US dollars
- **Business acquisition, net of cash acquired (Note 13)**: negative 49,641,000 US dollars
- **Financing activities**: negative 155,340,000 US dollars. Net cash used.
- **Term loan repayments**: negative 3,750,000 US dollars
- **Cash received from stock option exercises**: 781,000 US dollars
- **Repurchase of common stock in connection with stock award exercises**: negative 2,574,000 US dollars
- **Principal payments on finance leases**: negative 231,000 US dollars
- **Repurchase of common stock in connection with repurchase programs (Note 12)**: negative 19,948,000 US dollars
- **Repayment of Micro Bird debt (Note 4)**: negative 129,618,000 US dollars
- **Operating adjustment reconciliation**: 216,585,000 US dollars. Intermediate calculation joining the operating reconciliation branches. Its gross amount includes any portion of net income routed through this junction. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **financing gross reconciliation**: 156,121,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **investing gross reconciliation**: 72,526,000 US dollars. Gross amount at the activity's junction before offsetting its receipts and deductions. It is not an additional cash source or use.
- **Exchange-rate effect**: 0 US dollars
- **Ending cash on Jun 27, 2026**: 116,824,000 US dollars. Ending cash: Cash, cash equivalents, and restricted cash
- **Cash sources and uses**: 344,690,000 US dollars. Opening cash plus net sources, equal to net uses plus ending cash.
- **Net cash change**: negative 112,489,000 US dollars. Ending cash minus beginning cash.
- **Cash flow / Net income**: 0.47×. Operating cash flow divided by reconciliation net income for the same period. Black from 0.90× through 1.10×; green above 1.10×; red below 0.90×. Color uses the unrounded ratio.
- **Operating cash flow**: 115,377,000 US dollars. Operating cash flow used in the free cash flow calculation.
- **cash spent on productive assets**: 22,695,000 US dollars. These cash purchases are already included in investing activities above.
- **Free cash flow**: 92,682,000 US dollars. A supplemental measure; finance-lease payments are excluded from this definition.

### Chart connections

- Beginning cash plus operating, investing and financing cash flows plus the exchange-rate effect equals ending cash. Negative amounts reduce cash.
- Financing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Investing contributions meet at a reconciliation junction before connecting to the net cash total.
- Operating reconciliation adjustments are not all independent cash receipts.
- Net income exceeds operating cash. The diagram allocates $115.38M of net income directly to operating cash and $129.94M to the adjustment junction, where it combines with other additions to reconcile deductions. This is an accounting presentation, not a tracing of cash receipts.
- Each activity has one net cash bar connected to the shared cash pool. Positive activity totals enter the pool; negative activity totals leave the pool to fund that activity's net payments. The central pool does not assign a particular funding source to a particular payment.
- The intermediate calculation bars include both sides of the displayed activity breakdowns; they are not additional cash flows.
- Operating cash flow minus cash spent on productive assets equals free cash flow: 115,377,000 US dollars minus 22,695,000 US dollars equals 92,682,000 US dollars.