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BLBD vs GENC

Side-by-side comparison of Blue Bird Corporation (BLBD) and Gencor Industries Inc. (GENC): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • BLBD operates in Consumer Discretionary, while GENC operates in Industrials - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • BLBD is the larger of the two at $2.29B, about 14.4x GENC ($159.2M).
  • Over the past year, BLBD is up 85.8% and GENC is up 1.5% - BLBD leads by 84.3 points.
  • GENC has been more active in the news (7 items in the past 4 weeks vs 3 for BLBD).
  • BLBD has more recent analyst coverage (10 ratings vs 0 for GENC).
PerformanceBLBD+85.80%GENC+1.48%
2025-06-04+0.00%2026-06-03
MetricBLBDGENC
Company
Blue Bird Corporation
Gencor Industries Inc.
Price
$72.48+0.17%
$14.37-4.77%
Market cap
$2.29B
$159.2M
1M return
+15.36%
-2.54%
1Y return
+85.80%
+1.48%
Industry
Construction/Ag Equipment/Trucks
Construction/Ag Equipment/Trucks
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
2014
News (4w)
3
7
Recent ratings
10
0
BLBD

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.

GENC

Gencor Industries Inc.

Gencor Industries, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, manufactures, and sells heavy machinery used in the production of highway construction materials and environmental control equipment. The company offers hot-mix asphalt plants to produce asphalt paving materials; related asphalt plant equipment, including hot-mix storage silos, fabric filtration systems, cold feed bins, and other plant components; and a range of mobile batch plants. It also provides combustion systems that transform solid, liquid, or gaseous fuels into usable energy, or burn multiple fuels in asphalt and aggregate drying industries; and combustion systems for rotary dryers, kilns, fume and liquid incinerators, and fuel heaters, as well as industrial incinerators. In addition, the company offers thermal fluid heat transfer systems that transfer heat for storage, heating, and pumping viscous materials, such as asphalt, chemicals, heavy oils, etc. in various industrial and petrochemical applications; specialty storage tanks for various industrial uses; and asphalt pavers under the Blaw-Knox brand. Gencor Industries, Inc. sells its products primarily to the highway construction industry through its sales representatives, and independent dealers and agents worldwide. The company was formerly known as Mechtron International Corporation and changed its name to Gencor Industries, Inc. in 1987. Gencor Industries, Inc. is based in Orlando, Florida.

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