Blue Bird Corp 10-Q

Item 1A. Risk Factors. In addition to the other information set forth in this Report, you should carefully consider the risk factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A of the Company's fiscal 2024 Form 10-K. Such risk factors are expressly incorporated herein by reference and they, and the risk factors included below, could materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, cash flows or operating results. Our costs to produce, and our ability to sell, our products may be negatively impacted by changes in trade policies and tariffs Recently proposed trade policies and tariffs could increase the cost of components we and/or our suppliers purchase from Canada, China and Mexico, which would increase our cost to produce buses and purchase parts for resale. These discussed trade policies and tariffs could expand to other foreign countries in future periods. We can provide no assurance that we would be able to successfully pass along part or all of our increased costs to our customers, particularly for those customers for which we have executed a contract containing a fixed bus price. Additionally, our ability to increase the sales price we charge for our products could impact customer purchasing decisions in future periods, resulting in them buying less, or none, of our products. We can provide no assurance that our ability to sell our products at reasonable margins, or at all, would not be impaired by the imposition of changes in trade policies and tariffs that may make it more difficult or expensive for us to purchase inventory, which could result in reduced sales, profitability and cash flows. Changes in laws, regulations or governmental policies and programs involving grants, subsidies and/or other incentives may negatively impact our sale of alternative powered school buses Our production plans and financial projections incorporate federal and state programs supporting adoption of clean fuel technologies into existing school bus fleets by offering grants, subsidies and/or other incentives to partially, or fully, offset the higher price of alternative powered school buses. Changes in government programs and support for these products could impact customer purchasing decisions in future periods, resulting in them buying less, or none, of our alternative powered products. While we manage our product development and production operations to support all power options we offer to our customers, which include diesel, gasoline, propane and all-electric powered school buses, our materials ordering and sales projections incorporate assumptions that the mix of school buses we will produce and sell in future periods will be impacted by customers taking advantage of assistance programs offered by federal and state governments. Changes in such programs could impact customer ordering practices, which could result in sales and/or gross profit amounts varying, potentially significantly, from our original estimates of such amounts. The risks described in the fiscal 2024 Form 10-K and above are not the only risks facing the Company. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial may also materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, cash flows and/or operating results.