Bright Horizons Family Solutions is a personal services business based in the US. Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares (BFAM.US) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US dollars. Its last market close was $104.45 – an increase of 0.7% over the previous day. Bright Horizons Family Solutions employs 31,400 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.4 billion.
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Over the last 12 months, Bright Horizons Family Solutions's shares have ranged in value from as little as $71.65 up to $119.2084. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Bright Horizons Family Solutions's is 1.377. This would suggest that Bright Horizons Family Solutions's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Historical closes compared with the last close of $104.45
| 1 week (2024-04-14) | -1.72% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-03-21) | -8.26% |
| 3 months (2024-01-21) | 4.00% |
| 6 months (2023-10-19) | 32.75% |
| 1 year (2023-04-20) | 36.66% |
| 2 years (2022-04-17) | -20.09% |
| 3 years (2021-04-21) | -36.78% |
| 5 years (2019-04-21) | -16.91% |
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Valuing a stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge value. Check out the Bright Horizons Family Solutions P/E ratio, PEG ratio and EBITDA
Bright Horizons Family Solutions's current stock price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 82x. In other words, Bright Horizons Family Solutions stocks trade at around 82x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the United States stock markets on average as of November 09, 2023 (20.44). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.76. A PEG ratio over 1 can be interpreted as meaning shares are overvalued at the current rate of growth, or may anticipate an acceleration in growth.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Bright Horizons Family Solutions's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the stock prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $271.2 million.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Bright Horizons Family Solutions's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
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