Bright Horizons Family Solutions is a personal services business based in the US. Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares (BFAM) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $123.23 – a decrease of 1.22% over the previous week. Bright Horizons Family Solutions employs 32,050 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $2.7 billion.
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| Latest market close | $123.23 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $100.59 - $141.90 |
| 50-day moving average | $123.43 |
| 200-day moving average | $124.28 |
| Wall St. target price | $138.15 |
| PE ratio | 53.4083 |
| Dividend yield | N/A |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $2.40 |
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Historical closes compared with the close of $121.31 from 2025-05-06
| 1 week (2025-04-30) | -3.28% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-04-08) | 10.05% |
| 3 months (2025-02-07) | -0.42% |
| 6 months (2024-11-08) | 4.45% |
| 1 year (2024-05-08) | 6.61% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-05-05) | 33.65% |
| 3 years (2022-05-06) | 40.71% |
| 5 years (2020-05-07) | 7.73% |
Valuing Bright Horizons Family Solutions stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Bright Horizons Family Solutions's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 53x. In other words, Bright Horizons Family Solutions shares trade at around 53x recent earnings.
That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). 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 low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
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 share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $377 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.
| Revenue TTM | $2.7 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 11.55% |
| Gross profit TTM | $649.9 million |
| Return on assets TTM | 4.5% |
| Return on equity TTM | 11.26% |
| Profit margin | 5.22% |
| Book value | $22.27 |
| Market Capitalization | $7.4 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
We're not expecting Bright Horizons Family Solutions to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Over the last 12 months, Bright Horizons Family Solutions's shares have ranged in value from as little as $100.59 up to $141.9. 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 1.31. 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).
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. provides early education and childcare, back-up care, educational advisory, and other workplace solutions services for employers and families in the United States, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and India. The company operates in three segments: Full Service Center-Based Child Care, Back-Up Care, and Educational Advisory services. The Full Service Center-Based Child Care segment offers traditional center-based early education and child care, preschool, and elementary education services. The Back-Up Care segment provides center-based back-up child care, in-home child and senior care, school-age programs, camps, tutoring, pet care, and self-sourced reimbursed care services, as well as sittercity, an online marketplace for families and caregivers through early education and child care centers, school-age programs and in-home care providers, the back-up care network, and other providers. The Educational Advisory services segment offers tuition assistance and student loan repayment program management, workforce education, and related educational consulting services, as well as college admissions and college financial advisory services. The company was formerly known as Bright Horizons Solutions Corp.