NYSE:BEDU - Bright Scholar Education Holdngs Stock Price, Forecast & News

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BEDU."

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs announced a -- dividend on Friday, September 20th. Shareholders of record on Monday, September 30th will be paid a dividend of $0.088 per share on Friday, October 11th. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, September 27th. View Bright Scholar Education Holdngs' Dividend History.

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs Ltd-ADR (NYSE:BEDU) issued its earnings results on Thursday, January, 16th. The company reported $1.76 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.59 by $0.17. The company earned $1.10 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.09 billion. Bright Scholar Education Holdngs had a net margin of 9.33% and a return on equity of 10.18%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 69.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.30 earnings per share. View Bright Scholar Education Holdngs' Earnings History.

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, April 27th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Bright Scholar Education Holdngs.

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs updated its FY 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 16th. The company provided EPS guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $568.925-583.148 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $569.9 million.

2 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Bright Scholar Education Holdngs' stock. Their forecasts range from $9.50 to $9.80. On average, they expect Bright Scholar Education Holdngs' share price to reach $9.65 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 1.6% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Bright Scholar Education Holdngs.

2 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bright Scholar Education Holdngs in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Bright Scholar Education Holdngs.

Media headlines about BEDU stock have trended extremely negative on Tuesday, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Bright Scholar Education Holdngs earned a daily sentiment score of -4.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the company a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is very unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Bright Scholar Education Holdngs.

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs saw a decline in short interest in December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 51,000 shares, a decline of 36.0% from the December 15th total of 79,700 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 37,500 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 1.4 days. Approximately 0.2% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Bright Scholar Education Holdngs' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Bright Scholar Education Holdngs include Grand Canyon Education (LOPE), Laureate Education (LAUR), Strategic Education (STRA), Graham (GHC), Afya (AFYA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Youdao (DAO), Hailiang Education Group (HLG), Career Education (CECO), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Arco Platform (ARCE), OneSmart International Edun Gr (ONE), Puxin (NEW), K12 (LRN) and American Public Education (APEI).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Bright Scholar Education Holdngs investors own include YY (YY), TAL Education Group (TAL), NVIDIA (NVDA), PGT Innovations (PGTI), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Iradimed (IRMD), Alibaba Group (BABA), China Distance Education (DL), New Oriental Education & Tech Grp (EDU) and Enbridge (ENB).

(BEDU) raised $135 million in an IPO on Thursday, May 18th 2017. The company issued 15,000,000 shares at a price of $8.00-$10.00 per share. Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank Securities acted as the underwriters for the IPO and China Merchants Securities (HK) and BNP Paribas were co-managers.

Shares of BEDU can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BEDU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $9.50.

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs has a market capitalization of $1.18 billion and generates $358.25 million in revenue each year. The company earns $33.70 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.30 on an earnings per share basis. Bright Scholar Education Holdngs employs 10,366 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Bright Scholar Education Holdngs.

The official website for Bright Scholar Education Holdngs is http://www.brightscholar.com/.

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs' mailing address is No.1 Country Garden RoadBeijiao Town Shunde District, Foshan F4, 528300. The company can be reached via phone at 86-757-6683-2007 or via email at [email protected]