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. Investors 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) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, January, 16th. The company reported $1.76 EPS for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.59 by $0.17. The business had revenue of $1.10 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.09 billion. Bright Scholar Education Holdngs had a net margin of 9.33% and a return on equity of 10.03%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 69.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.30 EPS. 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 issued an update on its FY 2020 After-Hours earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 16th. The company provided earnings per share 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 equities research analysts 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 twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 7.6% 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.

News articles about BEDU stock have been trending somewhat positive on Friday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Bright Scholar Education Holdngs earned a media sentiment score of 1.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Bright Scholar Education Holdngs.

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs saw a decrease in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 31,000 shares, a decrease of 39.2% from the January 15th total of 51,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 46,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.7 days. Approximately 0.1% of the company's shares 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), Strategic Education (STRA), Graham (GHC), Youdao (DAO), Afya (AFYA), Adtalem Global Education (ATGE), Hailiang Education Group (HLG), Arco Platform (ARCE), Career Education (CECO), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), OneSmart International Edun Gr (ONE), K12 (LRN), Puxin (NEW), China Online Education Group (COE) 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 initial public offering (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 served as the underwriters for the IPO and China Merchants Securities (HK) and BNP Paribas were co-managers.

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.22%), Oxford Asset Management LLP (0.09%), State Street Corp (0.08%), Bank of America Corp DE (0.04%) and Banque Cantonale Vaudoise (0.02%).

BEDU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Oxford Asset Management LLP.

BEDU stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Renaissance Technologies LLC, Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, Bank of America Corp DE and State Street Corp.

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 $8.97.

Bright Scholar Education Holdngs has a market capitalization of $1.11 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]