Bright Scholar Education Stock Forecast, Price & News

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bright Scholar Education in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street analysts is that investors should "sell" Bright Scholar Education stock.
View analyst ratings for Bright Scholar Education or view top-rated stocks.

Wall Street analysts have given Bright Scholar Education a "Sell" rating, but there may be better buying opportunities in the stock market. Some of MarketBeat's past winning trading ideas have resulted in 5-15% weekly gains. MarketBeat just released five new stock ideas, but Bright Scholar Education wasn't one of them. MarketBeat thinks these five companies may be even better buys.
View MarketBeat's top stock picks here.

Bright Scholar Education saw a decrease in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 26,800 shares, a decrease of 20.7% from the August 15th total of 33,800 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 40,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 0.7 days. Currently, 0.1% of the company's shares are sold short.
View Bright Scholar Education's Short Interest.

Bright Scholar Education is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, November 10th 2021.
View our earnings forecast for Bright Scholar Education.

Bright Scholar Education Holdings Limited (NYSE:BEDU) announced its earnings results on Tuesday, July, 20th. The company reported $1.49 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.15 by $0.34. The firm had revenue of $165.50 million for the quarter. Bright Scholar Education had a net margin of 4.71% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 8.30%.
View Bright Scholar Education's earnings history.

Bright Scholar Education's stock was trading at $7.86 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, BEDU stock has decreased by 66.9% and is now trading at $2.60.
View which stocks have been most impacted by COVID-19.

Bright Scholar Education announced a -- dividend on Friday, July 23rd. Investors of record on Monday, August 2nd will be paid a dividend of $0.12 per share on Monday, August 16th. This represents a dividend yield of 3.05%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, July 30th.
View Bright Scholar Education's dividend history.

Bright Scholar Education pays an annual dividend of $0.11 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 3.54%. The dividend payout ratio of Bright Scholar Education is 34.38%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.
View Bright Scholar Education's dividend history.

Bright Scholar Education issued an update on its FY 2021 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 5th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $563.81 million-$579.51 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $557.29 million.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Bright Scholar Education's stock. Their forecasts range from $2.70 to $2.70. On average, they expect Bright Scholar Education's stock price to reach $2.70 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 3.8% from the stock's current price.
View analysts' price targets for Bright Scholar Education or view top-rated stocks among Wall Street analysts.

Some companies that are related to Bright Scholar Education include Hailiang Education Group (HLG), Perdoceo Education (PRDO), Arco Platform (ARCE), Gaotu Techedu (GOTU), American Public Education (APEI), Zhangmen Education (ZME), Vasta Platform (VSTA), Vitru (VTRU), GP Strategies (GPX), iHuman (IH), Universal Technical Institute (UTI), 17 Education & Technology Group (YQ), Kuke Music (KUKE), Lincoln Educational Services (LINC) and Aspen Group (ASPU).
View all of BEDU's competitors.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Bright Scholar Education investors own include NVIDIA (NVDA), JOYY (YY), Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Alibaba Group (BABA), Carnival Co. & (CCL), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Mastercard (MA), AT&T (T), TAL Education Group (TAL) and The Walt Disney (DIS).

(BEDU) raised $135 million in an initial public offering 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.

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

Bright Scholar Education's stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Indus Capital Partners LLC (4.08%), Morgan Stanley (0.33%), Morgan Stanley (0.33%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (0.27%), Bank of America Corp DE (0.24%) and Citigroup Inc. (0.16%).

BEDU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State Street Corp, Renaissance Technologies LLC, and Citigroup Inc..

BEDU stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Bank of America Corp DE, Indus Capital Partners LLC, Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Morgan Stanley, and Morgan Stanley.

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

One share of BEDU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $2.60.

Bright Scholar Education has a market capitalization of $310.08 million and generates $491.65 million in revenue each year. The company earns $23.51 million in net income (profit) each year or $0.32 on an earnings per share basis.

Bright Scholar Education employs 11,499 workers across the globe.

The official website for Bright Scholar Education is www.brightscholar.com.

Bright Scholar Education is headquartered at No.1 Country Garden RoadBeijiao Town Shunde District, Foshan F4, 528300.

Bright Scholar Education's mailing address is No.1 Country Garden RoadBeijiao Town Shunde District, Foshan F4, 528300. The company can be reached via phone at 8675766832506 or via email at [email protected].