Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM) Stock Forecast, Price & News

7 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bright Horizons Family Solutions in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 sell ratings, 3 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" BFAM shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in BFAM, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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7 Wall Street research analysts have issued 12-month price objectives for Bright Horizons Family Solutions' shares. Their BFAM share price forecasts range from $57.00 to $101.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $78.50 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 11.9%.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stock was trading at $63.10 at the beginning of 2023. Since then, BFAM shares have increased by 41.3% and is now trading at $89.13.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,310,000 shares, an increase of 65.9% from the April 30th total of 789,400 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 471,800 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.8 days. Currently, 2.3% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, August 1st 2023.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BFAM) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, May, 2nd. The company reported $0.39 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.37 by $0.02. The business earned $553.61 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $531.41 million. Bright Horizons Family Solutions had a net margin of 3.28% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.08%. The firm's revenue was up 20.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.39 EPS.

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Bright Horizons Family Solutions updated its FY23 earnings guidance on Tuesday, May, 2nd. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.80-$3.00 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.84. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.3-$2.4 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.32 billion.

248 employees have rated Bright Horizons Family Solutions Chief Executive Officer Stephen Kramer on Glassdoor.com. Stephen Kramer has an approval rating of 65% among the company's employees.

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Bright Horizons Family Solutions trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BFAM."

Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (7.50%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (6.07%), Brown Advisory Inc. (5.28%), Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (4.61%), BlackRock Inc. (4.21%) and Liontrust Investment Partners LLP (2.01%). Insiders that own company stock include David H Lissy, Elizabeth J Boland, John Guy Casagrande, Lightfoot Sara Lawrence, Marguerite Kondracke, Maribeth Nash Bearfield, Mary Ann Tocio, Mary Lou Burke and Stephen Howard Kramer.
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One share of BFAM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $89.13.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) has a market capitalization of $5.15 billion and generates $2.02 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $80.64 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.18 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 29,100 workers across the globe.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions' mailing address is 200 TALCOTT AVENUE SOUTH, WATERTOWN MA, 02472. The official website for the company is www.brighthorizons.com. The company can be reached via phone at (617) 673-8000, via email at eboland@brighthorizons.com, or via fax at 617-673-8001.