Bright Horizons Family Solutions - BFAM Stock Forecast, Price & News

6 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bright Horizons Family Solutions in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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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6 Wall Street analysts have issued 12-month price targets for Bright Horizons Family Solutions' shares. Their BFAM share price forecasts range from $57.00 to $94.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $80.29 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 14.4% from the stock's current price.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stock was trading at $125.88 at the beginning of 2022. Since then, BFAM stock has decreased by 44.3% and is now trading at $70.16.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions saw a increase in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totaling 982,700 shares, an increase of 51.2% from the October 31st total of 650,100 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 502,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.0 days. Currently, 1.7% of the company's stock are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, February 15th 2023.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BFAM) posted its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, November, 2nd. The company reported $0.64 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.63 by $0.01. The firm had revenue of $460.33 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $485.45 million. Bright Horizons Family Solutions had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.23% and a net margin of 4.11%. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned ($0.05) earnings per share.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions updated its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Tuesday, November, 8th. The company provided EPS guidance of $2.60-$2.65 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of $2.62. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.00 billion-$2.00 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.01 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 a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (9.53%), Vanguard Group Inc. (8.95%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (7.43%), Brown Advisory Inc. (4.43%), BlackRock Inc. (4.07%) and Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (3.43%). Insiders that own company stock include David H Lissy, Elizabeth J Boland, John Guy Casagrande, Julie Atkinson, Lawrence M Alleva, 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 $70.16.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) has a market capitalization of $4.05 billion and generates $1.76 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $70.46 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.35 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 25,800 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.