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

6 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bright Horizons Family Solutions in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 2 hold ratings and 3 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price objectives for Bright Horizons Family Solutions' shares. Their BFAM share price forecasts range from $57.00 to $95.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $77.57 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.8% from the stock's current price.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stock was trading at $63.10 at the start of the year. Since then, BFAM stock has increased by 22.0% and is now trading at $76.99.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions saw a increase in short interest in the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 1,530,000 shares, an increase of 43.0% from the February 28th total of 1,070,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 449,100 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.4 days. Currently, 2.7% of the shares of the company are sold short.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 2nd 2023.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BFAM) issued its earnings results on Tuesday, November, 2nd. The company reported $0.64 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.63 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $460.33 million for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $485.45 million. Bright Horizons Family Solutions had a net margin of 3.99% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 11.93%. During the same period last year, the firm posted ($0.05) EPS.

ETFs with the largest weight of Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) stock in their portfolio include Global X Education ETF (EDUT), Fidelity Sustainable U.S. Equity ETF (FSST), AI Powered Equity ETF (AIEQ), Fidelity Women's Leadership ETF (FDWM), First Trust Multi-Manager Small Cap Opportunities ETF (MMSC), Nuveen ESG Small-Cap ETF (NUSC), Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (VBK) and Calvert US Select Equity ETF (CVSE).

Bright Horizons Family Solutions updated its FY 2023 earnings guidance on Monday, February, 20th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.80-$3.00 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $2.59. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.30 billion-$2.40 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.02 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 institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include T. Rowe Price Investment Management Inc. (8.91%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (8.62%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (5.54%), Brown Advisory Inc. (5.30%), Bamco Inc. NY (3.90%) and Liontrust Investment Partners LLP (1.99%). 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 $76.99.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) has a market capitalization of $4.45 billion and generates $2.02 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $80.64 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.37 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.