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

5 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, 1 hold rating 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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5 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Bright Horizons Family Solutions' shares. Their BFAM share price forecasts range from $77.00 to $155.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $101.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 33.7% from the stock's current price.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stock was trading at $125.88 at the beginning of the year. Since then, BFAM shares have decreased by 39.6% and is now trading at $76.09.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions saw a increase in short interest during the month of July. As of July 31st, there was short interest totaling 1,190,000 shares, an increase of 27.0% from the July 15th total of 936,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 577,700 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.1 days. Approximately 2.0% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, November 1st 2022.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (NYSE:BFAM) posted its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, August, 2nd. The company reported $0.61 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.61. The firm had revenue of $490.34 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $502.47 million. Bright Horizons Family Solutions had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 10.72% and a net margin of 4.74%. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $0.41 EPS.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions issued an update on its FY 2022 earnings guidance on Tuesday, August, 9th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $2.60-$2.75 for the period, compared to the consensus EPS estimate of $3.06. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.00 billion-$2.00 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.04 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 shareholders include Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (16.68%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (7.05%), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (6.51%), Brown Advisory Inc. (4.67%), Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC (3.35%) and William Blair Investment Management LLC (2.29%). 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, Roger H Brown, Stephen Howard Kramer and Stephen I Dreier.
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Shares of BFAM stock 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.
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One share of BFAM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $76.09.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions (NYSE:BFAM) has a market capitalization of $4.40 billion and generates $1.76 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $70.46 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.48 on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 25,800 workers across the globe.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions was founded in 1986.

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.