Bright Horizons Family Solutions Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:BFAM)

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

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc (NYSE:BFAM) released its earnings results on Thursday, August, 1st. The company reported $0.92 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.92. The firm had revenue of $528.06 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $531.13 million. Bright Horizons Family Solutions had a net margin of 8.67% and a return on equity of 23.29%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 7.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.87 earnings per share. View Bright Horizons Family Solutions' Earnings History.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 30th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, October 30th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, August, 1st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.59-3.64 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $3.62. The company issued revenue guidance of 8-10% (~$2.055-2.09 billion), compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $2.07 billion.

8 brokerages have issued 1 year target prices for Bright Horizons Family Solutions' shares. Their predictions range from $122.00 to $166.00. On average, they anticipate Bright Horizons Family Solutions' share price to reach $135.57 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 12.3%. View Analyst Price Targets for Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Bright Horizons Family Solutions in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

Press coverage about BFAM stock has trended negative recently, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. The research group identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Bright Horizons Family Solutions earned a news impact score of -2.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions saw a increase in short interest during the month of September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 613,100 shares, an increase of 18.6% from the August 30th total of 516,900 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 282,100 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.2 days. Approximately 1.1% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Bright Horizons Family Solutions' Current Options Chain.

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Bright Horizons Family Solutions' stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Artemis Investment Management LLP (0.32%), Polaris Greystone Financial Group LLC (0.04%), Polianta Ltd (0.01%), Baldwin Brothers Inc. MA (0.00%) and State of Alaska Department of Revenue (0.00%). Company insiders that own Bright Horizons Family Solutions stock include David H Lissy, E Townes Duncan, Elizabeth J Boland, Joshua Bekenstein, Lawrence M Alleva, Lightfoot Sara Lawrence, Linda A Mason, Mandy Berman, Marguerite Kondracke, Mary Ann Tocio, Mary Lou Burke, Roger H Brown, Stephen Howard Kramer and Stephen I Dreier. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

BFAM stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Artemis Investment Management LLP, State of Alaska Department of Revenue and Baldwin Brothers Inc. MA. Company insiders that have sold Bright Horizons Family Solutions company stock in the last year include David H Lissy, E Townes Duncan, Elizabeth J Boland, Linda A Mason, Mandy Berman, Marguerite Kondracke, Mary Ann Tocio, Mary Lou Burke, Roger H Brown, Stephen Howard Kramer and Stephen I Dreier. View Insider Buying and Selling for Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

BFAM stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Polaris Greystone Financial Group LLC and Polianta Ltd. View Insider Buying and Selling for Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

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

One share of BFAM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $154.64.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions has a market capitalization of $9.00 billion and generates $1.90 billion in revenue each year. The company earns $157.98 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.03 on an earnings per share basis. Bright Horizons Family Solutions employs 33,350 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Bright Horizons Family Solutions.

The official website for Bright Horizons Family Solutions is http://www.brighthorizons.com/.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions' mailing address is 200 TALCOTT AVENUE SOUTH, WATERTOWN MA, 02472. The company can be reached via phone at 617-673-8000 or via email at [email protected]