Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (BFAM)
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. provides early education and childcare, comprehensive back-up care, educational advisory, and other workplace solutions services for employers and families in the United States, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and India. It operates in three segments: Full-Service Center-Based Child Care, Back-Up Care, and Educational Advisory services. The Full-Service Center-Based Child Care segment offers traditional center-based early education and childcare, preschool, and elementary education services. The Back-Up Care segment provides center-based back-up childcare, in-home child and senior care, school-age programs, camps, tutoring, pet care, and self-sourced reimbursed care services, as well as sittercity, an online marketplace for families and caregivers through early education and childcare centers, school-age programs and in-home care providers, the back-up care network, and other providers. The Educational Advisory services segment offers tuition assistance and student loan repayment program management, workforce education, and related educational consulting services, as well as college admissions and college financial advisory services. The company was formerly known as Bright Horizons Solutions Corp. and changed its name to Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. in July 2012. Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.
- Symbol
- BFAM
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Personal Services
- Market cap
- $3.28B
- 52 week range
- 57.63 - 110.14
Valuation
- Share price
- $66.51 (close of 2026-09-23)
- P/E (TTM)
- 20.85x
- Price to book
- 3.47x
- Price to free cash flow
- 13.88x
- Enterprise value
- $5.17B
- Book value per share
- $19.16
Price performance
| Period | Change |
|---|
| 1 day | +5.10% |
| 5 days | -1.34% |
| 1 month | -8.74% |
| 3 months | +1.02% |
| 6 months | -14.88% |
| Year to date | -34.41% |
| 1 year | -38.67% |
| 3 years | -21.83% |
| 5 years | -54.44% |
| 10 years | -1.84% |
| All time | +134.85% |
Profitability and growth
- Return on equity
- 14.42%
- Return on invested capital
- 8.04%
- Return on assets
- 4.96%
- Return on capital employed
- 10.76%
- Gross margin
- 23.77%
- Net margin
- 6.58%
- EBITDA margin
- 13.91%
- Revenue growth
- 9.22%
- Net income growth
- 37.75%
- Free cash flow growth
- 7.66%
Cash flow and balance sheet
- Free cash flow yield (TTM)
- 7.20%
- Current ratio
- 0.48x
- Net debt to EBITDA
- 4.64x
Latest reported year
- Period end
- 2025-12-31
- Fiscal year
- 2025
- Revenue
- $2.93B
- Cost of revenue
- $2.24B
- Gross profit
- $697.19M
- EBITDA
- $408.07M
- Net income
- $193.12M
- Earnings per share
- $3.39
- Shares outstanding
- 56.95M
Income statement by year
| Period end | Revenue | Gross profit | Net income | EPS |
|---|
| 2025-12-31 | $2.93B | $697.19M | $193.12M | $3.39 |
| 2024-12-31 | $2.69B | $619.61M | $140.19M | $2.42 |
| 2023-12-31 | $2.42B | $531.72M | $74.22M | $1.28 |
| 2022-12-31 | $2.02B | $478.65M | $80.64M | $1.38 |
| 2021-12-31 | $1.76B | $415.01M | $70.46M | $1.16 |
| 2020-12-31 | $1.52B | $304.55M | $26.99M | $0.45 |
| 2019-12-31 | $2.06B | $522.94M | $180.39M | $3.10 |
| 2018-12-31 | $1.90B | $473.25M | $157.98M | $2.72 |
| 2017-12-31 | $1.74B | $430.61M | $156.96M | $2.65 |
| 2016-12-31 | $1.57B | $390.85M | $94.76M | $1.59 |
Margins and returns by year
| Period end | Gross margin | Net margin | Return on equity | Return on capital |
|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 23.77% | 6.58% | 14.42% | 8.04% |
| 2024-12-31 | 23.07% | 5.22% | 10.97% | 6.38% |
| 2023-12-31 | 21.99% | 3.07% | 6.12% | 4.19% |
| 2022-12-31 | 23.69% | 3.99% | 7.46% | 4.19% |
| 2021-12-31 | 23.64% | 4.01% | 5.97% | 4.04% |
| 2020-12-31 | 20.10% | 1.78% | 2.10% | 1.94% |
| 2019-12-31 | 25.36% | 8.75% | 18.57% | 8.20% |
| 2018-12-31 | 24.87% | 8.30% | 20.27% | 10.91% |
| 2017-12-31 | 24.73% | 9.02% | 20.95% | 11.28% |
| 2016-12-31 | 24.90% | 6.04% | 13.78% | 8.56% |
Cash and debt by year
| Period end | Cash | Debt |
|---|
| 2025-12-31 | $140.09M | $747.61M |
| 2024-12-31 | $110.33M | $918.45M |
| 2023-12-31 | $71.57M | $944.26M |
| 2022-12-31 | $36.22M | $961.58M |
| 2021-12-31 | $260.98M | $976.40M |
| 2020-12-31 | $384.34M | $1.02B |
| 2019-12-31 | $27.87M | $1.03B |
| 2018-12-31 | $15.45M | $1.04B |
| 2017-12-31 | $23.23M | $1.05B |
| 2016-12-31 | $14.63M | $1.05B |
Free cash flow by year
| Period end | Free cash flow | Stock-based compensation |
|---|
| 2025-12-31 | $258.55M | $30.61M |
| 2024-12-31 | $240.15M | $33.62M |
| 2023-12-31 | $165.12M | $28.83M |
| 2022-12-31 | $117.92M | $28.11M |
| 2021-12-31 | $163.76M | $23.06M |
| 2020-12-31 | $124.83M | $21.00M |
| 2019-12-31 | $218.51M | $17.28M |
| 2018-12-31 | $202.26M | $13.81M |
| 2017-12-31 | $160.07M | $12.07M |
| 2016-12-31 | $137.88M | $11.65M |
Investor relations
Next earnings report
- Next confirmed report
- 2026-10-29
- Consensus EPS estimate
- $1.64
Past earnings dates
| Reported | Fiscal period | EPS estimate |
|---|
| 2026-07-30 | Jun/2026 | $1.11 |
| 2026-05-05 | - | - |
| 2026-02-12 | - | - |
| 2025-10-30 | - | - |
| 2025-07-31 | - | - |
| 2025-07-30 | - | - |
| 2025-05-05 | - | - |
| 2025-04-30 | - | - |
Filings and sources
- Company website
- brighthorizons.com
- SEC filings
- 10-K, 10-Q and 8-K on EDGAR
- Earnings calendar
- All upcoming reports
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