BRIGHT HORIZONS FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC.
At today's price, BRIGHT HORIZONS FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC. (BFAM) is priced for -3.4% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Bright Horizons runs employer-sponsored child-care centers, back-up care, and educational advisory services, and the growth is increasingly in the asset-light pieces: back-up care revenue rose 12.5% to $145 million last quarter at an 18% operating margin [Source: Bright Horizons Q1 2026 earnings release]. • The center business is still healing unevenly, with Full Service up 6% but Australia weighing on enrollment and margins by more than management originally expected, the clearest soft spot i
Is BFAM overvalued? See what's priced in →
356 institutional managers reported holding BFAM in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. 56 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, AQR Capital, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 2.8M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 5% of shares outstanding (2.6 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
BFAM has cut its share count 10.3% over the past five years, spending $865.51M on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $539.23M in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at BFAM over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 15 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
BFAM's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-09 | -2.8% | -11.0% |
| 2023-11-07 | +9.5% | +11.8% |
| 2024-02-28 | +6.4% | -9.1% |
| 2024-05-07 | +7.2% | -5.7% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
BFAM's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-03 (items 5.07); 2026-06-01 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-05-05 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-03-09 (items 8.01); 2026-02-12 (items 2.02, 5.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
Each week boothcheck ranks the stocks whose prices are betting on the most. Read the most stretched bets archive →
boothcheck is also on Android. Get the app on Google Play →
For informational and research purposes only. Not investment advice. Not a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security. boothcheck is not a registered investment adviser. Past performance does not guarantee future results.