Is Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM) overvalued or fairly valued?

MarketChacha shows Bright Horizons Family Solutions's valuation in context — a trailing P/E of about 20.1, a forward P/E of about 12.6, a price-to-book of about 3.3 — alongside its revenue and profit growth and whether reported profit converts into operating cash, so you can judge value for yourself. MarketChacha does not issue ratings, price targets, or buy/sell advice.

Does Bright Horizons Family Solutions's reported profit turn into cash?

Over 3 years, operating cash flow fully covered reported profit — earnings are backed by real cash. MarketChacha computes this cash-conversion check (2.32×) from reported figures — education, not a rating.

What is Bright Horizons Family Solutions's revenue?

Bright Horizons Family Solutions reported revenue of $2.9B for FY2025, with net profit of $193.1M, per official filings.

What is the share price of Bright Horizons Family Solutions (BFAM)?

Bright Horizons Family Solutions last traded at $72.37 (-3.0% on the day), as of 7/22/2026 — a delayed quote shown for education, not investment advice.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions

BFAM · NYSE · Consumer Discretionary · United States

$72.37-3.0%

Delayed · as reported by Yahoo Finance · as of Jul 22, 2026, 7:28 PM

Snapshot

TickerBFAM

ExchangeNYSE

SectorConsumer Discretionary

IndustryPersonal Services

CountryUnited States

Employees32,200

HeadquartersNewton, United States

Market cap$3.8B

P/E (TTM)20.1

P/B3.3

Volume1.03M

Websitewww.brighthorizons.com

Filings tracked4

About Bright Horizons Family Solutions

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.

Profile as reported by Yahoo Finance.

Who owns it

Insiders1.0%
Institutions99.0%
Public & other0.0%

518 institutional holders

As reported by Yahoo Finance.

Top holders

Kayne Anderson Rudnick Investment Management LLC7.31%
AQR Capital Management, LLC6.32%
Blackrock Inc.5.63%
Vanguard Capital Management LLC4.74%
Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC4.17%
JPMORGAN CHASE & CO4.11%
Goldman Sachs Group Inc3.66%
Capital World Investors3.44%

Largest institutional holders, as reported by Yahoo Finance (as of 3/31/2026).

Forensic scorecard

No major accounting red flags in the fundamentals we have — profit is backed by cash and returns look healthy.

Cash conversion2.32×

Over 3 years, operating cash flow fully covered reported profit — earnings are backed by real cash.

Net margin trend3.1% → 6.6%

Margin has expanded by about 3.5 points — the business is getting more profitable.

Growth qualityrev 10% · PAT 61%

Profit growth is broadly tracking revenue growth — the earnings trend looks operational rather than one-off.

Computed by MarketChacha from reported figures (SEC XBRL). Education, not a rating or recommendation.

What's expected next

Next quarter

Rev $848.0M · EPS 1.73

Est. earnings growth +10.4%

Next fiscal year

Rev $3.3B · EPS 5.76

Est. earnings growth +14.6%

Analyst consensus estimates — not the company's own guidance. As reported by Yahoo Finance.

$57.6352-wk range$130.76

Delayed · as reported by Yahoo Finance

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Financials at a glance

Source: SEC XBRL

Annual

Quarterly · last 8

Market cap

$3.8B

Day change

-3.0%

P/E (TTM)

20.1

Fwd P/E

12.6

P/B

3.3

Beta

1.15

Revenue (FY2025)

$2.9B

Net margin

6.6%

ROE

14.4%

Revenue CAGR (2y)

+10.1%

Profit CAGR (2y)

+61.3%

EPS (FY2025)

3.36

Net profit (FY2025)

$193.1M

Market figures: Delayed · as reported by Yahoo Finance. Financials as reported in company filings.

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Financials

Yearly

Period	Revenue	Net profit	EPS	Net margin	ROE
FY2025	$2.9B	$193.1M	3.36	6.6%	14.4%
FY2024	$2.7B	$140.2M	2.40	5.2%	11.0%
FY2023	$2.4B	$74.2M	1.28	3.1%	6.1%

Quarterly

Period	Revenue	Net profit	EPS	Net margin
2026Q1	$712.2M	$34.1M	0.62	4.8%
2025Q3	$802.8M	$78.6M	1.37	9.8%
2025Q2	$731.6M	$54.8M	0.95	7.5%
2025Q1	$665.5M	$38.0M	0.66	5.7%
2024Q3	$719.1M	$54.9M	0.94	7.6%
2024Q2	$670.1M	$39.2M	0.67	5.8%
2024Q1	$622.7M	$17.0M	0.29	2.7%
2023Q3	$645.8M	$40.0M	0.69	6.2%
2023Q2	$603.2M	$20.6M	0.35	3.4%
2023Q1	$553.6M	$8.1M	0.14	1.5%

Figures as reported, in reporting currency. Source: SEC XBRL.

Filings & announcements

2026

8-K — Shareholder vote results
SEC6/3/2026material
8-K — Material agreement, Material financial obligation, Exhibits
SEC6/1/2026material
10-Q filing
SEC5/7/2026
8-K — Results of operations, Reg FD disclosure, Exhibits
SEC5/5/2026material

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