Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (NYSE: BFAM) is 23.64% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $80.29 and a high of $141.90 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The BFAM stock was last observed hovering at around $116.39 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.13%.
Currently trading at $116.52, the stock is -10.13% and -13.66% below its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 1.24 million and changing 0.11% at the moment leaves the stock -1.52% off its SMA200. BFAM registered 40.71% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 2.99%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $135.3604 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $118.23075.
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The stock witnessed a -14.01% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -12.05%, and is -12.70% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 5.51% over the week and 2.81% over the month.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (BFAM) has around 31400 employees, a market worth around $6.76B and $2.63B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 58.20 and Fwd P/E is 28.57. Profit margin for the company is 4.44%. Distance from 52-week low is 45.12% and -17.89% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (3.75%).
The EPS is expected to grow by 19.83% this year
476.0 institutions hold shares in Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (BFAM), with institutional investors hold 108.39% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 57.82M, and float is at 57.46M with Short Float at 0.86%. Institutions hold 107.23% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is DURABLE CAPITAL PARTNERS LP with over 5.45 million shares valued at $599.94 million. The investor’s holdings represent 9.4012 of the BFAM Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 5.35 million shares valued at $589.36 million to account for 9.2355 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are T. ROWE PRICE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, INC. which holds 3.79 million shares representing 6.5463 and valued at over $417.75 million, while JPMORGAN CHASE & CO holds 5.7722 of the shares totaling 3.35 million with a market value of $368.35 million.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (BFAM) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Burke Mary Lou, the company’s COO North America Center Ops. SEC filings show that Burke Mary Lou sold 800 shares of the company’s common stock on Nov 05 ’24 at a price of $128.84 per share for a total of $0.1 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 30225.0 shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Oct 07 ’24, Burke Mary Lou (COO North America Center Ops) disposed off 800 shares at an average price of $136.94 for $0.11 million. The insider now directly holds 31,025 shares of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (BFAM).
