Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.

BFAM Consumer Cyclical Personal Services

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $2.9 billion, up 9.22% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+4.82%
EPS
−444.9%
Free cash flow
+40.9%
Total debt
+48.6%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

55.20 1.02 −1.81%
Market cap
$2.7B
P/E
0.0×
Fwd P/E
−26.7×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
8/9
Altman Z
2.58
Beneish M
−2.64
Dividend safety
n/a

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (BFAM) Operating margin

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Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.'s operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 0.10%, down 10.6 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (10.7%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 3.52% (fiscal 2020) to 13.0% (fiscal 2019); the current reading is higher than 55% of that period. That is below the Personal Services industry median of 5.04% and below the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 3.88%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 10.7% 1.55
FY2024 9.18% 2.10
FY2023 7.08% (0.72)
FY2022 7.80% 0.45
FY2021 7.35% 3.83
FY2020 3.52% (9.47)
FY2019 13.0% 0.43
FY2018 12.6% 0.76
FY2017 11.8% (0.76)
FY2016 12.6% 0.11

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 −22.2% (32.48)
Jun 2026 10.2% 1.12
Mar 2026 9.12% 2.92
Dec 2025 6.20% (8.85)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 3.52% High 13.0%
Ten-year median 10.7%
Current reading's percentile 2

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
HRB H&R Block, Inc. compare 23.0%
SCI Service Corporation International compare 22.7%
CSV Carriage Services, Inc. compare 22.5%
ROL Rollins, Inc. compare 18.3%
RGS Regis Corporation compare 10.8%
ANDG Andersen Group Inc. compare 9.98%
BFAM Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. 0.10%
FTDR Frontdoor Inc. compare 0.00%
MED MEDIFAST INC compare −11.6%
Personal Services industry median 5.04%
Consumer Cyclical sector median 3.88%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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