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Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.

Consumer DiscretionaryProfessional Services
Ticker BFAMNEWTON, MAFiscal year ends DecemberBook value per share $17.73Diluted shares 53.2M

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BFAM) is a leading provider of high-quality early education and child care, comprehensive back-up care solutions, and educational advisory services designed to support working families and employers' workforce strategies. The company operates through three reportable… From the company’s description.

Fiscal year 2025 · ends 12-31Changes are against fiscal 2024The amber dot is the latest twelve months, to 2026-06-30
Sales & profitability
$2.93B
+9.2% year over year
Last 12 mo $3.03B
10.73%
+1.5 percentage points
Last 12 mo 10.27%
$193.12M
+37.8% year over year
Last 12 mo $175.04M
14.42%
+3.5 percentage points
Last 12 mo 18.55%
Cash & financing
$350.73M
+3.9% year over year
Last 12 mo $333.14M
$258.55M
+7.7% year over year
Last 12 mo $235.93M
0.71
Was 0.74× a year earlier
Last 12 mo 1.36
57.4M
−1.8% year over year
Last 12 mo 53.2M

Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.

What Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. does

In the company’s own words

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BFAM) is a leading provider of high-quality early education and child care, comprehensive back-up care solutions, and educational advisory services designed to support working families and employers' workforce strategies. The company operates through three reportable segments: full service center-based child care, which generates 71 percent of revenue; back-up care, representing 25 percent of revenue; and educational advisory services, accounting for 4 percent of revenue.

As of December 31, 2025, Bright Horizons operated 1,010 early education and child care centers across five countries with capacity to serve approximately 115,000 children. The company serves more than 1,450 employers, including more than 220 Fortune 500 companies, across diverse industries. The organization maintains a highly diversified client base, with its largest client representing approximately one percent of revenue and its ten largest clients representing approximately eight percent of revenue.

The company's full service centers operate under two principal business models: a profit and loss model covering approximately 75 percent of centers, and a cost-plus model covering approximately 25 percent. Full service center revenue is primarily generated through tuition paid by families, representing approximately 90 percent of segment revenue. Back-up care services leverage a network of more than 5,500 providers, combining Bright Horizons owned capacity with third-party providers. The company also owns and operates Sittercity, an online marketplace for families and caregivers. Educational advisory services include EdAssist, which provides workforce education and tuition assistance program management, and College Coach, offering college admissions and financing advisory services.

Geographically, North America generates 71 percent of revenue while operations outside North America, including the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, and India, represent 29 percent of revenue. As of December 31, 2025, the company employed approximately 32,200 global employees, including approximately 28,900 at early education and child care centers and as in-home caregivers.

Founded in 1986, Bright Horizons transformed through the 1998 merger of Bright Horizons, Inc. and Corporate Family Solutions, Inc. The company went public on the New York Stock Exchange on January 30, 2013, following its acquisition and private ownership from 2008 to 2013. More information is available at www.brighthorizons.com.

Company details
Sector
Consumer Discretionary
Industry (SIC)
Professional Services
Headquarters
NEWTON, MA
Fiscal year end
December
CIK
1437578
SIC
8351

Financial performance, year by year

Fiscal 2013–2025 · USD
$-302.79M$605.58M$1.51B$2.42B$3.33B2013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025Last 12 moLast 12 monthsLast 12 months

The full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.

Ownership

Who owns Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. — and what changed

Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30

320
funds hold it
1 of 35
superinvestors hold it
$1.55B
held by funds, at market
44.6%
of shares held by funds

Superinvestors in Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. · what they did last quarter

Francois RochonINCREASED +45.6%
Giverny Capital
2.6%of 13F portfolio

Share of each manager’s reported 13F portfolio. Change is in shares held, since the previous quarter.

Largest fund holders · Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.’s weight in each

iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF
IJR · iShares Trust
0.20%of fund net assets
VANGUARD TOTAL STOCK MARKET INDEX FUND
VTI · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.01%of fund net assets
VANGUARD SMALL-CAP INDEX FUND
VB · VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS
0.05%of fund net assets
FULLERTHALER BEHAVIORAL SMALL CAP EQUITY
FTHNX · Capitol Series Trust
0.66%of fund net assets
BARON SMALL CAP FUND
BSCFX · BARON INVESTMENT FUNDS TRUST (f/k/a BARON ASSET FUND)
2.12%of fund net assets

Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.

Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.

Fund ownership is a subset of institutional 13F ownership — the two describe overlapping populations and must not be added together.

Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.

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