Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (NYSE: BFAM) provides early education and child care, back-up care, and educational advisory services to working families and employers, primarily through multi-year employer contracts. Its three reportable segments are full service center-based child care, which generated 71% of… From the company’s description.
Over the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026, Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. reported revenue of $3.07B, up 6.7% from a year earlier, and a net loss of $134.21M. Its operating margin was 0.1%, and operations generated $356.01M in cash. In fiscal 2025, it reported revenue of $2.93B, up 9.2% from fiscal 2024, and net income of $193.12M.
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) provides early education and child care, back-up care, and educational advisory services to working families and employers, primarily through multi-year employer contracts. Its three reportable segments are full service center-based child care, which generated 71% of 2025 revenue; back-up care, 25%; and educational advisory services, 4%. Full service care includes early education, preschool, and elementary programs; back-up services include child and senior care, camps, tutoring, and pet care; and advisory services include tuition assistance, student loan repayment, workforce education, and college admissions and financing guidance. Services are offered through brands and businesses including EdAssist, College Coach, and Sittercity. In 2025, the company generated $2.93 billion in revenue and served more than 1,450 employers. At year-end, it operated 1,010 centers across the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and India, with capacity for approximately 115,000 children. Bright Horizons has operated centers since 1986 and completed its initial public offering in 2013. Its website is 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 · USDThe 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.
Who owns Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Superinvestors in Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. · what they did last quarter
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
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.
Recent filings
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