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Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. BFAM

15 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

Revenue

$2.9B

▲ 9.2% YoY

Net income

$193.1M

▲ 37.8% YoY

Free cash flow

$258.5M

▲ 7.7% YoY

In brief

What this company does

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. provides early education and child care, back-up care solutions, and educational advisory services. As of December 31, 2025, it served more than 1,450 employers across a diverse array of industries, including more than 220 Fortune 500 companies. As of December 31, 2025, it operated 1,010 early education and child care centers with the capacity to serve approximately 115,000 children in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and India. It is organized in three reportable segments aligned with its service offerings: full service center-based child care, which accounted for 71% of its revenue in 2025; back-up care, 25%; and educational advisory services, 4%. Its full service center-based child care segment includes traditional center-based early education and child care, preschool, and elementary education. Its back-up care segment includes center-based back-up child care, in-home care for children and seniors, school-age programs, pet care, self-sourced reimbursed care, and Sittercity, an online marketplace for families and caregivers. Its educational advisory services segment consists of tuition assistance and student loan repayment program management, workforce education, related educational advising, and college admissions counseling services. In 1998, the company was formed through the merger of Bright Horizons, Inc. and Corporate Family Solutions, Inc., both then Nasdaq-listed companies founded in 1986 and 1987, respectively.

Written from the business description in BRIGHT HORIZONS FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 26 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 2.9B

Revenue, FY2025 · full 15-year series below

Revenue $B Net income $B

FY2025 · Revenue 2.9 · Net income 0.2

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+13.2%

+14.1%

+7.2%

Net income

+33.8%

+48.2%

+7.5%

EPS, diluted

+34.9%

+49.5%

Returned to shareholders

+7.3%

+6.7%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +14.1% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +48.2%, earnings per share at +49.5%.

The share count fell from 0.06B to 0.06B — the buyback concentrates the same profit into fewer slices.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

7 cents

of every revenue dollar became profit

Operating margin Net margin

FY2025 · Operating 10.7% · Net 6.6%

ROE

FY2025 · ROE 14.8%

Gross margin23.8%

Operating margin10.7%

Net margin6.6%

Return on assets5.0%

EBITDAUSD 408.1M

Each USD of equity produced 15 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders

USD 225.4M

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $M

FY2025 · FCF 258.5

Net buybacks $M Dividends $M

FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 225.4

Dividends paid—

Net buybacksUSD 225.4M

Share of profit116.7%

Consecutive raises—

USD 225.4M in buybacks — 117% of the year's profit, so the payout drew on cash built up earlier.

Total assetsUSD 3.9B

EquityUSD 1.3B

CashUSD 140.1M

Gross debtUSD 747.6M

Net debtUSD 607.5M

Current ratio0.52×

Net debt stands at 45% of equity.

The 15-year record

15 fiscal years

Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011
Revenue $B	2.9	2.7	2.4	2.0	1.8	1.5	2.1	1.9	1.7	1.6	1.5	1.4	1.2	1.1	1.0
Operating income $B	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
EBITDA $B	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1
Income tax $B	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	−0.0	0.0	0.0
Net income $B	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.0	0.0
Free cash flow $B	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.1
EPS, diluted $	3.36	2.40	1.28	1.37	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	1.07	0.20	−12.62	·
Dividend / sh $	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
Payout %	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·
ROE %	14.8	11.3	6.5	7.1	5.7	2.4	20.6	20.7	21.8	13.4	12.7	8.8	4.0	·	·
Shares out B	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.06	0.07	0.01	·

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 65 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 15 of 19 fiscal years. 30 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityServices-Child Day Care Services

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated innot stated in the filings

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2011