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Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. BFAM

15 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$2.9B
▲ 9.2% YoY
$193.1M
▲ 37.8% YoY
$258.5M
▲ 7.7% YoY

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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
2B3B
201120142017202020232025
Compound annual growth
+13.2%
+14.1%
+7.2%
+33.8%
+48.2%
+7.5%
+34.9%
+49.5%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +14.1% a year over the five years to FY2025 — 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%
5%10%
201120182025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 14.8%
10%20%
201120182025
Three returns, three denominators.

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
100M200M
201120182025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends · · Net buybacks 225.4
100M200M-100M-200M
20122014201620182020202220242025

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—not applicable◌not available in our data
BFAM, 15-year financial record
Metric 202520242023202220212020201920182017201620152014201320122011
Revenue $B2.92.72.42.01.81.52.11.91.71.61.51.41.21.11.0
Operating income $B0.30.20.20.20.10.10.30.20.20.20.20.10.10.10.1
EBITDA $B0.40.30.30.30.20.20.40.30.30.30.30.20.20.20.1
Income tax $B0.10.10.00.00.0−0.00.00.00.00.00.00.0−0.00.00.0
Net income $B0.20.10.10.10.10.00.20.20.20.10.10.10.00.00.0
Free cash flow $B0.30.20.20.10.20.10.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.00.1
EPS, diluted $3.362.401.281.37◌◌◌◌◌◌◌1.070.20−12.62◌
Dividend / sh $◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌◌
Payout % — not applicable: no dividend———————————————
ROE %14.811.36.57.15.72.420.620.721.813.412.78.8———
Shares out B0.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.060.070.01◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 65 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 15 of the 15 fiscal years we could check. 10 checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2012. Four checks were skipped: EPS is not tagged before 2011. Four checks were skipped: revenue is not tagged before 2011.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityServices-Child Day Care Services
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2011

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