Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (NYSE: BFAM) on Tuesday, plunged -12.76% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $132.83. Within the past 52 weeks, BFAM’s price has moved between $80.29 and $141.90.
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Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Consumer Cyclical sector was 6.49%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 19.71%. With a float of $57.46 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $57.82 million.
Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 31400 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 22.32%, operating margin of 8.63%, and the pretax margin is 6.66%.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (BFAM) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock
Observing investor behavior towards Personal Services industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc is 1.00%, while institutional ownership is 105.48%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 05 ’24, was worth 103,072. In this transaction COO North America Center Ops of this company sold 800 shares at a rate of $128.84, taking the stock ownership to the 30,225 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 05 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 800 for $128.84, making the entire transaction worth $103,072.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (BFAM) Recent Fiscal highlights
As on 9/30/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.83 earnings per share (EPS) for the period topping the consensus outlook (set at 0.73) by 0.1. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.69 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 19.71% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 21.40% during the next five years compared to -13.65% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (NYSE: BFAM) Trading Performance Indicators
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (BFAM) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.56 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 2.56. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 31.12.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.00, a number that is poised to hit 0.91 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 4.08 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (BFAM)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 0.36 million, its volume of 0.68 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 43.88%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 3.85.
During the past 100 days, Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc’s (BFAM) raw stochastic average was set at 37.01%, which indicates a significant increase from 3.49% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 57.40% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 37.54% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $135.81, while its 200-day Moving Average is $118.15. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $125.45 in the near term. At $135.02, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $140.16. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $110.74, it is likely to go to the next support level at $105.59. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $96.02.
Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc (NYSE: BFAM) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 6.73 billion based on 58,043K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 2,418 M and income totals 74,220 K. The company made 670,060 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 39,170 K in sales during its previous quarter.
