Bright Horizons Family Solutions Financial Ratios
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At close: Oct 9, 4:00 PM ET · Delayed 15 min
Bright Horizons Family Solutions ratio analysis
Bright Horizons Family Solutions earned a net margin of 6.6% in FY 2025, up from 5.2% a year earlier. Gross margin was 23.8% compared with a median of 23.7% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 14.4%, meaning Bright Horizons Family Solutions generated 0.14 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity.
Debt-to-equity stood at 0.56 versus 0.74 the year before, and the current ratio was 0.52. At the end of FY 2025, BFAM traded at 29.6 times earnings; across the 10 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 29.6 to 384.4, with a median of 46.5. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 | FY 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 29.55 | 46.86 | 73.63 | 46.06 | 109.46 | 384.42 | 50.95 | 41.36 | 36.29 | 45.17 |
| Price / sales | 1.93 | 2.43 | 2.25 | 1.82 | 4.33 | 6.80 | 4.36 | 3.34 | 3.18 | 2.64 |
| Price / book | 4.22 | 5.10 | 4.49 | 3.41 | 6.44 | 8.02 | 9.25 | 8.16 | 7.39 | 6.03 |
| Gross margin | 23.8% | 23.1% | 22.0% | 23.7% | 23.6% | 20.1% | 25.4% | 24.9% | 24.7% | 24.9% |
| Operating margin | 10.7% | 9.2% | 7.1% | 7.8% | 7.4% | 3.5% | 13.0% | 12.6% | 11.8% | 12.6% |
| Net margin | 6.6% | 5.2% | 3.1% | 4.0% | 4.0% | 1.8% | 8.7% | 8.3% | 9.0% | 6.0% |
| Free cash flow margin | 8.8% | 8.9% | 6.8% | 5.8% | 9.3% | 8.2% | 10.6% | 10.6% | 9.2% | 8.8% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 14.4% | 11.0% | 6.1% | 7.5% | 6.0% | 2.1% | 18.6% | 20.3% | 21.0% | 13.8% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 5.0% | 3.6% | 1.9% | 2.1% | 1.9% | 0.7% | 5.4% | 6.3% | 6.4% | 4.0% |
| Debt / equity | 0.56 | 0.74 | 0.79 | 0.90 | 0.84 | 0.80 | 1.07 | 1.34 | 1.41 | 1.55 |
| Current ratio | 0.52 | 0.64 | 0.56 | 0.44 | 0.87 | 1.18 | 0.47 | 0.40 | 0.42 | 0.40 |
| Revenue growth | 9.2% | 11.1% | 19.7% | 15.1% | 15.9% | -26.5% | 8.3% | 9.3% | 10.9% | 7.6% |
| EPS growth | 40.0% | 87.5% | -6.6% | 19.1% | 155.6% | -85.2% | 14.7% | 2.7% | 67.1% | 3.3% |