Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. (BFAM) company profile

Bright Horizons provides early childhood education, family care solutions, and workforce education services primarily to employers as employee benefits. The company operates through three segments: full-service center-based child care, back-up care, and educational advisory services. Offerings include infant, toddler, and preschool education, back-up child and senior care, tutoring, camp programs, tuition assistance administration, student loan repayment management, and college admissions counseling. Its clients consist of employers spanning various industries, as well as families who utilize its care centers and retail services.

The company operates in North America and internationally across the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and India. As of December 31, 2025, it ran 1,010 early education and child care centers with capacity for approximately 115,000 children, including 597 locations in North America and 413 outside North America. It also maintains a back-up care network comprising over 5,500 providers. The provided report text does not state the location of the company's headquarters.

Summary of the business section of Bright Horizons Family Solutions's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

Stock and option awards are grant-date fair values, not realized pay. “Other” includes pension value changes and all other compensation. Source proxy statement.

“Per share Total Initial public offering price $ 22.000 $ 222,200,000 Underwriting discounts and commissions $ 1.485 $ 14,998,500 Proceeds, before expenses, to us $ 20.515 $ 207,201,500 To the extent that the underwriters sell more than 10,100,000 shares of common stock, the underwriters have the option for a period”

Lock-up end is estimated as 180 days after the first trading day; the prospectus sets the actual terms.

“As of December 31, 2025, we had approximately 32,200 global employees (including part-time and substitute teachers), of whom approximately 3,300 were employed as corporate, divisional and regional employees, and approximately 28,900 were employed at our early education and child care centers and as in-home caregivers.”