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Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc (BFAM) — chart, structure and Closelooknet read

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Signals for this name

Every Closelooknet reading that exists for BFAM, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 62/100 · S&P 500 fund at 67, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-25
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +8.4% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-25
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.61 · up 0.29 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-25
How it trades on rate days beta 0.13 to TLT · on the worst bond days it held up better than the market

How it trades on rate days

How BFAM has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.13 — shows only a loose link to bond moves for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc moved 0.13% on average · correlation 0.03 · higher than 16% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.14 about the same as over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days +0.13% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.26% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Who it is priced against Personal Services · United States · 3 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Personal Services · United States

This name carries no Closelooknet score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against BFAM on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelooknet scores where it exists.

Company snapshot — Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc

BFAM in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelooknet stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Bright Horizons runs employer-sponsored childcare and family-support services across the United States and several other countries. It operates through three segments: full-service centre-based early education, back-up care that covers short-notice childcare, in-home and other family assistance, and an educational advisory arm that manages tuition assistance and student loan benefits for employers. It is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.
Where it sits in the stack
Bright Horizons has no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits in the Consumer Cyclical sector, under Personal Services, outside the layers the diary tracks for chip and data-centre exposure.
Who it is priced against
Closelooknet has not set a peer group for Bright Horizons; the market commonly places it alongside KinderCare Education, another large employer-sponsored childcare provider in the United States.
Why Closelooknet tracks it
Bright Horizons sits in the Russell 1000 but holds no seat in our own indices and carries no Closelooknet score; it has not yet appeared in the diary's editions or been quoted there.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether the recent run of up sessions marks a turn from the stock's slide below its moving averages, or whether it fades back toward the low, since shifts in employer demand for childcare benefits would be the underlying driver.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc (BFAM) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelooknet’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

The Street on this name 1 analyst action on the wire · latest: price target by Morgan Stanley, 2026-09-23

The Street on this name

Analyst actions and the latest print for BFAM from the Closelooknet wires — third-party opinions on the record, not our readings.

  • Price target Morgan Stanley — target 66 from 68 Target cut to $66 from $68 (+1.6% to spot) 2026-09-23

1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst wire → · Earnings wire →

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-26

Quick answers

What is Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc (BFAM)?

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc trades as BFAM on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelooknet research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-26.

Is BFAM in a Closelooknet index?

Not currently — Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc is tracked in the Closelooknet research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelooknet functional index as of 2026-09-26.

Where does BFAM trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -8.5% vs the 50-day and -15.9% vs the 200-day average, 40.1% below the 52-week high and +14.3% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-25 — a technical state from the nightly Closelooknet bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

How does Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc had a beta of 0.13 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it shows only a loose link to bond moves, higher than 16% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved +0.13% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

What does Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc do?

Bright Horizons runs employer-sponsored childcare and family-support services across the United States and several other countries. It operates through three segments: full-service centre-based early education, back-up care that covers short-notice childcare, in-home and other family assistance, and an educational advisory arm that manages tuition assistance and student loan benefits for employers. It is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts. Closelooknet has not set a peer group for Bright Horizons; the market commonly places it alongside KinderCare Education, another large employer-sponsored childcare provider in the United States.

Where does Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Bright Horizons has no seat in Rubin, our AI build-out index; it sits in the Consumer Cyclical sector, under Personal Services, outside the layers the diary tracks for chip and data-centre exposure. Bright Horizons sits in the Russell 1000 but holds no seat in our own indices and carries no Closelooknet score; it has not yet appeared in the diary's editions or been quoted there.

What has Wall Street done on Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc recently?

The most recent analyst action on Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc on the Closelooknet wire is a price target by Morgan Stanley on 2026-09-23 (target 66 from 68). 1 action on the analyst wire since 2026-08-13: 1 target change. Analyst actions are third-party opinions recorded by the wire, not Closelooknet readings. The “The Street on this name” block on this page lists the moves; the full feeds are the analyst wire and the earnings wire.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for BFAM, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelooknet structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelooknet universe

then Personal Services, then Consumer Cyclical. Scored names rank on their Closelooknet score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.