Is it safe?
Can BFAM take a bad year?
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. carries $950M of net debt at 2.31× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$950M
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.31×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.18× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.05
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 6.83×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $1.08B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $133M
- Net debt
- $950M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $412M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $317M
- Debt / equity
- 0.95×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.63×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 39%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −69%
- Below its 52-week high
- −40%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Personal Services
Ranks #6 of 6 by Smart Score