Bright Horizons Family Solutions Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Full Year of 2025

NEWTON, MA - (BUSINESS WIRE) - February 12, 2026 - Bright Horizons Family Solutions® Inc. (NYSE: BFAM) today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025 and provided guidance for 2026. Bright Horizons is a leading provider of high-quality early education and child care, comprehensive back-up care solutions, and educational advisory services. Our offerings are designed to support both working families and employers’ workforce strategies by supporting their employees across life and career stages, and improve employee recruitment, engagement, productivity, retention, and career advancement.

•Revenue of $734 million (increase of 9%)

•Income from operations of $45 million (decrease of 6%)

•Net income of $22 million and diluted earnings per common share of $0.38 (decreases of 25% and 24%, respectively)

•Adjusted EBITDA* of $123 million (increase of 12%)

•Adjusted income from operations* of $91 million (increase of 14%)

•Adjusted net income* of $65 million and diluted adjusted earnings per common share* of $1.15 (increases of 14% and 17%, respectively)

•Revenue of $2.9 billion (increase of 9%)

•Income from operations of $315 million (increase of 28%)

•Net income of $193 million and diluted earnings per common share of $3.36 (increases of 38% and 40%, respectively)

•Adjusted EBITDA* of $487 million (increase of 19%)

•Adjusted income from operations* of $363 million (increase of 31%)

•Adjusted net income* of $261 million and diluted adjusted earnings per common share* of $4.55 (increases of 29% and 31%, respectively)

“Our diversified, integrated education and care solutions supported by our broad client base drove a strong fourth quarter and a solid finish to the year,” said Stephen Kramer, Chief Executive Officer. “Back-Up Care remained a standout all year — generating more than $725 million in revenue in 2025. As we move into 2026, we remain focused on deepening our impact with the employers and families we serve, enhancing our services, and investing in people and technology to drive growth, support margin progress, and deliver the highest quality care and education.”

Revenue increased by $59.6 million, or 9%, to $733.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2025, from the fourth quarter of 2024, due primarily to increased utilization of back-up care services as well as enrollment gains and tuition price increases at our centers.

Income from operations was $45.5 million for the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to $48.2 million for the fourth quarter of 2024, a decrease of 6%. The decrease in income from operations is primarily related to incremental impairment and net lease termination costs of $14.8 million, partially offset by incremental gross profit contributions resulting from higher utilization of back-up care services, as well as contributions from our full service center-based child care centers from enrollment growth and operating leverage. Net income was $21.7 million for the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to $29.1 million for the fourth quarter of 2024, a decrease of 25%, due to the decrease in income from operations noted above and a higher effective tax rate. Diluted earnings per common share was $0.38 for the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to $0.50 for the fourth quarter of 2024.

In the fourth quarter of 2025, adjusted EBITDA* increased by $12.8 million, or 12%, to $123.5 million, and adjusted income from operations* increased by $11.2 million, or 14%, to $90.6 million from the fourth quarter of 2024, due to increased contributions from both the back-up care and full service center-based child care segments. Adjusted net income* increased by $7.7 million, or 14%, to $65.1 million, as a result of the increase in adjusted income from operations noted above. Diluted adjusted earnings per common share* was $1.15 for the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to $0.98 for the fourth quarter of 2024.

As of December 31, 2025, the Company operated 1,010 early education and child care centers with the capacity to serve approximately 115,000 children and their families.

At December 31, 2025, the Company had $140.1 million of cash and cash equivalents and $383.7 million available for borrowing under our revolving credit facility. In the year ended December 31, 2025, we generated approximately $350.7 million of cash from operations, compared to $337.5 million for the same period in 2024, and made net investments totaling $103.8 million, compared to $117.8 million for the same period in the prior year.

Based on current trends and expectations, we currently expect fiscal year 2026 revenue to be in the range of $3.075 billion to $3.125 billion and diluted adjusted earnings per common share to be in the range of $4.90 to $5.10. The Company will provide additional information on its outlook during its earnings conference call.

Bright Horizons Family Solutions will host an investor conference call today at 5:00 pm ET to discuss the results for the fourth quarter and full year of 2025, as well as the Company’s updated business outlook and strategy.  Interested parties are invited to listen to the conference call by dialing 1-844-539-3703 or, for international callers, 1-412-652-1273, and asking for the Bright Horizons Family Solutions conference call moderated by Chief Executive Officer Stephen Kramer.  Replays of the entire call will be available through February 26, 2026 at 1-844-512-2921 or, for international callers, at 1-412-317-6671, conference ID #13752643.  A link to the audio webcast of the conference call and a copy of this press release are also available through the Investor Relations section of the Company’s web site, investors.brighthorizons.com.

This press release includes forward looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. The Company’s actual results may vary significantly from the results anticipated in these forward-looking statements, which can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the terms “believes,” “expects,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “seeks,” “projects,” “approximately,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates” or “anticipates,” or, in each case, their negatives or other variations or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include all matters that are not historical facts, including statements regarding the Company’s intentions, beliefs or current expectations concerning, among other things, our results of operations, financial condition, liquidity, operating expectations, execution and delivery of our services and solutions, business trends, value of our model, our offerings, our future growth opportunities, enrollment levels, margins, back-up care, our investments, long-term growth strategy, estimated effective tax rate, tax expense, our future business and financial performance, client partners and relationships, use and impact of our services, share repurchase activity and our 2026 financial guidance. By their nature, forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties because they relate to events and depend on circumstances that may or may not occur in the future. The Company believes that these risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, changes in the demand for child care, dependent care and other workplace solutions, including variations in enrollment trends and lower than expected demand from employer sponsor clients as well as variations in workforce demographics and work environments; the constrained labor market for teachers and staff and ability to hire and retain talent, including the impact of increased compensation and labor costs; the availability or lack of government support programs, and the impact of available government child care benefit programs; our ability to respond to changing client and customer needs; competition in our industry; the possibility that acquisitions may disrupt our operations and expose us to additional risk; our ability to pass on our increased costs; our indebtedness and the terms of such indebtedness; our ability to withstand seasonal fluctuations in the demand for our services; our ability to implement our growth strategies successfully; changes in general economic, political, business and financial market conditions and other macroeconomic events and uncertainty, including the impact of inflation and interest rate fluctuations; fluctuations in currency exchange rates; the effects of a cyber-attack, data breach or other security incident on our information technology system or software or those of our third party vendors; changes in tax rates or policies; damage or harm to our brand or reputation, including as a result of recent incidents and media coverage; litigation and insurance risks; changes in laws and regulations; and other risks and uncertainties more fully described in the “Risk Factors” section of our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on February 27, 2025, and other factors disclosed from time to time in our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the time of this release and we do not undertake to publicly update or revise them, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.

In addition to the results provided in accordance with GAAP throughout this press release, the Company has provided certain non-GAAP financial measures that present operating results on a basis adjusted for certain items. The Company uses these non-GAAP financial measures as key performance indicators for the purpose of evaluating performance internally, and in connection with determining incentive compensation for Company management, including executive officers. Adjusted EBITDA is also used in connection with the determination of certain ratio requirements under our credit agreement. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures provide investors with useful information with respect to our historical operations. These non-GAAP financial measures are not intended to replace, and should not be considered superior to, the presentation of our financial results in accordance with GAAP. The use of the terms adjusted EBITDA, adjusted income from operations, adjusted net income and diluted adjusted earnings per common share may differ from similar measures reported by other companies and may not be comparable to other similarly titled measures.

With respect to our outlook for diluted adjusted earnings per common share, we do not provide the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure or corresponding reconciliation to such GAAP financial measure on a forward-looking basis. We are unable to predict with reasonable certainty and without unreasonable effort certain items such as the timing and amount of net excess income tax benefits or shortfalls, future impairments, lease termination costs, transaction costs, and other non-recurring costs, as well as gains or losses from the early retirement of debt and the outcome from legal proceedings. These items are uncertain, depend on various factors outside our management’s control, and could significantly impact, either individually or in the aggregate, our future period earnings per common share as calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP.

For more information regarding adjusted EBITDA, adjusted income from operations, adjusted net income and diluted adjusted earnings per common share, refer to the reconciliation of GAAP financial measures to the non-GAAP financial measures in the attached table “Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. Non-GAAP Reconciliations.”

Bright Horizons® is a leading provider of high-quality early education and child care, comprehensive back-up care solutions, and educational advisory services.  For 40 years, we have partnered with employers to support workforces by providing services that help working families and employees thrive personally and professionally.  Bright Horizons operates more than 1,000 early education and child care centers in the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia and India, and serves more than 1,450 of the world’s leading employers. For more information, go to www.brighthorizons.com.

(1)For the three months ended December 31, 2025, adjusted income from operations represents income from operations excluding impairment and net lease termination costs of $45.1 million, of which $44.6 million related to the full service center-based child care segment and $0.5 million related to the back-up care segment.

(2)For the three months ended December 31, 2024, adjusted income from operations represents income from operations excluding impairment losses associated with our annual impairment assessment of $30.3 million, of which $29.2 million related to the full service center-based child care segment and $1.1 million related to the back-up care segment, and costs incurred in connection with the December 2024 debt refinancing of $0.8 million allocated to the full service center-based child care segment.

(1)For the year ended December 31, 2025, adjusted income from operations represents income from operations excluding impairment and net lease termination costs of $47.5 million, of which $47.0 million related to the full service center-based child care segment and $0.5 million related to the back-up care segment, and other costs incurred in connection with the August 2025 debt refinancing of $1.3 million allocated to the full service center-based child care segment.

(2)For the year ended December 31, 2024, adjusted income from operations represents income from operations excluding impairment losses associated with our annual impairment assessment of $30.3 million, of which $29.2 million related to the full service center-based child care segment and $1.1 million related to the back-up care segment, and costs incurred in connection with the December 2024 debt refinancing of $0.8 million allocated to the full service center-based child care segment.

(a)Amortization of intangible assets represents total amortization expense, including $0.1 million and $8.5 million for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2024, respectively, associated with intangible assets recorded in connection with our going private transaction in May 2008.

(b)Impairment and net lease termination costs represent impairment costs, primarily for long-lived assets, arising from center closures, changes in market assumptions and reduced operating performance at certain centers. For the three months ended December 31, 2025, impairment and net lease termination costs totaled $45.1 million, of which $44.6 million related to the full service center-based child care segment and $0.5 million related to the back-up care segment. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2025, impairment and net lease termination costs totaled $47.5 million, of which $47.0 million related to the full service center-based child care segment and $0.5 million related to the back-up care segment. For the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2024, impairment and net lease termination costs totaled $30.3 million, of which $29.2 million related to the full service center-based child care segment and $1.1 million related to the back-up care segment.

(c)Stock-based compensation expense represents non-cash stock-based compensation expense in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification Topic 718, Compensation-Stock Compensation.

(d)Other costs in the twelve months ended December 31, 2025 consist of $1.3 million related to the August 2025 debt refinancing recorded to selling, general and administrative expenses and allocated to the full service center-based child care segment. Other costs in the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2024 consist of costs incurred in connection with the December 2024 debt refinancing of $0.8 million recorded to selling, general and administrative expenses and allocated to the full service center-based child care segment.

(e)Other interest costs in the twelve months ended December 31, 2025 consist of $1.6 million in interest incurred related to a pre-acquisition obligation, as well as $1.1 million of debt refinancing costs related to the April 2025 and August 2025 debt refinancings, which were recorded to interest expense.

(f)Adjusted income tax expense represents income tax expense calculated on adjusted income before income tax at an effective tax rate of approximately 26% and 27% for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2025, respectively, and approximately 28% for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2024.