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BFAM Short Interest

Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc.
1W: +5.9% 1M: +11.8% 3M: -8.7% YTD: -25.8% 1Y: -27.8% 3Y: -6.8% 5Y: -54.3%
$70.58
-3.07 (-4.17%)
After Hours: $68.62 (-1.96, -2.78%)
Weekly Expected Move ±5.1%
$64 $68 $71 $75 $79
NYSE · Industrials · Specialty Business Services · Tech Score Buy · Power 66 · $3.6B mcap · 42M float · 2.00% daily turnover · Short 60% of daily vol
Credit Risk of going bust: higher than 59% of companies Debt: 36.5% of company value Bonds: none of note held by US funds details ▾
Of US companies ranked in the middle of the pack, about 1 in 580 filed for bankruptcy within a year (2020-2025).
If the stock fell to about $2.71 (down 96%), Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. would be worth roughly what it owes.
Total debt $2.05B against a stock market value of $3.58B.
Distance to default 4.32 (Merton model): prices to 2026-10-26, balance sheet 2026-06-30, debt counted $751.4M (short-term plus half of long-term), stock volatility 47.5%; Altman Z'' 0.87. A ranking and a back-test, not a forecast.
US fund filings (SEC N-PORT) show under $25M of this company's bonds, so there is no bond page. Its debt may be bank loans or privately placed. How these are computed.

Short Volume Summary

2026-10-26
69.8%
Short Ratio
of total volume
57.9%
20-Day Avg
55.5%
50-Day Avg
▼ Falling
5-Day Trend
0.4M
Short Volume
0.5M
Total Volume

Daily Short Volume Ratio

Short Volume vs Total Volume

Exchange Breakdown

2026-10-26
ExchangeShort VolumeTotal VolumeShort %
NASDAQ 344,330 496,188 69.4%
NYSE 13,274 17,339 76.6%
BATS 3,017 3,202 94.2%

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