As the Q1 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the education services industry, including Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) and its peers.
Child care and education company Bright Horizons (NYSE:BFAM) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, with sales up 6.9% year on year to $665.5 million. The company’s outlook for the full year was close to analysts’ estimates with revenue guided to $2.89 billion at the midpoint. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.77 per share was 19.8% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
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Child care and education company Bright Horizons (NYSE:BFAM) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q1 CY2025, with sales up 6.9% year on year to $665.5 million. The company’s outlook for the full year was close to analysts’ estimates with revenue guided to $2.89 billion at the midpoint. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.77 per share was 19.5% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
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The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current business environment. Let’s take a look at how Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) and the rest of the education services stocks fared in Q4.
Although the S&P 500 is down 4.1% over the past six months, Bright Horizons’s stock price has fallen further to $126.40, losing shareholders 9.8% of their capital. This may have investors wondering how to approach the situation.
Looking back on education services stocks’ Q4 earnings, we examine this quarter’s best and worst performers, including Adtalem (NYSE:ATGE) and its peers.
As the craze of earnings season draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the most exciting (and some less so) results from Q4. Today, we are looking at education services stocks, starting with Bright Horizons (NYSE:BFAM).
Child care and education company Bright Horizons (NYSE:BFAM) met Wall Street’s revenue expectations in Q4 CY2024, with sales up 9.5% year on year to $674.1 million. On the other hand, the company’s full-year revenue guidance of $2.88 billion at the midpoint came in 0.5% below analysts’ estimates. Its non-GAAP profit of $0.98 per share was 8% above analysts’ consensus estimates.
The end of an earnings season can be a great time to discover new stocks and assess how companies are handling the current business environment. Let’s take a look at how Adtalem (NYSE:ATGE) and the rest of the education services stocks fared in Q3.
Let’s dig into the relative performance of Grand Canyon Education (NASDAQ:LOPE) and its peers as we unravel the now-completed Q3 education services earnings season.
Quarterly earnings results are a good time to check in on a company’s progress, especially compared to its peers in the same sector. Today we are looking at Perdoceo Education (NASDAQ:PRDO) and the best and worst performers in the education services industry.
