BFAMStockBright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc.
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Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. (BFAM) is currently considered not halal (non-compliant), per our secondary compliance provider (last assessed 2026-08-12). See the full ratio breakdown and business-activity screen below for the reasoning.
⚠️ Financial ratios are only half the screen. A company whose core business is in an excluded sector — weapons/defense, alcohol, gambling, conventional (interest-based) finance, tobacco, pork, or adult entertainment — is non-compliant even if every debt and income ratio passes. So passing ratios below don't override this verdict; check the business-activity screen for the reason.
334 other Consumer Discretionary stocks pass this same screen. See compliant Consumer Discretionary stocks →
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Computing the full ratio and business-activity breakdown for BFAM — this runs off the critical path so the page paints first. It will appear here on its own.
| Investor | Firm | Position | Weight | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ray Dalio | Bridgewater Associates | $0M | 0.0% | 2026-06-30 |
From the most recent 13F on file. A 13F reports long US equity positions quarterly and in arrears — it is what a manager held on the report date, not what they hold today.
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Price Forecast
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Technical Summary
Standard indicator thresholds (RSI 30/70, Stochastic 20/80, CCI ±100, Williams %R −80/−20, MACD histogram sign, price vs. average) computed on daily bars. A summary of what common indicators say — not a recommendation, and not this site's own trading verdict.
Every indicator, and what it reads
| Indicator | Value | Signal |
|---|---|---|
| RSI (14) | 57.60 | NEUTRAL |
| Stochastic %K (14) | 87.08 | SELL |
| CCI (20) | 70.95 | NEUTRAL |
| Williams %R (14) | -12.92 | SELL |
| MACD (12,26,9) | 0.39 | BUY |
| ROC (10) | 2.98 | BUY |
| Momentum (10) | 2.05 | BUY |
| EMA (10) | 68.95 | BUY |
| SMA (10) | 69.39 | BUY |
| EMA (20) | 68.31 | BUY |
| SMA (20) | 67.32 | BUY |
| EMA (30) | 68.32 | BUY |
| SMA (30) | 66.95 | BUY |
| EMA (50) | 68.89 | BUY |
| SMA (50) | 68.88 | BUY |
| EMA (100) | 71.06 | SELL |
| SMA (100) | 69.93 | BUY |
| EMA (200) | 77.42 | SELL |
| SMA (200) | 75.09 | SELL |
About Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc.
Consumer Cyclical · Personal Services
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. provides early education and childcare, comprehensive back-up care, educational advisory, and other workplace solutions services for employers and families in the United States, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Australia, and India. It operates in three segments: Full-Service Center-Based Child Care, Back-Up Care, and Educational Advisory services. The Full-Service Center-Based Child Care segment offers traditional center-based early education and childcare, preschool, and elementary education services. The Back-Up Care segment provides center-based back-up childcare, in-home child and senior care, school-age programs, camps, tutoring, pet care, and self-sourced reimbursed care services, as well as sittercity, an online marketplace for families and caregivers through early education and childcare centers, school-age programs and in-home care providers, the back-up care network, and other providers. The Educational Advisory services segment offers tuition assistance and student loan repayment program management, workforce education, and related educational consulting services, as well as college admissions and college financial advisory services. The company was formerly known as Bright Horizons Solutions Corp. and changed its name to Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. in July 2012. Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts.
Background via Yahoo Finance — informational, not part of the verdict.
Weak — low conviction, small size or skip
SMC — Top Down
Market structure by timeframe, read from real bars. A bias per timeframe rather than a forecast — timeframes disagreeing is information, not noise.
| Timeframe | Bias | Bars |
|---|---|---|
| 📅 Daily | BEARISH | 43 |
| ⏰ 4H | BEARISH | 38 |
| 🕐 1H | RANGING | 98 |
| ⏱ 15-Min | BULLISH | 130 |
| ⏲ 5-Min | RANGING | 234 |
Momentum & Volume
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Peer Movement
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Do I need to purify dividends?
If a company earns some non-permissible income, many scholars hold that the same share of any dividend should be given away. The non-permissible income figure above is the number that calculation starts from — the purification calculator finishes it, showing the filing figures behind the ratio and both the proportional and the AAOIFI per-share convention.
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Compare with
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Peer screening computing — it will appear here on its own.
Insider Activity (90d)
Insider transactions reported in the last ninety days. Insiders sell for reasons that have nothing to do with a view, so a sale on its own is not a signal.
NO DATA 0 buys · 0 sells
COT Positioning — E-MINI S&P 500 - CHICAGO MERCANTILE EXCHANGE
The weekly CFTC Commitments of Traders report for the broad market it tracks, not for this symbol. Positioning context for the tape — it says nothing about this company.
NEUTRAL report date 2026-10-13 · Asset managers net 915835 (+9220)
AI Summary
Plain-language summary of the evidence already on this page — the Sharia screen, structure, momentum, and order flow above. It explains the read; it doesn't make the call. Generated on demand (a live AI call), never run automatically.