The market has been high on Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc (BFAM) stock recently. BFAM gets a Bullish score from InvestorsObserver's Stock Sentiment Indicator.
What is Stock Sentiment?
When making investment decisions, sentiment gives a good overview of what stocks investors currently favor. Sentiment incorporates short-term technical analysis into its score and does not encompass any fundamental analysis such as profitability of the company. This means that earnings updates and other news can greatly impact overall sentiment.
Recent trends are a good indicator of current market sentiments. In its most basic form, stocks that are trending up are desirable by investors while stocks currently falling must be unattractive.
InvestorsObserver's Sentimental Indicator tracks both changes in price and volume to analyze the most recent trends. Typically an increase in volume indicates ongoing trends are getting stronger, while a decrease in volume usually signals an end to the current trend.
Available options can also represent current sentiments for a given stock. Since investors are able to bet on future trends of stocks using options, we consider the ratio of calls to puts when analyzing market sentiments .
What's Happening With BFAM Stock Today?
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc (BFAM) stock is trading at $154.71 as of 1:41 PM on Monday, Jun 21, a gain of $2.45, or 1.61% from the previous closing price of $152.26. The stock has traded between $151.14 and $154.74 so far today. Volume today is less active than usual. So far 192,816 shares have traded compared to average volume of 576,158 shares.
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More About Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc
Bright Horizons Family Solutions provides education and care solutions designed to help employers support their employees in managing their work/life balance. The company has three business segments: full-service center-based child care, backup care, and educational advisory services. The vast majority of the company's revenue is generated by full-service center-based child care, which includes traditional center-based child care and early education services. Other services provided by the company include in-home child and elder care, tuition assistance, and education consulting. The company earns more than half of its revenue in North America.
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