Consumer Defensive
Live Price
Offline$2.25
+0.45% today
Window Change
+28.57%
Window
Jun 23, 2025 → Dec 15, 2025
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Coverage: 123 bars · Jun 23, 2025 → Dec 15, 2025
Research Briefing
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Research Snapshot
Bright Scholar Education Holdings Limited (BEDU) is a Consumer Defensive stock with a market cap of $66.76M. The stock last traded around $2.25 and up 28.6% across the available one-year price window (Jun 23, 2025 → Dec 15, 2025). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -17.4%, EPS growth of -136.9%, a dividend yield of 0.0%. What stands out right now is revenue -17.4%, EPS -136.9%, free cash flow +241.7% with operating margin 10.2% and ROIC 17.1%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 3.0 and price/sales 1.0. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines BEDU price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
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BEDU
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Normalized return
SPY
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Relative to SPY
BEDU Max Drawdown
-20.63%
Trailing 1Y
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Trailing 1Y
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Financial profile
Profitability, balance sheet stamina, and cash efficiency drawn from the latest filings.
FY Revenue
$3.4B
+140.2% YoY
FY Net Income
$161.0M
+404.9% YoY
Free Cash Flow
$341.5M
-36.8% YoY
Revenue Growth
-17.4%
EPS Growth
-136.9%
Gross Margin
29.2%
Net Margin
8.3%
Income statement
CNY
| Metric | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 1.8B | 2.1B | 1.4B | 1.4B | 3.4B |
| Gross Profit | 504M | 597M | 478M | 222M | 1.2B |
| Operating Income | -820M | -187M | -633M | -390M | 167M |
| EBITDA | -764M | -109M | -361M | -82M | 60M |
| Net Income | -996M | -395M | -709M | -53M | 161M |
| EPS (Diluted) | — | — | — | — | — |
Balance sheet
CNY
| Metric | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash & Equivalents | 493M | 410M | 665M | 845M | 3.4B |
| Total Assets | 3.0B | 4.6B | 5.5B | 8.6B | 10.8B |
| Total Liabilities | 2.4B | 3.0B | 3.1B | 5.8B | 7.7B |
| Shareholder Equity | 517M | 1.4B | 2.2B | 2.5B | 2.7B |
| Total Debt | 1.5B | 1.6B | 1.5B | 4.4B | 5.0B |
| Net Debt | 1.0B | 1.1B | 807M | 3.5B | 1.7B |
Cash flow positioning
Latest Full Year
Operating Cash Flow
491M
-29.7% YoY
Capital Expenditures
150M
+5.6% YoY
Free Cash Flow
341M
-36.8% YoY
Key ratios
Gross Margin
29.2%
Operating Margin
10.2%
Net Margin
8.3%
ROE
12.8%
Debt / Equity
2.61x
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