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UPDATED: Nov 9, 2025

Stock Analysis

KLC Logo
$5.50
$0.23 |4.36%
Day Range:
$5.20 - $5.62
Market Cap:
649.68M
P/E Ratio:
0.0000
Avg Value:
$16.56
Year Range:
$5.20 - $27.93
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General Information
KinderCare Learning Companies Inc is a private provider of early childhood education and care services (ECE) in the United States.

It serves children ranging from 6 weeks to 12 years of age across its market footprint of around 1,480 early childhood education centers with a capacity of more than 194,000 children and contracts for more than 650 before- and after-school sites located in 40 states and the District of Columbia. Its segment derives revenue from providing early childhood education and care services at centers and before- and after-school sites.

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KinderCare Learning (KLC) Stock Graph
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How We Grade KinderCare Learning (KLC)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade KinderCare Learning (KLC) across the board compared to its closest peers.

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Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

26.79

Value is a percentile-ranked composite metric that evaluates a stock's relative worth by comparing its market price to fundamental measures of the company's assets, earnings, sales, and operating performance.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

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Peer Ratings

See how KinderCare Learning compares to its peers in these key performance metrics from Benzinga Rankings.

Top Peers
Value
Quality
Growth
Momentum
Short
Medium
Long
GOTUGaotu Techedu
0
0
17.49
18.63
LINCLincoln Educational Servs
55.69
62.56
96.95
47.21
APEIAmerican Public Education
72.53
91.1
75.69
86.95
UDMYUdemy
5.65
0
60.9
10.38
Short: price trend over the last couple of months
Medium: price trend over the last couple of quarters
Long: price trend over the past year
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Future Growth
Our estimate of future price growth is based on an aggregation of 9 analyst ratings over the past 3 months and their 12-month price targets.

Below, you can see that analysts are estimating a 12-month price target range of $6.00 - $20.00 with an average of $11.60

110.91%
Expected movement for KinderCare Learning (KLC) over the next 12 months
Based on these rankings

Recent Ratings for KinderCare Learning (KLC)

Morgan Stanley
Date:
Oct 24, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$14.00
New Target:
$11.00
Goldman Sachs
Date:
Oct 15, 2025
Action:
Downgrades
Prev. Target:
$20.00
New Target:
$6.00
UBS
Date:
Oct 10, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$11.00
New Target:
$10.00
UBS
Date:
Aug 14, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$20.00
New Target:
$11.00
Morgan Stanley
Date:
Aug 13, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$15.00
New Target:
$14.00
Goldman Sachs
Date:
Aug 13, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$23.00
New Target:
$20.00
BMO Capital
Date:
Aug 13, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$18.00
New Target:
$12.00
Baird
Date:
Aug 13, 2025
Action:
Maintains
Prev. Target:
$20.00
New Target:
$13.00
Barclays
Date:
Aug 13, 2025
Action:
Downgrades
Prev. Target:
$20.00
New Target:
$9.00
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Financial Health
What is the current state of the company's financial situation?

We measure the health of a company based on how profitable they are and their ability to cover both their short-term and long-term debts. The key indicators that we use are the Operating Margin, Quick Ratio, and Debt-to-Equity ratio relative to the companies peers

Operational Margin 0.1013

The operating margin measures how much profit a company makes after it spends money on wages, materials or other administrative expenses but before interest and taxes. It is a good representation of how efficiently a company is able to generate profit from its core operations.

Quick Ratio 0.5515

The quick ratio measures how much of a company's debt, that is due in less than 1 year, can be covered using its cash equivalents, marketable securities, and money that is currently owed to them (accounts receivables).

A company with a quick ratio of less than 1.00 does not, in many cases, have the capital on hand to meet its short-term obligations if they were all due at once, while a quick ratio greater than one indicates the company has the financial resources to remain solvent in the short term.

Debt-to-Equity 3.1010

Debt-to-equity is calculated by dividing a company's total liabilities by its shareholders equity. It is a measure of the degree to which a company is financing its operations through debt versus wholly owned funds. Generally speaking, a D/E ratio below 1.0 would be seen as relatively safe, whereas ratios of 2.0 or higher would be considered risky.

The chart above shows KinderCare Learning (KLC) operating margin, quick ratio, and debt-to-equity ratio compared to its peers. The black markers represent the peer averages for each ratio and the blue bars represent KinderCare Learning (KLC) ratio values.
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Past Performance
How has KinderCare Learning (KLC) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

KinderCare Learning (KLC) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -0.2757 which is considered to be below average compared to the peer average of -0.2493