KinderCare Learning Companies, Inc. (KLC)

• Market cap: $1.3B
• 1 day: -1.95%
• 5 days: -2.56%
• 1 month: -19.77%
• 3 months: -48.05%
• 6 months: -60.70%
• Year to date: -36.70%
• 1 year: -57.75%
• 5 years: -57.75%
• 10 years: -57.75%
• Sector: Consumer Staples
• Industry: Education & Training Services

About: 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.

Employees: 42,290

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

209% more call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $309K | Put options by funds: $100K

97.21% more ownership

Funds ownership: 0% [Q3] → 97.21% (+97.21%) [Q4]

Research analyst outlook

5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

• Low target: $21 90% upside
• Avg. target: $25 123% upside
• High target: $30 172% upside

5 analyst ratings

• positive: 5 100%
• neutral: 0 0%
• negative: 0 0%

UBS Joshua Chan 24% 1-year accuracy 4 / 17 met price target	90% upside $21	Buy Maintained	15 Apr 2025
BMO Capital Jeffrey Silber 36% 1-year accuracy 15 / 42 met price target	136% upside $26	Outperform Maintained	24 Mar 2025
Goldman Sachs George Tong 30% 1-year accuracy 6 / 20 met price target	172% upside $30	Buy Maintained	21 Mar 2025
Baird Jeffrey Meuler 38% 1-year accuracy 9 / 24 met price target	126% upside $25	Outperform Maintained	21 Mar 2025
Morgan Stanley Toni Kaplan 32% 1-year accuracy 9 / 28 met price target	90% upside $21	Overweight Maintained	21 Mar 2025