Senior Care · registry year 2024 · HQ IL
BrightStar Care Franchise
A BrightStar Care Franchising brand operating in the senior care sector, franchising since 2005. According to the 2024 FDD filing for BrightStar Care, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.
- $102K – $197K
- Initial investment · Lower entry cost
- 5.8%
- Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
- 370
- Total locations · Small network
- $1.2M
- Avg unit revenue · Mid-range unit revenue
FDD outlay schedule
Registry brightstar-care BrightStar Care
BrightStar Care needs $102K–$197K to open and charges a 5.8% royalty - an entry cost above the typical senior care franchise.
- LO $102K
- HI $197K
- FEE $55K
- ROY 5.8%
- UNT 370
- I19 Disclosed
- INV# #150/223
- UNT# #158/223
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Comfort Keepers ($92K)
Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for BrightStar Care (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →
Franchise Opportunity Health Score
How healthy and transparent BrightStar Care's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.
- Network momentum 2.7% net unit growth (YoY) 51/100 · F
- Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A
Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.
Where BrightStar Care's investment ranks nationally
BrightStar Care's listed Item 7 low of $102K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.
BrightStar Care vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment
Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus
$102,000 Lower than most lower than 68% of 218 franchise brands
Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low
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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31
Investment Overview
- Franchise Fee
- $55K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- Average Revenue
- $1.2M
- gross revenue per location
* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.
Network Size & Growth
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
10 locations closed in the last reporting year
Quick Facts
- Sector
- Senior Care
- Subsector
- home health
- Founded
- 2002
- Franchising Since
- 2005
- Headquarters
- IL
- FDD Year
- 2024
- Item 19
- Disclosed
Important Notice · BrightStar Care
This BrightStar Care page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for BrightStar Care.
Compact-network entry costs for BrightStar Care
Signature read: 370 locations · Item 7 low $102K
BrightStar Care, a BrightStar Care Franchising franchise, has been franchising since 2005 - 3 years after the concept was founded in 2002 , currently with 370 total locations (370 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the senior care sector, headquartered in IL. The listed total initial investment is $102K to $197K, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $55K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.
Royalty payments here are set at 5.8% of gross sales. BrightStar Care has an Item 19 financial-performance field in this registry, a voluntary disclosure under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.2M; the listed royalty rate multiplied by the reported average equals $69K, which is not a total-cost or profit calculation. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.
BrightStar Care's network is expanding: unit count grew at a 2.7% net rate over the past year (20 openings, 10 closures). The count describes the latest reported period only; the underlying Item 20 tables provide the fuller disclosure context.
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Related reading for BrightStar Care: Understanding FDDs , BrightStar Care lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.
How BrightStar Care's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)
Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size
Two data-derived peer sets for BrightStar Care , both outside HQ state IL : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($102K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (370 here).
What to do with this
BrightStar Care at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.
- BrightStar Care scores 76/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
- Its $102K – $197K entry cost runs above the typical senior care franchise.
- Ranks #150 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
- Comfort Keepers sits at a comparable investment level ($92K) in the same sector. Compare
Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
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