Stock Research: First Advantage

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First Advantage

NasdaqGS:FA US31846B1089
19
  • Value
    58
  • Growth
    52
  • Safety
    Safety
    30
  • Combined
    27
  • Sentiment
    32
  • 360° View
    360° View
    19
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Company Description

First Advantage Corporation is a global provider of employment background screening, identity, and verification solutions. Enabled by its technology, the Company delivers services and insights that help customers mitigate risk and hire talent: employees, contractors, contingent workers, tenants, and drivers. Its comprehensive product suite enables its customers across all industry sectors to perform pre-onboarding screening and post-onboarding monitoring of employees, contractors, contingent workers, tenants, and drivers. Its pre-onboarding products include criminal background checks, drug/health screening, extended workforce screening, FBI channeling, identity checks and biometric fraud mitigation tools, education/work history verification, driver records and compliance, healthcare credentials, executive screening and others. Its post-onboarding solutions include criminal records monitoring, healthcare sanctions, motor vehicle records, social media and global sanctions and licenses.

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Analysis

ANALYSIS: With an Obermatt 360° View of 19 (better than 19% compared with alternatives), overall professional sentiment and financial characteristics for the stock First Advantage are critical, mostly below average. The 360° View is based on consolidating four consolidated indicators, with half of the metrics below and half above average for First Advantage. The consolidated Growth Rank has a good rank of 52, which means that the company experiences above-average growth momentum when looking at financial metrics such as revenue, profit, and invested capital growth as well as stock returns. This means that growth is higher than for 52% of competitors in the same industry. In addition, the consolidated Safety Rank has a safer rank of 58 which means that the company has a financing structure that is safer than 58% comparable companies when looking at the amount of its debt, its refinancing requirements, and its ability to service debt. But the consolidated Value Rank has a less desirable rank of 30 which means that the share price of First Advantage is on the higher side compared with typical size in indicators such as revenues, profits, and invested capital. This means that the stock price is higher than for 70% of alternative stocks in the same industry. The consolidated Sentiment Rank also has a low rank of 32, which means that professional investors are more pessimistic about the stock than for 68% of alternative investment opportunities. ...read more

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The higher the 360° View, the better the stock performed against its peers, considering all metrics. The 360° View represents an average of the other 5 ranks and is then scaled to a rank from 1 to 100. The shaded values are illustrative only.
Last update: 21-Aug-2025.

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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Value
30 18 22 19
Growth
52 94 71 69
Safety
Safety
58 72 76 26
Sentiment
32 22 16 38
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360° View
19 38 17 16
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Analyst Opinions
28 40 26 85
Opinions Change
93 31 50 50
Pro Holdings
n/a 28 63 8
Market Pulse
42 33 25 46
Sentiment
32 22 16 38
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Value
30 18 22 19
Growth
52 94 71 69
Safety Safety
58 72 76 26
Combined
27 69 46 19
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Price vs. Sales (P/S)
58 38 67 48
Price vs. Earnings (P/E)
34 27 19 25
Price vs. Book (P/B)
74 67 59 62
Dividend Yield
1 1 1 1
Value
30 18 22 19
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Revenue Growth
57 100 64 74
Profit Growth
83 19 36 12
Capital Growth
9 86 49 93
Stock Returns
44 58 87 31
Growth
52 94 71 69
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Metrics Current 2024 2023 2022
Leverage
19 37 48 30
Refinancing
49 57 56 60
Liquidity
100 100 98 18
Safety Safety
58 72 76 26

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