First Advantage Corporation
General ticker "FA" information:
- Sector: Industrials
- Industry: Specialty Business Services
- Capitalization: $2.5B (TTM average)
First Advantage Corporation follows the US Stock Market performance with the rate: 40.8%.
Estimated limits based on current volatility of 2.0%: low 20.03$, high 20.85$
Factors to consider:
- Total employees count: 9500 (-5.0%) as of 2025
- US accounted for 86.1% of revenue in the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31
- Top business risk factors: Economic downturns and volatility, Cybersecurity threats, Reputation and brand risks, Hiring volume dependency, Currency fluctuations
- Current price 18.0% above estimated high
- Earnings for 6 months up through Q2 exceed our estimates
Stock Forecast*
* forecast is subjective and experimental, should not be used for any investment decisions
Long term estimates were made for the period from 2025-12-31 to 2027-12-31
- 2025-12-31 to 2026-12-31 estimated range: [11.01$, 17.01$]
- 2026-12-31 to 2027-12-31 estimated range: [10.73$, 16.75$]
Financial Metrics affecting the FA estimates:
- Positive: with PPE of 14.6 at the end of fiscal year the price was very low
- Positive: 7.80 < Operating profit margin, % of 8.97
- Negative: Industry earnings per price (median), % of 0 <= 0
- Positive: 6.77 < Operating cash flow per share per price, % of 7.41
- Negative: Interest expense per share per price, % of 6.41 > 3.34
- Negative: Investing cash flow per share per price, % of -2.06 <= -0.64
- Negative: Industry operating profit margin (median), % of 1.70 <= 2.92
- Negative: Industry operating cash flow per share per price (median), % of 4.53 <= 5.56
Short-term FA quotes
Long-term FA plot with estimates
Financial data
| YTD | 2023-12-31 | 2024-12-31 | 2025-12-31 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Operating Revenue | $763.76MM | $860.21MM | $1,574.39MM |
| Operating Expenses | $682.25MM | $922.59MM | $1,433.18MM |
| Operating Income | $81.52MM | $-62.38MM | $141.21MM |
| Non-Operating Income | $-33.04MM | $-52.23MM | $-178.46MM |
| Interest Expense | $33.04MM | $51.85MM | $168.67MM |
| R&D Expense | $49.26MM | $63.82MM | $0.00MM |
| Income(Loss) | $48.48MM | $-114.61MM | $-37.25MM |
| Taxes | $11.18MM | $-4.34MM | $-2.43MM |
| Net Income(Loss)* | $37.29MM | $-110.27MM | $-34.82MM |
| Stockholders Equity | $906.73MM | $1,307.04MM | $1,313.55MM |
| Assets | $1,630.65MM | $3,922.89MM | $3,833.80MM |
| Operating Cash Flow | $162.82MM | $28.20MM | $195.13MM |
| Capital expenditure | $27.70MM | $1.72MM | $54.25MM |
| Investing Cash Flow | $-66.85MM | $-1,651.99MM | $-54.13MM |
| Financing Cash Flow | $-273.56MM | $1,581.07MM | $-70.76MM |
| Earnings Per Share** | $0.26 | $-0.74 | $-0.20 |
* Profit(Loss) attributable to entity.
** EPS are Split Adjusted, recent splits may be reflected with a delay.