First Advantage Corporation
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First Advantage Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.6 billion, up 83.0% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 14.9%, EPS grew 5,455.6%, free cash flow grew 120.2% and total debt fell 4.34%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Insiders bought in the last twelve months.
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First Advantage Corporation (FA) Altman Z-score
First Advantage Corporation's Altman Z-score for fiscal 2025 is 1.16, in the distress zone (below 1.81).
Altman Z-score, annual
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Annual newest first
| Period | Altman Z-score | Change (points) |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | 1.16 | 0.34 |
| FY2024 | 0.82 | (1.97) |
| FY2023 | 2.78 | 0.37 |
| FY2022 | 2.41 | (0.41) |
| FY2021 | 2.82 | — |
How fiscal 2025’s score is made up
| Component | This year | Year before | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Working capital / total assets | 0.09 | — | 0.10 | |
| Retained earnings / total assets | (0.05) | — | −0.07 | |
| EBIT / total assets | 0.03 | — | 0.11 | |
| Market value of equity / total liabilities | 1.00 | — | 0.60 | |
| Sales / total assets | 0.41 | — | 0.41 | |
| Altman Z-score | Distress zone | 1.16 | ||
| Z″ Variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies (drops the sales/assets term, uses book equity) | Grey zone | 1.18 | ||
Z and Z″ put First Advantage Corporation in different zones: distress zone by Z, grey zone by Z″.
How the Altman Z-score works
Z = 1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets (Altman, 1968). The market value of equity is the close on the last trading day of the fiscal year times weighted basic shares.
Z″ = 6.56 × working capital ÷ total assets + 3.26 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 6.72 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 1.05 × book equity ÷ total liabilities (Altman, Hartzell and Peck, 1995), the variant for non-manufacturing and asset-light companies.
| Zone | Z | Z″ |
|---|---|---|
| Safe zone | above 2.99 | above 2.60 |
| Grey zone | 1.81–2.99 | 1.10–2.60 |
| Distress zone | below 1.81 | below 1.10 |
Not worked out for banks, insurers and REITs, whose balance sheets the model does not describe, nor when a figure is missing or there is no share price in the week to the fiscal year end.
Altman Z-score against peers
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| DLB Dolby Laboratories compare | 9.2× |
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| ABM ABM Industries Incorporated compare | 2.8× |
| AMTM Amentum Holdings, Inc. compare | 1.9× |
| CBZ CBIZ, Inc. compare | 1.9× |
| FA First Advantage Corporation | 1.2× |
| TIC Acuren Corporation compare | 0.9× |
What Altman Z-score is
The Altman Z-Score weighs working capital, retained earnings, operating profit, market value and sales against assets and debts to gauge the risk of distress.
1.2 × working capital ÷ total assets + 1.4 × retained earnings ÷ total assets + 3.3 × EBIT ÷ total assets + 0.6 × market value of equity ÷ total liabilities + 1.0 × revenue ÷ total assets