First Advantage Corporation

FA Industrials Specialty Business Services

First Advantage Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $1.6 billion, up 83.0% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+14.9%
EPS
+5,455.6%
Free cash flow
+120.2%
Total debt
−4.34%

Quarter to June 2026, against a year earlier

22.44 0.62 +2.84%
Market cap
$3.8B
P/E
150×
Fwd P/E
74.9×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
1.16
Beneish M
−2.31
Dividend safety
25/100

First Advantage Corporation (FA) Gross margin

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First Advantage Corporation's gross margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 45.2%, down 0.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (45.7%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 45.7% (fiscal 2025) to 50.6% (fiscal 2021) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is above the Specialty Business Services industry median of 32.8% and above the Industrials sector median of 30.7%.

Gross margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
FY2025 45.7% (2.14)
FY2024 47.8% (1.55)
FY2023 49.4% (0.16)
FY2022 49.5% (1.04)
FY2021 50.6% 1.73
FY2020 48.8% (0.25)
FY2019 49.1% —

Quarterly newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
Jun 2026 45.5% 0.34
Mar 2026 45.1% 0.56
Dec 2025 44.6% (1.17)
Sep 2025 45.7% (1.06)
21 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 45.7% High 50.6%
Ten-year median 49.1%
Current reading's percentile 9

Gross margin against peers

Company Gross margin
DLB Dolby Laboratories compare 87.6%
FA First Advantage Corporation 45.2%
UNF Unifirst Corporation compare 36.6%
TIC Acuren Corporation compare 33.9%
MMS Maximus, Inc. compare 25.6%
AZZ AZZ Inc. compare 24.3%
CBZ CBIZ, Inc. compare 13.0%
ABM ABM Industries Incorporated compare 12.0%
AMTM Amentum Holdings, Inc. compare 10.3%
Specialty Business Services industry median 32.8%
Industrials sector median 30.7%
Market median 46.4%

What Gross margin is

Gross Margin tells an investor how much of each sale a company keeps after paying the direct costs of making or buying what it sells.

Gross Profit ÷ Revenue

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