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) Operating margin

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First Advantage Corporation's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 10.7%, up 2.3 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (8.41%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −7.25% (fiscal 2024) to 19.1% (fiscal 2019); the current reading is higher than 43% of that period. That is above the Specialty Business Services industry median of 3.53% and above the Industrials sector median of 5.12%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 8.41% 15.66
FY2024 −7.25% (17.92)
FY2023 10.7% (0.97)
FY2022 11.6% 2.68
FY2021 8.96% 9.36
FY2020 −0.40% (19.53)
FY2019 19.1% —

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Jun 2026 12.7% 4.01
Mar 2026 8.70% (1.98)
Dec 2025 10.7% 0.36
Sep 2025 10.3% 0.66
21 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −7.25% High 19.1%
Ten-year median 8.96%
Current reading's percentile 71

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
DLB Dolby Laboratories compare 17.7%
AZZ AZZ Inc. compare 16.5%
MMS Maximus, Inc. compare 11.0%
FA First Advantage Corporation 10.7%
CBZ CBIZ, Inc. compare 7.96%
UNF Unifirst Corporation compare 5.39%
AMTM Amentum Holdings, Inc. compare 4.22%
ABM ABM Industries Incorporated compare 3.51%
TIC Acuren Corporation compare −2.15%
Specialty Business Services industry median 3.53%
Industrials sector median 5.12%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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