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) Return on invested capital

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First Advantage Corporation's return on invested capital over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 3.59%, up 1.0 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (2.63%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −1.19% (fiscal 2024) to 12.6% (fiscal 2019); the current reading is higher than 43% of that period. That is above the Specialty Business Services industry median of 0.65% and above the Industrials sector median of 1.81%.

Return on invested capital, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Return on invested capital Change (points)
FY2025 2.63% 3.82
FY2024 −1.19% (5.26)
FY2023 4.07% (0.48)
FY2022 4.55% 1.69
FY2021 2.86% 2.95
FY2020 −0.09% (12.64)
FY2019 12.6% —

Against its own ten years

Low −1.19% High 12.6%
Ten-year median 2.86%
Current reading's percentile 43

Return on invested capital against peers

Company Return on invested capital
MMS Maximus, Inc. compare 10.9%
AZZ AZZ Inc. compare 9.55%
DLB Dolby Laboratories compare 8.06%
ABM ABM Industries Incorporated compare 5.82%
AMTM Amentum Holdings, Inc. compare 4.57%
CBZ CBIZ, Inc. compare 4.20%
UNF Unifirst Corporation compare 4.17%
FA First Advantage Corporation 3.59%
TIC Acuren Corporation compare −0.83%
Specialty Business Services industry median 0.65%
Industrials sector median 1.81%
Market median 0.00%

What Return on invested capital is

Return on Invested Capital shows how much after-tax operating profit a company earns on the money its lenders and shareholders have put in.

TTM: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) (latest quarter) + Long Term Debt (Total) (latest quarter) + Current Part of Debt (latest quarter) − Cash & Short Term Investments (latest quarter)); Annual: (Operating Income × 0.625) ÷ (Shareholders Equity (Total) + Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt − Cash & Short Term Investments)

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