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FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP FA

Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation · CIK 0001210677 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$1.57B
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
$132.47M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
$188.49M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$1.33BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$7.64Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / revenue0.8×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity1.0×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

20.7× earnings today, against a median of 20.7× across 3 years on record. In line with its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2023-06-30$771.75M20.7×
2022-06-30$734.13M11.4×
2021-06-30$583.86M36.4×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
SBC / revenue1.6%8th
Long-term debt / equity1.58x85th
Revenue YoY growth83.0%82th
R&D / revenue6.5%19th
CapEx / revenue0.4%23th
Operating margin8.4%74th
Current ratio2.44x67th
FCF margin12.0%47th
Net margin-2.2%48th

FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP (FA) reported revenue of $1.57B and net income of -$34.82M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 6 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation.

Income

FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312019-12-31
Revenue$1.57B$860.20M$763.76M$810.02M$712.30M$481.77M
Cost of revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Gross profitUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating income$132.47M-$62.38M$81.52M$94.28M$63.82M$92.17M
Net income-$34.82M-$110.27M$37.29M$64.60M$16.05M$34.25M
Research & development$101.85M$63.82M$49.26M$51.93M$45.51M$33.24M
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 173.20Mshares 148.58Mshares 146.23Mshares 151.81Mshares 141.69Mshares 163.88M
Pretax income-$37.25M-$114.62M$48.48M$85.08M$24.91M$41.15M
Income tax expense-$2.43M-$4.34M$11.18M$20.48M$8.86M-$6.90M
Diluted EPS$-0.20$-0.74$0.26$0.43$0.11$0.21
Selling, general & administrative$236.18M$263.94M$116.73M$116.64M$107.98M$85.08M
General & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312019-12-31
Cash & equivalents$240.00M$168.69M$213.77M$391.66M$292.64MUnavailable
Total assets$3.83B$3.92B$1.63B$1.89B$1.89BUnavailable
Current assets$561.70M$475.99M$373.74M$566.20M$466.16MUnavailable
Total liabilities$2.52B$2.62B$723.92M$759.21M$754.34MUnavailable
Current liabilities$230.46M$250.69M$85.04M$100.79M$109.31MUnavailable
Total equity incl. NCI$1.31B$1.31B$906.73M$1.13B$1.13BUnavailable
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
InventoryUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Accounts receivable$297.28M$266.80M$142.69M$143.81M$155.77MUnavailable
Goodwill$2.14B$2.12B$820.65M$793.08M$793.89MUnavailable
Long-term debt$2.08B$2.12B$558.46M$556.65M$554.84MUnavailable
Accounts payable$109.89M$120.87M$47.02M$54.95M$53.98MUnavailable

Cash flow

FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312019-12-31
Operating cash flow$195.13M$28.20M$162.82M$212.77M$148.68M$71.58M
Capital expenditures$6.63M$1.72M$2.08M$6.16M$7.31M$6.58M
Investing cash flow-$54.13M-$1.65B-$66.85M-$48.60M-$72.43M-$17.79M
Financing cash flow-$70.76M$1.58B-$273.56M-$59.15M$63.85M-$3.18M
Net change in cash$70.60M-$44.43M-$177.88M$99.01M$139.82M$50.49M
Stock-based compensation$24.46M$31.76M$15.26M$7.86M$9.53M$1.22M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchasesUnavailableUnavailable$59.48M$60.53MUnavailableUnavailable
Depreciation & amortization$111.80M$77.20M$67.40M$70.00M$69.40M$14.90M

Derived

FIRST ADVANTAGE CORP derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312019-12-31
Free cash flow$188.49M$26.48M$160.74M$206.60M$141.36M$65.00M
Gross marginUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Operating margin8.4%-7.3%10.7%11.6%9.0%19.1%
FCF margin12.0%3.1%21.0%25.5%19.8%13.5%
SBC / revenue1.6%3.7%2.0%1.0%1.3%0.3%
Current ratio2.44x1.90x4.39x5.62x4.26xUnavailable
Revenue YoY growth83.0%12.6%-5.7%13.7%UnavailableUnavailable
Net margin-2.2%-12.8%4.9%8.0%2.3%7.1%
R&D / revenue6.5%7.4%6.5%6.4%6.4%6.9%
CapEx / revenue0.4%0.2%0.3%0.8%1.0%1.4%
Long-term debt / equity1.58xUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rateUnavailableUnavailable23.1%24.1%35.6%-16.8%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open FA in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-08-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-07View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-26View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-11-06View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-07View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-05-08View SEC filing

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