Advantage Solutions Inc. (ADV)

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Advantage Solutions Inc.'s filings since 2019 show 4 warning events of 3 kinds: a notice about its exchange listing (8-K item 3.01, 2 times, the latest 2026-01-09); an auditor change (8-K item 4.01, the latest 2020-11-03); a late-report notice (Form NT 10-K or NT 10-Q, the latest 2021-05-11) (its current reports).

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Advantage Solutions Inc.'s 8 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.7 billion in fiscal 2018 to $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025, down 0.6% a year; it rose in 4 of 7 years; the deepest fall was 17% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 1 of 8 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Advantage Solutions Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.6% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 11% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 9 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $368 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Advantage Solutions Inc. lost about 41 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 80 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.9% over the year (the filed statements).

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Advantage Solutions Inc.'s standing among 101 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 27% by size; a net margin of -6.4% ranks in the bottom 33%; revenue growth of -1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 25% (its annual reports).

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Advantage Solutions Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Peacock, David A (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2023-02-03, 3.8 years (bottom 48% of its family); the 15 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.6 years (bottom 25%); 11 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 15 people in charge now (bottom 28%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Advantage Solutions Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $253 million against debt of $1.7 billion leaves -50.4% of its assets as net cash, bottom 3% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 1.6% of revenue (bottom 30%) (its annual report).

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Advantage Solutions Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -1% a year over the last three filed years against -0.6% over all 8, slowing (top 40% of its family); the newest year grew -0.7% (bottom 28%); capital spending grew -19.4% a year (bottom 19%) (its annual reports). Advantage Solutions Inc. tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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Advantage Solutions Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $3.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.4% above the $3.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 46% of its family); net income of $228 million against a prior three-year average of $590 million (top 47%); a net margin of -6.4% against -16.2% before (top 38%) (its annual reports).