First Advantage Corporation (FA)

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First Advantage Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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First Advantage Corporation's 6 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $482 million in fiscal 2019 to $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025, up 21.8% a year; it rose in 4 of 5 years; the deepest fall was 6% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 4 of 6 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, First Advantage Corporation's diluted share count grew about 4.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 15% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 8 sales (7 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 1 purchase of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-10, buying about $107 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, First Advantage Corporation lost about 3 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 66 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 16.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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First Advantage Corporation's standing among 68 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 21% by size; a net margin of -2.2% ranks in the bottom 39%; revenue growth of 24.8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 19% (its annual reports).

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First Advantage Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Staples, Scott (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2021-06-23, 5.4 years (top 38% of its family); the 12 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 5 years (top 44%); 6 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 12 people in charge now (top 47%; 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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First Advantage Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $240 million against debt of $2.1 billion leaves -48% of its assets as net cash, bottom 1% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 12% of revenue (top 39%); research spending of 6.5% of revenue (bottom 24%) (its annual report).

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First Advantage Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 24.8% a year over the last three filed years against 21.8% over all 6, speeding up (top 12% of its family); the newest year grew 83.1% (top 12%); research spending grew 25.2% a year (top 10%); capital spending grew 2.5% a year (top 39%) (its annual reports). First Advantage Corporation 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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First Advantage Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $1.6 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 77.6% above the $886 million its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 14% of its family); net income of $35 million against a prior three-year average of $3 million (bottom 3%); a net margin of -2.2% against 0% before (bottom 19%) (its annual reports).