First Advantage Corporation (FA)
Industrials · NMS
Price as at 1 Oct 2026, 13:15 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
First Advantage Corporation trades at $17.80, which is 52% above the $8.47 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 34 out of 100, which is little in the way of a moat. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 423.4 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
FA dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $1.50 | 1 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
FA earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 10 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About First Advantage Corporation
First Advantage Corporation provides employment background screening, digital identity, and verification solutions internationally. It offers pre-onboarding products and solutions, such as criminal background checks, drug/health screening, extended workforce screening, FBI channeling, identity checks and biometric fraud mitigation tools, education/work history verification, driver records and compliance, healthcare credentials, executive screening, and other screening products. The company also provides post-onboarding solutions, including criminal records monitoring, I-9 verification, healthcare sanctions, motor vehicle records, social media screening, and global sanctions and licenses; and adjacent products comprising fleet/vehicle compliance, hiring tax credits and incentives, and investigative research. Its products and solutions are used by executive management, human resources, talent acquisition, risk, compliance, vendor management, safety, global enterprises, mid-sized, and small companies. The company was formerly known as Fastball Intermediate, Inc. and changed its name to First Advantage Corporation in March 2021. First Advantage Corporation was founded in 2002 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
Super investor ownership
5 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Marshall Wace, MARSHALL WACE, LLP$4.32M · 0.0% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$2.95M · 0.0% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$1.63M · 0.0% of book
- Robert Olstein, Olstein Capital Management, L.P.$1.12M · 0.2% of book
- Joel Greenblatt, Gotham Asset Management, LLC$889.3K · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in FA
Trades in FA disclosed by members of Congress and executive-branch officials, latest first:
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchSell · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 29 Jul 2024 · disclosed 22 Sept 2026
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchBuy · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 8 Jul 2024 · disclosed 22 Sept 2026
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
FA peers
The largest companies in the same industry (Specialty Business Services), then in the same sector.
- RLXXF RELX PLC
- TRI.TO Thomson Reuters Corporation
- RBA RB Global, Inc.
- WTKWY Wolters Kluwer N.V.
- RTO Rentokil Initial plc
- ARMK Aramark
- AMTM Amentum Holdings, Inc.
- UNF UniFirst Corporation
Every industrials company we cover is on the Industrials hub.
Common questions
Is First Advantage Corporation (FA) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $8.47, FA at $17.80 is 52% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own FA?
5 of the institutions we track reported a position in FA in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is FA's P/E ratio?
FA trades at 423.4 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Where does SteadyShares get its FA data?
Fundamentals for FA come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NMS; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 1 Oct 2026, 13:15 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 92/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.