Stock Research: First Advantage

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First Advantage

NSQ:FA US31846B1089
27
  • Value
    56
  • Growth
    69
  • Safety
    Safety
    18
  • Combined
    53
  • Sentiment
    33
  • 360° View
    360° View
    27
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Company Description

First Advantage Corporation is a global provider of employment background screening, identity, and verification solutions. Enabled by its technology, the Company delivers services and insights that help customers mitigate risk and hire talent: employees, contractors, contingent workers, tenants, and drivers. Its comprehensive product suite enables its customers across all industry sectors to perform pre-onboarding screening and post-onboarding monitoring of employees, contractors, contingent workers, tenants, and drivers. Its pre-onboarding products include 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 others. Its post-onboarding solutions include criminal records monitoring, healthcare sanctions, motor vehicle records, social media and global sanctions and licenses.

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ANALYSIS: With an Obermatt 360° View of 27 (better than 27% compared with alternatives), overall professional sentiment and financial characteristics for the stock First Advantage are below the industry average. The 360° View is based on consolidating four consolidated indicators, with half of the metrics below and half above average for First Advantage. The consolidated Value Rank has an attractive rank of 56, which means that the share price of First Advantage is on the lower side compared with the typical size in indicators such as revenues, profits, and invested capital. This means the stock price is lower than for 56% of alternative stocks in the same industry. The consolidated Growth Rank has a good rank of 69, which means that the company experiences above-average growth momentum when looking at financial metrics such as revenue, profit, and invested capital growth as well as stock returns. But the professional market sentiment is below average compared with other stock investment alternatives with a Sentiment Rank of 33. Professional investors are more confident in 67% other stocks. Worryingly, the company has risky financing, with a Safety rank of 18. This means 82% of comparable companies have a safer financing structure than First Advantage. ...read more

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The higher the 360° View, the better the stock performed against its peers, considering all metrics. The 360° View represents an average of the other 5 ranks and is then scaled to a rank from 1 to 100. The shaded values are illustrative only.
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Value
56 18 22 19
Growth
69 94 71 69
Safety
Safety
18 72 76 26
Sentiment
33 22 16 38
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27 38 17 16
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Analyst Opinions
32 40 26 85
Opinions Change
61 31 50 50
Pro Holdings
n/a 28 63 8
Market Pulse
70 33 25 46
Sentiment
33 22 16 38
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Value
56 18 22 19
Growth
69 94 71 69
Safety Safety
18 72 76 26
Combined
53 69 46 19
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Price vs. Sales (P/S)
54 27 19 25
Price vs. Earnings (P/E)
79 38 67 48
Price vs. Book (P/B)
75 67 59 62
Dividend Yield
1 1 1 1
Value
56 18 22 19
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Revenue Growth
50 100 64 74
Profit Growth
49 19 36 12
Capital Growth
86 86 49 93
Stock Returns
52 58 87 31
Growth
69 94 71 69
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Metrics Current 2025 2024 2023
Leverage
16 37 48 30
Refinancing
66 57 56 60
Liquidity
20 100 98 18
Safety Safety
18 72 76 26

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This is a mixed bag with good value and high growth balanced by risky financing and negative sentiment. This is a risky stock that requires conviction; you should only consider it if you are willing to conduct further research into the underlying sentiment and financial risks.

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The 360° View Rank indicates a company's overall performance across all major financial and non-financial metrics tracked by Obermatt. A 360° View Rank of 75 means the company is more well-rounded than 75% of similar companies. A high score indicates that the company is strong across the board; it is attractively priced, growing sustainably, financially stable, and well-regarded by the market. Learn more.

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