First Advantage Corporation has grown revenue 29% a year over three years and 27% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at −25%. Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate: +29% (Specialty Business Services median +9.2%). Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +27%, growth has picked up over the last three years. Earnings per share, 3-year rate: −25%, earnings lagged revenue: the growth is costing something. Years of annual history on file: 6, FY2019 to FY2025, as filed.

FAFirst Advantage Corporation

Industrials

$19.04+24% 1Y

$19.04

$8.9552 weeks$24.12

Is it growing?

Mixed

Neither accelerating nor breaking down: revenue growing +33% year on year and operating margin widening (+13.1 points), but earnings down −114% year on year.

2 good, 1 to watch

Revenue trend+33% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month revenue vs a year earlier, from the company's own filings.

Earnings trend−114% in a year

Trailing-twelve-month earnings per share against a year earlier. Growing slower than revenue, so the growth is costing something.

Margin direction+13.1 points operating

Trailing-twelve-month operating margin, 10.6% now against -2.5% a year earlier.

All from SEC EDGAR, as of Jun 30, 2026.

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Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.

Revenue growth, 3 yearstop 6% of the market

Where this answer is blind. These are trailing numbers from the filings, not forecasts: an acquisition or a one-off year can flatter them, so check the quarters.

Is FA growing?

First Advantage Corporation has grown revenue 29% a year over three years and 27% a year over five, with earnings per share compounding at −25%.

+29%

Revenue growth, 3-year annual rate · Specialty Business Services median +9.2% · compounding fast · compounded from trailing twelve-month revenue

Revenue growth, 5-year rate: +27%
Revenue growth, 5-year rate · +29% over three · growth has picked up over the last three years
Earnings per share, 3-year rate: −25%
Earnings per share, 3-year rate · revenue +29% · earnings lagged revenue: the growth is costing something
Years of annual history on file: 6
Years of annual history on file · FY2019 to FY2025, as filed