FAFirst Advantage Corporation

Industrials

$19.04+24% 1Y

$19.04

$8.9552 weeks$24.12

Is the price fair?

Fair

Neither cheap nor expensive: modest expectations priced in, but at the top of its own P/E range.

1 good, 1 to watch, 1 neutral

What the price assumes~−2% a year

Priced for a decline (~−2% a year). The price demands less than its three-year revenue growth of 29% a year, expectations look modest.

Vs its own P/E rangedearer than 92% of its own historyderived

Expensive vs its own history: P/E 136.0 vs a 50.5 median over 12 quarters (+169% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)26.3×

Sector median 23.3× across 246 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.

Against the whole market›

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

P/E (valuation)bottom 4% of the market

FCF yieldbetter than 79% of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What FA's price assumes

First Advantage Corporation trades at 136× earnings against 25.9× for the median Specialty Business Services name, more expensive than its own group.

136

Trailing P/E · Specialty Business Services median 25.9 · 5.26× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales: 1.73
Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
Free cash flow yield: 8.7%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Business Services median 7.8%
Growth the price implies: −1.7%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for −1.7% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +10% a year over the last three.