First Advantage (FA) reported $1.6B in revenue for fiscal 2025, +83.0% year on year. That ranks #1483 by revenue among 2853 SEC filers and #242 in Technology. It posted a net loss of −$34.8M for the same year. Revenue has grown 21.8% a year on average since 2019 ($482M then). The fiscal 2025 balance sheet shows $3.8B in total assets, $240M in cash and $2.1B in long-term debt.

Key figures

$482M2019$472M2020$712M2021$810M2022$764M2023$860M2024$1.6B2025
First Advantage — Key figures
Key figuresFY2025YoYSource
RevenueRevenues$1.6B+83.0%FY20252025-12-31
Gross profitNot reported—
Operating incomeOperatingIncomeLoss$132M+$195MFY20252025-12-31
Net incomeNetIncomeLoss−$34.8M+$75.4MFY20252025-12-31
Operating cash flowNetCashProvidedByUsedInOperatingActivities$195M+592.0%FY20252025-12-31
Capital expenditurePaymentsToAcquirePropertyPlantAndEquipment$6.6M+285.6%FY20252025-12-31
Total assetsAssets$3.8B−2.3%FY20252025-12-31
Shareholders' equityStockholdersEquity$1.3B+0.5%FY20252025-12-31
CashCashAndCashEquivalentsAtCarryingValue$240M+42.3%FY20252025-12-31
Long-term debtLongTermDebtNoncurrent$2.1B−1.9%FY20252025-12-31

Revenue is total net sales for the fiscal year, taken from each company's own annual filing.

Reported since the last full year

Three-month figures this company has filed since FY2025. A quarter is not comparable with a full year, and these figures are used nowhere else on the site: not in any ranking, not in comparisons, not in the download.

First Advantage — Reported since the last full year
QuarterRevenueNet incomeSource
Q1 20262026-03-31$385M$2.2MOpen →
Q2 20262026-06-30$449M$16.9MOpen →

Only periods that end on a calendar quarter appear here. A company whose fiscal year ends in June files on a different calendar, so it has no row.

Where this sits in its sector

Each bar is the spread of the whole sector: the box covers the middle half of companies, the line inside it the median, and the triangle this company. The axis is clipped at the 5th and 95th percentile so a single outlier does not flatten it.

First Advantage — Where this sits in its sector
Where this sits in its sectorFY2025Position in sector
Net marginRank 251 of 298 companies compared−2.2%
Operating marginRank 167 of 297 companies compared8.4%
R&D as share of revenueRank 176 of 253 companies compared6.5%
Cash as share of revenueRank 190 of 297 companies compared15.2%

All four are ratios derived from two reported lines, not single filing items. Peer group: companies in the same sector with revenue of $1bn or more; loss-making companies are included.

Profile

Legal name
First Advantage Corp
Ticker
FA
Exchange
Nasdaq
SIC classification
Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)
Fiscal year end
12-31
CIK
0001210677

Filings

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The filing itself

The numbers above are read from this document: 10-K · 0001193125-26-076740 · February 26, 2026

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