First Advantage Corporation (FA) Stock Analysis
A live, multi-source view of First Advantage Corporation (FA): real-time price, technical indicators, Wall Street analyst consensus, recent news sentiment and social buzz — aggregated into one place so you can size up the stock at a glance.
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.
Sector: Industrials · Industry: Specialty Business Services · United States · 9,500 employees · fadv.com
Key statistics · as of 2026-09-05
As of 2026-09-05, First Advantage Corporation (FA) had a market capitalization of $3.67B, a trailing P/E of 142.5 (forward 14.2) and a beta of 1.17; the shares traded in a 52-week range of $8.82 – $25.15 (30.0% over the year).
- Market cap
- $3.67B
- Enterprise value
- $5.47B
- Trailing P/E
- 142.5
- Forward P/E
- 14.2
- Price / book
- 2.83
- EPS (trailing)
- $0.15
- EPS (forward)
- $1.51
- Payout ratio
- 0.0%
- Ex-dividend date
- 2023-08-18
- 52-week range
- $8.82 – $25.15
- 52-week change
- 30.0%
- Beta
- 1.17
- Average volume
- 2.2M
- Shares outstanding
- 171.8M
- Short % of float
- 13.85%
- Profit margin
- 1.5%
Fundamental figures are recorded once every few days, dated above; they are not live and can differ from the interactive tiles.
Last universe scan · 2026-09-11
In RapidTradeView’s 2026-09-11 scan of the US universe, First Advantage Corporation (FA) last closed at $20.42 (the last completed close before that scan).
Technicals at the scan: RSI 47 (neutral territory), price -2.1% versus its 20-day average, 20-day versus 50-day average spread -0.0%, MACD histogram -0.08.
Sentiment inputs: 100% of recent Finnhub-scored headlines read bullish; Reddit mentions 0% over 24 hours; analyst consensus score 72/100.
Next scheduled company event: in 55 days from the scan date.
Scan values are recorded once per trading day and are not live quotes; the interactive tiles above update in real time.
Smart Money · last 90 days
Members of Congress disclosed 0 buys and 0 sells of FA; corporate insiders filed 0 buys and 1 sell (1 filer, latest disclosure 2026-08-14). Filings arrive days to weeks after the trade and are not a live signal. Most active filers: Slta V (gp), L.l.c. (0B/1S). Who is trading what
RapidTradeView pick record
FA has not appeared in the daily picks yet. Full scoreboard
What this page covers
RapidTradeView pulls First Advantage Corporation (FA) data from multiple independent sources and combines it into a single dashboard. Below the summary you’ll find live, interactive tiles for each of the following:
- Price & chart — real-time quote with pre/post-market moves and a line or candlestick chart.
- Technical indicators — RSI, MACD, moving averages, Bollinger Bands, volume and support/resistance, distilled into one overall signal.
- Analyst consensus — the buy/hold/sell breakdown and price targets published by Wall Street analysts.
- News sentiment — recent headlines, each scored for tone so the prevailing narrative is obvious.
- Earnings — current EPS, year-over-year change and the next scheduled earnings date.
- Social buzz — Reddit mention volume and StockTwits sentiment for the retail-trader angle.
How to read the signals
No single indicator tells the whole story. A bullish technical reading paired with a cautious analyst consensus, or strong social buzz against weak earnings, is exactly the kind of tension this view is built to surface. RapidTradeView’s signals are generated by deterministic, statistical models — they describe what the data is doing, they are not personalised recommendations to buy or sell FA.
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