Is the price fair?
What FA's price assumes
First Advantage Corporation trades at 147× earnings against 33.6× for the median Specialty Business Services name, more expensive than its own group.
147
Trailing P/E · Specialty Business Services median 33.6 · 4.39× the median: the market pays up for this one
- Price / sales
- 1.28
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 8.7%
Free cash flow yield · Specialty Business Services median 4.7%
- 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.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 1.59
- EV / EBIT2026-Q1
- 24.6
- EV / sales2026-Q1
- 2.42
- Industrials median P/E351 names
- 29.0
- Specialty Business Services median P/E21 names
- 33.6
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $249M
- Market capitalisation
- $2.87B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +29%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- +10%
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
Specialty Business Services
Ranks #17 of 18 by Smart Score