First Advantage Corporation

FA stock score: 64/100

$21.22 · +7.93% · Scored Oct 22, 2026

Technical
69
Fundamental
60
News
51

The reading

First Advantage (FA) scores 64 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 92% of Industrials stocks and 88% of the 4,161 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 69, fundamentals 60.

Among the fundamentals, Price Target at 100 and Fund Ownership at 100 score highest, while Trailing P/E at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 68 and contrarian oscillators 39 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 51; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 56 to 65, and it is up 3 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward FA’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

60

Pulling it up

  • Price Target100

    Price target score compares the current stock price to analyst consensus targets.

  • Fund Ownership100

    Fund ownership tracks institutional investor holdings and changes.

  • Revenue Quality (Quarterly)100

    Revenue Quality (Quarterly) evaluates recent revenue performance using trailing 12-month data from quarterly reports.

Holding it back

  • Trailing P/E0

    Trailing P/E ratio uses the last 12 months of actual earnings.

  • Return on Equity (ROE)2

    Return on Equity (ROE) measures how efficiently a company generates profits from shareholder equity.

  • Return on Assets (ROA)4

    Return on Assets (ROA) shows how efficiently a company uses its assets to generate profit.

38 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

65

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • VWAP100

    Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP) shows the average price weighted by volume.

  • SMA 50 Cross Up100

    SMA 50 Cross Up detects when faster averages cross above the 50-period SMA.

Holding it back

  • Bollinger Bands (20)0

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • TRIX12

    TRIX is a momentum oscillator that filters out short-term noise by triple-smoothing price data.

  • Commodity Channel Index (14)18

    Commodity Channel Index (14-period) measures the current price level relative to an average price level.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
51

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly641
Daily653
Weekly702
Monthly722
Quarterly742

Composite score, last 90 days

05010064Jul 25, 2026Oct 22, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 61Jul 26, 2026: 61Jul 27, 2026: 62Jul 28, 2026: 63Jul 29, 2026: 64Jul 30, 2026: 63Jul 31, 2026: 62Aug 2, 2026: 60Aug 3, 2026: 62Aug 5, 2026: 59Aug 6, 2026: 59Aug 7, 2026: 63Aug 8, 2026: 65Aug 9, 2026: 65Aug 10, 2026: 64Aug 11, 2026: 62Aug 12, 2026: 60Aug 13, 2026: 63Aug 14, 2026: 63Aug 15, 2026: 63Aug 16, 2026: 63Aug 17, 2026: 60Aug 18, 2026: 60Aug 19, 2026: 62Aug 20, 2026: 63Aug 22, 2026: 60Aug 23, 2026: 60Aug 24, 2026: 60Aug 25, 2026: 60Aug 26, 2026: 60Aug 27, 2026: 61Aug 28, 2026: 63Aug 29, 2026: 63Aug 30, 2026: 63Aug 31, 2026: 62Sep 1, 2026: 61Sep 2, 2026: 60Sep 3, 2026: 59Sep 4, 2026: 63Sep 5, 2026: 63Sep 6, 2026: 63Sep 7, 2026: 63Sep 8, 2026: 62Sep 9, 2026: 61Sep 10, 2026: 60Sep 11, 2026: 63Sep 12, 2026: 63Sep 13, 2026: 63Sep 14, 2026: 63Sep 15, 2026: 63Sep 16, 2026: 62Sep 17, 2026: 61Sep 18, 2026: 60Sep 19, 2026: 59Sep 20, 2026: 60Sep 21, 2026: 60Sep 22, 2026: 59Sep 23, 2026: 61Sep 24, 2026: 61Sep 25, 2026: 58Sep 26, 2026: 59Sep 27, 2026: 59Sep 28, 2026: 57Sep 29, 2026: 56Sep 30, 2026: 56Oct 1, 2026: 57Oct 2, 2026: 57Oct 3, 2026: 58Oct 4, 2026: 58Oct 5, 2026: 58Oct 6, 2026: 59Oct 7, 2026: 59Oct 8, 2026: 59Oct 9, 2026: 60Oct 10, 2026: 61Oct 11, 2026: 61Oct 12, 2026: 61Oct 13, 2026: 61Oct 14, 2026: 60Oct 15, 2026: 63Oct 16, 2026: 61Oct 17, 2026: 61Oct 18, 2026: 61Oct 19, 2026: 59Oct 20, 2026: 61Oct 21, 2026: 63Oct 22, 2026: 64
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Key facts

Market cap
$3.6B
Sector
Industrials
Industry
Specialty Business Services
Beta
1.14
Risk grade (1–10)
7
Next earnings
Nov 5, 2026

Specialty Business Services peers

CompanyMarket capScore
AMTM Amentum$5.2B56
UNF UniFirst$5.0B59
AZZ AZZ$4.0B66
MMS Maximus$3.3B58
ABM ABM Industries$3.2B63
CBZ CBIZ$3.0B61

Questions

What is FA's stock score today?

FA scores 64/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 22, 2026: technical 69, fundamental 60, and news sentiment 51, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is FA a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 64 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the FA score calculated?

100 weighted scorers feed it today: 38 fundamental, scored against Industrials ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.