Ratings First Advantage Corporation

Equities

FA

US31846B1089

Market Closed - Nasdaq Other stock markets 04:00:00 2024-04-24 pm EDT			5-day change	1st Jan Change
16.43 ^USD	+0.06%		+11.24%	-0.84%

Apr. 23	William Blair Starts First Advantage With Outperform Rating	MT
Mar. 26	Evercore ISI Adjusts Price Target on First Advantage to $18 From $17, Maintains Outperform Rating	MT

Summary

From a short-term investment perspective, the company presents a deteriorated fundamental situation

Strengths

The company's earnings per share (EPS) are expected to grow significantly over the next few years according to the consensus of analysts covering the stock.
Before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, the company's margins are particularly high.
Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
The opinion of analysts covering the stock has improved over the past four months.
Consensus analysts have strongly revised their opinion of the company over the past 12 months.

Weaknesses

With an expected P/E ratio at 55.03 and 35.83 respectively for both the current and next fiscal years, the company operates with high earnings multiples.
The company's enterprise value to sales, at 3.29 times its current sales, is high.
For the last twelve months, the trend in sales revisions has been clearly going down, which emphasizes downgraded expectations from the analysts.
The company's sales previsions for the coming years have been revised downwards, which foreshadows another slowdown in business.
For the last 12 months, analysts have been regularly downgrading their EPS expectations. Analysts predict worse results for the company against their predictions a year ago.
For the last four months, earnings estimated by analysts have been revised downwards with respect to the next two years.

Ratings chart - Surperformance

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Sector: Business Support Services

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