First Advantage (FA) Q3 2026 earnings — TrendMatrix coverage
Reported
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Key numbers
- Adjusted EPS
- $0.38
- Estimate
- $0.34
- Surprise
- +13.3%
- Revenue (period 2026-09-30)
- $465.8M
- Score today
- 5.6/10
Revenue source: xbrl.
How the report landed
First Advantage (FA) beat the $0.34 estimate with adjusted EPS of $0.38 — a large 13.3% upside surprise.
Coverage in the report window
- Barclays Maintains Overweight on First Advantage, Raises Price Target to $34 — benzinga, 2026-11-06
- Needham Maintains Buy on First Advantage, Raises Price Target to $30 — benzinga, 2026-11-06
- First Advantage Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript — benzinga, 2026-11-05
Where TrendMatrix's rating stands now
TrendMatrix currently rates FA Sell at 5.6/10; no pre/post engine snapshot brackets this report.
4 of the last 4 quarters beat the estimate; this quarter's +13.3% surprise compares with a +18.7% four-quarter average.
What supports the rating
- Strong earnings beat streak (4/4)
What argues against it
- Concentration risk — Product: pre-onboarding screening products
- Analyst target reached - limited upside remaining
- V7 low-quality RISK_OFF penalty: -0.5 (Q=5.2)
This section and the ones below it reflect TrendMatrix’s latest engine read — they update after the report date and are not frozen to it.
The levels TrendMatrix's engine tracks
- Current price
- $23.57
- Stop
- $21.92
The stock trades at 92.5× trailing but 15.4× forward earnings — consensus estimates already build in a substantial earnings recovery.
Risk check: RSI 91 — a level conventionally read as overbought; gains at these levels often lean on momentum.
Model outputs from TrendMatrix’s engine as of 2026-11-06 — shown for context, not personalized investment advice.
FA at TrendMatrix's latest read
Industrial quarters are order-book stories — backlog and book-to-bill color how the market reads the reported number.
- Industry
- Specialty Business Services
- Market cap
- $3.97B
- P/E (fwd)
- 15.4
- P/E (ttm)
- 92.5
- 52-week range
- $8.82–$25.15
- Off 52-week high
- 6.3%
- RSI (14)
- 91
- Volume vs avg
- 0.25×
- Score today
- 5.6/10