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NASDAQ · SERVICES-BUSINESS SERVICES, NEC · MID CAP

Advantage Solutions Inc. ADV

8 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$3.5B
▼ 0.7% YoY
$-227.7M
$55.1M
▼ 35.4% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Advantage Solutions Inc. provides outsourced sales, marketing, merchandising, sampling, and retailer support services to consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers primarily across North America. It serves more than 4,000 clients across grocery, mass, club, retail pharmacy, convenience, and other channels in over 100,000 retail locations. As of December 31, 2025, it employed approximately 73,000 teammates, of whom approximately 16,000 were full-time and approximately 57,000 were part-time. It operates through three reportable segments: Branded Services, Experiential Services, and Retailer Services. Its Branded Services segment provides sales, merchandising, and omni-commerce marketing support to branded CPG manufacturers. Its Experiential Services segment provides in-store and digital sampling programs, demonstrations, and experiential events for manufacturers and retailers. Its Retailer Services segment provides solutions that support retailers in the development of in-store merchandising execution, private brands, and retail-media and marketing initiatives.

Written from the business description in Advantage Solutions Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 3 March 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 3.5B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 8-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 3.5 · Net income -0.2
2.0B-0.5B-1.0B20182019202020212022202320242025
Compound annual growth
−1.0%
+2.3%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +2.3% a year over five years.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
−6 cents
lost on every revenue dollar
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating -3.6% · Net -6.4%
2%4%6%-20%-40%20182019202020212022202320242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE -30.4%
-20%-40%-60%20182019202020212022202320242025

Each USD of equity lost 30 cents this year.

Cash & shareholders
USD 869,000.00
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $M
FY2025 · FCF 55.1
200M20182019202020212022202320242025
Net buybacks $M Dividends $M
FY2025 · Dividends — · Net buybacks 0.9
20M2019202020212022202320242025

USD 869,000.00 in buybacks went back to shareholders in a year without profit.

Total assetsUSD 2.8B
CashUSD 240.8M
Gross debtUSD 1.7B
Net debtUSD 1.4B
DepositsUSD 18.7M
Current ratio2.25×

Not available: we don't have the shareholders' equity figure for this period.

The 8-year record
8 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018
Revenue $B3.53.63.93.63.63.23.23.7
Operating income $B−0.1−0.30.0−1.50.20.10.2−1.1
EBITDA $B−0.1−0.30.1−1.50.30.10.3−1.1
Income tax $B−0.0−0.1−0.0−0.20.0−0.00.0−0.2
Net income $B−0.2−0.3−0.1−1.40.1−0.2−0.0−1.2
Free cash flow $B0.10.10.20.10.10.30.10.1
EPS, diluted $··−0.20−4.330.17−0.79−0.10−5.68
Dividend / sh $········
Payout %········
ROE %−30.4−35.3−5.7−76.52.2−8.8−1.3−69.3
Shares out B0.330.320.320.320.320.320.20·

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 28 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 8 of 19 fiscal years. 59 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityServices-Business Services, NEC
Listed onNASDAQ
Incorporated innot stated in the filings
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2018

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