First American Financial Corp (FAF) with a beta value of 1.35 appears to be a promising investment opportunity.

First American Financial Corp (NYSE: FAF) on Friday, plunged -3.87% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $60.02. Within the past 52 weeks, FAF’s price has moved between $51.60 and $70.92.

Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Financial sector was 1.44%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 108.21%. With a float of $98.44 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $103.00 million.

Considering the fact that the conglomerate employs 19210 people, you should pay attention to its efficiency factor. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 90.02%, operating margin of 4.36%, and the pretax margin is 1.85%.

First American Financial Corp (FAF) Breakdown of a Key Holders of the stock

Observing investor behavior towards Insurance – Specialty industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of First American Financial Corp is 4.43%, while institutional ownership is 86.93%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 29 ’24, was worth 149,012. In this transaction VP & Chief Accounting Officer of this company sold 2,337 shares at a rate of $63.76, taking the stock ownership to the 7,113 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Oct 29 ’24, when Company’s Officer proposed sale 2,337 for $63.76, making the entire transaction worth $149,012.

First American Financial Corp (FAF) Recent Fiscal highlights

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.82 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 108.21% per share during the next fiscal year.

First American Financial Corp (NYSE: FAF) Trading Performance Indicators

First American Financial Corp (FAF) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.06. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 18.98.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 0.88, a number that is poised to hit 1.08 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 5.38 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of First American Financial Corp (FAF)

Compared to the last year’s volume of 0.53 million, its volume of 0.57 million showed improvement in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 20.87%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.47.

During the past 100 days, First American Financial Corp’s (FAF) raw stochastic average was set at 2.87%, which indicates a significant decrease from 6.05% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 22.04% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 21.21% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $64.75, while its 200-day Moving Average is $60.62. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $58.72 in the near term. At $59.73, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $60.44. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $57.00, it is likely to go to the next support level at $56.29. Now, if the price goes above the second support level, the third support stands at $55.28.

First American Financial Corp (NYSE: FAF) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 5.94 billion based on 103,004K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 6,004 M and income totals 216,800 K. The company made 1,406 M in profit during its latest quarter, and -104,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.