First American Financial Corp (NYSE: FAF) on Monday, plunged -5.47% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $61.63. Within the past 52 weeks, FAF’s price has moved between $51.60 and $70.92.
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Annual sales at Financial sector company grew by 1.56% over the past five years. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 293.85%. With a float of $98.51 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $103.00 million.
Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 19038 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 94.92%, operating margin of 4.17%, and the pretax margin is 2.81%.
First American Financial Corp (FAF) Insider and Institutional Ownership
Observing investor behavior towards Insurance – Specialty industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of First American Financial Corp is 4.44%, while institutional ownership is 89.14%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Feb 25 ’25, was worth 2,436,110. In this transaction EVP & Chief Financial Officer of this company sold 37,321 shares at a rate of $65.27, taking the stock ownership to the 158,491 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Feb 25 ’25, when Company’s SVP, Chief Legal Officer sold 3,057 for $65.49, making the entire transaction worth $200,216. This insider now owns 23,825 shares in total.
First American Financial Corp (FAF) Latest Financial update
Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.46 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 293.85% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 77.28% during the next five years compared to -27.38% drop over the previous five years of trading.
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 1.02. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 8.84.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.25, a number that is poised to hit 0.67 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 6.09 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of First American Financial Corp (FAF)
First American Financial Corp (NYSE: FAF) saw its 5-day average volume 1.21 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 0.65 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 8.82%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.74.
During the past 100 days, First American Financial Corp’s (FAF) raw stochastic average was set at 7.39%, which indicates a significant decrease from 8.48% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 34.92% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 25.40% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $64.09, while its 200-day Moving Average is $62.87. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $60.38 in the near term. At $62.50, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $63.96. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $56.79, it is likely to go to the next support level at $55.33. The third support level lies at $53.21 if the price breaches the second support level.
First American Financial Corp (NYSE: FAF) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 6.01 billion based on 103,088K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 6,128 M and income totals 131,100 K. The company made 1,685 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 72,400 K in sales during its previous quarter.
