Check Out First American Financial Corp (FAF)’s Trade Data Rather Than the Analysts’ Views

With 1.39 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.68 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Specialty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $62.705 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $61.83. The 52-week range on FAF shows that it touched its highest point at $67.88 and its lowest point at $51.60 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $76.40. With its current market cap of 6.44 billion, FAF has annualized dividend of $2.13 while the current yield stands at 3.41%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.30.

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Price Performance and Earnings:

Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of FAF was down-trending over the past week, with a drop of -2.59%, but this was down by -2.74% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 3.96% while six-month performance rose 12.05%. The stock gained 15.44% in the past year, while it has lost -3.03% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FAF yields 0.88 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.59. For the next quarter, that number is 1.10. This implies an EPS growth rate of 63.61% for this year and 65.06% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -7.65% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -13.13%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 103.10 million FAF shares are outstanding with a float of 98.13 million shares on hand for trading. On 2024-10-15, short shares totaled 1.08 million, which was 105.0 higher than short shares on 1726185600. In addition to Mr. Kenneth David DeGiorgio BA, MBA as the firm’s CEO & Director, Mr. Mark Edward Seaton serves as its Executive VP & CFO.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.89502 of FAF’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.

Analysts Ratings:

Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for FAF since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 4 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 0 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With FAF analysts setting a high price target of 84.0 and a low target of 72.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 76.4. Based on these targets, FAF could surge 34.42% to reach the target high and rise by 15.22% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 22.26% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $3.48004 being high and $3.2933 being low. For FAF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $3.38667. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $1.16. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.21 and the low estimate is $0.74. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.92.