Taking the lead: Fidelity National Financial Inc (FNF)

With 1.05 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 0.98 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Specialty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $61.99 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $60.75. The 52-week range on FNF shows that it touched its highest point at $62.97 and its lowest point at $44.10 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $67.20. With its current market cap of 17.31 billion, FNF has annualized dividend of $1.92 while the current yield stands at 3.10%. FNF paid its most recent dividend on 1726444800, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1734393600. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.38.

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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 FNF was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 1.98%, but this was up by 2.19% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 4.84% while six-month performance rose 22.05%. The stock gained 38.75% in the past year, while it has gained 21.40% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FNF yields 2.75 with Next year EPS estimates of 6.11. For the next quarter, that number is 1.22. This implies an EPS growth rate of 29.15% for this year and 33.26% for next year. EPS is expected to decline by -11.03% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -3.32%.

Float and Shares Shorts:

At present, 273.25 million FNF shares are outstanding with a float of 256.58 million shares on hand for trading. On 2023-02-15, short shares totaled 3.96 million, which was 145.00000500000002 higher than short shares on 1672358400. In addition to Mr. Michael Joseph Nolan as the firm’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Raymond Randall Quirk serves as its Executive Vice-Chairman.

Institutional Ownership:

Through their ownership of 0.81123 of FNF’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 FNF since 4 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 2 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 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 FNF analysts setting a high price target of 76.0 and a low target of 59.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 67.2. Based on these targets, FNF could surge 22.7% to reach the target high and fall by -4.75% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 8.49% from current levels.

Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $4.62576 being high and $4.55443 being low. For FNF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $4.585. The surprise factor in the prior quarter was $1.31. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.47 and the low estimate is $1.08. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.2.