With 7.06 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained heavier than its average volume of 1.0 million shares. During the session, the Insurance – Specialty company that operates in wider Financial sector, reached to the highest price of $60.01 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $53.09. The 52-week range on FAF shows that it touched its highest point at $70.92 and its lowest point at $52.73 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $76.50. With its current market cap of 5.82 billion, FAF has annualized dividend of $2.16 while the current yield stands at 3.82%. FAF paid its most recent dividend on 1749427200, while the ex-dividend date for that was 1749427200. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.26.
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 -9.81%, but this was up by 0.44% over a month. Three-month performance dropped to -2.52% while six-month performance fell -6.90%. The stock lost -9.40% in the past year, while it has gained 7.40% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for FAF yields 1.52 with Next year EPS estimates of 5.96. For the next quarter, that number is 1.36. This implies an EPS growth rate of 284.52% for this year and 23.01% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 75.41% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of -27.38%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 103.20 million FAF shares are outstanding with a float of 98.11 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-06-13, short shares totaled 1.88 million, which was 183.0 higher than short shares on 1747267200. In addition to Mr. Dennis Joseph Gilmore as the firm’s Executive Chairman of the Board, Mr. Mark Edward Seaton serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.91023004 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 86.0 and a low target of 72.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 77.0. Based on these targets, FAF could surge 52.02% to reach the target high and rise by 27.28% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 36.11% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.60172 being high and $1.57437 being low. For FAF, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.59. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $1.57 and the low estimate is $1.39. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $1.48.
