First American Financial Corp
First American Financial Corp (FAF) is listed on NYSE and classified in Insurance - Specialty, part of the Financial Services sector. It is headquartered in Santa Ana, United States and has 19,102 employees. The company is worth $6.64B and trades at 9.0x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 13.2x. Revenue was $7.45B in fiscal 2025, up 21.6% from the year before. Net income was $621.8M. The share price is 18.5% below its 52-week high of $79.87. It pays a dividend yielding 3.75%, and has raised its annual dividend for 14 years in a row in our records. 6 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Ken Griffin (Citadel Advisors), at $50.72M. In that quarter, 2 of them opened or added to the position and 4 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▼ -12.5% over 5Y.
today you would have $1,057.41▲ +5.7%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 16 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $61.44 | $62.44 | $64.44 | $52.34 | $78.23 | $51.63 | $58.32 | $44.64 | $56.04 | $36.63 | $35.90 | $33.90 | $28.20 | $24.09 | $12.67 | $14.94 | |
| P/E | 13.1x | 10.2x |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 0.0% a year plus a 3.7% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 13.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 13.1 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 5.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Dividend growing 8.0% a year against a 10.3% required return, from the stock’s beta.
Companies of similar size in Financial Services, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VCTRVictory Capital Holdings, Inc. | $107.39 | 19.6x | 2.8x | 1.86% | 19.05% | $6.61B |
| UBSIUnited Bankshares Inc | $48.46 | 12.9x | 1.2x | 3.14% | 9.47% | $6.6B |
| OMFOneMain Holdings, Inc. | $57.11 | 8.6x | 1.9x | 7.35% | 23.28% | $6.57B |
| ACTEnact Holdings, Inc. |
| 49.6x |
| 31.1x |
| 21.4x |
| 7.0x |
| 8.4x |
| 9.4x |
| 10.7x |
| 14.9x |
| 11.9x |
| 13.7x |
| 15.8x |
| 16.5x |
| 8.7x |
| 17.4x |
| 12.4x |
| P/S | 0.8x | 0.8x | 1.0x | 1.1x | 0.7x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 1.1x | 865.8x | 1.1x | 0.7x | 0.8x | 0.8x | 0.6x | 0.6x | 0.3x | 0.4x |
| P/B | 1.3x | 1.1x | 1.3x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.5x | 1.2x | 1.5x | 1329.9x | 1.8x | 1.3x | 1.4x | 1.4x | 1.2x | 1.1x | 0.7x | 0.8x |
| EPS | $6.00 | $1.26 | $2.07 | $2.45 | $11.14 | $6.16 | $6.22 | $4.19 | $3.76 | $3.09 | $2.62 | $2.15 | $1.71 | $2.77 | $0.73 | $1.20 |
| Dividend yield | 2.83% | 3.55% | 3.43% | 3.26% | 3.94% | 2.48% | 3.45% | 2.88% | 3.58% | 2.57% | 3.28% | 2.79% | 2.48% | 1.70% | 1.49% | 1.89% | 1.20% |
| Payout | 37.25% | 36.33% | 169.84% | 101.45% | 84.08% | 17.41% | 28.90% | 27.01% | 38.19% | 38.30% | 38.83% | 38.17% | 39.07% | 28.07% | 13.00% | 32.88% | 15.00% |
| Profit margin | 5.86% | 8.34% | 2.14% | 3.61% | 3.46% | 13.46% | 9.82% | 11.40% | 8.26% | 7.33% | 6.15% | 5.57% | 4.99% | 3.76% | 6.63% | 2.05% | 3.27% |
| ROE | 10.89% | 11.31% | 2.67% | 4.47% | 5.65% | 21.52% | 14.18% | 15.99% | 12.68% | 12.16% | 11.40% | 10.48% | 9.08% | 7.60% | 12.82% | 3.86% | 6.46% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
+54.4% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
| $46.92 |
| 9.6x |
| 1.2x |
| 2.05% |
| 12.87% |
| $6.45B |
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