First American Financial Corporation (FAF)

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First American Financial Corporation's filings since 2017 show 3 warning events: a material cybersecurity incident (8-K item 1.05, 3 times, the latest 2024-01-12) (its current reports).

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First American Financial Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $5.6 billion in fiscal 2016 to $7.5 billion in fiscal 2025, up 3.3% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 35% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2023; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, First American Financial Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 1.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 42% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 4 sales and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $4 million (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, First American Financial Corporation earned about 11 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 66 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.6% over the year (the filed statements).

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First American Financial Corporation's standing among 11 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $7.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the bottom 41% by size; a net margin of 8.3% ranks in the top 32%; revenue growth of -0.7% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 41% (its annual reports).

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First American Financial Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Seaton, Mark Edward (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-06-24, 1.4 years (bottom 6% of its family); the 14 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 12.5 years (top 17%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 14 people in charge now (bottom 6%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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First American Financial Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $1.4 billion against no long-term debt tagged leaves 8.5% of its assets as net cash, top 14% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 10.2% of revenue (bottom 32%) (its annual report).

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First American Financial Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -0.7% a year over the last three filed years against 3.3% over all 10, slowing (bottom 41% of its family); the newest year grew 21.6% (top 5%); capital spending grew -10.2% a year (bottom 6%) (its annual reports). First American Financial Corporation reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Title Insurance and Services at $7.0 billion, Home Warranty at $443 million. 2 of 2 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 94% of revenue (its annual report).

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First American Financial Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $7.5 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 35.5% above the $5.5 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 5% of its family); net income of $622 million against a prior three-year average of $204 million (top 5%); a net margin of 8.3% against 3.1% before (top 5%) (its annual reports).