The Week Ahead: Are Investors Really Too Optimistic About First American Financial Corp (NYSE: FAF)

First American Financial Corp (NYSE:FAF) currently has a daily average trading volume of 883.55K but it saw 1205393 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 5.57B USD, the company’s current market price of $54.11 came falling about -2.08 while comparing to the previous closing price of $55.26. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $70.92 and as low as $51.85. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $54.03 while lowest mark touched by it was $55.2.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the Keefe Bruyette which upgraded the stock as “Outperform” in its note to investors issued on April 08, 2025, recommending a price target of $75 for it. Keefe Bruyette downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Mkt Perform” from “Outperform” on December 10, 2024 while assigning a price target of $80. Keefe Bruyette also issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock in the range of between $66 and $69.

Over the week, FAF’s stock price is moving -8.60% down while it is -11.54% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -13.34% down and over the past year, the stock is showing a downside performance of -0.28%.

Currently, First American Financial Corp’s total number of outstanding shares is 103.20M with 3.67% of that held by the insiders while 91.05% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 2.33% and return on equity (ROE) at 3.23%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 35.71 while having a 8.84 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.24. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 1.11 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 0.92. Its return on asset (ROA) is 1.05% on average.

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