What First American Investors Should Keep in Mind

By Chris Stiles • Friday, March 17 10:12 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about First American over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Specialty Insurance stock at a price of $54.41? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

First American has moved -17.27% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of -11.27%
FAF has an average analyst rating of buy and is -13.36% away from its mean target price of $62.8 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.49
First American has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 21.85 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $6.2 and its forward P/E ratio is 8.78
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.24 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
First American is part of the Finance sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 14.34 and an average P/B of 1.57
First American Financial Corporation, provides financial services. The company is headquartered in Santa Ana, California.

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