First American Financial is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, Co. is engaged in the business of providing title insurance, settlement services and other financial services and risk solutions through its title insurance and services segment and its specialty insurance segment. The title insurance and services segment provides title insurance, closing and/or escrow services and similar or related services domestically and internationally in connection with residential and commercial real estate transactions. The specialty insurance segment sells home warranty products and contains the remaining operations of its property and casualty insurance business that is being wound down. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our FAF shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute FAF market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing FAF market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing FAF's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of FAF versus a peer is one thing; comparing
FAF market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like FAF can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching FAF by allowing them to research the FAF market cap history. |
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