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Company snapshot — First American Corporation

FAF in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
First American Financial provides title insurance and related real-estate closing, escrow, valuation and data services through its Title Insurance and Services segment, alongside a Home Warranty segment covering household systems and appliances. It works through direct offices and agents across many states and several countries. The company is based in Santa Ana, California, and traces its founding to the nineteenth century.
Where it sits in the stack
First American sits outside the diary's Rubin index; it belongs to the Financial Services sector, within the specialty insurance corner of our broader universe, tied to real-estate transaction volume rather than the AI build-out.
Who it is priced against
Our diary has no peer group defined for First American; it is commonly compared with Fidelity National Financial, another large title insurer serving the same real-estate closing process.
Why Closelook tracks it
First American holds a seat in the Russell 1000 within our coverage but carries no Closelook score and no Rubin or Halo tag, so the diary notes it mainly through index membership rather than commentary.
What the diary watches
Whether the chart's move away from its 200-day average continues, since that would signal a shift tied to real-estate transaction activity rather than any AI-linked driver.

First American Corporation (FAF) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for FAF, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Insurance - Specialty · United States · 4 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Insurance - Specialty · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against FAF on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 3.06%, quarterly · last 0.55 USD on 2026-06-08

Dividends and capital return

What FAF pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.20 USD per share · a 3.06% yield on the 2026-09-17 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-17
  • Change on the year +1.8% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.16 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.55 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-06-08
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.53 USD (partial) · 2024: 2.14 USD · 2025: 2.18 USD · 2026: 1.10 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-12-07

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 55/100 · S&P 500 fund at 58, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-17
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 94th percentile of the window, +2.7% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-17
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.00 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-17

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-18

Quick answers

What is First American Corporation (FAF)?

First American Corporation trades as FAF on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-18.

Is FAF in a Closelook index?

Not currently — First American Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-18.

Where does FAF trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -1.5% vs the 50-day and +7.5% vs the 200-day average, 9.9% below the 52-week high and +28% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-17 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does First American Corporation do?

First American Financial provides title insurance and related real-estate closing, escrow, valuation and data services through its Title Insurance and Services segment, alongside a Home Warranty segment covering household systems and appliances. It works through direct offices and agents across many states and several countries. The company is based in Santa Ana, California, and traces its founding to the nineteenth century. Our diary has no peer group defined for First American; it is commonly compared with Fidelity National Financial, another large title insurer serving the same real-estate closing process.

Where does First American Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

First American sits outside the diary's Rubin index; it belongs to the Financial Services sector, within the specialty insurance corner of our broader universe, tied to real-estate transaction volume rather than the AI build-out. First American holds a seat in the Russell 1000 within our coverage but carries no Closelook score and no Rubin or Halo tag, so the diary notes it mainly through index membership rather than commentary.

Does First American Corporation pay a dividend?

First American Corporation has paid 2.20 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 3.06% on the 2026-09-17 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.55 USD on 2026-06-08. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for FAF, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Insurance - Specialty, then Financial Services. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.