secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     First American Financial Corp (FAF)
CIK:        0001472787
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2023-04-27T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0001564590-23-006347
Event type: earnings
Sentiment:  negative
Materiality: 0.75
Item codes: 2.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

First American Q1 revenue down 29% to $1.45B; EPS $0.44 vs $0.88 YoY
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- Total revenue $1.45B, down 29% YoY; diluted EPS $0.44 vs $0.88; adjusted EPS $0.49 excl. net investment losses.
- Title Insurance pretax margin 6.5% (down from 11%); commercial revenues $148M, down 39%.
- Direct title orders closed down 48% YoY; open orders 172,600 vs 279,000; average revenue per order up 15%.
- Investment income $125M, up 136% due to higher rates; provision for policy losses reduced to 3.5% from 4.0%.
- Bought back 555,524 shares for $30M; debt-to-capital 28.4%; CEO notes April open orders up 5%+ vs March.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1472787/000156459023006347/0001564590-23-006347-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1472787/000156459023006347/faf-8k_20230427.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001564590-23-006347

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