Spring Housing Strength Boosts First American Financial

If you're looking to buy a home, then most mortgage lenders will require that you get title insurance protection. First American Financial (NYSE: FAF) is a provider of title services, and the recent boom in the housing market has kept its policy volumes high and its business looking good throughout the past several years.

Coming into Thursday's second-quarter financial report, First American investors expected those good times to continue, with higher revenue helping to lift profit levels. First American did even better than most had foreseen, and its efforts to streamline its internal operations have paid off with improvements that bode well for its long-term outlook. Let's take a closer look at First American Financial and what its latest results mean for the future.

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Source: Fool.com