Fidelity National Financial Q3 2024 Earnings Report

Fidelity National Financial EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $1.30
• Consensus EPS: $1.41
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.11
• One Year Ago EPS: $1.23

Fidelity National Financial Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $3.60 billion
• Expected Revenue: $3.32 billion
• Beat/Miss: Beat by +$287.88 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: +29.70%

Fidelity National Financial Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q3 2024
• Date: 11/6/2024
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, November 7, 2024
• Conference Call Time: 11:00AM ET

Fidelity National Financial (NYSE:FNF), together with its subsidiaries, provides various insurance products in the United States. The company operates through Title, F&G, and Corporate and Other segments. It offers title insurance, escrow, and other title related services, including trust activities, trustee sales guarantees, recordings and reconveyances, and home warranty products. The company also provides technology and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries; and mortgage transaction services, including title-related services and facilitation of production and management of mortgage loans. In addition, it offers annuity and life insurance products, such as deferred and immediate annuities, as well as indexed universal life insurance products; and funding agreements and pension risk transfer (PRT) solutions. Further, the company engages in the real estate brokerage business. Fidelity National Financial, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida.

Fidelity National Financial Q3 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

Presentation

[Operator]

Good morning, and welcome to FNF's Third Quarter Earnings Call. During today's presentation, all parties will be in a listen only mode. I would now like to turn the call over to Lisa Foxworthy Parker, SVP, Investor and External Relations. Please go ahead.

[Lisa Foxworthy-Parker, Senior Vice President of Investor & External Relations at Fidelity National Financial]

Great. Thanks, operator, and welcome, everyone. Joining me today are Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer and Tony Park, Chief Financial Officer. We look forward to addressing your questions following our prepared remarks. Chris Blunt, F&G's CEO and Wendy Young, F and G's CFO will join us for the Q and A portion of today's call.

[Lisa Foxworthy-Parker, Senior Vice President of Investor & External Relations at Fidelity National Financial]

Today's earnings call may include forward looking statements and projections under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, which do not guarantee future events or performance. We do not undertake any duty to revise or update such statements to reflect new information, subsequent events or changes in strategy. Please refer to our most recent quarterly and annual reports and other SEC filings for details on important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied. This morning's discussion also includes non GAAP financial measures that we believe may be meaningful to investors. Non GAAP measures have been reconciled to GAAP where required in accordance with SEC rules within our earnings materials available on our website atfnfdot com.

[Lisa Foxworthy-Parker, Senior Vice President of Investor & External Relations at Fidelity National Financial]

Today's call is being recorded and a webcast replay will be available on our website. And now, I'll turn the call over to our CEO, Mike Nolan.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Thank you, Lisa, and good morning. We are pleased to report another strong set of results for the Q3. I'd like to start by thanking our employees as we work together through this challenging real estate cycle, while continuing to deliver industry leading performance. I would also like to acknowledge the incredible response of the 2 major hurricanes that made landfall in recent weeks, impacting several Southeastern states. I am grateful for the unwavering dedication and resilience demonstrated by our people and first responders throughout these storms and want to extend our heartfelt thoughts to all those who have been affected by these natural disasters.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Now turning to our Q3 results. Our title business continues to successfully navigate the low transactional environment having delivered adjusted pre tax earnings of $323,000,000 and an industry leading adjusted pre tax title margin of 15.9% as compared to 16.2% in the Q3 of 2023. These are outstanding results given the environment. For the Q3, we continue to see normal seasonality with daily purchased opened orders showing an 8% sequential decline from the Q2. Within the quarter's results, however, we saw daily purchase orders opened in September higher than August.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

This is atypical and due to decline in rates and we believe is indicative of the pent up demand for housing. Refinance volumes have been responsive as 30 year mortgage rates decreased by over 75 basis points during the Q3. This generated an average increase in refinance orders opened to $1400 per day in the Q3, with July at $11,000,000 August at $1400,000 and September at 1800. With the increase in mortgage rates in October, we saw our refinance orders opened dip back down to 1500 per day, reflecting how refinance volumes can change with moves in rates. Commercial volumes continue to be steady and resilient.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

We generated direct commercial revenue of $801,000,000 in the 1st 9 months, trending in line with the 1,000,000,000 dollars annual revenue level that we delivered in 2015 through 2020 and in 2023. Asset classes have remained very consistent as well. Looking ahead to 2025, we see the potential for higher commercial volumes as the office sector begins to transact and expect continued strength in the industrial, multifamily and energy sectors among others. Looking at Q3 volumes more closely, daily purchase orders opened were up 1% over the Q3 of 2023, down 8% from the Q2 of 2024 and up 5% for of October versus the prior year. Our refinance orders opened per day were up 46% over the Q3 of 2023, up 35% over the Q2 of 2024 and up 51% for the month of October versus the prior year.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Our total commercial orders opened were 7.94 per day, up 2% over the Q3 of 2023, down 1% from the Q2 of 2024 and up 8% for the month of October versus the prior year. Overall, total orders opened averaged 5,500 per day in the 3rd quarter, with July at 5,200, August at 5,300 and September at 6,000. For the month of October, total orders opened were 5,200 per day, down 13% versus September. Notably, our adjusted pre tax title margin of 14.5 percent for the 1st 9 months of 2024 is in line with the 14.3% margin for the 1st 9 months of 2023. As a reminder, for the full year 2023, our pre tax title margin was 13.7%, which was an outstanding result in light of the persistent housing market downturn.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

We would expect the normal seasonal purchase fall off for the remainder of 2024 if mortgage rates remain at current levels. If mortgage rates move lower next year, we are poised to capture the upside from higher transactional volumes given the scale and efficiencies of our diversified national footprint. On an annual basis, we view the range for a normalized adjusted pre tax title margin of 15% to 20% as a good rule of thumb, although we are not in a normal market due to the low residential purchase and refinance volumes. We firmly believe in the long term value of the title insurance business regardless of the cyclical nature of the real estate market. Despite the challenging market, we have continued to invest in our business, actively recruiting talent to drive revenue, making strategic acquisitions and investing in technology, all while maintaining industry leading margins.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Our technology initiatives are a key focus for investment and deployment across our operational footprint. We continue to build on our pioneering work over the last decade in instant decisioning and automated underwriting without diminishing the coverage or value of our insurance product. At the same time, we are enhancing our customer experience throughout the transaction while giving special attention to mitigating risk and fraud. SoftPro now powers all of our direct residential operations and is integrated into our proprietary in here experience platform. In here continues to be a vital expanding resource for our customers.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

We had over 1,000,000 real estate professionals and consumers use in here in 2023 and we are well ahead of that level so far this year.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

On the AI front, our high quality curated data and single platform have allowed us to standardize, automate and use machine learning, AI tools in many aspects of our business over the last 15 years. In turn, this has reduced the cost and timelines of the title search and exam process, while preserving the coverage and value of our insurance product.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Looking ahead, we are investing in further innovation with generative AI tools, exploring their potential to enhance various aspects of our business, including the title and settlement processes. Turning now to our F and G business. F and G has profitably grown assets under management before flow reinsurance to a record $62,900,000,000 at the end of the Q3. F and G is well positioned for continued growth through its diversified new business platform and benefits from expanding profitability as its in force book continues to scale. F and G is also executing on its accretive flow reinsurance and owned distribution strategies, which are contributing to margin expansion and improved returns.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Tony will provide additional details in a few moments. FNF benefits from its majority ownership of F and G through its share of F and G's durable and growing earnings, cash dividend streams and recognition of the value of F and G's market capitalization, which has increased from $2,900,000,000 at the time of the partial spin off in December of 2022 to $5,600,000,000 at September 30 on a standalone basis. With that, let me now turn the call over to Tony to review FNS' 3rd quarter financial performance and provide additional highlights.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Thank you, Mike. Starting with our consolidated results, we generated $3,600,000,000 in total revenue in the Q3. Excluding net recognized gains and losses, our total revenue was $3,300,000,000 as compared with $3,100,000,000 in the Q3 of 2023. We reported 3rd quarter net earnings of $266,000,000 including net recognized gains of $269,000,000 versus $426,000,000 including $356,000,000 of net recognized losses in the Q3 of 2023. The net recognized gains and losses in each period are primarily due to mark to market accounting treatment of equity and preferred stock securities, whether the securities were disposed of in the quarter or continue to be held in our investment portfolio.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Adjusted net earnings were $356,000,000 or $1.30 per diluted share, compared with $333,000,000 or $1.23 per share for the Q3 of 2023. The Title segment contributed $244,000,000 the F and G segment contributed $135,000,000 and the Corporate segment contributed $3,000,000 before eliminating 20 $6,000,000 of dividend income from F and G in the consolidated financial statements. Turning to the Q3 financial highlights specific to the title segment. Our title segment generated $2,000,000,000 in total revenue in

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

the

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Q3, excluding net recognized gains of $63,000,000 compared with $1,900,000,000 in the Q3 of 2023. Direct premiums increased 9% versus the prior year. Agency premiums increased 8% and escrow, title related and other fees increased 1%. Personnel costs increased 5% and other operating expenses increased 5%. All in, the title business generated adjusted pre tax title earnings of $323,000,000 compared with $311,000,000 for the Q3 of 2023 and a 15.9% adjusted pre tax title margin for the quarter versus 16.2% in the prior year quarter.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Our title and corporate investment portfolio totaled $5,000,000,000 at September 30. Interest and investment income in the Title and Corporate segments was $103,000,000 a modest decline from the prior year quarter and excluding income from F and G dividends to the holding company. Looking ahead, we expect quarterly interest and investment income to trend down from the $103,000,000 in Q3 to around $95,000,000 in Q4 and to $85,000,000 in Q3 of 2025, assuming anticipated Fed funds rate cuts of 100 basis points over the next 9 months. As a rule of thumb and all else being equal, every 25 basis point decrease in Fed funds is expected to result in an approximate $15,000,000 annualized decline in interest and investment income. In addition, we expect over $100,000,000 of annual dividend income from F and G to the corporate segment.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

This cash return reflects approximately 85% of F and G's common dividend given our majority ownership stake and 100% of F and G's preferred dividend on the mandatory convertible preferred stock issued to F and F in January 2024. Our title claims paid of $64,000,000 were $3,000,000 higher than our provision of $61,000,000 for the Q3. The carried reserve for title claim losses is approximately $29,000,000 or 2% above the actuaries central estimate. We continue to provide for title claims at 4.5% of total title premiums. Next, turning to financial highlights specific to the F and G segment.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Since F and G hosted its earnings call earlier this morning and provided a thorough update, I will recap a few key highlights for the quarter. F and G delivered strong gross sales of $3,900,000,000 in the 3rd quarter, up 39% over the prior year quarter. Retail sales were a record $3,500,000,000 nearly double the prior year quarter. F and G's retail sales continued to surge driven by favorable market conditions and strong demand for retirement savings products benefiting from a significant demographic trend with a long tail as consumers want to secure the relatively higher rates, guaranteed tax deferred growth and principal protection that annuities provide. Pension risk transfer sales were over $300,000,000 in the 3rd quarter.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

F and G's net sales were $2,400,000,000 in the 3rd quarter, up 4% over the prior year quarter. F and G has profitably grown its AUM before flow reinsurance to a record $62,900,000,000 including retained assets under management of $52,500,000,000 at the end of the Q3. Adjusted net earnings for the F and G segment were $135,000,000 in the 3rd quarter. This includes alternative investment returns below our long term expectations by $35,000,000 or $0.13 per share and significant income items of $16,000,000 or $0.06 per share. To bring it all together, FNF's consolidated adjusted net earnings excluding significant items in the F and G segment were $375,000,000 or $1.37 per diluted share in the 3rd quarter.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

The combined businesses are performing as expected. F and G gives stability to our earnings regardless of whether rates are rising or falling, providing an important complement to our cyclical title business. The F and G segment contributed 39% of FNF's adjusted net earnings for the 1st 9 months of 2024, up from 29% for the 1st 9 months of 2023. From a capital and liquidity perspective, we are maintaining a strong balance sheet and ensuring a balanced capital allocation strategy as we navigate the current environment. We held $822,000,000 in cash and short term liquid investments at the holding company level at September 30.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

This is up $126,000,000 compared to the sequential quarter despite the low volumes in the title business. Our consolidated debt outstanding was $4,200,000,000 at September 30. In early October, F and G issued $500,000,000 of senior notes and net proceeds have been used to fully pay down its $365,000,000 revolver balance with the remainder to be used for general corporate purposes. Our consolidated debt to capitalization ratio excluding AOCI remains in line with our long term target range of 20% to 30%, and we expect that our balance sheet will naturally delever as shareholders' equity excluding AOCI grows. Our primary capital allocation priorities support our now $550,000,000 annual dividend commitment, modest $80,000,000 annual interest expense at the holding company level and $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 average annual strategic title acquisition spend in support of the long term growth of the business.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Given the continued uncertainty in the market, there were no share repurchases in the Q3. We will continue to monitor and expect to resume buybacks once both the title market picks up and we see our cash generation building above the level of our annual dividend, interest expense and acquisition spend. As a reminder, buybacks are subject to Board approval. This concludes our prepared remarks. And let me now turn the call back to our operator for questions.

[Operator]

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now be conducting a question and answer The first question is from John Campbell with Stephens. Please go ahead.

[John Campbell, Managing Director at Stephens Inc.]

Hey guys, good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning.

[John Campbell, Managing Director at Stephens Inc.]

Good morning. On the title pretax margin for the quarter, it looks like direct and agency kind of grew at the same rate. You had investment income that was kind of flat year over year. So it doesn't seem like there's really any mix shift changes to call out. It looks like the underlying incremental margin was about, I think about 10% or 11%.

[John Campbell, Managing Director at Stephens Inc.]

You guys have closely run it probably 30% to 40% in the past. Is there anything you'd call out as far as limiting factors?

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

John, it's Mike. I mean in terms of comparing the Q3 of last year, we actually had a bit outperformance in both direct and agency to the Q3. We had a 30 point difference in margin to actual Q3 last year. That's about $6,000,000 difference. So when you think about $2,000,000,000 in revenue, that's not much of a difference.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

But we did see in some of our non title businesses in the title segment slightly below performance in the Q3, not that the performance was not good, it was just a little bit better last year. So really my takeaway is we had outperformance both in National Commercial and agency. And of course agency comes with a lower margin, so that can also you can get more agency revenue and that's a good thing, but you could have lower margins because of other things being equal.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes, that's a very good point. It's if you look at the incremental margin, we talk about that 40% or whatever it is, that's on direct revenue and on our direct operations. So actually if we do better on the agency side as you know because so much goes back to the agent that incremental margins on agency business is probably somewhere in the 10% range.

[John Campbell, Managing Director at Stephens Inc.]

Okay, got it. And then it was encouraging to hear your kind of upbeat outlook for commercial. I guess based on the pipeline you see now and it doesn't seem like that the per file helped you a little bit in this quarter. But based on what you see now, maybe some commentary on what you expect as far as fee per file in commercial in 4Q? And then as you think about next year, again, going back to your bullish take, do you think commercial growth was more likely to be driven by orders or overall fee profile?

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes, it's a great question, John. It's Mike again. We are encouraged by commercial for a number of reasons. One, we just continue to see strength in various asset classes and are generating somewhere around $1,000,000,000 to $1,100,000,000 in annual commercial direct revenues really without much of an office market. So as that market begins to transact and we think it will, it's a matter of when, we see that as a net positive.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

When we look at our orders through September, our open orders are up about 4%, but our national orders are up 10% through September. And in October, our national orders were up 16% over last October. So we're seeing this real strength in the bigger deals, right? And when you look at national fee per file, it was in excess of it was 14.5% in the Q3 and local was around 9%. So I think that bodes well for not only the Q4, but really into next year that we've got a nice inventory of these bigger transactions and still have local kind of flattish to last year.

[John Campbell, Managing Director at Stephens Inc.]

Makes sense. Thanks guys.

[Operator]

Thanks. Thank you. The next question is from Mark Hughes with Truist Securities. Please go ahead.

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Yes, thank you. Good morning.

[John Campbell, Managing Director at Stephens Inc.]

Good morning.

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

The October commercial number you gave up, what 8% year over year. I think when you were describing the progression on a monthly basis, it seems like it was a little down from September kind of steady with earlier in the quarter. Was October kind of an easy comp year over year or is that kind of up to start out 4Q? Do you think that will be sustained if current trends hold?

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes. Last October, we opened 731 a day and that was down from September at 786. And so, I don't know if you call it an easy comp or not, but we typically see, Mark, as I think you know, a fall off in open orders in the Q4 in commercial and then we see more closings. The closing rate gets a little bit higher. This October, it didn't fall off as much as last year.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

And so I think that's a net positive. I think it shows strength in the open order activity in commercial. And again, pointing out that the national commercial orders were up more significantly in October.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

And I

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

think that helped create that 8% overall increase as well.

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Yes. When we think about the I think you gave a number of $1.37 in overall earnings ex the other items, I think you called out maybe $0.06 perhaps. Did I hear that properly? And then the I think you said at F and G, they were at 0.13 dollars below expectations on some of the alt portfolio, I guess. If that had been in line, would you add the $0.13 to the $1.37 Is that the right progression there?

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes, you're right about the $1.37 that adjusts basically for the alts that at F and G that were a little short of the long term expectation. And then the other significant items and there are various things that go into that bucket, although it wasn't a very big number. Those go the other direction. So when you add back the alt underperformance, slight underperformance and then reverse out the other, that's where you get to the $1.37 if that makes sense.

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Okay. Yes, I do see that.

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

And then on the F and G, just

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

sort of curious, I missed the earlier call, the outlook for sales and spreads, just kind of a quick thought in that business would be helpful.

[Chris Blunt, CEO, F&G at Fidelity National Financial]

Sure. This is Chris. Yes, new sales continue to be quite robust. Some of that is this great refinancing that we've talked about before of people exchanging policies written when rates were 2% to new policies today. And we've been getting more than our fair share of that, which has been good.

[Chris Blunt, CEO, F&G at Fidelity National Financial]

Some of it's just the long term demographics that are taking place. And so, yes, we're still quite optimistic in terms of sales growth. So we don't see anything slowing us down there. And spreads have held up nicely. And we've got expansion coming from flow reinsurance, own distribution activity is kicking in.

[Chris Blunt, CEO, F&G at Fidelity National Financial]

So, I know the trend lines are quite good.

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Thank you for that.

[Operator]

Thank you. The next question comes from Mark DeVries with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Yes, thanks. Just to follow-up on the commercial. Mike, I think you alluded to at least some optimism that office is starting to transact. Are you actually seeing that in the pipeline? Or is it just either in terms of transactions already or activity picking up?

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Or is that built more on just kind of an expectation that things are loosening up and should accelerate in 2025?

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

I think it's based on a couple of things, Mark. We're seeing some transactions, but I would say not a trend more on the margin. So we've seen evidence that we're starting to see some transactions. And then based on what we're hearing from our commercial leadership team who are talking to customers and clients that there's an expectation that there could be more activity as we go into 'twenty five.

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Okay, got it. And then a question for Chris. I think in the press release, Elyse, you alluded to some strength in the PRT pipeline and kind of some early ones in Q4. Maybe it's actually a question for Tony, but could you just discuss the current capital at FG? Is that enough to support the opportunities you're seeing?

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Or could there be a need opportunity for another capital infusion from F and F?

[Chris Blunt, CEO, F&G at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes. No, we're pretty comfortable managing the sales growth that we have without requiring an equity infusion from F and F is the short answer. We did do about $800,000,000 of PRT transactions in October. So through 10 months of this year, we're over $2,000,000,000 now of PRT sales. But we run the business with the intention of being capital self sufficient.

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Okay, got it. And just one more quick one. Any impact on Q4 closings from the hurricanes?

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

There'd be some it's Mike, Mark. I would say we'll have some impact particularly in our Florida direct market. I don't think it'll be significant. It could be a magnitude of maybe $1,000,000 in revenue a month for a couple of months, but I don't think it's anything of significance as we think about the quarter.

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Got it. Thank you.

[Operator]

Thanks. Thank you. Before we take the next question, a reminder to all participants The next question is from the line of Bose George with KBW. Please go ahead.

[Bose George, Managing Director at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW)]

Hey guys, good morning. Can you talk about the 1st nationwide acquisition, how meaningful is that in terms of what it could do for you guys in the office market?

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes, good question, Bose. I would say it's another acquisition in the agency space like we've done all along. These are not major acquisitions. You're talking agencies that we're buying that may have generally $10,000,000 to $20,000,000 in revenue. They're a very well established player in the New York market, very well known there and we're excited to have them join the team and really just give us another brand to kind of build upon.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

And I think as the New York market comes back and it will, it's just a matter of when, that acquisition will really pay off for us just to have another group there that's accessing market share in the New York market.

[Bose George, Managing Director at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW)]

Okay, great. Thanks. And then actually one question just on the post election landscape. Just with the changes that are likely to happen, I mean, the like things like the GSE pilot, the FHFA pilot and the CFPB efforts, do you think things are likely to get put on hold or any sort of updates and thoughts post election?

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes. It's hard to know for sure, Bose. But I think most people think with the Republican administration, it will be maybe a less onerous regulatory environment overall. And I think that will be helpful to businesses. And so there may be less impetus to push behind things like this waiver pilot, which got awfully quiet as we went through the year anyway, probably in anticipation of the election.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

But we're not taking anything for granted. We continue to work very hard with all stakeholders on the value of title insurance and why we think things like waiver pilots are bad ideas. But it's probably a little bit better environment overall on that kind of a front with this new administration.

[Bose George, Managing Director at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW)]

Okay, great. Thanks.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Thanks.

[Operator]

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, that was the sorry. And this will conclude our question and answer session. I will now turn the conference back over to CEO, Mike Nolan for closing remarks.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Thank you. We are very pleased with our overall performance. The title segment is outperforming in the current market, poised for a rebound in transactional levels and we are continuing to build and expand the business for the long term. Likewise, F and G has many opportunities ahead to drive asset growth, deliver margin expansion and generate accretive returns. As you can see, both businesses are executing well in the current market and positioned for longer term growth.

[Mike Nolan, CEO at Fidelity National Financial]

Thank you for the time this morning. We appreciate your interest in FNF and look forward to updating you on our Q4 earnings call.

[Operator]

Thank you for attending today's presentation and the conference call has concluded. You may now disconnect. Thank you.

Participants

Executives

• Lisa Foxworthy-Parker, Senior Vice President of Investor & External Relations
• Mike Nolan, CEO
• Tony Park, CFO
• Chris Blunt, CEO, F&G

Analysts

• John Campbell, Managing Director at Stephens Inc.
• Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities
• Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank
• Bose George, Managing Director at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW)