McCarthy Margaret M 4

What Happened

• Margaret M. McCarthy, a director of First American Financial Corp (FAF), received an award of 2,418 restricted stock units (RSUs) on 2026-02-19. The transaction is coded as an award/grant (A) and is reported at $0.00 per share (total value reported $0 for the grant itself). These RSUs vest on the first anniversary of the grant (2/19/2027).

Key Details

• Transaction date and price: 2026-02-19; 2,418 RSUs @ $0.00 (award/grant).
• Vesting: the 2,418 RSUs vest 2/19/2027 (first anniversary).
• Additional RSU position: filing notes 2,609 unvested RSUs from an earlier grant (originally 2,522 RSUs plus dividend reinvestment) vesting 2/24/2026.
• Deferral: the reporting person has deferred receipt of certain shares underlying vested RSUs and related dividend-reinvested shares.
• Filing timeliness: Form 4 was filed 2026-02-23 for the 2026-02-19 grant; this filing date is within the typical two business-day reporting window.
• Shares owned after transaction: the Form 4 details the unvested RSU counts above but does not state a single consolidated total of all FAF shares beneficially owned by the insider in the information provided here.

Context

• This was an equity compensation grant (award of RSUs), a routine form of director pay, not an open-market purchase or sale. Such grants reflect compensation and vesting schedules rather than an immediate bullish or bearish trading signal. The grant vests over time and some previously vested shares have been placed in a deferral arrangement per the footnotes.