Fidelity National Financial Q2 2025 Earnings Report

Fidelity National Financial EPS Results

• Actual EPS: $1.16
• Consensus EPS: $1.40
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$0.24
• One Year Ago EPS: $1.24

Fidelity National Financial Revenue Results

• Actual Revenue: $3.64 billion
• Expected Revenue: $3.64 billion
• Beat/Miss: Missed by -$5.26 million
• YoY Revenue Growth: +15.10%

Fidelity National Financial Announcement Details

• Quarter: Q2 2025
• Date: 8/6/2025
• Time: After Market Closes
• Conference Call Date: Thursday, August 7, 2025
• 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 Q2 2025 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

• Positive Sentiment: Our Title segment delivered $337 million in adjusted pretax earnings, up 4% year-over-year, achieving a 15.5% margin and targeting a 15–20% margin once volumes normalize.
• Positive Sentiment: Daily purchase orders rose 5% year-over-year, refinance orders opened jumped 28%, and commercial revenue climbed 23%, marking five consecutive quarters of double-digit growth in national commercial orders.
• Positive Sentiment: The F&G segment grew assets under management to $69.2 billion (up 13% yoy), posted $4.1 billion in gross sales, and launched a Blackstone-backed $1 billion reinsurance sidecar to bolster its fee-based, high-margin model.
• Positive Sentiment: FNF repurchased 2.9 million shares for $159 million in Q2, returned nearly $300 million to shareholders via buybacks and dividends in the quarter, and maintains a balanced capital allocation policy with a 20–30% target debt ratio.
• Negative Sentiment: Second-quarter margins faced a 60-basis-point drag from elevated health claims and higher strategic and recruiting expenses, which may pressure profitability until normalizing in 2026.

Presentation

[Operator]

Good morning, and welcome to the FNF's Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Call. During today's presentation, all callers will be placed in listen only mode. Following management's prepared remarks, the conference will be opened for questions with instructions to follow at that time. 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]

Thanks, operator, and welcome, everyone. I'm joined today by Mike Nolan, CEO and Tony Park, CFO. We look forward to addressing your questions following our prepared remarks. F and G's management team, including Chris Blunt and Connor Murphy, will also be available for Q and A. 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.

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

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 measures, which management believes are relevant in assessing the financial performance of the business. Non GAAP measures have been reconciled to GAAP where required and in accordance with SEC rules within our earnings materials available on the company's investor website. Please note that today's call is being recorded and will be available for webcast replay.

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

And with that, I'll hand the call over to Mike Nolan.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Thank you, Lisa, and good morning. Overall, our businesses generated strong results for the second quarter. Starting with title, we delivered adjusted pretax title earnings of $337,000,000 a $13,000,000 or four percent increase over the 2024. We achieved an industry leading adjusted pretax title margin of 15.5% for the second quarter, up three eighty basis points from 11.7% in the 2025. Compared to the 2024 adjusted pretax title margin of 16.2%, we saw a decline of 70 basis points, primarily due to higher expenses, including 60 basis points or $12,000,000 of elevated health claims.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

We also had higher strategic investments in security, technology and recruiting to position the business for long term growth. Importantly, these expense items did not impact the direct title and agency title businesses, which performed well and generated healthy incremental margins. Tony will provide further details later on the call. Looking at our title results more closely, starting with purchase, we were encouraged to see a 5% increase in daily purchase orders opened over the 2025, although lower than the more typical increase of 10% that we have seen in recent years. This reflects market volatility and higher rates, which continued to impact the residential purchase market.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Our daily purchase orders opened were in line with the 2024, up 5% over the 2025 and in line for the month of July with the prior year. For refinance, we were pleased to see a 28% increase in refinance orders opened over the 2024 with just a modest movement in mortgage rates. Daily refinance orders opened were 1,300 in the second quarter and remained at that level in the month of July. Our refinance orders opened per day were up 28% over the 2024, up 2% over the 2025 and up 20% for the month of July versus the prior year. Commercial volumes continue to be a bright spot with direct commercial revenue of $626,000,000 in the first six months, up 23% over $511,000,000 in the 2024.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

We had a very strong quarter for commercial revenue, driven by national and local revenues, which were both up more than 22 versus the prior year quarter. In particular, national daily orders opened were up 11% over the 2024 and held steady for the month of June as compared to June 2024. Notably, we now have five consecutive quarters with double digit increases in national daily orders opened. Local market daily orders opened were up 4% over the 2024 and up 9% for the month of June over June 2024. On the whole, our total commercial orders opened were eight fifty eight per day, up 7% over the 2024, in line with the 2025 and up 14% for the month of July versus the prior year.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Bringing it all together, total orders opened averaged 5,800 per day in the second quarter, with April at 5,800, May at 5,700 and June at 5,900. For the month of July, total orders opened were 5,500 per day, up 5% versus the prior year. Looking ahead, our Title segment remains poised for a rebound in transaction volumes and we continue to invest in the business for the long term. Over time, we see opportunities to gain efficiencies across our operations and further enhance profitability. We continue to generate strong free cash flows, enabling our dynamic capital allocation strategy, which Tony will speak to in a few minutes.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

I'd like to take a moment to recognize our employees for all that they do to provide innovative title insurance solutions that protect consumers and lenders while ensuring secure and efficient real estate transactions. Turning now to our F and G segment. F and G has profitably grown assets under management before flow reinsurance to $69,200,000,000 at June 30, up 13% over the prior year quarter. We remain pleased with F and G's performance and foresee plenty of opportunities to grow and increase the value of the business. On a standalone basis, F and G reported GAAP equity excluding AOCI of $5,900,000,000 at June 30.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Since the 2020 acquisition by FNF, F and G has generated a 58% increase in its cumulative book value per share, excluding AOCI, to $43.39 at the end of the second quarter. With that, let me now turn the call over to Tony to review FNS' second quarter financial performance and provide additional insights.

[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 second quarter. Excluding net recognized gains and losses, our total revenue was $3,500,000,000 as compared with $3,200,000,000 in the 2024. 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. We reported second quarter net earnings of $278,000,000 including net recognized gains of 98,000,000 versus net earnings of $3.00 $6,000,000 including $88,000,000 of net recognized losses in the 2024.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Adjusted net earnings were $318,000,000 or $1.16 per diluted share compared with $338,000,000 or $1.24 per share for the 2024. The title segment contributed $260,000,000 The F and G segment contributed $89,000,000 and the Corporate segment had a net loss of $3,000,000 before eliminating $28,000,000 of dividend income from F and G in the consolidated financial statements. Turning to second quarter financial highlights specific to the title segment. Our title segment generated $2,200,000,000 in total revenue in the second quarter, excluding net recognized gains of 43,000,000 compared with $2,000,000,000 in the 2024. Direct premiums increased 12% over the prior year.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Agency premiums increased 7% and escrow, title related and other fees increased 7%. Personnel costs increased 10% and other operating expenses increased 10%. All in, the title business generated adjusted pretax title earnings of $337,000,000 compared with $324,000,000 for the 2024 and a 15.5% adjusted pretax title margin for the quarter versus 16.2 in the prior year quarter. As Mike mentioned, the second quarter margin was impacted by higher expenses with three primary drivers. First, we had 60 basis points or $12,000,000 of elevated health claims, which we expect to remain elevated for the remainder of the year before likely normalizing in 2026.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Next, we had higher strategic investment in security and technology relative to the 2024, although this spend is in line with the sequential quarter and reflects our current run rate. Finally, we saw higher personnel expense as a result of an active recruiting quarter as we continue to build the business for the long term. Importantly, we don't expect these incremental expenses to impact our ability to deliver a 15% to 20% pretax title margin once we rebound to a normalized market, although transactional volumes remain low at this time. Our title and corporate investment portfolio totaled $4,800,000,000 at June 30. Interest and investment income in the Title and Corporate segments was $95,000,000 down 4% versus the prior year quarter and excluding income from F and G dividends to the holding company.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

For the remainder of 2025, we expect to generate quarterly interest and investment income of 90,000,000 to $95,000,000 in each quarter assuming two Fed funds rate cuts later in the year. In addition, we expect approximately $28,000,000 per quarter of common and preferred dividend income from F and G to the corporate segment. Our title claims paid were $66,000,000 and in line with our provision for the second quarter. The carried reserve for title claim losses is approximately $54,000,000 or 3.3 percent above the actuary central estimate. We continue to provide for title claims at 4.5% of total title premiums.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Next, turning to financial highlights specific to the F and G segment. Since F and G hosted its earnings call earlier this morning and provided a thorough update, I will provide a few key highlights. F and G's AUM before flow reinsurance increased to a record $69,200,000,000 at June 30. This includes retained assets under management of $55,600,000,000 F and G's gross sales were $4,100,000,000 one of its best sales quarters in history. F and G had significant growth in core sales of $2,200,000,000 which includes indexed annuities, indexed life and pension risk transfer.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

And $1,900,000,000 of MIGA and funding agreements, two products we view as opportunistic. 2024 was the all time record with $4,400,000,000 of gross sales. Net sales retained were $2,700,000,000 compared to $3,400,000,000 in the 2024. This reflects third party flow reinsurance at varying ceded amounts in line with capital targets. Adjusted net earnings for the F and G segment were $89,000,000 in the second quarter compared with $122,000,000 for the 2024.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

F and G's operating performance from their underlying spread based and fee based businesses continues to be strong. F and G continues to provide a complement to the title business. In the first six months, the F and G segment contributed 32% of F and F's adjusted net earnings, down from 40% in the 2024. Yesterday, F and G announced the launch of a new reinsurance vehicle in partnership with Blackstone managed funds with approximately $1,000,000,000 in capital commitments. The reinsurance sidecar provides long term on demand capital to F and G through a forward flow reinsurance agreement of certain fixed indexed annuity products effective August 1.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

The reinsurance sidecar is another source of growth capital and will move F and G further toward a more fee based, higher margin and less capital intensive business model. From a capital and liquidity perspective, FNF continues to maintain a strong balance sheet and balanced capital allocation strategy. 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 equity grows. FNF continues to return excess cash to shareholders through share repurchases and has remained active throughout the second quarter and into the third quarter. During the second quarter, we repurchased 2,900,000.0 shares for a total of $159,000,000 at an average price of $55.2 per share.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

For the second quarter, we have returned nearly $300,000,000 of capital to our shareholders through common dividends and share repurchases. Year to date, we have returned over $450,000,000 through common dividends and share repurchases. From a capital allocation perspective, we entered 2025 with $687,000,000 in cash and short term liquid investments at the holding company. During the first six months, the business generated cash to fund our $271,000,000 quarterly common dividend paid, dollars 37,000,000 of holding company interest expense, 150,000,000 investment in the F and G common equity raise and the $184,000,000 in share repurchases, all while keeping pace with wage inflation and funding the continued higher spend in risk and technology required in today's landscape. We ended the 2025 with $583,000,000 in cash and short term liquid investments at the holding company.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

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 begin the question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star and one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star and 2 if you would like to remove your question from the queue.

[Operator]

For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. Ladies and gentlemen, we will wait for a moment while we poll for questions. Our first question comes from Mark DeVries with Deutsche Bank. Please go ahead.

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Thanks. You know, having having hit the five year anniversary on the investment in FG, I'd be remiss if I didn't ask for some updated thoughts on kind of how you guys and the Board are thinking about the appeal of continuing to kind of hold these very separate businesses under the same company.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Thanks Mark, it's Tony. I'll start, others could weigh in. I would say kind of the same commentary that we've shared previously, which is the Board has been very pleased with F and G's performance and really the validation of the thesis behind the acquisition. F and G has contributed 32% of our adjusted earnings through the first half of the year. We're getting about 120,000,000 almost of cash from F and G to holding, and so that's been helpful.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

And we're really excited, and you probably heard with the launch of the Sidecar and some other strategy around core sales versus opportunistic sales. We're excited about more fee based, higher margin, less capital intensive business model that F and G is pursuing. And so at this point, it's continue to run the business, operate the business as they have and that's kind of the update. Don't know, did you guys want to weigh in at all? All right.

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Okay, understood. And then second question just on the personnel expenses. It was a pretty big step up and well above kind of consensus expectations. Tony, I know you called out, think you set up, an active recruiting quarter, but I can't, all my time covering the company, remember such a big step up, particularly in a relatively static environment. Anything else to kind of call out there that kind of drove that personnel expense? Any incremental detail you can provide?

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Mark, it's Mike. Yeah, on the recruiting, would say that that was about a 20 basis point impact. And it really was one of our best recruiting quarters in a long time and significantly stronger than the second quarter. So we were trying to bridge the second quarter of last year to this quarter. And when you think about recruiting, it's ultimately great for the company and we've always been very strong in that realm.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

But you do front load the expenses. And so as you board people that are going to bring you revenue, they're bringing that $60.90 days after. And then I think we had more spend in shared service areas, some of which is personnel because we've added staff with in the risk and security areas, we're doing more in technology. So I think it was a combination of those factors. And then I'll see if Tony had anything to add on that.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes. I'll just weigh in on the medical claims, which we called out as a $12,000,000 delta relative to the Q2 of last year. And it's one of those things where it's obviously unfortunate when your employees and dependents have higher medical claims. Most large companies, as you probably know, are self insured. We've been real consistent in our run rate in terms of all in medical.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

In 2023, it was about $175,000,000 annual spend and the same number in 2024. And frankly, the year started out pretty similarly, but really in May, we started to see high cost claimants and not a big number, but expensive claims come through and those are anywhere from call it $100,000 to $1,000,000 in a particular case and we had a number of those. And so it drove up our estimate of medical claims, what we think we'll incur through the balance of the year. So we added $12,000,000 this quarter and we'll likely add some more in Q3 and Q4, probably not to that level, but maybe a total of $12,000,000 over the balance of the year. And then we'll take actions next year in terms of maybe plan design looking at vendors to assist us with various programs to reduce our spend as we look forward.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

You can't really make those changes in the middle of the year because you don't go through an open enrollment. But that was just sort of a blip that we don't expect to continue as we move into 2026.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

And Mark, I want to emphasize something on to Tony's comments that fundamentally, it was really a strong quarter for our title operations. We had growth across all of our core business segments in both revenue and profit. Industry leading title margins generated $260,000,000 in adjusted earnings, up from the second quarter of last year by about $20,000,000 And really feel like the business performed very well, but we did have some variances to call out relative to the second quarter margin of last year.

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Okay. Got it. Just a couple of clarifications. Did those health care claim expenses flow through the personnel cost line?

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes, they did.

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Okay. Got it. And then just on the recruiting activity, what kind of led to the big quarter? Were there any kind of dislocations with competitors that created unique opportunity? Or is it just trying to be opportunistic for the opportunity you think lies ahead for the business?

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

I would say it's opportunistic. We have a large footprint and we have a lot of people, a lot of operations that are actively recruiting. We've just got more than everyone else. So we've got more firepower on it. I think the fact that we're doing so well in that that category points to that we're a company of choice, and we wanna be a company of choice for talented title professionals.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

And so I don't know that it was any major dislocation on anybody else's part, but it was just more we're very focused on it, and we had a particularly good quarter, particularly as it related to the second quarter of last year.

[Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank]

Got it. All right. Thank you.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Thanks, Mark.

[Operator]

Thank you. We have our next question from the line of Terry Ma with Barclays. Please go ahead.

[Terry Ma, Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays]

Hey. Thank you. Good morning.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Good Good morning,

[Terry Ma, Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays]

morning. Just wanted to follow-up on kind of margin and expense commentary. I guess, it sounds like the impact to margin from the health care claims of 60 basis points will kind of peak this quarter and then maybe just subside the rest of the year. Is that the right interpretation? And then when you kind of put everything together with the elevated health claims, recruiting, security and tech investments, I guess, you have confidence in staying within that 15% to 20% margin for this year?

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Absolutely, Terry. We're right in line really with where we were last year. And the early view of July is that we had a good strong July. And we said our base case has always been, as we've gone into the year, that 25% is going to be a lot like 24%. And as we look at the second half of twenty five percent, we think it's going to look a lot like the second half of 24% with the wildcards really being more what happens with mortgage rates up or down.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

We've seen some optimism there as the daily rates come off a bit. I think it's maybe six, six or something like that. Every little bit helps. And then commercial activity is probably the other wildcard. I'm encouraged that July resale orders were kind of in line with last July and that we're still seeing some uplift on refi.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

So yes, we've got a little higher run rate on shared services that we also had in Q1. The health claims, we think they'll moderate, but they're still going to be probably elevated to last year. And then we think that'll normalize in 2026. And then the recruiting, it varies. And second quarters are typically sort of peak recruiting quarters.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

So we might see that lessen a bit in the second half. But again, it's opportunistic. And we will take advantage of getting talented people when that's available because we're building the business for the long term.

[Terry Ma, Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays]

Got it. That's helpful. And then maybe on commercial, it looks like the momentum is continuing with particular strength on the national side, which I think you called out was up 22% year over year for closed orders. I guess any color national and local as you kind of look into the back half of the year? How sustainable do you think this momentum is? And kind of where you

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes, do want to clarify one thing. Was 22% on opens, not closed. But yes, it's been fantastic. And we're through the first seven months of the year, we're averaging eight sixty open orders per day in the total book, which is a nice lift from really where we've been even going back, if you look at 2015 through 2020 and 2023 and 2024, kind of carve out the peak years of 2021 and 2022, we seem to have jumped up to a new level. As we look at the back half, the pipeline in national is quite strong.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

I mean, we've had five consecutive quarters of double digit growth in national commercial open orders. And as you know, there's a bit more of a tail as to when those close. So we would expect to have a strong closing pipeline there. Local orders are still up. It's not like they're off.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

They're just not up as much. And interestingly, we've seen a nice pickup in commercial refinance orders. Our total mix in opens has shifted from about 75% in January, now just below 72% in July. So that doesn't sound like a lot. But in the first half, commercial opens on refi were up 21%.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

And in July, they were up 35%. So it's nice to see that financing of commercial property seems to be picking up. And I think that also could bode well for not only the back half of the year, but probably as we go into 2026.

[Terry Ma, Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays]

Great. Thank you.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Thanks.

[Operator]

Thank you. The next question comes from Bose George with KBW. Please go ahead.

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

Hey, guys. Good morning. Actually, I wanted to just ask about the buybacks, obviously, has increased, the quarterly run rate is similar to what we see saw back in 'twenty two and 'twenty one. Can you just discuss the potential cadence of the buybacks going forward?

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Sure, Bose. Thanks. It's Tony. Yes, we don't give guidance in terms of our expectations other than to say that we do expect to be in the market every day where we're not being where we're not blacked out. And I would also say that we feel any weakness in our share price at these levels is a great use of excess capital and you saw activity in Q2 with $159,000,000 in buybacks and 2,900,000.0 shares.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

And so I would expect that we'll monitor the market, be active and again, if there's weakness there, we'll probably be more active.

[Operator]

Does that answer your question, Bose?

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

Yes, I have another question though.

[Operator]

Please go ahead.

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

Hey, guys. Sorry. Actually, just to follow-up on that. In terms of does the buyback signal anything in terms of sort of incremental capital into F and G? Does it suggest that that's kind of done and you have more sort of flexibility in terms of that?

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes. I would say that I don't know that it signals anything directly other than we don't expect to need incremental capital for F and G. I know that we did participate in the common equity raise of F and G earlier this year. And I think it was very early in 2024 when we acquired the preferred stock investment. Yes, I think that F and G with their capital light strategy is well positioned to take advantage of capital sources that they have unrelated to FNF.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

And so I would say that kind of our uses are common dividend, M and A to the extent there's M and A available to us and share buybacks. We're sitting on $600,000,000 of cash at the holding company level and we're generating strong cash flow.

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

Great. Actually one quick follow-up on that. Did you give your number or how much did you repurchase in July?

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

We did not provide a number. It was and it'll be in the queue, which will be filed tomorrow. And I think it it was just one day's worth or something like that. I think it was $5,000,000, and that's because our blackout kicks in almost right after the end of the quarter.

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

Okay. Great. Thanks.

[Operator]

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, if you would like to ask a question, please press star and one on your telephone keypad. Our next question comes from the line of Mark Hughes with Trust Securities. Please go ahead. The participant has dropped from the question queue.

[Operator]

We will move on to the next participant. That is Jeffrey Dunn with Dowling and Partners. Please go ahead.

[Geoffrey Dunn, Partner at Dowling & Partners]

Thanks. Good morning.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Hey, Jeff.

[Geoffrey Dunn, Partner at Dowling & Partners]

Tony, can you share the remaining dividend capacity from the regulated entities for the second half and also your expectation for non regulated diffs?

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Yes, I think we have about $250,000,000 available from the regulated companies over the second half, and then we have about $60,000,000 coming from F and G in the second half. The other subs, the non regulated, it's a little more difficult because I would then need to forecast what their earnings are going to be because that's real time cash flow. It's probably I mean, we had $120,000,000 in Q2 from unregulated. It'll be a little less in the second half on a quarterly basis only because of tax payments tend to ramp in the second half, but it could be a couple $100,000,000. So add that back, add that together, it's $404.04 4 to 500.

[Geoffrey Dunn, Partner at Dowling & Partners]

Okay. And then I know how the refi versus purchase pricing works on the direct resi business. But how does it work on commercial? Should we be expecting a deceleration on the commercial fee per file with the pickup in refi?

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Yeah, Jeff. It's Mike. I don't really think so. The the the fee per file is pretty consistent. And our average total commercial fee per file of $11,300 in the second quarter, I think if you wanted to use a number going forward, something in that range would probably be the number to model.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

With the national overall pickup in orders, they just inherently have higher fee profiles, as you know, And we think that could be a bit stronger mix as we go in the back half of the year just because of those strong opens that I talked about. So I would probably use that number, 11,000 ish.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Okay.

[Geoffrey Dunn, Partner at Dowling & Partners]

Great. Thank you.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Thanks.

[Operator]

Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Mark Hughes with Trust Securities. Please go ahead.

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Yeah, thank you. Good morning. Any update on the regulatory front from FHFA or anything that you're seeing that actually suggests any momentum in Washington that might be impactful to the title industry?

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Mark, it's Mike. Not not really. I think that the the the pilot is intended to be limited scope. It runs through May '26. I think the anticipation is about 15,000 loans going through that pilot.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

And I don't think there's any change to that, and then we'll see where it goes. As you might know, I had a very nice call with the director of FHFA. He's good to talk to, very willing to listen. And they did add Westcor as a second provider of the program with kind of a new, I don't know if it's new yet, but a limited title option. So it's not the waiver, it's kind of a different product approach. We're still waiting to see what that looks like. And I told the director that we're we believe strongly that the waiver is not a good idea, but that we've always worked collaboratively with the FHFA and with the GSEs and we want to continue to do that. So we remain engaged, but still view it as a limited scope pilot.

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Very good. And the recruiting you're doing, are these would we characterize them as revenue attached people that bring relationships and low of activity?

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

A 100%. The ads that we've had, if you look at our staff, we're up in our direct title footprint about 3% over this time last year. And it's virtually all revenue attached recruits. We haven't been hiring for sort of production capacity. So they bring revenue and you can kind of think of them as like mini acquisitions really.

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

The acquisition activity has been down just because the opportunities haven't been there. But when you're hiring good people that bring revenue, sort of accomplishing the same thing as you do when you buy a company.

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Yes. Yes. Very good. Did you give July the kind of the growth in national versus local commercial?

[Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Yeah. I I don't know if I did or I did. It might have been in the script, but I'm looking at the numbers. So on the open side, national open orders were up 22% over July and local open orders were up 8%. So really good bolt in growth, but really strong growth on the national side.

[Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities]

Yes, very good. Thank you.

[Tony Park, CFO at Fidelity National Financial]

Thanks, Mark.

[Operator]

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, 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, Chief Executive Officer at Fidelity National Financial]

Thanks for joining our call this morning. Together, the combined business delivered strong second quarter results. The Title segment is delivering industry leading margins and remains poised for a rebound in transactional levels as we continue to invest in the business for the long term. F and G's new reinsurance sidecar is another source of growth capital and will help move F and G further toward a more fee based, higher margin and less capital intensive business model to help deliver on its Investor Day targets. We appreciate your interest in FNF and look forward to updating you on our third quarter earnings call.

[Operator]

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

Participants

Executives

• Lisa Foxworthy-Parker, Senior Vice President of Investor & External Relations
• Mike Nolan, Chief Executive Officer
• Tony Park, CFO

Analysts

• Mark Devries, Director at Deutsche Bank
• Terry Ma, Senior Equity Research Analyst at Barclays
• Bose George, Managing Director at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods (KBW)
• Geoffrey Dunn, Partner at Dowling & Partners
• Mark Hughes, Analyst at Truist Securities