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ALTA quarterly title premium volume and underwriter order flow (FNF, First American, Stewart). Underwriter premiums and order counts are ingested automatically from SEC EDGAR filings and First American’s monthly IR workbook; ALTA premium volume is still entered manually each quarter.

ALTA_PREMIUM
ALTA Title Premium Volume
4,500$M
2026-03-31 · +15.4% QoQ
  1. 2025-03-313,900
FNF_OPEN_ORDERS
FNF Open Title Orders
391K orders
2026-06-30 · +0.5% QoQ
  1. 2026-03-31389
  2. 2025-09-30370
  3. 2025-06-30366
  4. 2025-03-31343
FAF_OPEN_ORDERS
First American Open Title Orders (US direct ops only)
124,214orders
2026-07-01 · -4.0% QoQ
  1. 2026-06-01129,385
  2. 2026-05-01118,604
  3. 2026-04-01128,395
  4. 2026-03-01137,418
  5. 2026-02-01117,190
ORI_OPEN_ORDERS
Old Republic Open Title Orders
—K orders
no entries yet
STC_OPEN_ORDERS
Stewart Open Title Orders
92.547K orders
2026-06-30 · +9.3% QoQ
  1. 2026-03-3184.708
  2. 2025-09-3087.403
  3. 2025-06-3089.646
  4. 2025-03-3178.943

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Title Underwriter Volume

Order counts below cover each underwriter’s direct operations only. Agency-issued policies produce no order count anywhere, and agency is the majority of premium volume. These figures are not total market volume and are deliberately never summed across underwriters into a national figure.

Fidelity National Financial (FNF)

Aug 6, 2026
FNF Open Title Orders
391,000
+2,000
LAGS 1qJun 2026 · rel. Aug 6 · 5-wk lag · NSA

Direct operations only. Agency-issued policies produce no order count anywhere, so this is not total market volume and must never be summed across underwriters.

Aug 6, 2026
FNF Closed Title Orders
273,000
+39,000
LAGS 1qJun 2026 · rel. Aug 6 · 5-wk lag · NSA

Direct operations only. Agency-issued policies produce no order count anywhere, so this is not total market volume and must never be summed across underwriters.

Aug 6, 2026
FNF Fee Per File
$4,107
+$452
LAGS 1qJun 2026 · rel. Aug 6 · 5-wk lag · NSA

First American (FAF)

staleAug 14, 2026
First American Open Title Orders (US direct ops only)
124,214
−5,171
LAGS ~2wkstaleJul 2026 · rel. Aug 14 · 6-wk lag · NSA

Direct operations only. Agency-issued policies produce no order count anywhere, so this is not total market volume and must never be summed across underwriters. Per First American's own disclosure, their direct book disproportionately reflects the western US.

staleAug 14, 2026
First American Closed Title Orders (US direct ops only)
97,599
+993.0
LAGS ~2wkstaleJul 2026 · rel. Aug 14 · 6-wk lag · NSA

Direct operations only. Agency-issued policies produce no order count anywhere, so this is not total market volume and must never be summed across underwriters. Per First American's own disclosure, their direct book disproportionately reflects the western US.

Stewart (STC)

Aug 4, 2026
Stewart Open Title Orders
92,547
+7,839
LAGS 1qJun 2026 · rel. Aug 4 · 5-wk lag · NSA

Direct operations only. Agency-issued policies produce no order count anywhere, so this is not total market volume and must never be summed across underwriters.

Aug 4, 2026
Stewart Closed Title Orders
61,309
+12,682
LAGS 1qJun 2026 · rel. Aug 4 · 5-wk lag · NSA

Direct operations only. Agency-issued policies produce no order count anywhere, so this is not total market volume and must never be summed across underwriters.

Premiums & escrow ($M)

Aug 6, 2026
FNF Direct Title Premiums
$767.00M
+$184.00M
LAGS 1qJun 2026 · rel. Aug 6 · 5-wk lag · NSA
Aug 6, 2026
FNF Agency Title Premiums
$967.00M
+$179.00M
LAGS 1qJun 2026 · rel. Aug 6 · 5-wk lag · NSA

Agency premium. Agent premiums are remitted and recorded on roughly a one-quarter lag relative to direct premiums, so this series lags the underlying transactions by more than the filing date suggests.

Aug 6, 2026
FNF Escrow, Title-Related and Other Fees
$1.17B
+$62.00M
LAGS 1qJun 2026 · rel. Aug 6 · 5-wk lag · NSA
First American Direct Premiums AND Escrow Fees (combined line — not comparable to FNF_DIRECT_PREM)
No data — ingestion not yet run.
LAGS 1qno_data

Combines direct premiums and escrow fees in a single line; not comparable to FNF_DIRECT_PREM, which reports them separately.

Jul 23, 2026
First American Agent Premiums
$658.60M
+$56.40M
LAGS 1qJun 2026 · rel. Jul 23 · 3-wk lag · NSA

Agency premium. Agent premiums are remitted and recorded on roughly a one-quarter lag relative to direct premiums, so this series lags the underlying transactions by more than the filing date suggests.

Stewart Direct Title Premiums
No data — ingestion not yet run.
LAGS 1qno_data
Aug 4, 2026
Stewart Agency Title Premiums
$314.89M
+$38.75M
LAGS 1qJun 2026 · rel. Aug 4 · 5-wk lag · NSA

Agency premium. Agent premiums are remitted and recorded on roughly a one-quarter lag relative to direct premiums, so this series lags the underlying transactions by more than the filing date suggests.