Contact: Elizabeth B. Lewter

May 8, 2025

Telephone: (919) 968-2200

Nasdaq Symbol: ITIC

Chapel Hill, NC – Investors Title Company (Nasdaq: ITIC) today announced results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2025. The Company reported net income of $3.2 million, or $1.67 per diluted share, compared to $4.5 million, or $2.40 per diluted share, for the prior year period.

Revenues increased 5.8% to $56.6 million, compared to $53.5 million in the prior year period. The increase in revenues was primarily due to a 15.3% increase in net premiums written, resulting from higher activity levels across our key markets. Revenues were negatively impacted by the change in net investment (losses) gains, primarily driven by declines in the estimated fair value of equity security investments compared to the same period last year, reflecting overall stock market trends.

Operating expenses increased 10.2% to $52.5 million, compared to $47.7 million in the prior year period. The increase in operating expenses was largely driven by higher agent commissions, reflecting growth in agent business, and was partially offset by a decrease in the provision for claims due to recognition of favorable development on known claims. Other categories of operating expenses, in total, were up only slightly from the prior year, due to the impact of cost reduction initiatives, partly offset by growth in expense categories which fluctuate with volume.

Income before income taxes decreased to $4.1 million for the current year quarter, versus $5.8 million in the prior year period. Excluding the impact of net investment (losses) gains, adjusted income before income taxes (non-GAAP) increased to $5.2 million for the current year quarter, versus $3.4 million in the prior year period (see Appendix A for a reconciliation of this non-GAAP measure to the most directly comparable GAAP measure).

Chairman J. Allen Fine commented, "We were pleased to see an increase in premiums written for the quarter, reflecting modest improvement in market conditions, as well as the results of ongoing efforts to expand our market presence in key markets. Expenses were up in total due to higher commissions resulting from an increase in volume, but fixed overhead costs were down from the prior year period due to the effects of ongoing cost-saving measures.”

Investors Title Company’s subsidiaries issue and underwrite title insurance policies. The Company also provides investment management services and services in connection with tax-deferred exchanges of like-kind property.

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Certain statements contained herein constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements may be identified by the use of words such as “plan,” expect,” “aim,” “believe,” “project,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “estimate,” “should,” “could,” “would,” and other expressions that indicate future events and trends. Such statements include, among others, any statements regarding the Company’s expected performance for this year, future home price fluctuations, changes in home purchase or refinance demand, activity and the mix thereof, interest rate changes, expansion of the Company’s market presence, enhancing competitive strengths, executing on expense management strategies, development in housing affordability, wages, unemployment or overall economic conditions or statements regarding our actuarial assumptions and the application of recent historical claims experience to future periods. These statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from anticipated and historical results. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation: the cyclical demand for title insurance due to changes in the residential and commercial real estate markets; the occurrence of fraud, defalcation or misconduct; variances between actual claims experience and underwriting and reserving assumptions, including the limited predictive power of historical claims experience; declines in the performance of the Company’s investments; changes in government regulations and policy, including as a result of the Trump administration such as policies related to tariffs and their impact on the macroeconomic environment; changes in the economy; the impact of inflation and responses by government regulators, including the Federal Reserve, such as changes in interest rates; loss of agency relationships, or significant reductions in agent-originated business; difficulties managing growth, whether organic or through acquisitions and other considerations set forth under the caption “Risk Factors” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and in subsequent filings.

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Management uses various financial and operational measurements, including financial information not prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP"), to analyze Company performance. This includes adjusting revenues to remove the impact of net investment gains and losses, which are recognized in net income under GAAP. Net investment gains and losses include realized gains and losses on sales of investment securities and changes in the estimated fair value of equity security investments. Management believes that these measures are useful to evaluate the Company's internal operational performance from period to period because they eliminate the effects of external market fluctuations. The Company also believes users of the financial results would benefit from having access to such information, and that certain of the Company’s peers make available similar information. This information should not be used as a substitute for, or considered superior to, measures of financial performance prepared in accordance with GAAP, and may be different from similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies.

The following tables reconcile non-GAAP financial measurements used by Company management to the comparable measurements using GAAP: