Stewart Announces Contract Extension for CEO Fred Eppinger
03 Diciembre 2024 - 3:45PM
Business Wire
Stewart Information Services Corporation (NYSE:STC) today
announced its Board of Directors has agreed with Frederick H.
Eppinger, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), to amend and restate his
employment agreement, extending the term for another three years
through the end of 2028.
“In five years as CEO, Fred has guided Stewart by developing our
strategy, capabilities and team, much in a down market, resulting
in more than doubling our market cap and increasing market share to
over 10 percent,” said Thomas G. Apel, Chairman of the Board. “Fred
has built momentum, both financially and operationally. The Board
is confident that Fred is the right leader for Stewart to continue
delivering financial stability and shareholder value.”
“In my first three years at Stewart, my goal was to focus our
company’s strengths and fortify our position in the market, and I’m
extremely proud of the commitment and dedication of our employees
to get behind this singular goal,” said Eppinger. “Now that we are
five years into our mission, not only have we fortified Stewart as
an industry leader, but we have grown our share of the market. The
work is not done and I’m excited about the continued opportunities
ahead to innovate, expand and enhance our value proposition for our
employees and customers, and to see us execute on our plans to
capture 15 percent market share and 11-12 percent pretax
margins.”
Eppinger took over as CEO in September of 2019 after having
served as a director of Stewart since 2016. Since assuming the CEO
position, Eppinger has led the company through a global pandemic
and driven sustained growth and momentum through one of the worst
housing markets in history. Even when managing through these
difficult macro conditions, he has remained relentless in his
pursuit of growth, scale, and pretax margin improvement. Eppinger
has hired best-in-class leaders, delivered on more than thirty
strategic acquisitions, expanded the company’s digital and
technological capabilities, built additional capacity into the
system, and sought out ways to drive efficiencies through process
and data management improvements. All these actions and more have
enhanced the company’s market presence and its financial strength,
helping to solidify Stewart’s position as a leader in the title
insurance space for another 130 years.
About Stewart
Stewart (NYSE-STC) is a global real estate services company,
offering products and services through our direct operations,
network of Stewart Trusted Providers™ and family of companies. From
residential and commercial title insurance and closing and
settlement services to specialized offerings for the mortgage and
real estate industries, we offer the comprehensive service, deep
expertise and solutions our customers need for any real estate
transaction. At Stewart, we are dedicated to becoming the premier
title services company and we are committed to doing so by
partnering with our customers to create mutual success. Learn more
at stewart.com.
Cautionary statement regarding forward-looking
statements. Certain statements in this press release are
"forward-looking statements", including statements related to
Stewart’s plans to achieve certain market share and pretax margin
targets. Forward-looking statements, by their nature, are subject
to various risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual
results to differ materially. Such risks and uncertainties include
the volatility of general economic conditions and adverse changes
in the level of real estate activity, as well as a number of other
risk and uncertainties discussed in detail in our documents filed
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023. We
expressly disclaim any obligation to update, amend or clarify any
forward-looking statements contained in this press release to
reflect events or circumstances that may arise after the date
hereof, except as may be required by applicable law.
ST-IR
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John Chattaway, Stewart Media Relations (713) 625-8180;
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