DGICA vs. GBLI, UFCS, UVE, AMSF, HCI, GLRE, HIPO, TCPC, HRTG, and TIPT
Should you be buying Donegal Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donegal Group include Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), AMERISAFE (AMSF), HCI Group (HCI), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Hippo (HIPO), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), and Tiptree (TIPT). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Global Indemnity Group (NASDAQ:GBLI) and Donegal Group (NASDAQ:DGICA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, valuation, dividends, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Global Indemnity Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Donegal Group. Global Indemnity Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Donegal Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Global Indemnity Group has a net margin of 4.79% compared to Global Indemnity Group's net margin of 0.55%. Donegal Group's return on equity of 4.32% beat Global Indemnity Group's return on equity.
Global Indemnity Group pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Donegal Group pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.0%. Global Indemnity Group pays out 76.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Donegal Group pays out 425.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Global Indemnity Group has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Donegal Group has increased its dividend for 20 consecutive years. Donegal Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Donegal Group received 36 more outperform votes than Global Indemnity Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.84% of users gave Donegal Group an outperform vote while only 54.74% of users gave Global Indemnity Group an outperform vote.
37.4% of Global Indemnity Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.0% of Donegal Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.1% of Global Indemnity Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Donegal Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Global Indemnity Group had 1 more articles in the media than Donegal Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Global Indemnity Group and 2 mentions for Donegal Group. Global Indemnity Group's average media sentiment score of 0.31 beat Donegal Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Donegal Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Donegal Group has a consensus target price of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 10.70%. Given Global Indemnity Group's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Donegal Group is more favorable than Global Indemnity Group.
Global Indemnity Group has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Donegal Group has a beta of -0.05, indicating that its share price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Global Indemnity Group beats Donegal Group on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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