DGICB vs. GLRE, GBLI, DGICA, JRVR, HIPO, NODK, HRTG, UFCS, UVE, and TCPC
Should you be buying Donegal Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donegal Group include Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Donegal Group (DGICA), James River Group (JRVR), Hippo (HIPO), NI (NODK), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), and BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Donegal Group (NASDAQ:DGICB) and Greenlight Capital Re (NASDAQ:GLRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability, media sentiment, valuation, analyst recommendations and earnings.
Greenlight Capital Re received 120 more outperform votes than Donegal Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 60.74% of users gave Greenlight Capital Re an outperform vote while only 54.46% of users gave Donegal Group an outperform vote.
1.2% of Donegal Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.5% of Greenlight Capital Re shares are owned by institutional investors. 8.6% of Donegal Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.1% of Greenlight Capital Re shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Greenlight Capital Re has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Donegal Group. Greenlight Capital Re is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Donegal Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Donegal Group and Donegal Group both had 2 articles in the media. Donegal Group's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Greenlight Capital Re'saverage media sentiment score.
Donegal Group has a beta of 0.03, indicating that its share price is 97% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greenlight Capital Re has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Greenlight Capital Re has a net margin of 13.32% compared to Donegal Group's net margin of 0.55%. Greenlight Capital Re's return on equity of 15.48% beat Donegal Group's return on equity.
Summary
Greenlight Capital Re beats Donegal Group on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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