DGICA vs. GLRE, TIG, SAFT, EIG, HCI, AMSF, PRA, UFCS, UVE, and GBLI
Should you be buying Donegal Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donegal Group include Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Trean Insurance Group (TIG), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), AMERISAFE (AMSF), ProAssurance (PRA), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), and Global Indemnity Group (GBLI). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Greenlight Capital Re (NASDAQ:GLRE) and Donegal Group (NASDAQ:DGICA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
Donegal Group received 34 more outperform votes than Greenlight Capital Re when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.33% of users gave Greenlight Capital Re an outperform vote while only 55.84% of users gave Donegal Group an outperform vote.
Donegal Group has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 13.29%. Given Greenlight Capital Re's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Donegal Group is more favorable than Greenlight Capital Re.
Greenlight Capital Re has a net margin of 15.69% compared to Greenlight Capital Re's net margin of 0.55%. Donegal Group's return on equity of 18.32% beat Greenlight Capital Re's return on equity.
In the previous week, Donegal Group had 3 more articles in the media than Greenlight Capital Re. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Donegal Group and 2 mentions for Greenlight Capital Re. Donegal Group's average media sentiment score of 1.47 beat Greenlight Capital Re's score of 0.96 indicating that Greenlight Capital Re is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Greenlight Capital Re has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Donegal Group has a beta of -0.05, indicating that its stock price is 105% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Greenlight Capital Re has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
41.5% of Greenlight Capital Re shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.0% of Donegal Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 22.8% of Greenlight Capital Re 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, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Greenlight Capital Re beats Donegal Group on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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