DGICB vs. ROOT, HMN, HCI, EIG, SAFT, BOW, AMSF, TCPC, TIPT, and PRA
Should you be buying Donegal Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donegal Group include Root (ROOT), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), HCI Group (HCI), Employers (EIG), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Bowhead Specialty (BOW), AMERISAFE (AMSF), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), Tiptree (TIPT), and ProAssurance (PRA). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Donegal Group vs.
Donegal Group (NASDAQ:DGICB) and Root (NASDAQ:ROOT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, profitability, community ranking, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Donegal Group has a beta of 0.06, meaning that its stock price is 94% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Root has a beta of 2.58, meaning that its stock price is 158% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Donegal Group has higher revenue and earnings than Root. Root 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 had 2 more articles in the media than Root. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Donegal Group and 1 mentions for Root. Root's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Donegal Group's score of 0.00 indicating that Root is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Root has a consensus price target of $59.38, indicating a potential downside of 46.62%. Given Root's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Root is more favorable than Donegal Group.
Donegal Group has a net margin of 2.54% compared to Root's net margin of -1.56%. Donegal Group's return on equity of 3.95% beat Root's return on equity.
Donegal Group received 34 more outperform votes than Root when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.46% of users gave Donegal Group an outperform vote while only 27.55% of users gave Root an outperform vote.
1.2% of Donegal Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 59.8% of Root shares are held by institutional investors. 8.6% of Donegal Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of Root shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Donegal Group beats Root on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NASDAQ:DGICB) was last updated on 2/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff