DGICA vs. GLRE, TIG, STC, SAFT, EIG, HCI, AMSF, PRA, UFCS, and UVE
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), Stewart Information Services (STC), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Employers (EIG), HCI Group (HCI), AMERISAFE (AMSF), ProAssurance (PRA), United Fire Group (UFCS), and Universal Insurance (UVE). These companies are all part of the "finance" sector.
Donegal Group (NASDAQ:DGICA) and Greenlight Capital Re (NASDAQ:GLRE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and profitability.
28.0% of Donegal Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 41.5% of Greenlight Capital Re shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Donegal Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 22.8% of Greenlight Capital Re shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Greenlight Capital Re has a net margin of 15.69% compared to Donegal Group's net margin of 0.55%. Greenlight Capital Re's return on equity of 18.32% beat Donegal Group's return on equity.
Donegal Group has a beta of -0.03, suggesting that its share price is 103% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Greenlight Capital Re has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Donegal Group and Donegal Group both had 1 articles in the media. Donegal Group's average media sentiment score of 1.92 beat Greenlight Capital Re's score of 1.81 indicating that Donegal Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Donegal Group presently has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 14.42%. Given Donegal Group's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Donegal Group is more favorable than Greenlight Capital Re.
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.
Summary
Greenlight Capital Re beats Donegal Group on 10 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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