HIPO vs. DGICA, GBLI, GLRE, NODK, UVE, JRVR, UFCS, HRTG, MHLD, and TIPT
Should you be buying Hippo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Hippo include Donegal Group (DGICA), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), NI (NODK), Universal Insurance (UVE), James River Group (JRVR), United Fire Group (UFCS), Heritage Insurance (HRTG), Maiden (MHLD), and Tiptree (TIPT). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Hippo (NYSE:HIPO) and Donegal Group (NASDAQ:DGICA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, community ranking, risk, earnings, dividends and valuation.
43.0% of Hippo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.0% of Donegal Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 11.4% of Hippo shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 5.0% of Donegal Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Hippo currently has a consensus price target of $19.33, indicating a potential upside of 3.50%. Donegal Group has a consensus price target of $15.00, indicating a potential upside of 14.85%. Given Donegal Group's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Donegal Group is more favorable than Hippo.
Donegal Group received 201 more outperform votes than Hippo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 55.84% of users gave Donegal Group an outperform vote while only 38.89% of users gave Hippo an outperform vote.
Hippo has a beta of 1.41, indicating that its share price is 41% more 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.
Donegal Group has a net margin of 0.55% compared to Hippo's net margin of -93.69%. Donegal Group's return on equity of 0.15% beat Hippo's return on equity.
In the previous week, Hippo had 8 more articles in the media than Donegal Group. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Hippo and 4 mentions for Donegal Group. Donegal Group's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat Hippo's score of -0.04 indicating that Donegal Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Donegal Group has higher revenue and earnings than Hippo. Hippo 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
Donegal Group beats Hippo on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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