NASDAQ:DGICADonegal Group Stock Price, Forecast & News Adding Choose a watchlist: Adding You have already added five stocks to your watchlist. Upgrade to MarketBeat Daily Premium to add more stocks to your watchlist. Adding Donegal Group Inc. Please log in to your account or sign up in order to add this asset to your watchlist. Log In and Add $14.68 -0.22 (-1.48 %) (As of 05/29/2020 08:44 AM ET) Add Compare Share Today's Range$14.68Now: $14.68▼$14.9750-Day Range$12.91MA: $14.45▼$15.5452-Week Range$11.22Now: $14.68▼$16.19Volume36,433 shsAverage Volume42,577 shsMarket Capitalization$426.16 millionP/E Ratio14.98Dividend Yield4.03%Beta0.06 ProfileAnalyst RatingsAdvanced ChartCompetitorsDividendEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesInstitutional OwnershipHeadlinesOptions ChainSEC FilingsSocial Media Donegal Group Inc., an insurance holding company, provides personal and commercial lines of property and casualty insurance to businesses and individuals in the Mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, New England, and southern states. It operates through four segments: Investment Function, Personal Lines of Insurance, Commercial Lines of Insurance, and Investment in DFSC. The company offers private passenger automobile policies that provide protection against liability for bodily injury and property damage arising from automobile accidents, as well as protection against loss from damage to automobiles. It also offers homeowners policies, which provide coverage for damage to residences and their contents from a range of perils, including fire, lightning, windstorm, and theft; and liability of the insured arising from injury to other persons or their property. In addition, the company offers commercial automobile policies that provide protection against liability for bodily injury and property damage arising from automobile accidents and protection against loss from damage to automobiles owned by the insured; commercial multi-peril policies that provide protection to businesses against various perils, primarily combining liability and physical damage coverages; and workers' compensation policies, which provide benefits to employees for injuries sustained during employment. The company markets its insurance products through a network of approximately 2,400 independent insurance agencies. Donegal Group Inc. was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Marietta, Pennsylvania. Donegal Group Inc. is a subsidiary of Donegal Mutual Insurance Company.Read More Beat the Market (BTM) Rank™ 2.5 Analyst's Opinion Consensus RatingDonegal Group has received a consensus rating of Buy. The company's average rating score is 3.00, and is based on 1 buy rating, no hold ratings, and no sell ratings.Price Target Upside/DownsideAccording to analysts' consensus price target of $17.00, Donegal Group has a potential upside of 15.8% from its current price of $14.68.Amount of Analyst CoverageDonegal Group has received no research coverage in the past 90 days. Previous Next 2.1 Community Rank Outperform VotesDonegal Group has received 195 “outperform” votes. (Add your “outperform” vote.)Underperform VotesDonegal Group has received 279 “underperform” votes. (Add your “underperform” vote.)Community SentimentDonegal Group has received 58.86% “underperform” votes from our community.MarketBeat's community ratings are surveys of what our community members think about Donegal Group and other stocks. Vote “Outperform” if you believe DGICA will outperform the S&P 500 over the long term. Vote “Underperform” if you believe DGICA will underperform the S&P 500 over the long term. You may vote once every thirty days. Previous Next 3.3 Dividend Strength Dividend LeadershipDonegal Group is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 4.03%, putting its dividend yield in the top 25% of dividend-paying stocks.Dividend GrowthDonegal Group has only been increasing its dividend for 4 years.Dividend CoverageThe dividend payout ratio of Donegal Group is 59.41 %. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.Dividend SustainabilityBased on earnings estimates, Donegal Group will have a dividend payout ratio of 60.00 % next year. This indicates that Donegal Group will be able to sustain or increase its dividend. Previous Next 3.0 Company Ownership Insider Buying vs. Insider SellingIn the past three months, Donegal Group insiders have bought more of their company's stock than they have sold. Specifically, they have bought $148,900.00 in company stock and sold $0.00 in company stock.Percentage Held by InsidersOnly 9.30% of the stock of Donegal Group is held by insiders.Percentage Held by InstitutionsOnly 31.25% of the stock of Donegal Group is held by institutions. Previous Next 1.3 Earnings and Valuation Earnings GrowthEarnings for Donegal Group are expected to decrease by -20.00% in the coming year, from $1.25 to $1.00 per share.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the MarketThe P/E ratio of Donegal Group is 14.98, which means that it is trading at a more expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 14.81.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. SectorThe P/E ratio of Donegal Group is 14.98, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Finance sector average P/E ratio of about 19.24.Price to Book Value per Share RatioDonegal Group has a P/B Ratio of 0.93. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities. Previous Next Analyst Opinion: 2.5Community Rank: 2.1Dividend Strength: 3.3Insider Behavior: 3.0Valuation: 1.3 5 -4 -3 -2 -1 -Overall Beat the Market Rank™2.44 out of 5 stars Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock Exchange NASDAQ Industry Fire, marine, & casualty insurance Sub-IndustryProperty & Casualty Insurance SectorFinance Current SymbolNASDAQ:DGICA Previous Symbol CUSIP25770120 CIK800457 Webwww.donegalgroup.com Phone717-426-1931Debt Debt-to-Equity Ratio0.20 Current Ratio0.47 Quick Ratio0.47Price-To-Earnings Trailing P/E Ratio14.98 Forward P/E Ratio11.74 P/E GrowthN/A Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$812.45 million Price / Sales0.52 Cash Flow$1.16 per share Price / Cash Flow12.62 Book Value$15.83 per share Price / Book0.93Profitability EPS (Most Recent Fiscal Year)$1.01 Net Income$47.15 million Net Margins3.56% Return on Equity7.52% Return on Assets1.73%Miscellaneous EmployeesN/A Outstanding Shares29,030,000Market Cap$426.16 million Next Earnings Date8/3/2020 (Estimated) OptionableOptionable NASDAQ:DGICA Rates by TradingView Receive DGICA News and Ratings via Email Sign-up to receive the latest news and ratings for DGICA and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Donegal Group (NASDAQ:DGICA) Frequently Asked Questions How has Donegal Group's stock been impacted by COVID-19 (Coronavirus)? Donegal Group's stock was trading at $13.18 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, DGICA shares have increased by 11.4% and is now trading at $14.68. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus. Do Wall Street analysts recommend investors buy shares of Donegal Group? 1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Donegal Group in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Donegal Group. When is Donegal Group's next earnings date? Donegal Group is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, August 3rd 2020. View our earnings forecast for Donegal Group. How were Donegal Group's earnings last quarter? Donegal Group Inc. (NASDAQ:DGICA) released its earnings results on Tuesday, April, 28th. The insurance provider reported $0.43 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.33 by $0.10. The insurance provider earned $195.50 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $197.50 million. Donegal Group had a net margin of 3.56% and a return on equity of 7.52%. View Donegal Group's earnings history. How often does Donegal Group pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for Donegal Group? Donegal Group announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, April 15th. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 1st will be paid a dividend of $0.15 per share on Friday, May 15th. This represents a $0.60 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 4.09%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, April 30th. This is an increase from Donegal Group's previous quarterly dividend of $0.15. View Donegal Group's dividend history. What price target have analysts set for DGICA? 1 brokerages have issued 1-year target prices for Donegal Group's stock. Their forecasts range from $17.00 to $17.00. On average, they anticipate Donegal Group's share price to reach $17.00 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 15.8% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Donegal Group. Has Donegal Group been receiving favorable news coverage? News coverage about DGICA stock has trended somewhat positive on Friday, InfoTrie reports. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Donegal Group earned a media sentiment score of 0.7 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media headlines about the insurance provider a news buzz of 2.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is very unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutDonegal Group. Are investors shorting Donegal Group? Donegal Group saw a increase in short interest in the month of April. As of April 30th, there was short interest totaling 61,700 shares, an increase of 18.0% from the April 15th total of 52,300 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 39,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.6 days. Currently, 0.5% of the company's stock are short sold. View Donegal Group's Current Options Chain. Who are some of Donegal Group's key competitors? Some companies that are related to Donegal Group include Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.B), Progressive (PGR), Allstate (ALL), Travelers Companies (TRV), Markel (MKL), Arch Capital Group (ACGL), W. R. Berkley (WRB), Cincinnati Financial (CINF), Fidelity National Financial (FNF), Cna Financial (CNA), Erie Indemnity (ERIE), First American Financial (FAF), Old Republic International (ORI), Hanover Insurance Group (THG) and RLI (RLI). View all competitors. Who are Donegal Group's key executives? Donegal Group's management team includes the following people: Mr. Kevin Gerard Burke, Pres, CEO & Chairman (Age 53)Mr. Jeffrey Dean Miller, Exec. VP & CFO (Age 55)Mr. Sanjay Pandey, Sr. VP & Chief Information Officer (Age 52)Mr. Cyril James Greenya, Sr. VP (Age 74)Mr. Richard George Kelley, Sr. VP & Head of Field Operations (Age 64) What is Donegal Group's stock symbol? Donegal Group trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "DGICA." Who are Donegal Group's major shareholders? Donegal Group's stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (3.22%), Philadelphia Trust Co. (1.54%), CWA Asset Management Group LLC (1.23%), Wells Fargo & Company MN (1.09%), Deprince Race & Zollo Inc. (1.00%) and State Street Corp (0.91%). Company insiders that own Donegal Group stock include Dennis Joseph Bixenman, Jack Lee Hess, Kevin Michael Sr Kraft Sr, Patricia A Gilmartin and Vincent Anthony Viozzi. View institutional ownership trends for Donegal Group. Which major investors are selling Donegal Group stock? DGICA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Morgan Stanley, Arnhold LLC, UBS Group AG, Philadelphia Trust Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC, BlackRock Inc., and Deutsche Bank AG. View insider buying and selling activity for Donegal Group. Which major investors are buying Donegal Group stock? DGICA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Dalton Greiner Hartman Maher & Co., CWA Asset Management Group LLC, Deprince Race & Zollo Inc., Los Angeles Capital Management & Equity Research Inc., Geode Capital Management LLC, Federated Hermes Inc., Hillsdale Investment Management Inc., and State Street Corp. Company insiders that have bought Donegal Group stock in the last two years include Jack Lee Hess, Kevin Michael Sr Kraft Sr, and Vincent Anthony Viozzi. View insider buying and selling activity for Donegal Group. How do I buy shares of Donegal Group? Shares of DGICA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab. What is Donegal Group's stock price today? One share of DGICA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $14.68. How big of a company is Donegal Group? Donegal Group has a market capitalization of $426.16 million and generates $812.45 million in revenue each year. The insurance provider earns $47.15 million in net income (profit) each year or $1.01 on an earnings per share basis. What is Donegal Group's official website? The official website for Donegal Group is www.donegalgroup.com. How can I contact Donegal Group? Donegal Group's mailing address is 1195 RIVER ROAD PO BOX 302, MARIETTA PA, 17547. The insurance provider can be reached via phone at 717-426-1931 or via email at [email protected] This page was last updated on 5/29/2020 by MarketBeat.com Staff
