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Donegal Group (DGICA) Competitors

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$18.28 -0.36 (-1.93%)
Closing price 07/11/2025 04:00 PM Eastern
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$18.26 -0.02 (-0.08%)
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DGICA vs. HTH, STC, HCI, PRA, SAFT, EIG, AMSF, UVE, UFCS, and GBLI

Should you be buying Donegal Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donegal Group include Hilltop (HTH), Stewart Information Services (STC), HCI Group (HCI), ProAssurance (PRA), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Employers (EIG), AMERISAFE (AMSF), Universal Insurance (UVE), United Fire Group (UFCS), and Global Indemnity Group (GBLI). These companies are all part of the "property & casualty insurance" industry.

Donegal Group vs. Its Competitors

Donegal Group (NASDAQ:DGICA) and Hilltop (NYSE:HTH) are both finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Donegal Group currently has a consensus target price of $18.00, indicating a potential downside of 1.53%. Hilltop has a consensus target price of $33.00, indicating a potential upside of 7.53%. Given Hilltop's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Hilltop is more favorable than Donegal Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Donegal Group
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Hilltop
0 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

In the previous week, Donegal Group had 1 more articles in the media than Hilltop. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Donegal Group and 3 mentions for Hilltop. Hilltop's average media sentiment score of 0.73 beat Donegal Group's score of 0.47 indicating that Hilltop is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Donegal Group
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Hilltop
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Donegal Group pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Hilltop pays an annual dividend of $0.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. Donegal Group pays out 35.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Hilltop pays out 36.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Donegal Group has increased its dividend for 5 consecutive years and Hilltop has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years. Donegal Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Donegal Group has a beta of 0.01, suggesting that its stock price is 99% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Hilltop has a beta of 0.87, suggesting that its stock price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.

28.0% of Donegal Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 57.1% of Hilltop shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.6% of Donegal Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 29.9% of Hilltop shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Hilltop has higher revenue and earnings than Donegal Group. Donegal Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hilltop, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Donegal Group$989.60M0.67$50.86M$2.058.92
Hilltop$1.61B1.22$113.21M$1.9715.58

Hilltop has a net margin of 7.87% compared to Donegal Group's net margin of 7.06%. Donegal Group's return on equity of 12.82% beat Hilltop's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Donegal Group7.06% 12.82% 2.91%
Hilltop 7.87%5.79%0.80%

Summary

Hilltop beats Donegal Group on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NASDAQ and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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DGICA vs. The Competition

MetricDonegal GroupINS IndustryFinance SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$672.84M$56.40B$12.07B$9.11B
Dividend Yield3.92%2.01%5.53%4.02%
P/E Ratio8.9217.5520.0420.25
Price / Sales0.672.6625.5199.61
Price / Cash13.0628.9021.6458.16
Price / Book1.192.982.285.49
Net Income$50.86M$4.66B$992.82M$250.27M
7 Day Performance-5.38%-2.79%-0.23%4.75%
1 Month Performance-5.38%-2.69%2.76%7.64%
1 Year Performance35.01%24.33%536.06%16.34%

Donegal Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DGICA
Donegal Group
3.0568 of 5 stars
$18.28
-1.9%
$18.00
-1.5%
+36.8%$672.84M$989.60M8.92880
HTH
Hilltop
4.753 of 5 stars
$31.24
-2.1%
$33.00
+5.6%
-4.2%$2.05B$1.61B15.863,646
STC
Stewart Information Services
3.4273 of 5 stars
$65.33
-2.4%
$79.00
+20.9%
-9.9%$1.87B$2.49B25.137,000News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
HCI
HCI Group
4.5533 of 5 stars
$144.15
-1.8%
$181.25
+25.7%
+59.2%$1.69B$750.05M13.94530
PRA
ProAssurance
1.7074 of 5 stars
$23.66
+0.1%
$21.00
-11.2%
+107.0%$1.21B$1.15B28.851,036
SAFT
Safety Insurance Group
2.364 of 5 stars
$75.65
-2.4%
N/A-7.4%$1.15B$1.12B15.47550Positive News
EIG
Employers
4.0811 of 5 stars
$47.26
-1.1%
$58.00
+22.7%
+6.8%$1.15B$860.20M11.47680
AMSF
AMERISAFE
4.2963 of 5 stars
$43.53
-0.6%
$59.50
+36.7%
-1.3%$834.21M$309.04M17.55350News Coverage
Positive News
UVE
Universal Insurance
3.8172 of 5 stars
$25.52
-1.7%
N/A+27.7%$730.35M$1.52B11.141,068Dividend Announcement
UFCS
United Fire Group
4.0442 of 5 stars
$27.62
-1.9%
$30.00
+8.6%
+28.5%$716.70M$1.25B10.921,090News Coverage
GBLI
Global Indemnity Group
4.2397 of 5 stars
$30.01
-4.2%
N/A+0.6%$427.88M$437.55M10.31360News Coverage
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This page (NASDAQ:DGICA) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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