DGICA vs. GLRE, GBLI, UFCS, UVE, PRA, AMSF, HCI, EIG, SAFT, and HIPO
Should you be buying Donegal Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donegal Group include Greenlight Capital Re (GLRE), Global Indemnity Group (GBLI), United Fire Group (UFCS), Universal Insurance (UVE), ProAssurance (PRA), AMERISAFE (AMSF), HCI Group (HCI), Employers (EIG), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), and Hippo (HIPO).
Greenlight Capital Re (NASDAQ:GLRE) and Donegal Group (NASDAQ:DGICA) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking and analyst recommendations.
Greenlight Capital Re has a net margin of 13.32% compared to Greenlight Capital Re's net margin of 0.48%. Donegal Group's return on equity of 15.48% beat Greenlight Capital Re's return on equity.
In the previous week, Greenlight Capital Re had 1 more articles in the media than Donegal Group. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Greenlight Capital Re and 3 mentions for Donegal Group. Greenlight Capital Re's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Donegal Group's score of -0.04 indicating that Donegal Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Donegal Group has a consensus target price of $15.00, suggesting a potential upside of 6.08%. Given Greenlight Capital Re's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Donegal Group is more favorable than Greenlight Capital Re.
Donegal Group received 33 more outperform votes than Greenlight Capital Re when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 60.74% of users gave Greenlight Capital Re an outperform vote while only 55.73% of users gave Donegal Group an outperform vote.
41.5% of Greenlight Capital Re shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 28.0% of Donegal Group shares are held by institutional investors. 27.1% of Greenlight Capital Re shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 6.6% of Donegal Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Greenlight Capital Re has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Greenlight Capital Re has a beta of 0.82, suggesting that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Donegal Group has a beta of -0.07, suggesting that its stock price is 107% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Greenlight Capital Re beats Donegal Group on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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