DGICB vs. LMND, SKWD, HMN, SAFT, EIG, ROOT, HCI, TCPC, AMSF, and BOW
Should you be buying Donegal Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Donegal Group include Lemonade (LMND), Skyward Specialty Insurance Group (SKWD), Horace Mann Educators (HMN), Safety Insurance Group (SAFT), Employers (EIG), Root (ROOT), HCI Group (HCI), BlackRock TCP Capital (TCPC), AMERISAFE (AMSF), and Bowhead Specialty (BOW). These companies are all part of the "fire, marine, & casualty insurance" industry.
Lemonade (NYSE:LMND) and Donegal Group (NASDAQ:DGICB) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, earnings, media sentiment and risk.
Lemonade presently has a consensus price target of $18.86, indicating a potential downside of 19.48%. Given Donegal Group's higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Lemonade is more favorable than Donegal Group.
In the previous week, Donegal Group had 7 more articles in the media than Lemonade. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Donegal Group and 0 mentions for Lemonade. Lemonade's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Donegal Group's score of -1.00 indicating that Donegal Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
80.3% of Lemonade shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 1.2% of Donegal Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 12.5% of Lemonade shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.6% of Donegal Group shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Donegal Group has higher revenue and earnings than Lemonade. Lemonade is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Donegal Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Donegal Group has a net margin of 0.55% compared to Donegal Group's net margin of -48.14%. Lemonade's return on equity of 0.15% beat Donegal Group's return on equity.
Lemonade has a beta of 1.78, indicating that its share price is 78% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Donegal Group has a beta of 0.1, indicating that its share price is 90% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Donegal Group received 35 more outperform votes than Lemonade when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 54.46% of users gave Donegal Group an outperform vote while only 30.23% of users gave Lemonade an outperform vote.
Summary
Donegal Group beats Lemonade on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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