How to buy Donegal Group stock

Donegal Group Inc is an insurance-property & casualty business based in the US. Donegal Group shares (DGICA) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars.

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Donegal Group shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2021-04-30.

52-week range	$12.00 - $16.48
50-day moving average	$15.37
200-day moving average	$14.54
Wall St. target price	$18.50
PE ratio	7.6788
Dividend yield	$0.6 (3.9%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	$2.00

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Is Donegal Group under- or over-valued?

Valuing Donegal Group stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Donegal Group's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Donegal Group's P/E ratio

Donegal Group's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 8x. In other words, Donegal Group shares trade at around 8x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Donegal Group's PEG ratio

Donegal Group's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.06. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Donegal Group's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Donegal Group's EBITDA

Donegal Group's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $81.5 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Donegal Group's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Donegal Group financials

Revenue TTM	$790.9 million
Operating margin TTM	9.46%
Gross profit TTM	$65.7 million
Return on assets TTM	2.22%
Return on equity TTM	12.06%
Profit margin	7.54%
Book value	$17.44
Market capitalisation	$463.2 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Donegal Group shares

There are currently 79,792 Donegal Group shares held short by investors – that's known as Donegal Group's "short interest". This figure is 16% down from 95,040 last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Donegal Group shares can be evaluated.

Donegal Group's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Donegal Group's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Donegal Group shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Donegal Group shares traded daily (recently around 90672.727272727). Donegal Group's SIR currently stands at 0.88. In other words for every 100,000 Donegal Group shares traded daily on the market, roughly 880 shares are currently held short.

However Donegal Group's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Donegal Group shares, or, against the total number of tradable Donegal Group shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Donegal Group's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Donegal Group shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0057% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Donegal Group shares, roughly 6 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Donegal Group.

Find out more about how you can short Donegal Group stock.

Donegal Group share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 29.9% of net profits

Recently Donegal Group has paid out, on average, around 29.9% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 4.15% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Donegal Group shareholders could enjoy a 4.15% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Donegal Group's case, that would currently equate to about $0.6 per share.

While Donegal Group's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Donegal Group may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Donegal Group's most recent dividend payout was on 16 May 2021. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 29 April 2021 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Donegal Group's shares ever split?

Donegal Group's shares were split on a 4:3 basis on 26 April 2006. So if you had owned 3 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 4 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Donegal Group shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 25% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Donegal Group shares which in turn could have impacted Donegal Group's share price.

Donegal Group share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Donegal Group's shares have ranged in value from as little as $11.9959 up to $16.48. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Donegal Group's is 0.0254. This would suggest that Donegal Group's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Donegal Group overview

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, and Commercial Lines of Insurance. 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.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Donegal Group is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 4.968% of Donegal Group shares are held by insiders and 80.91% by institutions.

• When does the fiscal year end for Donegal Group?

  Donegal Group's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Donegal Group based?

  Donegal Group's address is: 1195 River Road, Marietta, PA, United States, 17547

• What is Donegal Group's ISIN number?

  Donegal Group's international securities identification number is: US2577012014

• What is Donegal Group's CUSIP number?

  Donegal Group's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 257701102