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Donegal Group (Donegal Group) Debt-to-EBITDA : -7.20 (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Donegal Group Debt-to-EBITDA?

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Donegal Group's Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $35.0 Mil. Donegal Group's Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $0.0 Mil. Donegal Group's annualized EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $-4.9 Mil. Donegal Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was -7.20.

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt. According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.

The historical rank and industry rank for Donegal Group's Debt-to-EBITDA or its related term are showing as below:

DGICB' s Debt-to-EBITDA Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -1.65   Med: 1.96   Max: 19.19
Current: 3.5

During the past 13 years, the highest Debt-to-EBITDA Ratio of Donegal Group was 19.19. The lowest was -1.65. And the median was 1.96.

DGICB's Debt-to-EBITDA is ranked worse than
78.08% of 292 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 1.49 vs DGICB: 3.50

Donegal Group Debt-to-EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Donegal Group's Debt-to-EBITDA can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Donegal Group Debt-to-EBITDA Chart

Donegal Group Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Debt-to-EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 0.62 1.26 0.94 19.19 3.50

Donegal Group Quarterly Data
Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23 Mar24
Debt-to-EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.16 2.52 50.00 -7.20 1.18

Competitive Comparison of Donegal Group's Debt-to-EBITDA

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Donegal Group's Debt-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and Debt-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Donegal Group's Debt-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Donegal Group's Debt-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Donegal Group's Debt-to-EBITDA falls into.



Donegal Group Debt-to-EBITDA Calculation

Debt-to-EBITDA measures a company's ability to pay off its debt.

Donegal Group's Debt-to-EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(35 + 0) / 10.009
=3.50

Donegal Group's annualized Debt-to-EBITDA for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Debt-to-EBITDA=Total Debt / EBITDA
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / EBITDA
=(35 + 0) / -4.86
=-7.20

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

In the calculation of annual Debt-to-EBITDA, the EBITDA of the last fiscal year is used. In calculating the annualized quarterly data, the EBITDA data used here is four times the quarterly (Dec. 2023) EBITDA data.


Donegal Group  (NAS:DGICB) Debt-to-EBITDA Explanation

In the calculation of Debt-to-EBITDA, we use the total of Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation divided by EBITDA. In some calculations, Total Liabilities is used to for calculation.


Be Aware

A high Debt-to-EBITDA ratio generally means that a company may spend more time to paying off its debt.

According to Joel Tillinghast's BIG MONEY THINKS SMALL: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing, a ratio of Debt-to-EBITDA exceeding four is usually considered scary unless tangible assets cover the debt.


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Donegal Group (Donegal Group) Business Description

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Address
1195 River Road, P.O. Box 302, Marietta, PA, USA, 17547-0302
Donegal Group Inc is an insurance holding company that offers personal and commercial lines of property and casualty insurance to businesses and individuals. The company's reportable segments are its Investment function, Personal lines of insurance, Commercial lines of insurance. Personal lines products consist primarily of homeowners and private passenger automobile policies. The Commercial lines products of its insurance subsidiaries consist primarily of commercial automobile, commercial multi-peril, and workers' compensation policies. The group primarily operates in the United States.

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