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DGICA (Donegal Group) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % : 4.58 (As of Jul. 19, 2025)


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What is Donegal Group 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %?

Donegal Group's yield on cost for the quarter that ended in Mar. 2025 was 4.58.


The historical rank and industry rank for Donegal Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % or its related term are showing as below:

DGICA' s 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.65   Med: 4.86   Max: 6.6
Current: 4.58


During the past 13 years, Donegal Group's highest Yield on Cost was 6.60. The lowest was 3.65. And the median was 4.86.


DGICA's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % is ranked better than
53.12% of 416 companies
in the Insurance industry
Industry Median: 4.14 vs DGICA: 4.58

Competitive Comparison of Donegal Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %

For the Insurance - Property & Casualty subindustry, Donegal Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost %, along with its competitors' market caps and 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % 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 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Distribution in the Insurance Industry

For the Insurance industry and Financial Services sector, Donegal Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Donegal Group's 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % falls into.


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Donegal Group 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Calculation

Dividend Yield % and dividend growth of a stock is an important factor for income investors. But if company A raises its dividend constantly faster than company B, company A's future dividend yield might be much higher than Company B's even if their yields are the same now and their stock prices do not change.

Yield on Cost assumes that you buy and the stock today, and hold it for 5 years. If the company raises it dividends at the same rate as it did over the past 5 years, the dividends investors receive annually in 5 years relative to the stock price today.

Therefore, Yield-on-Cost of Donegal Group is calculated as

Yield-on-Cost=Dividend Yield %*(1+Dividend Growth Rate)^5

Donegal Group  (NAS:DGICA) 5-Year Yield-on-Cost % Explanation

Of course the risk here is that the company may not raise its dividends as it did before. The key is to select the companies that can consistently raise its dividends. Usually companies with long history of raising dividends tend to do so.


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Donegal Group Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
1195 River Road, P.O. Box 302, Marietta, PA, USA, 17547-0302
Donegal Group Inc is an insurance holding company that offers businesses and individuals personal and commercial lines of property and casualty insurance. The company's reportable segments are its Investment function, Personal lines of insurance, and Commercial lines of insurance. Personal lines products consist mainly of homeowners and private passenger automobile policies. The Commercial lines products of its insurance subsidiaries consist mainly of commercial automobile, commercial multi-peril, and workers' compensation policies. The group mainly operates in the United States.
Executives
Vincent Anthony Viozzi officer: Sr. VP & Chief Inv Officer 1195 RIVER ROAD, P.O. BOX 302, MARIETTA PA 17547
William Daniel Delamater officer: Senior Vice President 1195 RIVER ROAD, P.O. BOX 302, MARIETTA PA 17547
William Albert Folmar officer: Sr. Vice President 1195 RIVER ROAD, P.O. BOX 302, MARIETTA PA 17547
Barry C Huber director 360 WINDING WAY, LANCASTER PA 17602
David Wayne Sponic officer: Senior Vice President 1195 RIVER ROAD, P.O. BOX 302, MARIETTA PA 17547
Jeffery Tim Hay officer: Senior Vice President 1195 RIVER ROAD, P.O. BOX 302, MARIETTA PA 17547
Sanjay Pandey officer: Sr. VP & Chief Info Officer 1195 RIVER ROAD, P.O. BOX 302, MARIETTA PA 17547
Jeffrey Dean Miller officer: EVP & Chief Financial Officer 1195 RIVER ROAD, MARIETTA PA 17547
Donegal Mutual Insurance Co 10 percent owner 1195 RIVER ROAD, MARIETTA PA 17547
Daniel J Wagner officer: Treasurer 1195 RIVER ROAD, MARIETTA PA 17547
Christina Marie Hoffman officer: Sr. VP & Chief Risk Officer 1195 RIVER ROAD, P.O. BOX 302, MARIETTA PA 17547
Kevin Gerard Burke director, officer: President & Chief Exec Officer 1195 RIVER ROAD, P.O. BOX 302, MARIETTA PA 17547
Kristi Spencer Altshuler officer: Sr. Vice President 1195 RIVER ROAD, P.O. BOX 302, MARIETTA PA 17547
Dennis Joseph Bixenman director 1195 RIVER ROAD, MARIETTA PA 17547
Moore Sewell Trezevant Jr director LUMINENT MORTGAGE CAPITAL INC, 909 MONTGOMERY STREET SUITE 500, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94133