Direct Line Insurance Share Price (DLG)

Share Name	Share Symbol	Market	Type	Share ISIN	Share Description
Direct Line Insurance Group Plc	LSE:DLG	London	Ordinary Share	GB00BY9D0Y18	ORD 10 10/11P

	Price Change	% Change	Share Price	Shares Traded	Last Trade
	-3.50	-1.96%	175.30	5,032,098	12:19:05

Bid Price		Offer Price	High Price	Low Price	Open Price
175.25		175.45	181.85	175.20	181.85

Industry Sector	Turnover (m)	Profit (m)	EPS - Basic	PE Ratio	Market Cap (m)
Nonlife Insurance	3,247.70	446.00	24.50	7.2	2,299

Last Trade Time	Trade Type	Trade Size	Trade Price	Currency
12:19:06	O	50	175.45	GBX

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Direct Line Insurance (DLG) Latest News (6)

Direct Line Insurance News

Date	Time	Source	Headline
27/1/2023	08:37	ALNC	TOP NEWS: Direct Line CEO departs immediately after skipped dividend
27/1/2023	07:00	UKREG	Direct Line Insurance Group PLC Directorate Change
26/1/2023	09:57	ALNC	Direct Line stock recovers some lost ground on reinsurance deal
26/1/2023	07:00	UKREG	Direct Line Insurance Group PLC Direct Line Group executes strategic..
16/1/2023	18:00	UKREG	Direct Line Insurance Group PLC Holding(s) in Company
12/1/2023	15:00	UKREG	Direct Line Insurance Group PLC Holding(s) in Company
11/1/2023	09:49	ALNC	TOP NEWS: Direct Line scraps payout as counts cost of cold snap claims
11/1/2023	07:00	UKREG	Direct Line Insurance Group PLC Trading Update
29/12/2022	12:00	UKREG	Direct Line Insurance Group PLC Director/PDMR Shareholding
13/12/2022	16:00	UKREG	Direct Line Insurance Group PLC Holding(s) in Company

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Trade Time	Trade Price	Trade Size	Trade Value	Trade Type
12:19:06	175.45	50	87.73	O
12:19:06	175.45	1	1.75	O
12:19:05	175.30	593	1,039.53	AT
12:19:05	175.30	163	285.74	AT
12:19:05	175.30	309	541.68	AT

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Posted at 27/1/2023 08:20 by Direct Line Insurance Daily Update Direct Line Insurance Group Plc is listed in the Nonlife Insurance sector of the London Stock Exchange with ticker DLG. The last closing price for Direct Line Insurance was 178.80p. Direct Line Insurance Group Plc has a 4 week average price of 162.20p and a 12 week average price of 162.20p. The 1 year high share price is 312.70p while the 1 year low share price is currently 162.20p. There are currently 1,311,388,157 shares in issue and the average daily traded volume is 10,643,371 shares. The market capitalisation of Direct Line Insurance Group Plc is £2,302,141,909.61. Read Full Thread Reply
Posted at 27/1/2023 09:49 by yump You can see the deterioration if you look at a longer term chart. I made the mistake of buying when the highs were gradually getting lower. Unlike small businesses where developments can change prospects quickly, I guess the chart was showing what investors generally thought of DLG. Either the whole GI insurance area was becoming more difficult, or DLG were gradually losing the plot. I should have looked closer - financials have been deteriorating for a long time - same revenue - falling profits and not the secure dividend that it might have appeared. Whatever the brokers or analysts say, I reckon with larger businesses if you see a gradual dropping share price over years, then the funds and ii’s are selling down. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
Posted at 25/1/2023 12:14 by wba1 Hi p0pper. I am happy to see Aviva doing well as I still own about 70% of my original holding. They are benefitting from a diverse business. I thought I would remind myself of a few things relevant to DLG. I have said elsewhere (on the other DLG thread - I sometimes get on the wrong one) that I think a share price below 200 is not sensible and that as long as you can take a longer term view (2 years plus) company and market recovery should ensure a decent return. The first thing I could not recall was the situation of the Bain takeover of Esure in 2018. Bain paid £1.2 billion for a company which has a similar model to DLG and which had, if anything, more challenges. It had circa £800m of GWP at the time which is about a quarter of DLGs size and Esure was less diversified. It had major performance issues which meant it declared a COR of 112% for 2018 and was still at 101% in 2021, the most recent year declared. So we have a much smaller and riskier company, with known performance issues which attracted a price of more than half the current DLG market cap of £2.3 billion. I know that times are different and buyer appetites may have changed, but those comparative valuations make no sense, especially as Esure was a private equity takeover with none of the potential synergies available to a trade sale. As I mentioned at the time on the other thread, I bought on 11 January and will now tuck them away for 2-3 years unless they recover swiftly to above the 200 mark, in which case I will decide whether to take profit on all or some. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
Posted at 11/1/2023 17:34 by wba1 I must admit surprise at the trading update. Whilst some deterioration was to be expected the scale goes beyond what is easily explained. Specifically; - the December cold snap did not help but should be no more than an irritant. - the forecast COR suggests they do not have reserve fat to smooth results yet they did no reserve strengthening at the last set of results. When they next publish results it will be informative to see the movements in prior years. A failure to spot this earlier and either build reserves or act last year makes the position of Penny James completely untenable. I assume that is a discussion already going on in the board. However, I have added this morning. I have said before that I do not believe a share price below 200 is sustainable and I stick to that view. The value in the business, both its activity and brands, would make it easy to extract a decent return for a trade predator at that price and whilst I have no knowledge of anyone circling it would be surprising if the likes of Allianz and Zurich were not digging out the files for another look. I think I have said before that the renewal lag for making rate changes and earnings pattern means that the results will not improve until 2024. But if you can take a long view the risk is limited and potential is there both for a predator and for market recovery. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
Posted at 11/1/2023 13:43 by petersinthemarket This announcement has been a major blow to income investors, including me. But perhaps I can paint a slightly different picture. The company paid the interim dividend of 7.6p on 11 august 2022, but we have lost a possible final 15p, which would normally have been paid in early April. This represents an annual dividend cut for the current financial year of around 66%. The company has not said all dividends will be lost for the foreseeable future, only this years final, so perhaps they could manage a total dividend of around 8p per share in the next FY. If their share price ends up somewhere near a NAV of 200p, this would represent a yield of 4%. Pension companies would probably still be ok with that, but for many of us it would be too low. So what to do now? Bad news like this always causes an share price overreaction, but I don't relish selling at the bottom. My feeling is that I will hang on for a few days to see whether there is further clarification and/or some level of share price recovery, but I don't expect to be still holding this company for much longer. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
Posted at 11/1/2023 13:18 by jugears Pander & why not the markets always over react, look at bdev there trading up date wasn't the best & house builders shares have gone up!,Dlg is a heavily traded share & that will determine where the share price goes not profits & dividends! so when it has fallen substantially of course people will buy in to that,should see £1.80 plus by end of week IMO. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
Posted at 11/1/2023 09:34 by spectoacc Suggest the down-tickers read: "..Consistent with our track record of delivering returns for shareholders" in conjunction with DLG's share price chart over 1, 3, 5, and 10 years. What, I'm not including reinvested divis? Indeed. But from here, what dvidend? Read Full Thread Follow Reply
Posted at 11/1/2023 08:40 by andydaf There will be a time to buy DLG just not sure its now.Recovery will more than likely come but insurers are valued by their dividend yield.I will be keeping a close eye on DLG going forwards for a bit of bottom fishing.Big problems at DLG with risk and pricing.Daughter was with them up until renewal yeaterday.No accidents and DLG wanted 700quid more than hastings.GLA Read Full Thread Follow Reply
Posted at 08/1/2023 18:00 by jubberjim Latest recommendations from motley Fool Include Dlg Mng so will be happy to wait for inevitable slide in share price Happy to hold adm after selling dlg but equally happy to swap back when suitable Similarly phnx held against mng sell Barc held in preference to lloy sell The only wirries are both Aviva and lgen get tipped as buys and hope very disappointed with how my pensions invested with these two stalwarts have been slaughtered in the past couple of years doesn't seem to have affected share price so will continue to hold albeit with severe doubts and misgivings will look again nearer results Good luck everyone Read Full Thread Follow Reply
Posted at 05/8/2022 14:29 by wba1 A bid is an interesting question at this level. Hastings were taken over for £1.8bn in 2019 and their GWP is about a third of DLG's and with an even greater focus on private motor. I know that their pricing capabilities were (and still are) below DLG and that their claims reserving has been less conservative (meaning DLG has more fat in reserves). With DLG currently valued at £2.7bn it does suggest either Sampo overpaid for Hastings or that any bid for DLG would need to be around the 300p level at least. Having said that, it is only relevant if there is a bidder and I do not expect the DLG price to go beyond the 230p level without some reason. Current share price levels are driven by the perception of the wider insurance market as under pressure and the Sabre effect which has analysts wondering if others may be under reserved. But for the longer term the current price seems to include any wider market risk and offer considerable upside as the insurance market recovers or if a bidder emerges. Read Full Thread Follow Reply
Posted at 06/5/2022 12:46 by kenmitch LINTONS As fenners66 posted, there have been many far more wasteful buybacks. One of the worst was after Whitbread sold their Costa business to CocaCola for about £4 BILLION. Nearly all that £4 billion was profit. Whitbread Management decided to “reward their shareholders” by spending nearly all of that £4 billion on share buybacks, mostly around £40. The share price never again reached that £40 level and is now at £27. That’s a very impressive waste of money compared with the current £100 million being thrown away by Direct line on their current buybacks. And btw instead of that so called “reward” Whitbread shareholders ended up with no share price gain at all and a big LOSS of their capital too. The theory behind buybacks sounds convincing but often the experience is disastrous for shareholders....except for those who take advantage of the willing buyer (e.g Whitbread) to sell ahead of the subsequent share price falls. Read Full Thread Follow Reply

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