SAR vs. VALU, DHIL, SAMG, BANX, ERES, WHG, GECC, ALTI, VINP, and FDUS
Should you be buying Saratoga Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saratoga Investment include Value Line (VALU), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), Great Elm Capital (GECC), AlTi Global (ALTI), Vinci Partners Investments (VINP), and Fidus Investment (FDUS). These companies are all part of the "investment advice" industry.
Saratoga Investment (NYSE:SAR) and Value Line (NASDAQ:VALU) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Saratoga Investment received 88 more outperform votes than Value Line when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.26% of users gave Value Line an outperform vote while only 58.54% of users gave Saratoga Investment an outperform vote.
Saratoga Investment presently has a consensus target price of $26.58, suggesting a potential upside of 12.78%. Given Saratoga Investment's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Saratoga Investment is more favorable than Value Line.
Saratoga Investment has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Value Line. Saratoga Investment is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Value Line, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Value Line had 2 more articles in the media than Saratoga Investment. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Value Line and 10 mentions for Saratoga Investment. Value Line's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Saratoga Investment's score of 0.18 indicating that Value Line is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Saratoga Investment pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Saratoga Investment pays out 150.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Value Line pays out 61.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Saratoga Investment has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Value Line has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.
19.1% of Saratoga Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.3% of Value Line shares are held by institutional investors. 13.2% of Saratoga Investment shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.0% of Value Line shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Value Line has a net margin of 47.81% compared to Saratoga Investment's net margin of 16.45%. Value Line's return on equity of 21.23% beat Saratoga Investment's return on equity.
Summary
Value Line beats Saratoga Investment on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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