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$22.51 -0.16 (-0.70%)
Closing price 10/24/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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SAR vs. OXLC, GSBD, MFIC, HQH, NMFC, AWF, ASA, BBDC, BCSF, and PFLT

Should you be buying Saratoga Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saratoga Investment include Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), BARINGS BDC (BBDC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Saratoga Investment vs. Its Competitors

Oxford Lane Capital (NASDAQ:OXLC) and Saratoga Investment (NYSE:SAR) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, profitability, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and dividends.

Oxford Lane Capital pays an annual dividend of $5.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 37.2%. Saratoga Investment pays an annual dividend of $3.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.3%. Oxford Lane Capital pays out 138.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Saratoga Investment pays out 128.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Saratoga Investment has a consensus price target of $23.63, indicating a potential upside of 4.95%. Given Saratoga Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Saratoga Investment is more favorable than Oxford Lane Capital.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Oxford Lane Capital
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Saratoga Investment
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.83

Oxford Lane Capital has a beta of 0.79, indicating that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saratoga Investment has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Saratoga Investment has a net margin of 27.19% compared to Oxford Lane Capital's net margin of 0.00%. Saratoga Investment's return on equity of 10.09% beat Oxford Lane Capital's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Oxford Lane CapitalN/A N/A N/A
Saratoga Investment 27.19%10.09%3.29%

Oxford Lane Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Saratoga Investment. Oxford Lane Capital is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saratoga Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Oxford Lane Capital$57.31M24.45$376.14M$4.153.73
Saratoga Investment$48.61M7.46$28.09M$2.349.62

6.7% of Oxford Lane Capital shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Saratoga Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Oxford Lane Capital shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.0% of Saratoga Investment shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Oxford Lane Capital and Oxford Lane Capital both had 2 articles in the media. Oxford Lane Capital's average media sentiment score of -0.05 beat Saratoga Investment's score of -0.68 indicating that Oxford Lane Capital is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Oxford Lane Capital
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Saratoga Investment
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Negative

Summary

Saratoga Investment beats Oxford Lane Capital on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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SAR vs. The Competition

MetricSaratoga InvestmentFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$365.08M$1.46B$12.71B$21.98B
Dividend Yield13.29%12.57%5.57%3.57%
P/E Ratio9.6210.5522.1633.34
Price / Sales7.4637.4630.5893.10
Price / Cash8.339.6622.3624.54
Price / Book0.880.852.204.66
Net Income$28.09M$152.42M$1.02B$1.02B
7 Day Performance3.64%2.56%1.54%2.21%
1 Month Performance-7.23%-3.34%0.20%2.06%
1 Year Performance-5.38%-13.58%538.04%14.04%

Saratoga Investment Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
SAR
Saratoga Investment
2.0101 of 5 stars
$22.51
-0.7%
$23.63
+4.9%
-5.6%$365.08M$48.61M9.623,211
OXLC
Oxford Lane Capital
0.835 of 5 stars
$14.75
-3.2%
N/A-41.2%$1.34B$57.31M3.55601High Trading Volume
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.9766 of 5 stars
$9.81
+0.9%
$10.00
+2.0%
-27.2%$1.11B$434.37M7.78N/APositive News
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.6722 of 5 stars
$11.74
+0.5%
$13.42
+14.3%
-9.4%$1.09B$301.78M10.87N/APositive News
HQH
abrdn Healthcare Investors
N/A$19.17
+1.1%
N/A+3.7%$1.02BN/A0.00147,000Positive News
Short Interest ↑
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
3.2189 of 5 stars
$9.32
+0.9%
$10.50
+12.7%
-17.4%$982.78M$371.67M12.26N/APositive News
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$10.91
+0.6%
N/A+1.2%$934.73MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Announcement
ASA
ASA Gold and Precious Metals
N/A$50.06
+2.0%
N/A+103.7%$926.07MN/A0.001,100News Coverage
Positive News
Insider Trade
BBDC
BARINGS BDC
2.9115 of 5 stars
$8.62
+0.3%
$9.67
+12.2%
-9.4%$903.32M$286.17M8.9726Positive News
Analyst Forecast
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
1.9996 of 5 stars
$14.01
+0.8%
$16.50
+17.8%
-16.4%$901.02M$292.65M8.441,000
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.1993 of 5 stars
$8.73
+2.4%
$10.67
+22.2%
-21.6%$865.88M$89.89M6.23658

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This page (NYSE:SAR) was last updated on 10/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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