SAR vs. VALU, SAMG, DHIL, MRCC, ERES, BANX, WHG, GECC, ALTI, and VINP
Should you be buying Saratoga Investment stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Saratoga Investment include Value Line (VALU), Silvercrest Asset Management Group (SAMG), Diamond Hill Investment Group (DHIL), Monroe Capital (MRCC), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), Westwood Holdings Group (WHG), Great Elm Capital (GECC), AlTi Global (ALTI), and Vinci Partners Investments (VINP). 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 business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, risk, community ranking and media sentiment.
Saratoga Investment pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.9%. Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. 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 57.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
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.
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 large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Saratoga Investment had 3 more articles in the media than Value Line. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Saratoga Investment and 2 mentions for Value Line. Value Line's average media sentiment score of 1.11 beat Saratoga Investment's score of -0.03 indicating that Value Line is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Saratoga Investment has a beta of 1.32, indicating that its stock price is 32% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Value Line has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Saratoga Investment received 88 more outperform votes than Value Line when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.66% 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 price target of $26.75, indicating a potential upside of 18.44%. Given Saratoga Investment's higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Saratoga Investment is more favorable than Value Line.
Saratoga Investment has higher revenue and earnings 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.
Summary
Saratoga Investment beats Value Line on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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