SAR vs. VALU, DHIL, SAMG, ERES, BANX, 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), East Resources Acquisition (ERES), ArrowMark Financial (BANX), 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.
Value Line (NASDAQ:VALU) and Saratoga Investment (NYSE:SAR) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment and valuation.
Saratoga Investment received 88 more outperform votes than Value Line when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 59.06% of users gave Value Line an outperform vote while only 58.02% of users gave Saratoga Investment an outperform vote.
Value Line has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Saratoga Investment has a beta of 1.28, indicating that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Value Line has a net margin of 47.81% compared to Value Line's net margin of 6.22%. Saratoga Investment's return on equity of 21.23% beat Value Line's return on equity.
Saratoga Investment has a consensus target price of $25.69, suggesting a potential upside of 9.26%. Given Value Line's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Saratoga Investment is more favorable than Value Line.
Value Line has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Saratoga Investment. Value Line is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Saratoga Investment, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
6.3% of Value Line shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.1% of Saratoga Investment shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.0% of Value Line shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Saratoga Investment shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Saratoga Investment had 9 more articles in the media than Value Line. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Saratoga Investment and 5 mentions for Value Line. Saratoga Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.08 beat Value Line's score of 0.32 indicating that Value Line is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Value Line pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. Saratoga Investment pays an annual dividend of $2.92 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.4%. Value Line pays out 61.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Saratoga Investment pays out 411.3% 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 has increased its dividend for 10 consecutive years and Saratoga Investment has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.
Summary
Value Line beats Saratoga Investment on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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