Saratoga Investment Corp New (SAR): Price and Financial Metrics

SAR POWR Grades

• SAR scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 95.76% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for SAR is in Growth, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• SAR's current lowest rank is in the Quality metric (where it is better than 24.46% of US stocks).

SAR Stock Summary

• For SAR, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 98.92% of US equities we're observing.
• With a year-over-year growth in debt of 53.01%, SARATOGA INVESTMENT CORP's debt growth rate surpasses 81.3% of about US stocks.
• SARATOGA INVESTMENT CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is -66.34%, greater than the shareholder yield of merely 8.05% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to SARATOGA INVESTMENT CORP are HRZN, PSEC, GLAD, TPVG, and OFS.
• SAR's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit SARATOGA INVESTMENT CORP's official web site, go to www.saratogainvestmentcorp.com.

SAR Valuation Summary

• SAR's price/earnings ratio is 23.2; this is 103.51% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• SAR's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 916.4 over the prior 193 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for SAR.

SAR Growth Metrics

The 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate now stands at -324.72%.
• Its year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 209.5%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 389.47%.

SAR's revenue has moved up $52,612,630 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows SAR's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	85.76978	-309.1301	13.88018
2022-09-30	76.01486	-271.3768	16.20603
2022-06-30	72.6037	-181.5852	23.19925
2022-03-31	70.74056	-203.1336	45.73518
2021-12-31	67.97456	-52.30802	46.58631
2021-09-30	65.75521	-100.0174	44.61252

SAR's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• SAR has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 44.13% of graded US stocks.
• SAR's asset turnover comes in at 0.1 -- ranking 211th of 442 Trading stocks.
• NAVI, MKTX, and SLG are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with SAR.

The table below shows SAR's key quality metrics over time.