SAR — Saratoga Investment Corp

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Trend Edge Setup Score

Trend Edge rates SAR Bearish with a Setup Score of 0, net conviction 70, actionability 0. How the Setup Score works →

Total Setup Score0
Directional BiasBearish
Net Conviction70
Actionability0 (extended)

Key signals behind this score

About Saratoga Investment Corp

Saratoga Investment Corp. is a business development company specializing in leveraged and management buyouts, acquisition financings, growth financings, recapitalization, debt refinancing, and transitional financing transactions at the lower end of middle market companies. The fund structures its investments as debt and equity by investing through first and second lien loans, mezzanine debt, co-investments, select high yield bonds, senior secured… Read full Trend Edge analysis →

Trend Edge Proprietary Indicators

Key Metrics

Current Price$18.17
Market Cap$285M
Float13.6M
Shares Outstanding16.3M
P/E (Forward)8.99
P/E (TTM)18.37
Price/Sales (TTM)2.29
vs. Analyst Target+23.3% to analyst PT
Profit Margin12.70%
Operating Margin (TTM)68.97%
Revenue (TTM)$124M
Earnings Growth (YoY)16.30%
Dividend Rate3.0%
Analyst Target Price$22.40 (8 analysts)

Financial History

Annual Revenue & Earnings History

YearRevenueNet IncomeGross ProfitEBITDA
2021 $57.7M $14.8M $26.3M $19.9M
2022 $70.7M $45.7M $57.6M $68.4M
2023 $99.1M $24.7M $65.6M $60.3M
2024 $144M $8.9M $113M $59.2M
2025 $94.2M $28.1M $42.1M $32.0M
2026 $99.2M $36.6M $49.9M $38.1M

Recent Quarterly Revenue & Net Income

QuarterRevenueNet Income
Aug 2025 $27.8M $13.3M
Nov 2025 $27.3M $12.0M
Feb 2026 $14.9M -$2.6M
May 2026 $30.8M -$5.9M

Ownership & Float

Insider Ownership13.6%
Institutional Ownership11.6%
Short Float4.7%
% of All Funds Holding0.69%
Number of Funds Holding57

Current Moving Averages

Trend Edge tracks near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular moving averages across weekly and monthly timeframes to identify trend structure at every horizon.

TimeframeSMAValueTrend Context
Weekly10-Week SMA$21.85Near-term / short-term trend
Weekly40-Week SMA$22.50Medium-term trend
Weekly80-Week SMA$23.58Cyclical trend (business cycle)
Weekly200-Week SMA$24.19Secular trend (multi-year)
Monthly10-Month SMA$22.38Near-term monthly trend
Monthly20-Month SMA$23.63Medium-term monthly trend
Monthly40-Month SMA$24.13Secular monthly trend

Volume Shelves — Support & Resistance

Trend Edge identifies volume shelves: price zones where historically elevated trading volume creates structural support or resistance. A volume shelf forms when a disproportionate share of cumulative volume was transacted at a specific price level, making it a high-conviction anchor for future price reactions.

Price LevelTypeVolume RatioAge
$22.30 resistance 1.03x 0 months ago
$24.30 resistance 1.38x 8 months ago

Historical Earnings Reactions (77 events)

TimeframeAvg ReturnMedianWin RateBestWorst
Gap 0.04% 0.14% 54.55% 9.12% -9.99%
1 Day -0.83% 0.06% 50.65% 6.29% -25.64%
1 Week -0.73% -0.75% 42.11% 14.69% -35.90%
2 Weeks -0.45% -0.50% 44.74% 15.96% -32.05%
1 Month -0.45% -0.15% 48.68% 19.71% -42.25%

Next earnings: September 25, 2026 (75 days away)

Seasonality & Day-of-Week Patterns

Monthly Seasonality

MonthAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Jan3.1%63.2%19
Feb1.3%73.7%19
Mar-1.8%36.8%19
Apr6.8%65.0%20
May-1.1%55.0%20
Jun-1.1%40.0%20
Jul1.4%63.2%19
Aug1.9%63.2%19
Sep-3.5%26.3%19
Oct-2.6%47.4%19
Nov-4.2%47.4%19
Dec0.3%26.3%19

Day-of-Week Tendencies

DayAvg ReturnWin RateSamples
Monday -0.09% 47.3% 911
Tuesday 0.08% 47.9% 996
Wednesday 0.06% 49.6% 995
Thursday 0.03% 47.2% 976
Friday -0.07% 51.6% 970

Top Institutional Holders

Institutional holder breakdown coming soon.

Total institutional ownership: 11.6%

Insider Transactions — Smart Summary

Total insider ownership: 13.6%

Full insider transaction history and smart buy/sell sentiment summary available on Trend Edge.

AI Consult Analysis

Trend Edge's AI Consult feature delivers a comprehensive, multi-layer trade plan for Saratoga Investment Corp (SAR) powered by Claude Opus — Anthropic's most capable AI model. The analysis covers five layers: technical analysis (near-term, medium-term, cyclical, and secular trend, momentum, volume shelf support and resistance, breakout and breakdown signals), qualitative analysis (business model, competitive moat, sector dynamics), insider sentiment (buy and sell signals from executive and director transactions), share stats analysis (institutional accumulation, fund positioning, short float squeeze potential), and fundamental analysis (valuation, revenue growth, profit margin, earnings quality).

AI Consult synthesizes all five layers into a single bullish or bearish thesis with explicit entry, exit, stop loss, and take profit levels — giving you a complete, AI-powered trade plan with defined risk/reward. Whether you are building a long position, initiating a short, or looking for a reversal setup, AI Consult identifies the highest-probability signal from the current trend.

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