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Saratoga Investment Corp · Q3 2024 earnings

Q3 2024 earnings · · Investor relations

Briefing

Announced financial results for fiscal third quarter 2024.

Saratoga Investment Corp. reported a solid financial performance for its fiscal third quarter 2024, marked by a substantial year-over-year increase in earnings driven by growth in Assets under Management (AUM), stable overall portfolio performance, and margin improvement from increasing rates on its largely floating rate assets.

  • Adjusted NII per share increased by 31% year-over-year, from $0.77 to $1.01.
  • Assets under management grew to $1.114 billion.
  • The quarterly dividend increased to $0.72 per share, up 6% from $0.68 in Q3 last year.
  • The company over-earned its dividend by 40% as compared to this quarter’s $1.01 per share adjusted NII.

Headline financials

Total Revenue

-$5.08M

Previous: -$177M+97.1%
EPS

-$0.31

Previous: $0.77-140.3%
Net Investment Income Yield

15.7%

No prior period
Assets Under Management

$1.11B

No prior period
Net Income

-$4.06M

Previous: $5.48M-174.1%
Operating Income

-$27.3M

Previous: -$194M+85.9%
Gross Profit

-$5.08M

Previous: -$177M+97.1%
Cash & Equivalents

$21.4M

Previous: $5.67M+277.1%
Total Assets

$1.17B

Previous: $1.04B+12.8%

Revenue & EPS history

Saratoga Investment · Revenue · Quarterly

-$5.08M

Q3 2024-97.1%vs Q3 2023
Beat estimate in 0 of 3 quarters(0%)
ActualEstimate

Forward guidance

Saratoga Investment remains confident in its experienced management team, high underwriting standards, and ability to steadily grow portfolio size and maintain quality and investment performance over the long-term, as they navigate through the current challenging and volatile environment.

Tailwinds

  • Experienced management team
  • High underwriting standards
  • Ability to steadily grow portfolio size
  • Ability to maintain quality
  • Ability to maintain investment performance over the long-term

Headwinds

  • Challenging environment
  • Volatile environment
  • Potential cuts in interest rates in 2024
  • Markdown in a small number of specific credits
  • Overall CLO portfolio markdown

Historical earnings impact

How earnings announcements have historically affected this stock's price.

Avg. return before/after earnings

Based on 19 quarterly earnings reports · overlaid with Q3 2024

Historical avgQ3 2024

-0.2%

Avg return

Earnings day

-1.5%

Avg return

5 days after

+0.6%

Avg return

30 days after

50%

10 / 20 earnings

Positive

+3.9%

Q2 2023

Best reaction

-7.7%

Q4 2025

Worst reaction

Earnings price reactions
QuarterReport dateReaction (Day 0)+5 days+30 days
Q1 2027
Q4 2026-1.3%-5.9%-4.5%
Q3 2026+0.9%+1.9%+3.9%
Q2 2026-4.3%-11.6%-10.5%
Q1 2026+1.4%+0.4%+1.6%
Q4 2025-7.7%-2.3%-1.1%
Q3 2025+0.7%+0.7%+5.0%
Q2 2025-0.3%+2.4%+4.8%
Q1 2025+0.3%+2.9%-1.9%
Q4 2024-0.1%-1.9%+2.0%
Q3 2024+0.2%-9.8%-12.2%
Q2 2024-1.4%-1.7%+1.2%
Q1 2024+0.3%-3.4%-3.2%
Q4 2023-0.1%-0.2%+17.5%
Q3 2023+0.0%+2.3%+0.9%
Q2 2023+3.9%+1.0%+7.1%
Q1 2023-0.3%-1.9%-0.9%
Q4 2022+2.3%+0.7%+3.2%
Q3 2021-0.2%-4.3%-4.8%
Q2 2022+1.7%+1.3%+0.8%
Q4 2021+0.3%-1.3%+3.4%

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