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SLR Investment Corp..

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SLR Investment Corp. is a publicly traded specialty finance company that primarily invests in leveraged, middle-market companies in the United States. The company's investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. SLR Investment Co...Show More

Ethical Profile

Mixed.

SLR Investment Corp. (SLRC.US) receives a mixed ethical rating. Reports suggest its DitchCarbon score is lower than 84% of the industry average, and critics point to an absence of explicit environmental considerations in its investment strategy. The company also invests in aerospace and defense sectors, indirectly supporting these industries. For most other ethical areas, including fair pay, worker respect, and community engagement, there is insufficient publicly available information to assess its performance.

Value Scores

Better Health for All0
-100100
Fair Money & Economic Opportunity0
-100100
Fair Pay & Worker Respect60
-100100
Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing0
-100100
Honest & Fair Business0
-100100
Kind to Animals0
-100100
No War, No Weapons0
-100100
Planet-Friendly Business0
-100100
Respect for Cultures & Communities0
-100100
Safe & Smart Tech0
-100100
Zero Waste & Sustainable Products0
-100100

Better Health for All

0

SLR Investment Corp. (SLRC) is a specialty finance company that invests in various industries, including healthcare. As of June 30, 2025, 6.6% of its comprehensive investment portfolio (fair value $3.2 billion) was in Life Science Loans, and 41.6% was in Asset-Based Loans, which includes SLR Healthcare ABL.

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These investments support drug and medical device developers, diagnostic, healthcare IT, and healthcare services companies (e.g., hospitals, home care, behavioral health).
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While these investments contribute positively to health, the combined percentage of 48.2% of the comprehensive investment portfolio does not meet the quantitative thresholds for a positive score in the 'health_impact_core' KPI. The company formally rates each portfolio investment on a scale of one to four, with one representing the least amount of risk.
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As of June 30, 2025, 31.9% of the investment portfolio was rated 1, 65.9% was rated 2, 1.9% was rated 3, and 0.3% was rated 4.
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The company's Life Science Finance platform, launched in Q1 2014, focuses on companies with proprietary and innovative technologies, with originations of $28.7 million for the quarter ended June 30, 2025.
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Fair Money & Economic Opportunity

0

SLR Investment Corp. (SLRC.US) is a Business Development Company (BDC) that primarily invests in senior secured loans of private middle-market companies, with typical investment amounts ranging from $10 million to $50 million.

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The company's business model focuses on providing financing solutions to businesses, not directly to individual consumers or micro-segments. Therefore, all KPIs related to consumer-facing financial services, such as underserved client share, pricing fairness, exploitative fee exposure, inclusion initiatives for low-income or micro-segments, customer data accessibility, wealth-building outcomes for individual users, financial literacy initiatives, consumer debt burden ratios, geographic inclusion for banking deserts, and product simplicity for consumer products, are not applicable to SLRC.US's operations as described in the provided articles. No evidence was found regarding regulatory findings or fines for discriminatory or unfair lending practices relevant to consumer protection.
2

Fair Pay & Worker Respect

60

The company provides comprehensive health insurance, covering 100% of premiums for employees and their dependents, including a high-coverage PPO medical plan, telehealth, dental, vision, prescription drugs, infertility and family planning benefits, and disability coverage.

1
Voluntary employee turnover averaged 4.1% over the last five years, from 2019 to 2023.
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Fair Trade & Ethical Sourcing

0

SLR Investment Corp. is a specialty finance company that invests in other companies. Its business model does not involve procuring or trading physical commodities, nor does it have a traditional supply chain that would require welfare or sourcing audits, or expose it to upstream labor practices.

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Therefore, all KPIs related to fair trade and ethical sourcing are not applicable to its operations.
2

Honest & Fair Business

0

No evidence available to assess SLR Investment Corp. on Honest & Fair Business.

Kind to Animals

0

SLR Investment Corp. is a specialty finance company that invests in other companies and provides financing solutions. Its core business activities do not involve the direct production, testing, or sourcing of animal-related products or services. Therefore, all animal welfare KPIs are not applicable to the company's operations, as confirmed by the absence of relevant information in the provided articles.

1

No War, No Weapons

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No evidence available to assess SLR Investment Corp. on No War, No Weapons.

Planet-Friendly Business

0

No specific, concrete data points for any of the Planet-Friendly Business KPIs were found in the provided articles.

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The articles either discuss SLR Consulting (a different entity), provide financial results for SLRC.US without environmental data, or explicitly state that no publicly available data exists for the relevant sustainability metrics.

Respect for Cultures & Communities

0

No information or data points relevant to the 'Respect for Cultures & Communities' value for SLR Investment Corp. (SLRC.US) were found in the provided articles.

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The articles primarily focus on the company's investment strategies and financial structure, or explicitly state that they contain no relevant information for the requested metrics.
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Safe & Smart Tech

0

No evidence available to assess SLR Investment Corp. on Safe & Smart Tech.

Zero Waste & Sustainable Products

0

No specific, concrete data points were found in the provided articles regarding SLR Investment Corp.'s performance on waste diversion, product recyclability, packaging sustainability, recycled content, single-use plastic reduction, take-back programs, circular design principles, waste reduction initiatives, hazardous waste management, product durability, repairability, waste audit frequency, zero waste certification, waste disposal violations, material efficiency, packaging-to-product ratio, waste reduction targets, supplier waste requirements, or customer waste education. The articles describe SLR Investment Corp. as a finance company and do not provide information on its operational waste or product-related sustainability metrics.

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