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Ares Capital Corporation

Ticker: ARCC ISIN: US04010L1035
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Stock Large-cap Dividend payer Trading above 200-day average Near 52-week high
Market cap
$14.20B
P/E
14.76
Forward P/E
10.47
Profit margin
30.91%
Revenue growth QoQ
3.10%
Div. yield
9.70%
Beta
0.62
$19.40 -1.27%
Price as of 2026-09-18 · NASDAQ

Performance by timeframe

Rolling returns
1 Month -0.19%
6 Months +11.54%
1 Year +2.39%
5 Years +9.44% p.a.+56.94%
10 Years +12.41% p.a.+221.75%
Since inception +12.30% p.a.+1,175.31%
Calendar year returns
YTD +3.54%
2025 +1.07%
2024 +19.78%
2023 +20.03%
2022 -3.84%
2021 +36.14%

Key stats

Market cap
14.20B
P/E
14.76
Dividend yield
9.70%
Beta
0.62
52-week range
16.97 - 20.42
50-day MA
18.94
200-day MA
19.30
Section 1

Business overview

Company profile data from fundamentals.

Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in growth capital, acquisition, recapitalization, mezzanine debt, restructurings, rescue financing, and leveraged buyout transactions of middle market companies. It also makes growth capital and general refinancing. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in sports, media & entertainment, industrials & business services, infrastructure & power, financial institution groups, software & technology, specialty healthcare, consumer, retail & services, energy and the basic and growth manufacturing, consumer products, health care products, and information technology service sectors. The fund will also consider investments in industries such as restaurants, retail, oil and gas, and technology sectors. It invests in the United States based companies. It focuses on investments in Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest regions from its New York office, the Midwest region, from the Chicago office, and the Western region from the Los Angeles office. The fund typically invests between $30 million and $500 million, in companies with an EBITDA between $10 million and $250 million. It makes debt investments between $10 million and $100 million The fund invests through revolvers, first lien loans, warrants, unitranche structures, second lien loans, mezzanine debt, private high yield, junior capital, subordinated debt, and non-control preferred and common equity. The fund also selectively considers third-party-led senior and subordinated debt financings and opportunistically considers the purchase of stressed and discounted debt positions. The fund prefers to be an agent and/or lead the transactions in which it invests. The fund also seeks board representation in its portfolio companies.

Sector Financial Services
Industry Asset Management
Country United States
Exchange NASDAQ
Section 2

Financial quality

Profitability and balance-sheet quality indicators from reported fundamentals.

Profitability

ROE 6.88%
ROA 4.94%
Profit margin 30.91%
Operating margin 75.65%
PEG ratio 3.72
Revenue/share TTM 4.34
Revenue TTM 3.11B
Gross profit TTM 3.11B
Beta 0.62

Valuation

Trailing P/E 14.76
Forward P/E 10.47
P/B 1.02
P/S 4.57
EV/EBITDA 10.19
EV/Revenue 25.55
Section 3

Earnings

Earnings metrics from company highlights and earnings datasets.

EPS estimate (current year) 1.91
Quarterly earnings growth -54.10%
Revenue TTM 3.11B
Reported quarters 87
Section 4

Dividends & corporate actions

Dividend and split fields from fundamentals.

Dividend yield 9.70%
Forward annual div. yield 10.56%
Dividend per share 1.9200
Payout ratio 97.46%
Ex-dividend date 2026-06-15
Next dividend date 2026-09-30
Last split date 0000-00-00
Section 5

Ownership / analyst view

Institutional ownership and analyst estimate fields when available.

Analyst

Analyst target price $20.77
Analyst rating 4.3846

Ownership & short interest

Shares outstanding 718.02M
Shares float 0.00
Institutional ownership 36.43%
Insider ownership 56.00%
Short ratio 8.74
Short % of float 5.76%

Details

Instrument metadata and source update timestamps.

Symbol ARCC
Name Ares Capital Corporation
Asset type STOCK
Exchange NASDAQ
Currency USD
ISIN US04010L1035
Country USA
Code + exchange ARCC.NASDAQ
Last price date 2026-08-20
Fundamentals updated 2026-08-21

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