Ares Capital Corporation ARCC
At closeNov 4, 2026, 7:42 AM EST
Pre-market · Nov 4, 7:42 AM ET
- YTD
- -6.03%
- 1 year
- -6.22%
- Market cap
- 13.73B
- Revenue (ttm)
- 3.09B
- Profit margin
- 28.34%
- EPS (ttm)
- 1.19
- Shares out
- 722.19M
- P/E ratio
- 15.97
- Forward P/E
- 9.79
- Dividend
- 1.92 (10.36%)
- Ex-dividend date
- Dec 14, 2026
- YTD return
- -6.03%
- 1-year return
- -6.22%
- Volume
- 3.87M
- Avg volume
- 4.42M
- Open
- 19.35
- Previous close
- 19.42
- Day's range
- 18.98 – 19.35
- 52-week range
- 17.40 – 21.14
- Analysts
- Strong Buy
- Price target
- 21.00 (+10.5%)
- Earnings date
- Feb 3, 2027
2Y -1.87 (-8.96%)
Key statistics
- Enterprise value
- 28.42B
- PEG ratio
- 3.72
- Price / sales
- 4.45
- Price / book
- 0.98
- Dividend yield
- 9.89%
- Payout ratio
- 157.38%
- Revenue growth
- -2.40%
- Free cash flow
- 0
- Total cash
- 722.00M
- Total debt
- 15.12B
- Return on equity
- 6.19%
- Short % of float
- 5.59%
- 50-day average
- 19.21
- 200-day average
- 19.01
Analyst view
Consensus: strong buy
- Target (low)
- 20.00
- Target (mean)
- 21.00
- Target (high)
- 23.00
- Strong buy4
- Buy8
- Hold1
- Sell0
- Strong sell0
Next earnings
Feb 3, 2027
Expected Feb 3, 2027. Consensus EPS estimate 0.47512.
Financials — quick view
Earnings
| Report date | Quarter ending | EPS estimate | EPS reported | Surprise | Surprise % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 2027 | Dec 30, 2026 | 0.47 | — | — | — |
| Oct 27, 2026 | Sep 30, 2026 | 0.4763 | 0.46 | -0.02 | -3.42% |
| Jul 29, 2026 | Jun 30, 2026 | 0.4731 | 0.47 | 0.00 | -0.66% |
| Apr 28, 2026 | Mar 31, 2026 | 0.4827 | 0.47 | -0.01 | -2.63% |
| Feb 4, 2026 | Dec 31, 2025 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00% |
| Oct 28, 2025 | Sep 30, 2025 | 0.503 | 0.50 | 0.00 | -0.60% |
Upgrades / downgrades
| Date | Firm | Action | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2026 | UBS | up | Neutral | Buy |
| Sep 1, 2026 | UBS | main | Neutral | Neutral |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Truist Securities | main | Buy | Buy |
| Jul 30, 2026 | Keefe, Bruyette & Woods | main | Outperform | Outperform |
| Jul 2, 2026 | JP Morgan | main | Overweight | Overweight |
| Jun 12, 2026 | Wells Fargo | down | Overweight | Equal-Weight |
About Ares Capital Corporation
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
- Website
- arcc.ares.com
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Insider holders
| Insider | Relation | Latest transaction | Date | Shares held |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AROUGHETI MICHAEL J | Officer and Director | Stock Gift | Feb 17, 2025 | 2,016,780 |
| BATES ANN TORRE | Director | Purchase | Feb 10, 2025 | 38,000 |
| HENSON MARY BETH | Director | Purchase | Oct 27, 2026 | 0 |
| LEM SCOTT C | Chief Financial Officer | Purchase | Feb 5, 2026 | 39,463 |
| MARKOWICZ JANA | Chief Operating Officer | Purchase | Feb 8, 2026 | 25,176 |
| MILLER JAMES ROBERT | President | Purchase | Mar 2, 2025 | 40,000 |
Institution ownership
| Holder | % held | Shares | Value | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morgan Stanley | 2.36% | 17,022,990 | 323.61M | Jun 29, 2026 |
| UBS Group AG | 1.91% | 13,778,805 | 261.94M | Jun 29, 2026 |
| Van Eck Associates Corporation | 1.84% | 13,306,095 | 252.95M | Jun 29, 2026 |
| STRS Ohio | 1.74% | 12,600,311 | 239.53M | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Bank of America Corporation | 1.24% | 8,935,191 | 169.86M | Jun 29, 2026 |
| Generali Asset Management Spa Sgr | 1.10% | 7,950,908 | 151.15M | Sep 29, 2026 |
Fund ownership
| Holder | % held | Shares | Value | Reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck BDC Income ETF | 1.52% | 10,948,551 | 208.13M | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Putnam ETF Trust-Putnam BDC Income ETF | 0.22% | 1,566,253 | 29.77M | Jul 30, 2026 |
| Columbia Funds Series Trust II-Columbia Dividend Opportunity Fund | 0.09% | 660,000 | 12.55M | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Columbia Funds Series Trust II-Columbia Flexible Capital Income Fund | 0.08% | 550,000 | 10.46M | Aug 30, 2026 |
| Franklin Mutual Series Funds-FRANKLIN MUTUAL QUEST FUND | 0.07% | 532,391 | 10.12M | Jun 29, 2026 |
| Tri-Continental Corporation | 0.06% | 450,000 | 8.55M | Jun 29, 2026 |
