Ares Capital

ARCC

Market cap $15B

Overview Fund Activity

21.30 USD

+0.21

1%

At close Updated Sep 18, 2:04 PM EDT

1 day

1%

5 days

-5.04%

1 month

-4.95%

3 months

-0.98%

6 months

-2.38%

Year to date

-4.1%

1 year

4.72%

5 years

54.24%

10 years

44.21%

About: Ares Capital Corp is a United States-based closed-ended specialty finance company. Its investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. The company focuses on investing primarily in first lien senior secured loans (including unitranche loans, which are loans that combine both senior and subordinated debt, generally in a first lien position) and second lien senior secured loans. In addition to senior secured loans, the company also invests in subordinated loans and preferred equity, it also makes common equity investments.

Employees: 3,200

Financials Asset Management

0

Funds holding %

of 7,463 funds

0

Analysts bullish %

of 5 analysts

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

24% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 77 | Existing positions closed: 62

23% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 326 | Existing positions reduced: 264

0.23% more ownership

Funds ownership: 31.65% [Q1] → 31.89% (+0.23%) [Q2]

0% more capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $4.8B [Q1] → $4.8B (+$7.85M) [Q2]

0% less funds holding

Funds holding: 818 [Q1] → 816 (-2) [Q2]

17% less funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 18 [Q1] → 15 (-3) [Q2]

44% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $97.5M | Put options by funds: $173M

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Research analyst outlook

5 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months

Low target

$23

6% upside

Avg. target

$23

8% upside

High target

$24

10% upside

5 analyst ratings

4 positive

80%

1 neutral

20%

0 negative

0%

JMP Securities Brian McKenna	$23	Market Outperform Maintained	31 Jul 2025
Wells Fargo Finian O'Shea	$23	Overweight Maintained	30 Jul 2025
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Paul Johnson	$23	Outperform Maintained	30 Jul 2025
B. Riley Securities Bryce Rowe	$24	Buy Upgraded	30 Jul 2025
UBS Doug Harter	$23	Neutral Maintained	16 Jul 2025

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Financial journalist opinion

Based on 29 articles about ARCC published over the past 30 days

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