Ares Capital
ARCC
Market cap $15.4B

21.53 USD

-0.75

3.37%

At close Jun 13, 4:00 PM EDT

After hours

22.00

+0.47

2.18%

1 day

-3.37%

5 days

-3.24%

1 month

-1.15%

3 months

0.42%

6 months

-0.74%

Year to date

-3.06%

1 year

1.22%

5 years

42.87%

10 years

34.48%

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 7,296 funds

0

Analysts bullish %

of 5 analysts

Fund manager confidence

Based on 2025 Q1 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)

91% more repeat investments, than reductions

Existing positions increased: 371 | Existing positions reduced: 194

32% more first-time investments, than exits

New positions opened: 90 | Existing positions closed: 68

6% more funds holding in top 10

Funds holding in top 10: 17 [Q4 2024] → 18 (+1) [Q1 2025]

0.8% more ownership

Funds ownership: 30.82% [Q4 2024] → 31.62% (+0.8%) [Q1 2025]

0% more funds holding

Funds holding: 813 [Q4 2024] → 813 (+0) [Q1 2025]

7% less capital invested

Capital invested by funds: $5.17B [Q4 2024] → $4.79B (-$379M) [Q1 2025]

34% less call options, than puts

Call options by funds: $85.2M | Put options by funds: $130M

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Research analyst outlook

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

Low target

$21

2%

downside

Avg. target

$22

1%

upside

High target

$23

7%

upside

5 analyst ratings

4 positive

80%

1 neutral

20%

0 negative

0%

RBC Capital Kenneth Lee	7%upside $23	Outperform Maintained	6 May 2025
Wells Fargo Finian O'Shea	2%downside $21	Overweight Maintained	30 Apr 2025
JP Morgan Melissa Wedel	2%upside $22	Overweight Maintained	24 Apr 2025
UBS Doug Harter	2%downside $21	Neutral Maintained	17 Apr 2025
Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Paul Johnson	2%upside $22	Outperform Maintained	8 Apr 2025

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Financial journalist opinion

Based on 36 articles about ARCC published over the past 30 days

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Ares Capital: I Overestimated This One

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