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Ares Capital

ARCC

Market cap $13.4B

18.64 USD

-0.15

0.8%

At close Updated Oct 23, 4:00 PM EDT

Pre-market

After hours

18.65

+0.01

0.05%

1 day

-0.8%

5 days

-0.27%

1 month

-2.66%

3 months

0.16%

6 months

0.11%

Year to date

-8.81%

1 year

-6.52%

5 years

-12.49%

10 years

20.73%

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 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: 4,250

Financials Asset Management

News

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Sentiment 3-Months

Positive 65.9%

Neutral 23%

Negative 11.1%

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