NASDAQ: ARCC
Ares Capital Corp Stock

$22.42+0.09 (+0.4%)
Updated Jul 8, 2025
ARCC Price
$22.42
Fair Value Price
N/A
Market Cap
$15.46B
52 Week Low
$18.26
52 Week High
$23.84
P/E
10.99x
P/B
1.13x
P/S
4.96x
PEG
N/A
Dividend Yield
8.56%
Revenue
$3.02B
Earnings
$1.31B
Gross Margin
76.2%
Operating Margin
70.47%
Profit Margin
43.5%
Debt to Equity
1.07
Operating Cash Flow
-$2B
Beta
0.7
Next Earnings
Jul 28, 2025
Ex-Dividend
N/A
Next Dividend
N/A

ARCC Overview

Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in 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 the basic and growth manufacturing, business services, consumer products, health care products and services, and information technology service sectors. The fund will also consider investments in industries such as restaurants, retail, oil and gas, and technology sectors. 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 $20 million and $200 million and a maximum of $400 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.

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Industry: Asset Management

Industry Rating
C
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Ranked
#80 of 84

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Industry Average (33)
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ARCC is forecast by analysts to be unprofitable, so we are unable to calculate its intrinsic value according to an updated version of Benjamin Graham's Formula from "The Intelligent Investor"
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ARCC is good value based on its earnings relative to its share price (10.99x), compared to the US market average (30.75x)
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Valuation

ARCC price to earnings (PE)

For valuing profitable companies with steady earnings

Company
10.99x
Industry
135.79x
Market
30.75x
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ARCC price to book (PB)

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Company
1.13x
Industry
2.99x
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ARCC's financial health

Profit margin

Revenue
$732.0M
Net Income
$241.0M
Profit Margin
32.9%
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Profit Margin Growth Financials

Assets to liabilities

Assets
$28.3B
Liabilities
$14.6B
Debt to equity
1.07
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Cash flow

Operating
-$299.0M
Investing
$0.0
Financing
$181.0M

ARCC vs Asset Management Stocks

TickerZen RatingMarket Cap1d %P/EP/B
ARCCD$15.46B+0.40%10.99x1.13x
BENC$12.88B-0.20%36.03x1.04x
PFGD$18.27B+1.61%17.37x1.63x
CRBGD$19.35B+0.23%34.48x1.62x
SEICC$11.50B-0.29%19.78x5.09x

Ares Capital Stock FAQ

What is Ares Capital's quote symbol?

(NASDAQ: ARCC) Ares Capital trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol ARCC. Ares Capital stock quotes can also be displayed as NASDAQ: ARCC.

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What is the 52 week high and low for Ares Capital (NASDAQ: ARCC)?

(NASDAQ: ARCC) Ares Capital's 52-week high was $23.84, and its 52-week low was $18.26. It is currently -5.96% from its 52-week high and 22.78% from its 52-week low.

How much is Ares Capital stock worth today?

(NASDAQ: ARCC) Ares Capital currently has 689,632,273 outstanding shares. With Ares Capital stock trading at $22.42 per share, the total value of Ares Capital stock (market capitalization) is $15.46B.

Ares Capital stock was originally listed at a price of $15.02 in Oct 5, 2004. If you had invested in Ares Capital stock at $15.02, your return over the last 20 years would have been 49.27%, for an annualized return of 2.02% (not including any dividends or dividend reinvestments).

How much is Ares Capital's stock price per share?

(NASDAQ: ARCC) Ares Capital stock price per share is $22.42 today (as of Jul 8, 2025).

What is Ares Capital's Market Cap?

(NASDAQ: ARCC) Ares Capital's market cap is $15.46B, as of Jul 9, 2025.

Market cap (market capitalization) is the total market value of a publicly traded company's outstanding shares.

Ares Capital's market cap is calculated by multiplying ARCC's current stock price of $22.42 by ARCC's total outstanding shares of 689,632,273.
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