During the recent session, Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ:ARCC)’s traded shares were 1.06 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.74. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $22.75, reflecting an intraday gain of 1.02% or $0.23. The 52-week high for the ARCC share is $23.84, that puts it down -4.79 from that peak though still a striking 19.74% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $18.26. The company’s market capitalization is $15.79B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 3.63 million shares, and the average trade volume was 4.22 million shares over the past three months.
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.71. ARCC has a Sell rating from 0 analyst(s) out of 7 analysts who have looked at this stock. 2 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 5 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ:ARCC) trade information
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) registered a 1.02% upside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock spiked 1.02% in intraday trading to $22.75, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 2.20%, and it has moved by 2.43% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 3.93%. The short interest in Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ:ARCC) is 18.06 million shares and it means that shorts have 4.8 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $21.75, which implies a decrease of -4.6% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $20 and $24 respectively. As a result, ARCC is trading at a discount of -5.49% off the target high and 12.09% off the low.
While earnings are projected to return -13.40% in 2025.
ARCC Dividends
Ares Capital Corp is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Apr-29. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Ares Capital Corp is 1.92, with the dividend yield indicating at 8.44 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 9.03%.
Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ:ARCC)’s Major holders
Ares Capital Corp insiders own 0.56% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 32.54%, with the float percentage being 32.72%. MORGAN STANLEY is the largest shareholder of the company, while 931.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 16.01 million shares (or 2.5991% of all shares), a total value of $333.66 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 11.68 million shares, is of VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP’s that is approximately 1.8963% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $243.43 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) shares are VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck BDC Income ETF and Fidelity Securities Fund-Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund . Data provided on May 31, 2025 indicates that VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck BDC Income ETF owns about 13.0 shares. This amounts to just over 1.87 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $295.83 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 2.35, or about 0.34% of the stock, which is worth about $53.59 million.
