In recent trading session, Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ:ARCC) saw 0.82 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.72. Company’s recent per share price level of $21.97 trading at $0.22 or 0.99% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $15.25B. That most recent trading price of ARCC’s stock is at a discount of -8.51% from its 52-week high price of $23.84 and is indicating a premium of 16.89% from its 52-week low price of $18.26. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 4.69 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 5.11 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Ares Capital Corp (ARCC), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.71. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 7 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 2 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 5 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.51 in the current quarter.
Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ:ARCC) trade information
Upright in the green today for gaining 0.99%, in the last five days ARCC remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 06/27/25 when the stock touched $21.97 price level, adding 0.09% to its value on the day. Ares Capital Corp’s shares saw a change of 7.04% in year-to-date performance and have moved 2.21% in past 5-day. Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ:ARCC) showed a performance of -0.11% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 18.06 million shares which calculate 4.8 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 21.75 to the stock, which implies a fall of -1.01% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 20 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 24. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 8.97% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 8.97% for stock’s current value.
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) estimates and forecasts
This year revenue growth is estimated to rise 0.64% from the last financial year’s standing.
10 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 750.39M for the same. And 10 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 758.04M in the next quarter. Company posted 755M and 775M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
ARCC Dividends
Ares Capital Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Apr-29 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 8.74%, the share has a forward dividend of 1.92 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 9.07%.
Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ:ARCC)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.56% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 32.69 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 32.87%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 32.69% institutions for Ares Capital Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. MORGAN STANLEY is the top institutional holder at ARCC for having 16.01 million shares of worth $333.66 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 2.5991 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP, which was holding about 11.68 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 1.8963 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $243.43 million.
On the other hand, VanEck ETF Trust-VanEck BDC Income ETF and Fidelity Securities Fund-Fidelity Dividend Growth Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of May 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 13.0 shares of worth $286.12 million or 1.87% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 2.48 shares on Apr 30, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $54.53 million in the company or a holder of 0.36% of company’s stock.
