ARCC Overview

Ares Capital Corporation is a specialty finance company focused on providing direct loans and other investments in private middle market companies in the United States. The Company invests 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, it also invests in subordinated debt, which in some cases includes an equity component, and preferred equity. It also may invest up to 30% of its portfolio in non-qualifying assets. Its investment activities are focused on industries, such as software and services, health care services, commercial and professional services, financial services, commercial and professional services, insurance services, energy, food and beverage and others. The Company is externally managed by Ares Capital Management LLC (investment adviser).

Wall Street analysts forecast ARCC stock price to rise over the next 12 months. According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for ARCC is21.75 USD with a low forecast of 20.00 USD and a high forecast of 23.00 USD. However, analyst price targets are subjective and often lag stock prices, so investors should focus on the objective reasons behind analyst rating changes, which better reflect the company's fundamentals.

Ares Capital Corp revenue for the last quarter amounts to 715.00M USD, decreased -5.55

Ares Capital Corp. EPS for the last quarter amounts to 0.41 USD, decreased -25.45

Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) has 4250 emplpoyees as of February 18 2026.

Today ARCC has the market capitalization of 13.86B USD.