| Market Cap | 10.55B | P/E | 11.82 | EPS this Y | 1.30% | Ern Qtrly Grth | -2.70% |
| Income | 1.68B | Forward P/E | 8.50 | EPS next Y | -7.90% | 50D Avg Chg | 2.00% |
| Sales | 2.82B | PEG | -2.15 | EPS past 5Y | 7.58% | 200D Avg Chg | 3.00% |
| Dividend | 10.00% | Price/Book | 1.04 | EPS next 5Y | -4.00% | 52W High Chg | -7.00% |
| Recommedations | 1.90 | Quick Ratio | 0.73 | Shares Outstanding | 630.39M | 52W Low Chg | 17.00% |
| Insider Own | 0.54% | ROA | 5.21% | Shares Float | - | Beta | 1.06 |
| Inst Own | 29.84% | ROE | 14.83% | Shares Shorted/Prior | 17.81M/16.99M | Price | 19.38 |
| Gross Margin | 100.00% | Profit Margin | 59.76% | Avg. Volume | 3,231,816 | Target Price | 22.12 |
| Oper. Margin | 75.89% | Earnings Date | Oct 22 | Volume | 3,959,576 | Change | -0.77% |
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 $100 million The fund invests through revolvers, first lien loans, warrants, unitranche structures, second lien loans, mezzanine debt, private high yield, junior capital, subordinated debt, and non-control preferred and common equity. The fund also selectively considers third-party-led senior and subordinated debt financings and opportunistically considers the purchase of stressed and discounted debt positions. The fund prefers to be an agent and/or lead the transactions in which it invests. The fund also seeks board representation in its portfolio companies.
| RBC Capital | Outperform | Aug 5, 24 |
| JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Jul 30, 24 |
| RBC Capital | Outperform | May 23, 24 |
| JP Morgan | Overweight | May 2, 24 |
| Truist Securities | Buy | May 2, 24 |
| Oppenheimer | Outperform | May 2, 24 |
| JMP Securities | Market Outperform | Mar 26, 24 |
| Wells Fargo | Equal-Weight | Jan 29, 24 |
| B. Riley Securities | Neutral | Jan 8, 24 |
| Insider Trades | Relationship | Date | Transactions | Cost($) | #Shares | Value($) | #Share Own | SEC Form 4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ROLL PENELOPE F | Chief Financial Offi.. Chief Financial Officer | Aug 03 | Buy | 19.77 | 25,000 | 494,250 | 52,000 | 08/04/22 |
| McKeever Steven B. | Director Director | Jun 15 | Buy | 17.95 | 2,775 | 49,811 | 44,944 | 06/17/22 |
| Arougheti Michael J | Executive Vice Presi.. Executive Vice President | Jun 14 | Buy | 17.75 | 300,000 | 5,325,000 | 1,782,709 | 06/16/22 |
| Smith Michael Lewis | Co-President Co-President | May 19 | Buy | 18.64 | 54,000 | 1,006,560 | 89,000 | 05/23/22 |
| HENSON MARY BETH | Director Director | Mar 14 | Buy | 20.05 | 6,000 | 120,300 | 6,000 | 03/16/22 |
| Bloomstein Joshua M | General Counsel, VP.. General Counsel, VP & Sec. | Oct 30 | Buy | 13.79 | 5,000 | 68,950 | 16,500 | 10/30/20 |