Currently, there are 646.08M common shares owned by the public and among those 640.75M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 0.73% and 8.63% over the past three months. ARCC shares are trading 7.54% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 14.89% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $19.32 and touched a high of $23.53 over the same period. ARCC has an average intraday trading volume of 4.32 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 4.10%, 6.37%, and 10.81% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ARCC) shares accounts for 30.04% of the company’s 646.08M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $15.21B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.05. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 9.05, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $2.60. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 0.95% over the week and 1.11% over the month.
Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to decrease by -0.92%, and -5.96% over the next financial year.
Wells Fargo coverage for the Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) stock in a research note released on December 02, 2024 offered a Overweight rating with a price target of $23. B. Riley Securities was of a view on January 08, 2024 that the stock is Neutral, while B. Riley Securities gave the stock Buy rating on June 16, 2023, issuing a price target of $20.50. Wells Fargo on their part issued Equal Weight rating on April 18, 2023.
