Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ARCC): Analyst View Points To Future Growth

Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $20.78, with 4.44 million shares of worth about $92.23 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -1.02% during that period and on May 07, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 0.51%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 689.63M shares, out of which, 684.19M shares are available for trading.

Stock saw a price change of 0.61% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 7.64%. Year-to-date (YTD), ARCC shares are showing a performance of -5.05% which increased to 0.85% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $18.26 but also hit the highest price of $23.84 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Ares Capital Corp shares is 5.29 million. The stock is currently trading 1.32% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.77% for SMA50 and it goes to -3.61% lower than SMA200.

Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ARCC) currently have 689.63M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 30.35% of that.

The stock has a current market capitalization of $14.33B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.72. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 8.52, while it has posted earnings per share of $2.44 in the same period. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for ARCC, volatility over the week remained 1.87% while standing at 3.14% over the month.

Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -13.08% while it is estimated to decrease by -0.19% in next year.

On December 02, 2024, Wells Fargo Upgrade their recommendations, while on January 08, 2024, B. Riley Securities Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $21. Stock get a Buy rating from B. Riley Securities on June 16, 2023.

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