Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ARCC) on Friday, plunged -0.39% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $20.29. Within the past 52 weeks, ARCC’s price has moved between $18.26 and $23.84.
Over the past five-year period, the growth rate of yearbook sales for the company of the Financial sector was 5.60%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -14.29%. With a float of $710.71 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $716.00 million.
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Asset Management industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Ares Capital Corp is 0.67%, while institutional ownership is 32.34%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Oct 31 ’25, was worth 265,070. In this transaction Chief Executive Officer of this company bought 13,000 shares at a rate of $20.39, taking the stock ownership to the 28,000 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 03 ’25, when Company’s Co-President bought 40,000 for $23.32, making the entire transaction worth $932,800. This insider now owns 40,000 shares in total.
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) Earnings and Forecasts
As on 12/31/2024, Multinational firm has announced its last quarter scores, in which it reported 0.55 earnings per share (EPS) for the period falling under the consensus outlook (set at 0.58) by -0.03. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.49 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -14.29% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will plunge by -6.06% during the next five years compared to 5.60% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ARCC) Trading Performance Indicators
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 2.21 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 4.46. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 11.09.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.99, a number that is poised to hit 0.50 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 1.95 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Ares Capital Corp (ARCC)
Compared to the last year’s volume of 4.7 million, its volume of 3.05 million showed lagged in the last five days. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 65.66%.
During the past 100 days, Ares Capital Corp’s (ARCC) raw stochastic average was set at 30.70%, which indicates a significant decrease from 36.29% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 0.38 in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 0.32 volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $20.47, while its 200-day Moving Average is $21.65. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $20.33 in the near term. At $20.45, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $20.58. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $20.08, it is likely to go to the next support level at $19.95. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $19.83.
Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ARCC) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 14.46 billion based on 715,727K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 2,990 M and income totals 1,522 M. The company made 782,000 K in profit during its latest quarter, and 404,000 K in sales during its previous quarter.
