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Company snapshot — Ares Capital Corporation

ARCC in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company that lends to and invests in mid-sized private companies across industries such as software, healthcare, industrials and media. It provides growth capital, leveraged buyout financing, mezzanine debt, rescue financing and refinancing, usually taking a lead or agent role and often a board seat. It works through offices covering different US regions and is headquartered in Los Angeles.
Where it sits in the stack
Ares Capital sits in the Financial Services sector of our universe, in the Asset Management industry group; it is not part of our index. It behaves as a lender to the middle market rather than as a supplier inside any build-out chain the diary tracks.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Financial Services names from the United States, including Brookfield Asset Management, TPG, PJT Partners, Mizuho Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group; the market also compares it with Blackstone Secured Lending Fund as a fellow business development company.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score, with quality its strongest module and momentum its weakest. It holds no seat in our index and has not yet appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.
What the diary watches
Whether the credit quality of its middle-market loan book holds as conditions change, since its score currently leans on quality strength while momentum lags.

Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) trades on US exchanges, classified under Financial Services.

The Closelook company score reads 45/100 composite (momentum 59, quality 65, valuation 54) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for ARCC, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Asset Management · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Asset Management · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against ARCC on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 10.04%, quarterly · last 0.48 USD on 2026-09-15

Dividends and capital return

What ARCC pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.92 USD per share · a 10.04% yield on the 2026-09-24 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-24
  • Change on the year +33.3% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 1.44 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.48 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-15
  • By calendar year 2025: 1.92 USD (partial) · 2026: 1.44 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-14
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 1.26 bn USD 99% of earnings
  • Share count +12.0% in FY2025
  • Capital returned 1.26 bn USD · 111% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

How it trades on rate days beta 0.35 to TLT · on the worst bond days it moved with the market

How it trades on rate days

How ARCC has moved when long-dated Treasury yields rise — measured against TLT, the 20+ year Treasury fund.

  • Beta to long bonds, 1 year 0.35 — tends to move with bonds for every 1% move in TLT (20+ year Treasuries), Ares Capital Corporation moved 0.35% on average · correlation 0.17 · higher than 34% of US names
  • Beta, last 3 months 0.70 more rate-sensitive lately than over the year
  • On the 10 worst bond days −0.56% on average against −0.74% for the S&P 500 the 10 sessions of the past year in which TLT fell most, i.e. long yields rose most
  • Latest of those days −0.10% TLT −1.29% that day 2026-09-24

Daily total returns from the adjusted price series; a TLT down day is a day long yields rose. Beta = the average move of the name for a 1% move in TLT. Past sensitivity, not a forecast. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 60/100 · S&P 500 fund at 66, bullish alignedEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-24
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 99th percentile of the window, +10.1% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-24
  • Sector × region Financials in US: −2.1% week · −6.2% month · +2.4% quarter · +9.7% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLF.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-24
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.60 · up 0.32 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-23

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-25

Quick answers

What is Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC)?

Ares Capital Corporation trades as ARCC on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Financial Services in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-25.

Is ARCC in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Ares Capital Corporation is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-25.

What is Ares Capital Corporation's Closelook composite score?

45 out of 100, with momentum 59, quality 65 and valuation 54 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-25. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does ARCC trade against its moving averages?

Pullback inside an uptrend stack: Trades -1.8% vs the 50-day and +2.1% vs the 200-day average, 5.4% below the 52-week high and +12.8% off the 52-week low; a golden cross printed 37 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-24 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Ares Capital Corporation do?

Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company that lends to and invests in mid-sized private companies across industries such as software, healthcare, industrials and media. It provides growth capital, leveraged buyout financing, mezzanine debt, rescue financing and refinancing, usually taking a lead or agent role and often a board seat. It works through offices covering different US regions and is headquartered in Los Angeles. Closelook's peer group places it with other scored Financial Services names from the United States, including Brookfield Asset Management, TPG, PJT Partners, Mizuho Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group; the market also compares it with Blackstone Secured Lending Fund as a fellow business development company.

Where does Ares Capital Corporation sit in the AI build-out?

Ares Capital sits in the Financial Services sector of our universe, in the Asset Management industry group; it is not part of our index. It behaves as a lender to the middle market rather than as a supplier inside any build-out chain the diary tracks. It carries a Closelook score, with quality its strongest module and momentum its weakest. It holds no seat in our index and has not yet appeared in the diary's editions or quotes.

Does Ares Capital Corporation pay a dividend?

Ares Capital Corporation has paid 1.92 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 10.04% on the 2026-09-24 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.48 USD on 2026-09-15. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 1.26 bn USD in dividends, 111% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count rose 12.0% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

How does Ares Capital Corporation trade when bond yields rise?

Over the past year Ares Capital Corporation had a beta of 0.35 to TLT, the long-dated Treasury fund — it tends to move with bonds, higher than 34% of US names. On the 10 sessions in which long bonds fell most it moved −0.56% on average, against −0.74% for the S&P 500. The "How it trades on rate days" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about Ares Capital Corporation?

Ares Capital Corporation appears in 1 Closelook piece, most recently Midday 10: AI Credit — Oracle invokes force majeure on a New Mexico data center; the 30-year hits 5.45% (2026-09-24). What Closelook said most recently: Private-credit lenders lower but calm: OBDC (-1.6%), Ares Capital (-0.91%), BXSL (-0.73%); the neoclouds mixed: Applied Digital (-2.53%), TeraWulf (-2.11%), Core Scientific (-1.57%), CoreWeave (-0.93%), Nebius $239.80 (+5.82%) (Midday 10, 2026-09-24). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for ARCC, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 1 piece · newest: Midday 10, “AI Credit — Oracle invokes force majeure on a New Mexico data center; the 30-year hits 5.45%” (2026-09-24)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where ARCC appears in the diary — 1 piece, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Dailies

Related in the Closelook universe

then Asset Management. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.