Ares Capital Corp [NASDAQ: ARCC] closed the trading session at $19.86 on 2025-10-07. The day’s price range saw the stock hit a low of $19.73, while the highest price level was $20.14.
The stocks have a year to date performance of -4.89 percent and weekly performance of -2.69 percent. The stock has been moved at 2.85 percent over the last six months. The stock has performed -11.69 percent around the most recent 30 days and changed -11.81 percent over the most recent 3-months.
If compared to the average trading volume of 4.00M shares, ARCC reached to a volume of 7795246 in the most recent trading day, which is why market watchdogs consider the stock to be active.
Here’s what leading stock market gurus have to say about Ares Capital Corp [ARCC]:
Based on careful and fact-backed analyses by Wall Street experts, the current consensus on the target price for ARCC shares is $23.19 per share. Analysis on target price and performance of stocks is usually carefully studied by market experts, and the current Wall Street consensus on ARCC stock is a recommendation set at 1.57. This rating represents a strong Buy recommendation, on the scale from 1 to 5, where 5 would mean strong sell, 4 represents Sell, 3 is Hold, and 2 indicates Buy.
B. Riley Securities have made an estimate for Ares Capital Corp shares, keeping their opinion on the stock as Buy, with their previous recommendation back on July 30, 2025. The new note on the price target was released on February 06, 2025, representing the official price target for Ares Capital Corp stock.
ARCC stock trade performance evaluation
Ares Capital Corp [ARCC] fell into the red zone at the end of the last week, falling into a negative trend and dropping by -2.69. With this latest performance, ARCC shares dropped by -11.69% in over the last four-week period, additionally plugging by 2.85% over the last 6 months – not to mention a drop of -9.27% in the past year of trading.
Overbought and oversold stocks can be easily traced with the Relative Strength Index (RSI), where an RSI result of over 70 would be overbought, and any rate below 30 would indicate oversold conditions. An RSI rate of 50 would represent a neutral market momentum. The current RSI for ARCC stock in for the last two-week period is set at 25.33, with the RSI for the last a single of trading hit 0.38, and the three-weeks RSI is set at 0.35 for Ares Capital Corp [ARCC]. The present Moving Average for the last 50 days of trading for this stock 21.81, while it was recorded at 20.13 for the last single week of trading, and 21.99 for the last 200 days.
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) Capital Structure & Debt Analysis
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) Efficiency & Liquidity Metrics
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) Efficiency & Liquidity Metrics
Ares Capital Corp [ARCC]: Institutional Ownership
There are presently around $33.15%, or 33.33%% of ARCC stock, in the hands of institutional investors. The top three institutional holders of ARCC stocks are: MORGAN STANLEY with ownership of 16.01 million shares, which is approximately 2.5991%. VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP, holding 11.68 million shares of the stock with an approximate value of $$243.43 million in ARCC stocks shares; and VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP, currently with $$138.68 million in ARCC stock with ownership which is approximately 1.0803%.
