Ares Capital
$18.86Change from previous close: −1.57%Absolute change: −$0.30
Valuation
Data as of October 2, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $13.76B
- Enterprise value
- $29.21B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 14.3
- Forward P/E
- 9.91
- PEG
- 3.72
- Price/book
- 0.99
- Price/sales
- 4.43
- EV/revenue
- 9.41
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 100.0%
- Operating margin
- 75.7%
- Net margin
- 30.9%
- ROE
- 6.9%
- ROA
- 4.9%
- Revenue growth (year over year)
- 3.1%
- Earnings growth (year over year)
- -54.1%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $398M
- Total debt
- $15.85B
- Debt/equity
- 1.14
- Current ratio
- 0.61
- Quick ratio
- 0.46
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $1.92
- Dividend yield
- 10.0%
- Payout ratio
- 143.3%
- Ex-dividend date
- September 15, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $20.77
- Median price target
- $21.00
- High price target
- $23.00
- Low price target
- $19.00
- Analysts with a price target
- 13
- Consensus
- Buy
- Forward EPS
- $1.93
- EPS estimate, current year
- $1.91
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.63
- Average volume
- 4.4M
- Shares outstanding
- 718.02M
- Institutional ownership
- 36.0%
- Insider ownership
- 0.6%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 5.9%
- Short ratio (days)
- 10.8