Ares Capital Corporation - Closed End Fund (ARCC): Price and Financial Metrics

ARCC POWR Grades

• Momentum is the dimension where ARCC ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 87.8% of US stocks.
• ARCC's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving up over the last 177 days.
• ARCC ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 0th percentile.

ARCC Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of ARES CAPITAL CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 86.6% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For ARCC, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 99.84% of US equities we're observing.
• In terms of volatility of its share price, ARCC is more volatile than just 10.81% of stocks we're observing.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to ARES CAPITAL CORP, a group of peers worth examining would be PFLT, ORCC, GSBD, FSK, and GBDC.
• ARCC's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit ARES CAPITAL CORP's official web site, go to www.arescapitalcorp.com.

ARCC Valuation Summary

• ARCC's EV/EBIT ratio is 13.8; this is 42.27% higher than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• ARCC's price/earnings ratio has moved NA NA over the prior 219 months.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for ARCC.

ARCC Growth Metrics

Its year over year price growth rate is now at 2.22%.
• Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 100.56%.
• The 3 year revenue growth rate now stands at 34.24%.

Over the past 15 months, ARCC's revenue has gone up $358,000,000.

The table below shows ARCC's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-06-30	1,890	-2,781	1,038
2022-03-31	1,870	-2,467	1,405
2021-12-31	1,820	-2,459	1,567
2021-09-30	1,731	-1,418	1,563
2021-06-30	1,641	-1,419	1,670
2021-03-31	1,532	-83	1,469

ARCC's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• ARCC has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 49.4% of graded US stocks.
• ARCC's asset turnover comes in at 0.1 -- ranking 214th of 444 Trading stocks.
• LIVE, VTR, and MGP are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with ARCC.

The table below shows ARCC's key quality metrics over time.