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 74.09% of US stocks.
• ARCC's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 26 weeks.
• ARCC's current lowest rank is in the Sentiment metric (where it is better than 35.75% of US stocks).

ARCC Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of ARES CAPITAL CORP's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; 87.34% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for ARES CAPITAL CORP is higher than it is for about 99.8% of US stocks.
• The volatility of ARES CAPITAL CORP's share price is greater than that of merely 0.52% US stocks with at least 200 days of trading history.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to ARES CAPITAL CORP are GSBD, NMFC, FSK, GBDC, and OCSL.
• 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 price/earnings ratio is 8.8; this is 20% lower than that of the median Financial Services stock.
• Over the past 234 months, ARCC's EV/EBIT ratio has gone NA NA.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for ARCC.

ARCC Growth Metrics

Its year over year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 100.56%.
• Its 5 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 60.31%.
• Its 4 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 60.31%.

Over the past 52 months, ARCC's revenue has gone up $797,000,000.

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
2022-12-31	2,096	-1,359	600
2022-09-30	1,985	-2,766	808
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

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.