Ares Capital Corporation [ARCC] stock prices are up 1.19% to $20.48 at the moment. One of the good ways to gauge the recent performance is if the stock’s short-term value is rising or falling. The ARCC shares have gain 2.71% over the last week, with a monthly amount glided 1.29%, and seem to be holding up well over a long-time horizon.
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On 27, February 2024, Ares Capital Corporation to Present at the Raymond James 45th Annual Institutional Investors Conference. In a post published today on Yahoo Finance, Ares Capital Corporation (“Ares Capital”) (NASDAQ:ARCC) announced today that Kort Schnabel, Ares Capital’s Co-President, and Scott Lem, Ares Capital’s Chief Financial Officer, are scheduled to present at the Raymond James 45th Annual Institutional Investors Conference on Tuesday, March 5, 2024 at 8:05am ET.
From an analyst’s perspective:
Ares Capital Corporation [NASDAQ: ARCC] stock has seen the most recent analyst activity on January 08, 2024, when B. Riley Securities downgraded its rating to a Neutral but kept the price target unchanged to $21 for it. Previously, B. Riley Securities started tracking the stock with Buy rating on June 16, 2023, and set its price target to $20.50. On April 18, 2023, downgrade downgraded it’s rating to Equal Weight and revised its price target to $18 on the stock. Hovde Group upgraded its rating to a Outperform. JP Morgan upgraded its rating to a Overweight but $22 remained the price target by the analyst firm on April 27, 2022. Hovde Group started tracking with a Market Perform rating for this stock on March 07, 2022, and assigned it a price target of $22.50. In a note dated December 03, 2021, Janney initiated an Buy rating and provided a target price of $22 on this stock.
The stock price of Ares Capital Corporation [ARCC] has been fluctuating between $17.53 and $20.85 over the past year. Currently, Wall Street analysts expect the stock to reach $21.43 within the next 12 months. Ares Capital Corporation [NASDAQ: ARCC] shares were valued at $20.48 at the most recent close of the market. An investor can expect a potential return of 4.64% based on the average ARCC price forecast.
Analyzing the ARCC fundamentals
The Ares Capital Corporation [NASDAQ:ARCC] reported sales of 2.61B for trailing twelve months, representing a surge of 10.50%. Gross Profit Margin for this corporation currently stands at 0.75% with Operating Profit Margin at 0.88%, Pretax Profit Margin comes in at 0.94%, and Net Profit Margin reading is 0.93%. To continue investigating profitability, this company’s Return on Assets is posted at 0.06, Equity is 0.14 and Total Capital is 0.06. An extended analysis of the company’s primary financial structure reveals a debt-to-equity ratio of1.07.
Before buying any particular stock, readers tend to pay close attention to the indicators that support and create resistance. The company’s stock is currently sitting at 20.36 points at the first support level, and at 20.25 for the second support level. However, for the 1st resistance point, the stock is sitting at 20.54, and for the 2nd resistance point, it is at 20.61.
Ares Capital Corporation [ARCC] reported earnings per share of $0.63 for its fiscal quarter that ended on 12/30/2023. Based on the Wall Street analysts’ estimates, the company was expected to report earnings of $0.6/share, meaning a difference of $0.03 and a surprise factor of 5.00%. By comparison, the stated earnings for the previous quarter ended on 9/29/2023 were $0.59 per share as compared to estimates of $0.58 per share, a difference of $0.01 representing a surprise of 1.70%.
Ratios To Look Out For
Considering the valuation of this stock, the price to sales ratio is 4.75, the price to book ratio is 1.06 and price to earnings (TTM) ratio is 7.64.
Transactions by insiders
Recent insider trading involved SCHNABEL MICHAEL KORT, Co-President, that happened on May 02 ’23 when 15000.0 shares were purchased.
