ARCCAres Capital Corp
+1.1% today · +5.9% over a year
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Stability, Dividend safety: among the best of its peers; priced higher than most peers (P/E 16.0). Dividend yield 9.92%.
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) dividends: trailing yield 9.92%, next ex-dividend date 15 Dec 2026, Dividend Safety 91/100, 5-year growth 3.6% a year.
Yield after tax (estimate)
Before tax → After tax, CY non-dom
- Last 12 months
- 9.92% → 8.17%
- Forward
- 9.92% → 8.17%
Of every 100 paid out
- Withheld at source (United States)
- 15.00%
- Cyprus Special Defence Contribution (after credit for foreign tax)
- 0.00%
- Cyprus GeSY health contribution
- 2.65%
- You keep
- 82.35%
Best case, if the whole payout is designated as interest-related or short-term-gain dividends and your broker applies the US exemption (IRC 871(k)): 9.66%.
- Source country assumed: United States (from the issuer’s data). Depositary receipts and companies listed outside their home country may be taxed by that home country.
- US rate 15 % assumes a W-8BEN form is on file with your broker (US–Cyprus treaty); without it the US withholds 30 %.
- US funds (ETFs, closed-end funds, BDCs) may designate part of a payout as exempt for non-US investors (IRC 871(k)); whether your broker applies it shows on your Form 1042-S.
- GeSY 2.65 % applies to dividends and interest of every Cyprus resident, domiciled or not, up to €180,000 of income a year.
Cyprus resident, domiciled: 8.17%
Estimate, not tax advice: published rules as of 2026-10-14 for the profile chosen; your broker’s withholding and your own situation can differ. How we estimate tax
Next payment
- Ex-dividend date
- 15 Dec 2026
- Payment date
- 29 Dec 2026
- Amount per share
- $0.48
- Status
- Announced
Dividend profile
- 5-year dividend growth (per year)
- +3.6%
- Years without a lower dividend
- 0
- Years without a cut of over 10 %
- 16
- Payout ratio (earnings)
- 157%
- NAV per share trend (3 y)
- +0.1%
Annual total matches the company's SEC filing
Dividends per share by year
Sum of payments by calendar year of the ex-date; the current year is left out until it ends.
Payment history
Amounts are per share on today's share count (adjusted for splits), before withholding tax.
| Status | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Dec 2026 | 29 Dec 2026 | $0.48 | Regular | Announced | 2 |
| 15 Sep 2026 | 30 Sep 2026 | $0.48 | Regular | Verified | 3 |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 30 Jun 2026 | $0.48 | Regular | Verified | 2 |
| 13 Mar 2026 | 31 Mar 2026 | $0.48 | Regular | Verified | 2 |
Each payment is checked against up to 3 data feeds. Several feeds can share one upstream, so Verified needs two independent ones. Verified: two or more sources agree. Single source: not cross-checked yet. Sources disagree: the median is shown. Announced: declared, may still change.
What dividend safety is made of
0–100 points: payout versus earnings and cash flow, debt, cut history, years without a lower dividend and how stretched the yield looks.
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