Valuation

ARCCAres Capital Corp

BDCNasdaqUnited StatesFinancialsEU retail investors: available

+1.1% today · +5.9% over a year

Stability, Dividend safety: among the best of its peers; priced higher than most peers (P/E 16.0). Dividend yield 9.92%.

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Overview Dividends Valuation

Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) valuation against sector peers: P/E 16.0 (sector median 12.7), P/B 1.0, P/S 4.5.

Fund net asset value (NAV)

A closed-end fund or BDC trades at its own market price, which can be far from the value of what it owns. These figures compare the two and show how well the payouts are covered.

NAV per shareWhat the fund owns minus its debts, per share, from its latest report (30 Sep 2026).: $19.31
Price vs NAVA discount means the shares cost less than the assets behind them; a premium, more. A deep, lasting discount often reflects doubts about the NAV or the payouts.: 0.2% premium
NAV per share, change over 1 yearA shrinking NAV per share usually means the fund pays out more than it earns.: −3.5%
NAV per share, average change per year (3 years): +0.1%
NII coverage of distributionsNet investment income divided by the distributions paid over the last four quarters. Below 1.0× the payouts are larger than the income the fund earned.: 1.10×
Distribution rateDistributions of the last 12 months divided by the share price. For these funds a high rate is not the same as a high return: read it together with the NAV trend.: 9.9%

Sources: NAV per share from the fund's reports to the SEC (EDGAR); distributions from dividend data feeds; premium/discount and distribution rate computed by AI-Stock Invest from end-of-day prices.

Ratios vs sector

Medians of Financials companies in the same region (stocks and REITs).

Lower P/E, P/B, P/S and EV/EBIT mean cheaper; higher yields, returns and margins mean more for the price. Negative multiples (losses) are left out of the medians.
Metric	ARCC	Sector median	vs median
P/E	16.0	12.7 · n=299	26% above
P/B	1.0	1.6 · n=320	37% below
P/S	4.5	2.7 · n=312	65% above
EV/EBIT	—	17.2 · n=71	—
Free-cash-flow yield	—	8.5% · n=223	—
Dividend yield	9.92%	1.84% · n=351	438% above
Return on equity	6.2%	12.4% · n=333	50% below
Return on invested capital	—	15.2% · n=80	—
Gross margin	—	60.4% · n=39	—
Net debt / EBITDA	—	0.61 · n=71	—

Value factor: 9 of 100 within the peer group. Full score breakdown →

Sector peers

The largest companies of the same sector and region.


JPMJPMorgan	14.1	2.4	—	—	1.8%	6/10
MAMastercard	33.9	85.1	27.7	2.8%	0.5%	8/10
BACBank of America Corp	11.3	1.2	—	—	2.3%	6/10
MSMorgan Stanley	14.7	2.5	—	—	2.3%	3/10
GSGoldman Sachs	12.3	2.4	—	−15.3%	2.0%	3/10
WFCWells Fargo & Company	11.7	1.6	—	—	2.7%	4/10
AXPAmerican Express	17.8	6.1	—	6.4%	1.1%	3/10
CCitigroup	16.4	1.1	—	−34.8%	2.1%	3/10
BLKBlackRock	25.9	3.2	20.3	2.5%	1.8%	4/10
SCHWThe Charles Schwab Corporation	15.6	3.5	—	7.3%	1.3%	5/10

Fiscal-year history

From annual SEC filings; each bar is a fiscal year, labelled by the year it ended.

Filings: U.S. SEC EDGAR · ratios computed by AI-Stock Invest from public filings and end-of-day prices · latest period 30 Sep 2026 · filed 27 Oct 2026

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