Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:ARCC) concluded the trading at $19.99 on Friday, March 22, with a fall of -0.30% from its closing price on previous day.
Taking a look at stock we notice that its last check on previous day was $20.05 and 5Y monthly beta was reading 1.03. Company’s P/E ratio for the trailing 12 months is 7.46. Considering stock’s 52-week price range provides that ARCC hit a high price of $20.85 and saw its price falling to a low level of $16.95 during that period. Over a period of past 1-month, stock came subtracting -0.60% in its value.
With its current market valuation of $12.13 billion, Ares Capital Corporation is set to declare its quarterly results on Apr 23, 2024 – Apr 29, 2024. ARCC Stock’s Forward Dividend of 1.92 and its yield of 9.60% are making investors’ thoughts stronger that it could climb further before the company announces its earnings for the current quarter. Analysts are in estimates of $0.59 per share for company’s earnings in the current quarter and are expecting its annual EPS growth moving up to $2.37 for 2024 with estimates of that growing to $2.22 in next year.
Analysts watching the company’s growth closely have provided estimates for its revenue growth with an average revenue estimate of $699.55 million. They suggested that in the process company could generate revenue of as low as $685 million which could climb up to $716.24 million to hit a high. The average estimate is representing an increase of 13.20% in sales growth from that of posted by the company in the same quarter of last year. In keeping analyst consensus estimate with, company is forecasted to be making an annual revenue of $2.8 billion in 2024, which will be -2.40% less from revenue generated by the company last year.
In last 7 days, analysts came adjusting their opinions about stock’s EPS with no upward and no downward revisions, an indication which could give clearer idea about the company’s short term price movement. In contrast, when we review ARCC stock’s current outlook then short term indicators are assigning it an average of 50% Buy, while medium term indicators are categorizing the stock at an average of 50% Buy. Long term indicators are suggesting an average of 50% Buy for it.
Digging deeper we become aware of the PEG ratio of the ARCC stock which is currently positioned at 0. It further provides that stock’s current price level is -1.32% away from its 20-day simple moving average and is -1.28% off its SMA50. Its relative strength index (RSI) for 14-periods is oscillating at 43.28 while volatility remained at 0.99% over the past week which changes to 0.93% when measuring it over the past month. Beta is valued at 1.03, while measure of average true range or ATR is currently at 0.22.
Having a second look at Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:ARCC) provides that stock’s average daily trading volume for 3 months was 3.83 million, while it jumped to 4.17 million when we calculate an average volume for past 10 days. Number of outstanding shares of the stock stood at 606.78 million.
The percentage of outstanding shares held by the insiders is 0.59% while it is 29.32% for the institutional holders. The figures also indicate that as of Feb 29, 2024, number of stock’s short shares was 28.0 million which implies a short ratio of 6.47. This shows up a 4.81% of Short Interest in company’s outstanding shares on the day. In February the standing of shares short improved as it was 22.85 million in the previous month. Subtraction of -0.20% by stock’s current price to its year-to-date value in last trading session is likely to be increasing investors’ interest in the stock as it is hinting an extended uptrend.
