Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:ARCC) price on Thursday, March 28, rose 1.27% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $20.74.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $20.48. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.03 while the PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 7.74. Turning to its 52-week performance, $20.85 and $17.53 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, ARCC moved 2.88% over the past month.
Ares Capital Corporation’s market cap currently stands at around $12.58 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for Apr 23, 2024 – Apr 29, 2024. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 1.92, with its dividend yield at 9.26%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report. Analysts project the company’s earnings per share (EPS) to be $0.59, which has seen fiscal year 2024 EPS growth forecast to increase to $2.36 and about $2.23 for fiscal year 2025. Per the data, EPS growth is expected to be -0.40% for 2024 and -5.50% for the next financial year.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of $699.55 million for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of $685 million and $716.24 million respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 13.20% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue for 2024 to grow to $2.8 billion, representing a -2.40% decline on that reported in the last financial year.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was 1 upward and no downward review(s). Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that ARCC is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
ARCC’s current price about 2.31% and 2.47% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 63.31, while 7-day volatility ratio is 0.93% and 0.95% in the 30-day chart. Further, Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) has a beta value of 1.03, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.23.
If we refocus on Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:ARCC), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 3.89 million over the past 10 days and 3.80 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 606.78 million shares.
The 0.59% of Ares Capital Corporation’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 29.32% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 18.19 million on Mar 15, 2024, giving us a short ratio of 4.57. The data shows that as of Mar 15, 2024 short interest in Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) stood at 3.00% of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 25.59 million registered in Feb 15, 2024. Current price change has pushed the stock 3.54% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the ARCC stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
