Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ: ARCC) is 1.05% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $19.32 and a high of $22.43 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The ARCC stock was last observed hovering at around $22.18 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -0.06%.
Currently trading at $22.12, the stock is 1.43% and 1.85% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 3.76 million and changing -0.27% at the moment leaves the stock 4.98% off its SMA200. ARCC registered 8.01% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 4.59%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $21.7048 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $21.0606.
The stock witnessed a 0.09% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 5.08%, and is 0.45% up over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 1.10% over the week and 1.23% over the month.
Current P/E ratio is 8.51 and Fwd P/E is 10.05. Distance from 52-week low is 14.49% and -1.40% from its 52-week high.
The EPS is expected to shrink by 0.00% this year.
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) Top Institutional Holders
829.0 institutions hold shares in Ares Capital Corp (ARCC), with institutional investors hold 29.92% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 646.08M, and float is at 640.75M with Short Float at 2.66%. Institutions hold 29.76% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is MORGAN STANLEY with over 16.01 million shares valued at $333.66 million. The investor’s holdings represent 2.7091% of the ARCC Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VAN ECK ASSOCIATES CORP with 11.68 million shares valued at $$243.43 million to account for 1.9765 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/ which holds 6.65 million shares representing 1.126% and valued at over $138.68 million, while ROYAL BANK OF CANADA holds 0.9411 of the shares totaling 5.56 million with a market value of $115.91 million.
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) Insider Activity
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