Ares Capital Corporation

ARCC Financial Asset Management

Ares Capital Corporation’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $3.1 billion, up 2.07% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
−2.43%
EPS
−22.3%
Free cash flow
+236.1%
Total debt
−3.08%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

19.38 0.08 −0.41%
Market cap
$14.0B
P/E
15.8×
Fwd P/E
14.9×
Dividend yield
9.91%
F-score
2/9
Altman Z
n/a
Beneish M
n/a
Dividend safety
n/a

Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) Operating margin

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Ares Capital Corporation's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 76.1%, up 2.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (73.8%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 62.8% (fiscal 2021) to 76.4% (fiscal 2022); the current reading is higher than 82% of that period. That is above the Asset Management industry median of 27.3% and above the Financial sector median of 0.00%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 73.8% 0.47
FY2024 73.3% 1.82
FY2023 71.5% (4.97)
FY2022 76.4% 13.68
FY2021 62.8% (12.03)
FY2020 74.8% 1.61
FY2019 73.2% 1.89
FY2018 71.3% 6.19
FY2017 65.1% (4.18)
FY2016 69.3% (4.19)

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 72.7% (2.91)
Jun 2026 75.7% (5.22)
Mar 2026 80.9% 5.59
Dec 2025 75.3% 3.92
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Against its own ten years

Low 62.8% High 76.4%
Ten-year median 73.2%
Current reading's percentile 91

Operating margin against peers

Company Operating margin
ARCC Ares Capital Corporation 76.1%
CG Carlyle Group Inc. compare 39.6%
SEIC SEI Investments Company compare 29.5%
CRBG Corebridge Financial, Inc. compare 19.1%
EQH Equitable Holdings, Inc. compare 18.0%
OWL Blue Owl Capital Inc. compare 17.6%
TPG TPG Inc. compare 15.5%
BEN Franklin Resources Inc compare 9.71%
IVZ Invesco Ltd. compare −4.54%
Asset Management industry median 27.3%
Financial sector median 0.00%
Market median 0.00%

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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