Ares Capital Corporation

ARCC stock score: 51/100

$18.40 · -0.59% · Scored Oct 21, 2026

Technical
39
Fundamental
62
News
54

The reading

Ares Capital (ARCC) scores 51 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 33% of Financial Services stocks and 44% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 39, fundamentals 62.

Among the fundamentals, Price Target at 100 and Operating Margins at 100 score highest, while Earnings Growth (Quarterly) at 1 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 31 and contrarian oscillators 69 — a split worth reading before trusting the technical total.

News sentiment is neutral at 54; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 25, 2026 the composite has ranged from 51 to 69, and it is down 17 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward ARCC’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

62

Pulling it up

  • Price Target100

    Price target score compares the current stock price to analyst consensus targets.

  • Operating Margins100

    Operating margins measure profitability after operating expenses.

  • Insider Transactions100

    Insider transactions track recent buying and selling by company insiders.

Holding it back

  • Earnings Growth (Quarterly)1

    Quarterly earnings growth measures profit increase versus the prior-year quarter.

  • PEG Ratio2

    PEG ratio divides the P/E ratio by earnings growth rate.

  • EV/Revenue4

    EV/Revenue compares the whole company's value, debt included, with its sales.

36 weighted scorers; 5 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

Technical · daily

36

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • Williams %R (28)97

    Williams %R (28-period) places the close within the last 28 periods' high-low range.

  • Bollinger Bands (50)94

    Bollinger Bands (50-period) measure where price sits between bands two standard deviations around its 50-period average.

Holding it back

  • Ichimoku Cloud0

    Ichimoku Cloud is a comprehensive indicator showing support/resistance, trend direction, and momentum.

  • TRIX4

    TRIX is a momentum oscillator that filters out short-term noise by triple-smoothing price data.

  • SMA 50 Cross Up7

    SMA 50 Cross Up detects when faster averages cross above the 50-period SMA.

62 weighted scorers; 3 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
54

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly441
Daily363
Weekly332
Monthly402
Quarterly472

Composite score, last 90 days

05010051Jul 25, 2026Oct 21, 2026Jul 25, 2026: 68Jul 26, 2026: 69Jul 27, 2026: 66Jul 28, 2026: 66Jul 29, 2026: 65Jul 30, 2026: 66Jul 31, 2026: 62Aug 2, 2026: 51Aug 3, 2026: 54Aug 5, 2026: 55Aug 6, 2026: 55Aug 7, 2026: 59Aug 8, 2026: 59Aug 9, 2026: 59Aug 10, 2026: 60Aug 11, 2026: 59Aug 12, 2026: 58Aug 13, 2026: 59Aug 14, 2026: 59Aug 15, 2026: 59Aug 16, 2026: 59Aug 17, 2026: 57Aug 18, 2026: 57Aug 19, 2026: 58Aug 20, 2026: 58Aug 22, 2026: 60Aug 23, 2026: 60Aug 24, 2026: 60Aug 25, 2026: 59Aug 26, 2026: 59Aug 27, 2026: 59Aug 28, 2026: 59Aug 29, 2026: 59Aug 30, 2026: 60Aug 31, 2026: 60Sep 1, 2026: 59Sep 2, 2026: 60Sep 3, 2026: 61Sep 4, 2026: 59Sep 5, 2026: 60Sep 6, 2026: 60Sep 7, 2026: 60Sep 8, 2026: 58Sep 9, 2026: 57Sep 10, 2026: 57Sep 11, 2026: 58Sep 12, 2026: 58Sep 13, 2026: 58Sep 14, 2026: 59Sep 15, 2026: 55Sep 16, 2026: 55Sep 17, 2026: 58Sep 18, 2026: 55Sep 19, 2026: 56Sep 20, 2026: 56Sep 21, 2026: 57Sep 22, 2026: 55Sep 23, 2026: 56Sep 24, 2026: 55Sep 25, 2026: 54Sep 26, 2026: 54Sep 27, 2026: 54Sep 28, 2026: 55Sep 29, 2026: 56Sep 30, 2026: 54Oct 1, 2026: 54Oct 2, 2026: 52Oct 3, 2026: 53Oct 4, 2026: 53Oct 5, 2026: 52Oct 6, 2026: 52Oct 7, 2026: 51Oct 8, 2026: 52Oct 9, 2026: 53Oct 10, 2026: 52Oct 11, 2026: 52Oct 12, 2026: 52Oct 13, 2026: 52Oct 14, 2026: 52Oct 15, 2026: 53Oct 16, 2026: 53Oct 17, 2026: 53Oct 18, 2026: 53Oct 19, 2026: 51Oct 20, 2026: 51Oct 21, 2026: 51
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Key facts

Market cap
$13.2B
Sector
Financial Services
Industry
Asset Management
Beta
0.66
Risk grade (1–10)
6
Next earnings
Oct 27, 2026

Asset Management peers

CompanyMarket capScore
CRBG Corebridge Financial$15.7B54
EQH Equitable$14.8B49
OWL Blue Owl Capital$14.4B47
CG The Carlyle Group$13.3B45
SEIC SEI Investments Company$13.0B67
IVZ Invesco$12.9B50

Questions

What is ARCC's stock score today?

ARCC scores 51/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 21, 2026: technical 39, fundamental 62, and news sentiment 54, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is ARCC a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 51 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the ARCC score calculated?

98 weighted scorers feed it today: 36 fundamental, scored against Financial Services ranges, and 62 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.