Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) Stock Profile & Financial OverviewAres Capital Corporation
ARCC Company Overview & Business Description
Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in acquisition, recapitalization, mezzanine debt, restructurings, rescue financing, and leveraged buyout transactions of middle market companies. It also makes growth capital and general refinancing. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the basic and growth manufacturing, business services, consumer products, health care products and services, and information technology service sectors. The fund will also consider investments in industries such as restaurants, retail, oil and gas, and technology sectors. It focuses on investments in Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest regions from its New York office, the Midwest region, from the Chicago office, and the Western region from the Los Angeles office. The fund typically invests between $20 million and $200 million and a maximum of $400 million in companies with an EBITDA between $10 million and $250 million. It makes debt investments between $10 million and $100 million The fund invests through revolvers, first lien loans, warrants, unitranche structures, second lien loans, mezzanine debt, private high yield, junior capital, subordinated debt, and non-control preferred and common equity. The fund also selectively considers third-party-led senior and subordinated debt financings and opportunistically considers the purchase of stressed and discounted debt positions. The fund prefers to be an agent and/or lead the transactions in which it invests. The fund also seeks board representation in its portfolio companies.
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Current Trend for ARCC
An assessment of the current trend environment for ARCC, based on the latest closing price data and intended to describe the market context heading into the next trading session.
As of 2025-12-24, the current trend for ARCC is a Sideways Consolidation (Range-Bound Environment).
The weekly trend is in a consolidation regime, which automatically downgrades the daily signal to sideways conditions. This environment favors short-term mean-reversion rather than trend-following.
- The weekly context is non-trending (sideways), which typically caps the duration and magnitude of daily trend moves.
- Price is currently trending at a healthy distance, sitting -0.81 ATR away from the adaptive KAMA baseline.
- The market is maintaining a healthy 'Higher-High, Higher-Low' sequence, confirming buyer control.
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Adaptive Trend Model · Daily & Weekly (2025-12-24 ET)
This model uses an adaptive trend algorithm based on daily and weekly price data to identify whether a stock is in an uptrend, downtrend, or consolidation over a multi-week to multi-month horizon. Compared with traditional moving-average systems, it filters short-term noise more effectively, captures trend continuation more reliably, and provides a stronger basis for position sizing and risk-management decisions such as stop-loss and take-profit levels.
As of 2025-12-24, ARCC showing momentum fatigue; Long-term trend is bearish.
Trend Strength: ARCC last closed at 20.00, trading 0.3 ATR below the adaptive KAMA baseline (20.08). Technical Classification: Late-Cycle / Momentum Divergence.
Trend Score: Technical Score: 45/100. Classification: Late/Exhausted. Alignment: Indeterminate. Logic: Price action is range-bound or lacking sufficient slope for trend confirmation.
SuperTrend Risk: Risk indicators: No active structural constraints identified.
Risk Skew: Multi-timeframe risk skew is currently assessed as Downside-Biased. Trend structure on both daily and weekly scales remains bearish. Risk is skewed toward further price erosion and lower lows.
Key Levels: Key technical references: Spot 20.00, KAMA 20.08.