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Financial Services - Sector
ARCC is currently covered by 8 analysts with an average price target of $20.04. This is a potential upside of $1.18 (6.26%) from yesterday's end of day stock price of $18.86.
Ares Capital's activity chart (see below) currently has 189 price targets and 135 ratings on display. The stock rating distribution of ARCC is 81.25% BUY and 18.75% HOLD.
Analysts average stock forecasts to be materialized ratio is 38.72% with an average time for these price targets to be met of 719.41 days.
Highest price target for ARCC is $22, Lowest price target is $18.5, average price target is $20.04.
Most recent stock forecast was given by DOUGLAS HARTER from UBS on 01-Sep-2026. First documented stock forecast 01-Jul-2015.
Currently out of the existing stock ratings of ARCC, 13 are a BUY (81.25%), 3 are a HOLD (18.75%).
Analyst name
Rating
Current price target
Potential Upside
Previous price target
Date of last PT
Price targets met ratio
Average potential upside
Average Days to Hit Target
Performance score
Hold Since 17-Apr-2025
$21
$1.8 (9.38%)
$19
1 months 1 days ago
(01-Sep-2026)
1/5 (20%)
$1.57 (8.08%)
144
Buy Since 12-Dec-2024
$20
$0.8 (4.17%)
$21
2 months 2 days ago
(30-Jul-2026)
0/6 (0%)
$1.63 (8.87%)
Buy Since 23-Aug-2018
$21
$1.8 (9.38%)
$22
2 months 2 days ago
(30-Jul-2026)
6/13 (46.15%)
$2.63 (14.32%)
1279
Buy Since 26-Apr-2023
$18.5
$-0.7 (-3.65%)
$19
3 months ago
(02-Jul-2026)
5/7 (71.43%)
$0.22 (1.20%)
583
Buy Since 29-Jan-2025
$19
$-0.2 (-1.04%)
$20
3 months 20 days ago
(12-Jun-2026)
6/18 (33.33%)
$0.68 (3.71%)
532
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