Ares Capital Corporation
Ares Capital Corporation is classed by the SEC under no industry code yet, based in New York, NY. Its latest filed balance sheet (2025-12-31) shows total assets of $31 billion (its filed statements).
vs its business-model standard
Three tenses, nine metrics. Unseen metrics stay unseen; the grade never fakes a number. Proxy era: provisional values, marked. Weighed as a business, industry not on file: no industry code on file, so the tenses and readings weigh evenly. All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.
The grade, in three tenses
Headline 4.7 out of ten, 4 of 9 metrics filed and 5 estimated: past 5.4 out of ten, present 4.2 out of ten, future 4.7 out of ten. The past asks what it actually did, the present what it is doing right now, the future what it is set up to do next.
The nine metrics
- Surviving crises (past): 6.4 out of ten. No warning events in its filings since 2017. 64th percentile among 111 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Track record (past): 5.1 out of ten. CrossAssetData estimate 5.1/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median). 50th percentile among 9 sector filers. A CrossAssetData estimate, not a filed reading: family median, confidence 20 of 100; its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.
- Shareholder treatment (past): 4.5 out of ten. Share count grew 10.5% a year. 79% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 0 sales, 6 purchases. 45th percentile among 46 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Financial health (present): 5.6 out of ten. ROE 9%: 9¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 54%: owes 54¢ per asset dollar. 56th percentile among 49 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-12).
- Industry position (present): 5.2 out of ten. CrossAssetData estimate 5.2/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median). 50th percentile among 12 sector filers. A CrossAssetData estimate, not a filed reading: family median, confidence 20 of 100; its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.
- Leadership (present): 1.8 out of ten. bottom 18% of 49 in its family for leadership; chief executive since 2025. 18th percentile among 49 sector filers. A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build (read from EDGAR 2026-10-09).
- Room to expand (future): 4.2 out of ten. CrossAssetData estimate 4.2/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part). 42nd percentile among 51 sector filers. A CrossAssetData estimate, not a filed reading: one part, confidence 35 of 100; a filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.
- Growth drivers (future): 5.2 out of ten. CrossAssetData estimate 5.2/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median). 50th percentile among 8 sector filers. A CrossAssetData estimate, not a filed reading: family median, confidence 20 of 100; its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.
- Expectations vs reality (future): 4.6 out of ten. CrossAssetData estimate 4.6/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median). 50th percentile among 7 sector filers. A CrossAssetData estimate, not a filed reading: family median, confidence 20 of 100; its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.
The filing record
Newest annual report: Form 10-K filed 2026-02-04 for the period ended 2025-12-31 (on EDGAR). Newest quarterly report: Form 10-Q filed 2026-07-29 for the period ended 2026-06-30 (on EDGAR). Newest results release: Form 8-K filed 2026-07-29 (on EDGAR). Newest filing: Form 40-17G, 2026-10-02. Filings on record since 2004. Read from EDGAR 2026-10-12.
Who runs it
Schnabel, Michael Kort (Chief Executive Officer); Lem, Scott C (CFO and Treasurer); Markowicz, Jana (Chief Operating Officer); Fitzgerald, Ian (GC, VP and Secretary); Henson, Mary Beth (director). 5 officers and directors have filed their own trades in the last fifteen months, names and titles as filed with the SEC, through 2026-09-30.
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