Ares Capital Corporation — Company profile
Financials · Asset Management · United States
Last price 19.11 USD (Oct 30, 2026, 4:00 PM EDT) · Market cap 13.72B
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Company profile
Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in growth capital, 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 sports, media & entertainment, industrials & business services, infrastructure & power, financial institution groups, software & technology, specialty healthcare, consumer, retail & services, energy and the basic and growth manufacturing, consumer products, health care products, and information technology service sectors. The fund will also consider investments in industries such as restaurants, retail, oil and gas, and technology sectors. It invests in the United States based companies. 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 $30 million and $500 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.
Details
| Name | Ares Capital Corporation |
| Sector | Financials |
| Industry | Asset Management |
| Employees | 4250 |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Ipo Date | 2004-10-06 |
| Ceo | Kort Schnabel |
| Country | United States |
| Exchange | NASDAQ |
| Fiscal Year | January - December |
| Reporting Currency | USD |
| Isin | US04010L1035 |
| Cusip | 04010L103 |
| Cik | 0001287750 |
| Stock Type | Common Stock |
Key executives
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Kort Schnabel | Chief Executive Officer and Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending |
| Mitchell Scott Goldstein CPA | Co-Chairman, Partner and Co-Head of Ares Credit Group |
| Michael Lewis Smith | Co-Chairman of Board of Directors and Co-Head of Ares Credit Group |
| Michael J. Arougheti | Executive Vice President and Director |
| James Miller | President and Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending |
| Bennett Rosenthal | Co-Founder, Director, Partner and Chairman of Private Equity Group |
| Scott C. Lem | Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer |
| Jana Markowicz | Chief Operating Officer |
| Won Jae Cho | Chief Accounting Officer |
| John W. Stilmar | Partner and Co-Head of Public Markets Investor Relations |
Contact
| Address | 1800 Avenue of the Stars, Suite 1400, Los Angeles, California 90067-4733, United States |
| Phone | 310 201 4100 |
| Website | https://arcc.ares.com |