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About Ares Capital
From its filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission
Ares Capital is based in New York, New York and is incorporated in Maryland. Its shares trade on Nasdaq under the ticker ARCC. In the fiscal year to 31 December 2025, it reported net income of $1.30bn. At that date it held total assets of $31.23bn and shareholders' equity of $14.32bn.
Ares Capital Corporation, a Maryland corporation (together with its subsidiaries, where applicable, “Ares Capital” or the “Company,” which may also be referred to as “we,” “us” or “our”), is a specialty finance company that is a closed-end, non-diversified management investment company. We have elected to be regulated as a business development company (“BDC”) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, the “Investment Company Act.” We were founded on April 16, 2004, were initially funded on June 23, 2004 and completed our initial public offering (“IPO”) on October 8, 2004. As of December 31, 2025, we were the largest publicly traded BDC by market capitalization and had approximately $31.2 billion of total assets.
We are externally managed by Ares Capital Management LLC (“Ares Capital Management” or our “investment adviser”), a subsidiary of Ares Management Corporation (“Ares Management” or “Ares”), a publicly traded, leading global alternative investment manager, pursuant to our investment advisory and management agreement. Ares Operations LLC (“Ares Operations” or our “administrator”), a subsidiary of Ares Management, provides certain administrative and other services necessary for us to operate.
Quoted from its 10-K, filed 4 Feb 2026. Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗
Company facts
- Sector
- Financials
- Industry
- Capital Markets
- Listed since
- 8 Oct 2012
- Employees
- 4,250
- Website
- arescapitalcorp.com ↗
- Head office
- 245 PARK AVENUE, 44TH FLOOR, NEW YORK, NY, 10167
- Incorporated in
- MD
- Filer status
- Large accelerated filer
Leadership
Pay as last reported
- Mr. Mitchell GoldsteinCo-Chairman of the Board, since 2013
- Mr. Michael SmithCo-Chairman of the Board, since 2013
- Mr. James MillerPresident
- Mr. Kort SchnabelChief Executive Officer
- Mr. Scott LemChief Financial Officer, Treasurer
- Ms. Jana MarkowiczChief Operating Officer
- Mr. Robert DeveerExecutive Vice President, Director, since 2013
- Mr. Paul ChoChief Accounting Officer
- Ms. Lisa MorganChief Compliance Officer
- Mr. Joshua BloomsteinVice President, General Counsel, Secretary
- Ms. Angela LeeVice President, Assistant Treasurer
- Ms. Naseem Sagati AghiliVice President
Environmental, social and governance
Scores out of 100, from our data supplier
- Overall
- 34
- Environment
- 40
- Social
- 54
- Governance
- 8
- Direct emissions (scope 1)
- 47 t
- Energy emissions (scope 2)
- 6,585 t
- Carbon reduction policy
- No
- Human rights policy
- Yes
SWOT analysis
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Strengths
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Weaknesses
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Opportunities
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