Ares Capital is a finance company that is a closed-end management investment company. Co.'s investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. Co. invests primarily in United States middle-market companies. Co. invests primarily in first lien senior secured loans (including unitranche loans, which are loans that combine both senior and mezzanine debt, generally in a first lien position), second lien senior secured loans and mezzanine debt, which in some cases includes an equity component. To a lesser extent, Co. also make preferred and/or common equity investments. The ARCC stock yearly return is shown above.
The yearly return on the ARCC stock yearly return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the annual return over the calendar year 2019 for the given stock.
When performing this calculation it is important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's annual return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon.
One way to factor dividends into the return is simply to count them as cash — we don't do
that here. Instead, our website aims to empower investors
by performing the ARCC annual return calculation with any dividends reinvested as applicable (on ex-dates).
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