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Ares Capital Corp.
ARCC · Nasdaq · ·
Next earnings: October 27, 2026
$19.36+1.2%Sep 29 close
- 1M
- -0.6%
- 6M
- +14.7%
- 1Y
- +4.8%
- 5Y
- +53.7%
The dividend
Ares Capital Corp. pays its shareholders every quarter.
Paid out each year as a share of the share price
$0.48 every quarter
Consecutive years the total rose
More than it earned — funded from elsewhere
Recent payments
- Sep 15, 2026$0.48
- Jun 15, 2026$0.48
- Mar 13, 2026$0.48
- Dec 15, 2025$0.48
- Sep 15, 2025$0.48
- Jun 13, 2025$0.48
- Mar 14, 2025$0.48
- Dec 13, 2024$0.48
- Sep 13, 2024$0.48
- Jun 14, 2024$0.48
- Mar 14, 2024$0.48
- Dec 14, 2023$0.48
- Sep 14, 2023$0.48
- Jun 14, 2023$0.48
- Mar 14, 2023$0.48
- Dec 14, 2022$0.48
- Dec 14, 2022$0.03
- Sep 14, 2022$0.43
- Sep 14, 2022$0.03
- Jun 14, 2022$0.42
- Jun 14, 2022$0.03
- Mar 14, 2022$0.42
- Mar 14, 2022$0.03
- Dec 14, 2021$0.41
Dated by ex-dividend day — the day you must already own the shares to be paid.
A dividend is not a promise. Companies cut them, and a high yield is often a share price that has fallen rather than a payment that has risen. This describes what has been paid, not what will be.
Payments come from the corporate-actions record rather than from the filings. The XBRL tag for dividends covers only about a fifth of filers and arrives in a zoo of units, so the actual per-share cash — dated, with one-off specials flagged — is the more reliable source. The filings still answer whether earnings cover the payment.
The annual figure is the last 4 regular payments, not a rolling 365 days. A year-long window catches three payments or five depending on where its boundary lands — Exxon’s misses an August ex-date by two days and understates the yield by a quarter — so the count is what is summed, and a partial set publishes nothing rather than a low number.