ARCC · CIK 0001287750 · FY2025 live · 2025-12-31
ARES CAPITAL CORP
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Model
Z″
FY2025
0.99
Zone
Distress
Prior
—
Market DD
—
1y PD
—
Meridian Rank
54.91
0–100 · Z″ tape · not a PD
Book standing
47
Year change
—
Market PD
—
O-score
76
Events on this name
Same published rows as Today. Not a live recompute.
Market PD unavailable
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0.99
Classic Z 0.55
Z″ 0.99 · distress below 1.10, grey to 2.60, safe above.
Z″ factor contributions
X1 Working capital / assets
Short-term liquidity. Carries more weight in Z″ than in classic Z.
0.006.56 × = 0.00X2 Retained earnings / assets
Cushion from years of profits. Share buybacks can push this negative at otherwise healthy firms.
0.033.26 × = 0.10X3 EBIT / assets
Operating return on assets. Highest weight in Z″.
0.006.72 × = 0.00X4 Book equity / liabilities
Book equity versus the liability stack. Sales / assets is omitted so asset-light names are not punished for turnover.
0.851.05 × = 0.89
Five-year path
Need two annual 10-Ks to draw a path. The desk will pull this issuer’s filings rather than invent a series.
Overview
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ARES CAPITAL CORP is on Z″ at 0.99 (distress) for FY2025, from an SEC 10-K. Book equity / liabilities is the line that sets the print. This is the first live year on the desk. No market tape loaded. Z″ drops sales/assets so asset-light names are not punished for turnover. X4 is book equity on every name.
Book screen Distress; market PD —. Tape not priced — not a single default call.
Market DD · naive Merton
No market tape yet.
Pull a year of closes (Yahoo, Nasdaq if Yahoo is limited) and size equity from Nasdaq cap or EDGAR shares. Distance-to-default and 1-year PD stay blank until then.
Sector peers
Closest Z″ scores · 62nd percentile in Unclassified.
- TSLXDistressSixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc.1.01
- HTGCDistressHercules Capital, Inc.1.05
- RWAYDistressRunway Growth Finance Corp.0.90
- MSIFGreyMSC INCOME FUND, INC.1.10
- BFAMGreyBRIGHT HORIZONS FAMILY SOLUTIONS INC.1.12
- PSECDistressPROSPECT CAPITAL CORP0.83
- MSDLDistressMorgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund0.83
- BXSLDistressBlackstone Secured Lending Fund0.82
KPI widgets
Current assets
$0
Total assets
$31.2B
Current liabilities
$0
Total liabilities
$16.9B
Working capital
$0
Retained earnings
$958M
EBIT
$0
Total sales
$0
Book equity
$14.3B
Accession 0001287750-26-000006. Live rank is the latest 10-K on EDGAR (FY2025, period 2025-12-31). Z″ is the live score. View as does not rewrite the live rank. X4 is book equity. Pulled 13 Sept 2026.