Growth Metrics

Ares Capital (ARCC) Return on Sales (2021 - 2025)

Ares Capital (ARCC) has disclosed Return on Sales for 4 consecutive years, with 2.17% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Sales fell 162.0% to 2.17% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 2.17%, a 270.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2024 number at 0.24%, down 2.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Sales was 2.17% for Q4 2025 at Ares Capital, down from 2.06% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.35% in Q4 2022 to a low of 2.69% in Q3 2024.
  • A 4-year average of 0.46% and a median of 0.21% in 2022 define the central range for Return on Sales.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Sales: crashed -291bps in 2024, then skyrocketed 63bps in 2025.
  • Ares Capital's Return on Sales stood at 0.35% in 2022, then decreased by -25bps to 0.27% in 2023, then tumbled by -308bps to 0.55% in 2024, then plummeted by -292bps to 2.17% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for ARCC's Return on Sales are 2.17% (Q4 2025), 2.06% (Q3 2025), and 1.53% (Q2 2025).