Ares Capital Corp: basic earnings per share

What this measure means

Reported earnings or loss per basic common share or unit. Inspect attribution, share classes and restatements before comparing periods. This is not a market return.

Exact concept: us-gaap:EarningsPerShareBasic. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2020-01-01 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-20.

Selected filing history

Related financial histories

• Ares Capital Corp: total assets
• Ares Capital Corp: total liabilities
• Ares Capital Corp: stockholders equity
• Ares Capital Corp: cash and cash equivalents
• Ares Capital Corp: net income or loss
• Ares Capital Corp: operating cash flow
• Ares Capital Corp: financing cash flow
• Ares Capital Corp: retained earnings or deficit
• Ares Capital Corp: basic weighted-average shares
• Ares Capital Corp: diluted weighted-average shares
• Ares Capital Corp: diluted earnings per share
• Ares Capital Corp: interest expense
• Ares Capital Corp: common-stock repurchase payments
• Ares Capital Corp: common shares outstanding
• Ares Capital Corp: cash including restricted cash
• Ares Capital Corp: operating lease right-of-use asset
• Ares Capital Corp: operating lease liability
• Ares Capital Corp: long-term debt
• Ares Capital Corp: interest paid, net
• Ares Capital Corp: income taxes paid, net
• Ares Capital Corp: proceeds from issuing common stock

Inspect the source

Entity

Ares Capital Corp / CIK 0001287750

Captured

2026-09-20T07:49:34.429Z

SEC response SHA-256

af294f286c9de9aca26c8d4c7da019dc7aa71b20471dff4f2f7345fbe9f0131c

Current SEC company facts · Download the original response snapshot (gzip) · Download the selected JSON

Latest-filed annual-report facts per unit and reporting period at capture time. Duration facts cover 300 to 400 days. This selection can include restatements and is not a point-in-time backtest dataset. Missing concepts are omitted, never zero-filled. Values retain original units and are not currency converted. Extended concepts require compatible unit shapes and at least three reporting ends with changing values within one unit. Constant or incompatible added histories are omitted.

Public company accounting reference, not market prices, returns, an investment recommendation, or ALPHAC performance. Validate a separately constructed return series with the validation API; accounting values are not returns.

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0001287750.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))