Open Position Analysis
Ares Capital Corp (ARCC) is currently seeing significant short interest, with 41.9 million shares held short according to the latest available data. This figure represents a substantial volume of open positions for the business development company. The days-to-cover ratio is currently calculated at 9.3, indicating a relatively high level of difficulty for shorts to exit their positions without impacting the share price.
Borrowing Environment
The cost to borrow ARCC shares is currently 4.4%. While this is not an extreme fee, the sheer volume of shares held short suggests a persistent bearish sentiment among institutional or retail traders. Over the past two years, the company has seen an 18% increase in shares outstanding, which provides additional context for the current short interest levels. As always, this data is based on the official bi-monthly settlement schedule and represents open positions rather than daily short sale volume flow.
Signal data sourced from CurvedTrading. This post is an original analysis prepared by The Forensic Ledger from publicly available data. Not investment advice.
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