Short interest in Ares Capital Corp (NASDAQ:ARCC) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 40.98M to 45.95M. This put 6.43% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 5.14M shares traded per day, it would take 8.94 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.