Compare Stocks: FDUS, ARCC, GBDC, and GLAD

Comparative Price Performance Over Time

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ARCC Ares Capital	$19.93 -0.6%	$18.99	$17.40 ▼ $22.51	$14.40B	0.56	4.29 million shs	2.91 million shs
FDUS Fidus Investment	$19.75 -0.4%	$19.58	$16.86 ▼ $21.67	$752.26M	0.67	375,504 shs	223,081 shs
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	$13.11 -1.0%	$12.90	$11.77 ▼ $14.93	$3.44B	0.39	1.15 million shs	1.01 million shs
GLAD Gladstone Capital	$19.84 +0.1%	$19.37	$16.54 ▼ $26.60	$447.80M	0.92	172,198 shs	106,453 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ARCC Ares Capital	-0.60%	+1.32%	+6.12%	+5.67%	-9.74%
FDUS Fidus Investment	-0.35%	+1.23%	+1.75%	+4.44%	-7.06%
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	-0.98%	+0.31%	+2.58%	+0.23%	-10.51%
GLAD Gladstone Capital	+0.10%	+1.95%	+5.59%	+2.53%	-24.13%

Compare Price & Volume

Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
ARCC Ares Capital	$19.93 -0.6%	$18.99	$17.40 ▼ $22.51	$14.40B	0.56	4.29 million shs	2.91 million shs
FDUS Fidus Investment	$19.75 -0.4%	$19.58	$16.86 ▼ $21.67	$752.26M	0.67	375,504 shs	223,081 shs
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	$13.11 -1.0%	$12.90	$11.77 ▼ $14.93	$3.44B	0.39	1.15 million shs	1.01 million shs
GLAD Gladstone Capital	$19.84 +0.1%	$19.37	$16.54 ▼ $26.60	$447.80M	0.92	172,198 shs	106,453 shs

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Compare Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
ARCC Ares Capital	-0.60%	+1.32%	+6.12%	+5.67%	-9.74%
FDUS Fidus Investment	-0.35%	+1.23%	+1.75%	+4.44%	-7.06%
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	-0.98%	+0.31%	+2.58%	+0.23%	-10.51%
GLAD Gladstone Capital	+0.10%	+1.95%	+5.59%	+2.53%	-24.13%

Compare Analyst Forecasts

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
ARCC Ares Capital	2.73	Moderate Buy	$20.40	2.36% Upside
FDUS Fidus Investment	2.00	Hold	$19.50	-1.27% Downside
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	2.86	Moderate Buy	$13.90	6.03% Upside
GLAD Gladstone Capital	2.40	Hold	$21.67	9.21% Upside

Current Analyst Ratings Breakdown

Latest FDUS, ARCC, GBDC, and GLAD Analyst Ratings

Date	Company	Brokerage	Action	Rating	Price Target
8/5/2026	GBDC Golub Capital BDC	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$14.00 ➝ $13.50
7/30/2026	ARCC Ares Capital	Truist Financial Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Buy	$22.00 ➝ $21.00
7/30/2026	ARCC Ares Capital	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Outperform	$21.00 ➝ $20.00
7/20/2026	FDUS Fidus Investment	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Outperform ➝ Market Perform	$19.50
7/19/2026	FDUS Fidus Investment	Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Downgrade	Moderate Buy ➝ Hold
7/6/2026	GBDC Golub Capital BDC	Zacks Research Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Strong Sell ➝ Hold
7/2/2026	GLAD Gladstone Capital	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Upgrade	Hold (C-) ➝ Hold (C)
7/2/2026	ARCC Ares Capital	JPMorgan Chase & Co. Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Lower Price Target	Overweight	$19.00 ➝ $18.50
6/24/2026	GBDC Golub Capital BDC	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Hold (C)
6/18/2026	GLAD Gladstone Capital	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Hold (C-)
6/17/2026	FDUS Fidus Investment	Weiss Ratings Subscribe to MarketBeat All Access for the firm's recommendation accuracy rating	Reiterated Rating	Hold (C)

(Data available from 8/26/2023 forward. View 10+ years of historical ratings with our analyst ratings screener.)

Compare Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
ARCC Ares Capital	$3.05B	4.69	$2.00 per share	9.98	$19.35 per share	1.03
FDUS Fidus Investment	$155.87M	4.81	$2.15 per share	9.20	$19.46 per share	1.01
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	$870.78M	3.91	$1.56 per share	8.42	$14.27 per share	0.92
GLAD Gladstone Capital	$89.12M	5.03	$4.01 per share	4.95	$21.50 per share	0.92

Compare Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Trailing P/E Ratio	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
ARCC Ares Capital	$1.30B	$1.35	14.76	10.27	N/A	30.91%	9.80%	4.50%	10/27/2026 (Estimated)
FDUS Fidus Investment	$82.40M	$2.09	9.45	9.83	N/A	45.36%	10.87%	5.64%	11/5/2026 (Estimated)
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	$376.65M	$0.65	20.17	10.40	N/A	21.45%	9.91%	4.39%	N/A
GLAD Gladstone Capital	$58.11M	$2.06	9.63	10.02	N/A	50.48%	9.67%	5.00%	N/A

Latest FDUS, ARCC, GBDC, and GLAD Earnings

Date	Quarter	Company	Consensus Estimate	Reported EPS	Beat/Miss	Gap EPS	Revenue Estimate	Actual Revenue
8/6/2026	Q2 2026	FDUS Fidus Investment	$0.5040	$0.50	-$0.0040	$0.53	$42.37 million	$32.56 million
8/4/2026	Q3 2026	GLAD Gladstone Capital	$0.4760	$0.49	+$0.0140	$0.56	$24.90 million	$24.50 million
8/3/2026	Q3 2026	GBDC Golub Capital BDC	$0.3334	$0.34	+$0.0066	$0.22	$189.91 million	$98.53 million
7/29/2026	Q2 2026	ARCC Ares Capital	$0.4731	$0.47	-$0.0031	$0.24	$770.19 million	$768.00 million

Compare Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	5-Year Annualized Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
ARCC Ares Capital	$1.92	9.63%	+3.71%	142.22%	N/A
FDUS Fidus Investment	$1.72	8.71%	+10.08%	82.30%	N/A
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	$1.32	10.07%	+3.79%	203.08%	N/A
GLAD Gladstone Capital	$1.80	9.07%	+8.89%	87.38%	4 Years

Latest FDUS, ARCC, GBDC, and GLAD Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
7/29/2026	ARCC Ares Capital	quarterly	$0.48	10.26%	9/15/2026	9/15/2026	9/30/2026
7/14/2026	GLAD Gladstone Capital	monthly	$0.15	9.09%	9/21/2026	9/21/2026	9/30/2026
8/3/2026	FDUS Fidus Investment	quarterly	$0.43	8.36%	9/15/2026	9/15/2026	9/29/2026
7/31/2026	GBDC Golub Capital BDC	quarterly	$0.33	10.01%	9/14/2026	9/14/2026	9/29/2026
7/14/2026	GLAD Gladstone Capital	monthly	$0.15	9.25%	8/18/2026	8/18/2026	8/31/2026
7/14/2026	GLAD Gladstone Capital	monthly	$0.15	9.58%	7/24/2026	7/24/2026	7/31/2026

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Compare Debt

Company	Debt-to-Equity Ratio	Current Ratio	Quick Ratio
ARCC Ares Capital	1.14	1.28	1.28
FDUS Fidus Investment	N/A	0.09	0.09
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	1.22	1.33	1.33
GLAD Gladstone Capital	N/A	0.03	0.03

Compare Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
ARCC Ares Capital	27.38%
FDUS Fidus Investment	28.14%
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	42.38%
GLAD Gladstone Capital	10.72%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
ARCC Ares Capital	0.50%
FDUS Fidus Investment	0.90%
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	1.40%
GLAD Gladstone Capital	3.84%

Compare Miscellaneous Stats

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
ARCC Ares Capital	2,550	718.02 million	714.43 million	Optionable
FDUS Fidus Investment	N/A	37.95 million	37.61 million	Optionable
GBDC Golub Capital BDC	N/A	259.65 million	256.02 million	Optionable
GLAD Gladstone Capital	70	22.59 million	21.73 million	Optionable

FDUS, ARCC, GBDC, and GLAD Headlines

Recent News About These Companies

Gladstone Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:GLAD) Given Consensus Rating of "Hold" by Analysts

August 24 at 4:43 AM | marketbeat.com

Gladstone Capital (NASDAQ:GLAD) Shares Pass Above 200-Day Moving Average - Time to Sell?

August 21, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Gladstone Capital Management trims Broadcom stake by 63k shares

August 14, 2026 | tipranks.com

Gladstone Capital trims Alphabet Class A stake by 121,670 shares

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Gladstone Capital pares Taiwan Semiconductor stake by 45,846

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Gladstone Capital (NASDAQ:GLAD) Shares Pass Above Two Hundred Day Moving Average - Time to Sell?

August 13, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Gladstone Capital anticipates ~$75M quarterly originations while leverage rises to 100% of NAV

August 5, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Gladstone Capital (GLAD) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

August 5, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Gladstone Capital Q3 Earnings Call Highlights

August 5, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Gladstone Capital: Fiscal Q3 Earnings Snapshot

August 5, 2026 | chron.com

Gladstone Capital (GLAD) Q3 Earnings Match Estimates

August 4, 2026 | zacks.com

Gladstone Capital (NASDAQ:GLAD) Releases Earnings Results, Beats Expectations By $0.08 EPS

August 4, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Gladstone Capital Corporation Reports Financial Results for its Third Quarter Ended June 30, 2026

August 4, 2026 | accessnewswire.comA

Gladstone Capital Corporation Earnings Call and Webcast Information

August 3, 2026 | accessnewswire.comA

Gladstone Capital Corporation (NASDAQ:GLAD) Given Average Rating of "Hold" by Analysts

July 30, 2026 | marketbeat.com

All You Need to Know About Gladstone Capital (GLAD) Rating Upgrade to Buy

July 28, 2026 | zacks.com

Gladstone Capital (GLAD) Projected to Announce Quarterly Earnings on Tuesday

July 28, 2026 | marketbeat.com

Gladstone Capital: Buy This 9% Yield With Margin Of Safety

July 23, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Gladstone Capital Is Finally Worth Considering (Rating Upgrade)

July 15, 2026 | seekingalpha.com

Gladstone Capital Announces Monthly Cash Distributions for July, August and September 2026 and Conference Call Date

July 14, 2026 | accessnewswire.comA

Gladiator Announces BlackRock Led C$35M Fully Allocated Institutional Private Placement

June 22, 2026 | newsfilecorp.comN

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FDUS, ARCC, GBDC, and GLAD Company Descriptions

Ares Capital NASDAQ:ARCC

$19.93 -0.12 (-0.60%)

Closing price 08/25/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

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$19.94 +0.02 (+0.08%)

As of 06:36 AM Eastern

Ares Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in acquisition, recapitalization, mezzanine debt, restructurings, rescue financing, and leveraged buyout transactions of middle market companies. It also makes growth capital and general refinancing. It prefers to make investments in companies engaged in the basic and growth manufacturing, business services, consumer products, health care products and services, and information technology service sectors. The fund will also consider investments in industries such as restaurants, retail, oil and gas, and technology sectors. It focuses on investments in Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast and Southwest regions from its New York office, the Midwest region, from the Chicago office, and the Western region from the Los Angeles office. The fund typically invests between $20 million and $200 million and a maximum of $400 million in companies with an EBITDA between $10 million and $250 million. It makes debt investments between $10 million and $100 million The fund invests through revolvers, first lien loans, warrants, unitranche structures, second lien loans, mezzanine debt, private high yield, junior capital, subordinated debt, and non-control preferred and common equity. The fund also selectively considers third-party-led senior and subordinated debt financings and opportunistically considers the purchase of stressed and discounted debt positions. The fund prefers to be an agent and/or lead the transactions in which it invests. The fund also seeks board representation in its portfolio companies.

Fidus Investment NASDAQ:FDUS

$19.75 -0.07 (-0.35%)

Closing price 08/25/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

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$19.72 -0.03 (-0.15%)

As of 06:37 AM Eastern

Fidus Investment Corporation is a business development company. It specializing in leveraged buyouts, refinancings, change of ownership transactions, recapitalizations, strategic acquisitions, mezzanine, growth capital, business expansion, lower middle market investments, debt investments, subordinated and second lien loans, senior secured and unitranche debt, preferred equity, warrants, subordinated debt, senior subordinated notes, junior secured loans, and unitranche loans. It does not invest in turnarounds or distressed situations. The fund prefers to invest in aerospace and defense, business services, consumer products and services including retail, food, and beverage, healthcare products and services, industrial products and services, information technology services, niche manufacturing, transportation and logistics, and value-added distribution sectors. It seeks to invest in companies based in United States. The fund typically invests between $5 million and $15 million per transaction in companies with annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million and an annual EBITDA between $3 million and $20 million, but it can occasionally invest in larger or smaller companies. It seeks to acquire minority equity stakes and board observation rights in conjunction with its investments.

Golub Capital BDC NASDAQ:GBDC

$13.11 -0.13 (-0.98%)

Closing price 08/25/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$13.11 0.00 (0.00%)

As of 05:32 AM Eastern

Golub Capital BDC, Inc. (GBDC) is a business development company and operates as an externally managed closed-end non-diversified management investment company. It invests in debt and minority equity investments in middle-market companies that are, in most cases, sponsored by private equity investors. It typically invests in diversified consumer services, automobiles, healthcare technology, insurance, health care equipment and supplies, hotels, restaurants and leisure, healthcare providers and services, IT services and specialty retails. It seeks to invest in the United States. It primarily invests in first lien traditional senior debt, first lien one stop, junior debt and equity, senior secured, one stop, unitranche, second lien, subordinated and mezzanine loans of middle-market companies, and warrants.

Gladstone Capital NASDAQ:GLAD

$19.84 +0.02 (+0.10%)

Closing price 08/25/2026 04:00 PM Eastern

Extended Trading

$19.84 0.00 (-0.03%)

As of 08/25/2026 04:26 PM Eastern

Gladstone Capital Corporation is a business development company specializing in lower middle market, growth capital, add on acquisitions, change of control, buy & build strategies, debt refinancing, debt investments in senior term loans, revolving loans, secured first and second lien term loans, senior subordinated loans, unitranche loans, junior subordinated loans, and mezzanine loans and equity investments in the form of common stock, preferred stock, limited liability company interests, or warrants. It operates as a business development company. The fund also makes private equity investments in acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations, and refinancing existing debts. It targets small and medium-sized companies in United States. It is industry agnostic and seeks to invest in companies engaged in the business services, light and specialty manufacturing, niche industrial products and services, specialty consumer products and services, energy services, transportation and logistics, healthcare and education services, specialty chemicals, media and communications and aerospace and defense. The fund seeks to invest between $7 million and $30 million in companies that have between $20 million and $150 million in sales and EBITDA between $3 million and $25 million. It prefers to acquire minority stakes. It seeks to exit its investments through strategic acquisitions by other industry participants or financial buyers, initial public offerings of common stock, or other capital market transactions.

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