Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund
ARDC NYSE
Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund invests primarily in a broad, dynamically managed portfolio of (i) senior secured loans (“Senior Loans”) made primarily to companies whose debt is rated below investment grade; (ii) corpor...
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- Dividend yield
- 11.58% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 10.1% High Risk
- Beta
- 0.42 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 11.1012.54
How ARDC has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against its benchmark.
Return by period
Price · to Nov 4Total return vs benchmark
Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 IndexOver 1 year, ARDC returned +4.2% with dividends reinvested — −41.1 pts behind its benchmark.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±10% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −11.4% on Mar 30, 2026 — 138 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 34% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, ARDC delivered less return, with less risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.42 means ARDC has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Downtrend- 12-day average11.53 +1.3%
- 26-day average11.50 +1.6%
- 50-day average11.59 +0.8%
- 200-day average11.87 −1.6%
The price is above 3 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is below the 200-day, a sign of a falling longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
OverboughtRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 116 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 1.35
- Last paid
- Oct 19, 2026
Last 12 months
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About Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund
Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) is a closed-end management investment company. The Fund invests primarily in a broad, dynamically managed portfolio of (i) senior secured loans (“Senior Loans”) made primarily to companies whose debt is rated below investment grade; (ii) corporate bonds (“Corporate Bonds”) that are primarily high yield issues rated below investment grade; (iii) other fixed-income instruments of a similar nature that may be represented by derivatives; and (iv) securities of collateralized loan obligations (“CLOs”).
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- ARDC
- Exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US04014F1021
- CUSIP
- 04014F102
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Alternative Strategies
- Industry
- Tactical
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Nov 4, 2026
Dataas of Nov 5, 2026
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