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UNITED STATES<\/p>\n
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<\/p>\n
WASHINGTON, DC 20549\u00a0<\/p>\n
_____________________________________________________________________\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
FORM\u00a08-K<\/p>\n
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CURRENT REPORT<\/p>\n
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Pursuant to Section\u00a013 or 15(d)\u00a0of the <\/p>\n
Securities Exchange Act of 1934<\/p>\n
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Date of report (Date of earliest event reported) June 18, 2026 <\/p>\n
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ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION<\/p>\n
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)<\/p>\n
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Maryland\u00a0814-00663\u00a033-1089684(State or Other Jurisdiction
of Incorporation)\u00a0(Commission
File Number)\u00a0(IRS Employer
Identification No.)<\/p>\n
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245 Park Avenue, 44th Floor, New York, NY<\/p>\n
\u00a010167(Address of Principal Executive Offices)\u00a0(Zip Code)<\/p>\n
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Registrant\u2019s telephone number, including area code (212) 750-7300<\/p>\n
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(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)<\/p>\n
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Check the appropriate box below if the Form\u00a08-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):<\/p>\n
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o\u00a0\u00a0Written communications pursuant to Rule\u00a0425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)<\/p>\n
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o\u00a0\u00a0Soliciting material pursuant to Rule\u00a014a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)<\/p>\n
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o\u00a0\u00a0Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule\u00a014d-2(b)\u00a0under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))<\/p>\n
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o\u00a0\u00a0Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule\u00a013e-4(c)\u00a0under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))<\/p>\n
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:<\/p>\n
Title of each classTrading symbolName of each exchange on which registeredCommon stock, $0.001 par valueARCCNASDAQ Global Select Market<\/p>\n
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (\u00a7 230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (\u00a7 240.12b-2 of this chapter).<\/p>\n
Emerging growth company o<\/p>\n
If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. o<\/p>\n
Item 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.<\/p>\n
On June 18, 2026, Ares Capital Corporation (the \u201cRegistrant\u201d) and ARCC FB Funding LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Registrant (\u201cAFB LLC\u201d), entered into a Tenth Amendment (the \u201cBNP Funding Facility Amendment\u201d) to the Revolving Credit and Security Agreement, dated June 11, 2020, as amended (the \u201cBNP Funding Facility\u201d), with BNP Paribas and each of the other parties thereto. The BNP Funding Facility Amendment, among other things, (a) increased the total commitments under the BNP Funding Facility by $200 million, from $1.265 billion to $1.465 billion and (b) modified certain concentration limitations and the advance rate applicable to certain collateral loans. The other terms of the BNP Funding Facility remained materially unchanged.<\/p>\n
The description above is only a summary of the material provisions of the BNP Funding Facility Amendment and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the copy of the BNP Funding Facility Amendment, which is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this current report on Form 8-K and incorporated by reference herein.<\/p>\n
Item 2.03 Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of Registrant.<\/p>\n
The information included under Item 1.01 above is incorporated by reference into this Item 2.03.<\/p>\n
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Item 9.01\u00a0 Financial Statements and Exhibits.<\/p>\n
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10.1<\/p>\n
\u00a0Tenth Amendment to the Revolving Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of June 18, 2026 among ARCC FB Funding LLC, as borrower, the lenders from time to time parties thereto, BNP Paribas, as administrative agent and lender, Ares Capital Corporation, as equityholder and servicer, and U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, as collateral agent.104Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document)<\/p>\n
SIGNATURE<\/p>\n
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Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0ARES CAPITAL CORPORATION\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Date:\u00a0June 22, 2026By:\/s\/ SCOTT C. LEMName:Scott C. LemTitle:Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"0001287750FALSE00012877502026-06-182026-06-18 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION WASHINGTON, DC 20549\u00a0 _____________________________________________________________________\u00a0\u00a0 FORM\u00a08-K \u00a0 CURRENT REPORT \u00a0 Pursuant to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12875],"tags":[27375,27374,12883,27376,27378,27381,27379,27380,27377],"class_list":["post-39723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bnp-paribas","tag-arcc","tag-ares-capital","tag-bnp-paribas","tag-bnp-paribas-facility","tag-credit-amendment","tag-form-8-k","tag-funding-capacity","tag-material-definitive-agreement","tag-revolving-credit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}