Ares Capital Corporation Stock News

This article is part of our monthly series where we highlight five large-cap, relatively safe, dividend-paying companies offering significant discounts to their historical norms. We go over our filtering process to select just five conservative DGI stocks from more than 7,500 companies that are traded on U.S. exchanges, including OTC networks. In addition to the primary list that yields 3.9%, w...

According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), passive income generally includes earnings from rental activity or any trade, business, or investment in which the individual does not materially participate.

Would your budget benefit from a significantly larger stream of passive income? There are many ways to make that happen, but I don't know of any that are easier than buying high-yield dividend stocks.

These dividend stocks yield over 8% each. That yield comfortably surpasses the majority of dividend-paying stocks in the market today.

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If you are looking at Ares Capital (ARCC -0.79%) it is most likely because of the stock's hefty 8%-plus dividend yield. For reference, the S&P 500 index (^GSPC -0.30%) is only offering a yield of 1.2% today.