What is Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp (ACRE)'s fair-value range?

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How is Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp (ACRE)'s fair value calculated?

Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp (ACRE)'s fair value is computed with several independent methods — a discounted cash flow (DCF) model, the Graham number, earnings power value (EPV), and valuation multiples such as PE and EV/EBITDA — using data from SEC filings. P/B is optional for non-financial companies and included in the preset range for financial sectors.

Which filing are Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp (ACRE)'s valuation inputs based on?

Inputs come from the FY2025 10-K filed 2026-02-10 (accession 0001628280-26-006635). Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1529377/000162828026006635/

Fair value · Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp (ACRE) · updated 2026-10-29 · from 10-K FY2025

Ares Commercial Real Estate trades at $3.42. That price implies 141× EV/EBITDA and a 1.2% free-cash-flow yield.

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Are those assumptions reasonable? Use ACRE’s filed growth history and the AI chat to decide, then set your own inputs below — the range you build is yours.

What the price implies

EV/EBITDA: 141×
FCF yield: 1.2%

Prices and market caps: Cboe delayed data, at least 15 minutes delayed. Not real-time. Fundamentals from company filings. This price: Cboe · delayed 15 min · as of 20:05 ET.

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Inputs come from the FY2025 10-K filed 2026-02-10 (accession 0001628280-26-006635); set your own on the sliders below. Research, not investment advice.

The filing behind these numbers

Ares Commercial Real Estate Corp

Revenue: $54.8M
Diluted EPS: $-0.02
Free cash flow: $19.7M; operating cash flow − capital expenditure
Diluted shares: 54.9M; weighted average

10-K FY2025 · fiscal year ended 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-02-10 · accession 0001628280-26-006635

Trailing-twelve-month EPS also uses the quarterly 10-Qs through Q2 FY2026 (filed 2026-08-04).

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Fair Value Summary

Daily Price — ACRE

$3.45 -23.5% (1Y)

Range implied by today’s price3 of 7 methods

$3.42 – $3.42

Price $3.42

Bear $3.42Base $3.42Bull $3.42

Range with preset inputs

$7.77 – $7.77

Price $3.42

Bear $7.77Base $7.77Bull $7.77

Every method that could be solved backwards opens on the assumption today’s price makes, so the top range sits on the price — that is arithmetic, not a view. Change any input and it becomes yours.

We don’t tell you what ACRE is worth. Every tab OPENS on what today’s price implies for that method’s key assumption; you decide whether that assumption is reasonable — the growth matrix has ACRE’s filed history and the AI chat will reason it through with you — and the range you build is yours. Our presets are filed history and reference settings, never a recommendation.

Discounted cash flow

$3.42per share

0% above the $3.42 price

Your stage-1 FCF growth (42.1%) matches the 42.1% the price implies — your value lands on today’s price.

Your inputs — two-stage free-cash-flow model

Preset (revenue-driven DCF, WACC 10.62%): $7.77

Implied by today’s price

At $3.42 the market implies a stage-1 FCF growth of 42.1%. (two-stage FCF model solved for stage-1 growth at 10.62% WACC)

Implied discount rate (holding growth): 10.6% · the WACC that makes the same model print the price

This tab opens on that number, so the value above is today’s price restated. Move the slider to what you find reasonable: the growth matrix shows what ACRE has actually filed, and the AI chat will reason it through with you.

Your inputs

Free cash flow grows at your stage-1 rate, then your stage-2 rate, then a terminal rate; everything is discounted at your WACC.

Stage-1 growth42.1%preset 5.0%

Yearly free-cash-flow growth for the first stage. Starts below zero so a shrinking-cash-flow case — and the rate today’s price implies — can be set.

-20.0%60.0%

Stage-1 years5 yrs

How long stage-1 growth lasts.

1 yrs10 yrs

Stage-2 growth2.5%

Slower growth after stage 1, before the terminal phase.

-20.0%30.0%

Stage-2 years5 yrs

0 yrs10 yrs

Terminal growth2.5%

Growth forever after the two stages. Above ~3% is rarely justified.

0.0%5.0%

Discount rate (WACC)10.62%

The return you require. Default is the WACC EvidInvest computed for this company. Higher discount rate, lower value.

3.00%15.00%

Net debt ($M)Debt minus cash, from the balance sheet. Subtracted from enterprise value.

Starting FCF ($M)Latest free cash flow from the filing (operating cash flow minus capex).

Shares (M)Diluted shares, from the filing.

Year by year (two-stage model, $M)

PV explicit $505M · PV terminal $602M · EV $1,107M · equity $188M

Year	Stage	FCF	Present value
1	Stage 1	$28M	$26M
2	Stage 1	$40M	$33M
3	Stage 1	$57M	$42M
4	Stage 1	$81M	$54M
5	Stage 1	$116M	$70M
6	Stage 2	$119M	$65M
7	Stage 2	$122M	$60M
8	Stage 2	$125M	$56M
9	Stage 2	$128M	$51M
10	Stage 2	$131M	$48M

Inputs from the filing

Free cash flow: $13.2M; sum of the last four quarters
EBIT: $61.8M; latest annual
Shares: 55.4M
Total debt: $948.2M
Cash: $29.3M
Net debt: $918.9M; debt − cash

10-K FY2025 · period ended 2025-12-31 · filed 2026-02-10 · accession 0001628280-26-006635 · sec.gov

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Ares Commercial Real Estate trades at $3.42. That price implies 141× EV/EBITDA and a 1.2% free-cash-flow yield.

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