LAMR vs ARCC Comparison

Lamar Advertising Co is an outdoor advertising companies in the United States and operates as a Real Estate Investment Trust. It rent space for advertising on billboards, buses, shelters, benches, logo plates and in airport terminals and also offer customers a fully integrated service with all aspects of their display requirements from ad copy production to placement and maintenance. It has two operating segments: billboard and Others. Key revenue is generated from Billboard segment.

Ares Capital Corp is a United States-based closed-ended specialty finance company. Its investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation through debt and equity investments. The company focuses on investing primarily in first lien senior secured loans (including unitranche loans, which are loans that combine both senior and subordinated debt, generally in a first lien position) and second lien senior secured loans. In addition to senior secured loans, the company also invests in subordinated loans and preferred equity, it also makes common equity investments.