Ares Capital checks off the boxes for the kind of stock to buy in today's uncertain market. Here are three reasons why I bought more of this 9.4%-yielding dividend stock. The obvious reasonI just gave away the obvious reason why I bought more shares of Ares Capital: its juicy dividend yield. Ares Capital's total return since its IPO in 2004 is significantly higher than the S&P 500's total return. He added that only a "low single-digit percentage" of Ares Capital's portfolio has a high risk related to tariffs.