American Capital, Ltd. was a publicly traded private equity and global asset management firm, trading on NASDAQ under the symbol “ACAS” from 1997 to 2017 and a component of the S&P 500 Index from 2007 to 2009. American Capital was sold to Ares Management in 2017 at a sale price that totaled $4.1 billion. For those investors who bought American Capital stock in its August 29th, 1997 IPO, and held their shares through the sale of American Capital on January 3rd, 2017, they received a 14% compounded annual return including dividends (not reinvested).