Stock · ARES · Financial Services
United States · Large Cap · listed since 2014 · Revenue 12 mo. $6.2B
Price as of 11/06/2026
Ares Management Corporation operates as an alternative asset manager.
Ares Management Corporation operates as an alternative asset manager. Its Direct Lending Group segment provides financing solutions to small-to-medium sized companies. The company's Private Equity Group segment specializes in early venture, turnaround, mid venture, late venture, recapitalization, growth capital, middle market, mezzanine, distressed and growth buyouts. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, services, energy, industrials and consumer. The firm seeks to takes majority, minority and shared-control investments primarily in under-capitalized companies in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Southeast Asia and Australia. Its Real Estate Group segment invests in new developments and the repositioning of assets, with a focus on control or majority-control investments; and originates and invests in a range of self-originated financing opportunities for middle-market owners and operators of commercial real estate. The firm prefers to invest between $1 million and $500 million in companies having EBITDA between $10 million and $250 million and debt investment value between $10 million and $100 million. Ares Management Corporation was founded in 1997 and is based in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in North America, Europe and Asia.
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Summary
45.4 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €2.9B (2025), it supports €31.9B. The remaining €6.6B of the market value assume it grows 2.7% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
2.7%
no growth afterwards
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
4 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., EBIT margin, Net debt, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 12.33% | 12.46% | Rank 48 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 74.28% | 59.04% | Rank 55 |
| EBIT margin | 27.22% | 23.06% | Rank 62 |
| FCF margin | 49.38% | 19.82% | Rank 82 |
| Gross margin | 74.79% | 65.53% | Rank 61 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 66.55% | 7.39% | Rank 92 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 36.47% | 15.20% | Rank 83 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 18.98% | 15.17% | Rank 59 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 1.12% | 1.25% | Rank 46 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 1.81% | 6.47% | Rank 4 |
| FCF yield | 7.46% | 7.16% | Rank 53 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 8.69 | 2.82 | Rank 17 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 31.94 | 14.24 | Rank 13 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | −21.03% | 7.80% | Rank 7 |
| Share price, 6 months | 6.61% | 8.71% | Rank 42 |
| Share price, 3 months | 3.03% | 0.45% | Rank 59 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −24.85% | −10.68% | Rank 9 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | −3.47% | 1.23% | Rank 95 |
| Change in share countlower is better | 9.75% | −0.60% | Rank 7 |
| Dividend streak in years | 6 | 5 | Rank 63 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | 3.00% | 0.00% | Rank 88 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 14.75% | 9.21% | Rank 66 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | 5.84 | 0.12 | Rank 19 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 3.49 | 0.90 | Rank 14 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 43.37% | 25.95% | Rank 7 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt, $B |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $1.3B | 14.6% | −$637.6M | 82.9M | 2.6 |
| 2017 | $1.5B | −6.0% | −$1.9B | 82.1M | 5.0 |
| 2018 | $958.5M | 9.2% | −$1.4B | 96.0M | 6.9 |
| 2019 | $1.8B | 17.1% | −$2.1B | 120M | 7.8 |
| 2020 | $1.8B | 17.8% | −$441.6M | 150M | 9.8 |
| 2021 | $4.2B | 19.0% | −$2.6B | 180M | 11.1 |
| 2022 | $3.1B | 10.0% | −$769.9M | 176M | 12.2 |
| 2023 | $3.6B | 23.0% | −$300.4M | 196M | 14.3 |
| 2024 | $3.9B | 24.4% | $2.7B | 198M | 10.4 |
| 2025 | $6.5B | 27.2% | $3.2B | 217M | 13.4 |
5 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Ares Management LP mainly meets criteria in the Growth category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
This is how the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set, calculates the points for Ares Management LP. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
5 of 7 rules met
9 of 11 points
The rule “Exclusion: financial and real estate stocks” applies. The stock is therefore not rated regardless of the points scored.
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Selected fundamental metrics for Ares Management LP.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 55.2 | 15.2 |
| P/B ratio | 6.8 | 1.8 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 12.3% | 12.5% |
| Equity ratio | 14.7% | 9.2% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 3.49 | 0.90 |
| Dividend yield | 4.5% | 3.3% |
How comparable stocks in the same sector score in the StockScorer model.
| Symbol | Company | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| ARES | Ares Management LPthis page | |
| AMP | Ameriprise Financial Inc | Low4.5 |
| STT | State Street Corp | Low4.5 |
| NTRS | Northern Trust Corporation | Low8.2 |
| RJF | Raymond James Financial Inc. | locked |
| PFG | Principal Financial Group Inc | locked |
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