Ares Management Corporation (ARES)
Financial Services · NYQ
Price as at 11 Aug 2026, 12:26 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Ares Management Corporation trades at USD137.66, which is 37% above the USD87.01 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure it screens as expensive, which is not the same as saying it will fall.
Our moat model scores it 55 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 56.0 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
ARES dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | USD2.70 | 2 |
| 2025 | USD4.48 | 4 |
| 2024 | USD3.72 | 4 |
| 2023 | USD3.08 | 4 |
| 2022 | USD2.44 | 4 |
| 2021 | USD1.88 | 4 |
| 2020 | USD1.60 | 4 |
| 2019 | USD1.28 | 4 |
| 2018 | USD1.33 | 5 |
| 2017 | USD1.26 | 5 |
| 2016 | USD0.830 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
ARES earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 18 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Ares Management Corporation
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.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
ARES passes 1 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
11 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Vulcan Value Partners, Vulcan Value Partners, LLC$184.51M · 4.9% of book
- Steve Cohen, Point72 Asset Management, L.P.$140.97M · 0.2% of book
- Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$127.52M · 0.1% of book
- Daniel Loeb, Third Point LLC$41.74M · 0.9% of book
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$28.73M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Common questions
Is Ares Management Corporation (ARES) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of USD87.01, ARES at USD137.66 is 37% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own ARES?
11 of the institutions we track reported a position in ARES in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is ARES's P/E ratio?
ARES trades at 56.0 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Ares Management Corporation (ARES) pay a dividend?
Yes. Ares Management Corporation yields 4.45% at the current share price. It has paid USD4.94 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 12 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its ARES data?
Fundamentals for ARES come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYQ; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 11 Aug 2026, 12:26 UTC and is delayed. Our data quality score for this company is 100/100, which is the share of the inputs behind our scores that were actually available rather than assumed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.