ARES MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
At today's price, ARES MANAGEMENT CORPORATION (ARES) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~20.5 years. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Ares is an alternative asset manager whose economics live in fee-related earnings, not in the balance sheet: management fees crossed $1 billion in a single quarter for the first time in Q1 2026, up 22% year over year, and fee-related earnings of $454 million grew 26% on a margin of 42.4% [Source: Q1 FY2026 earnings release]. • The whole bet sits on one number, the price of those fee earnings: at roughly 95 times earnings the stock yields about 1.1%, the richest price-to-earnings in its fee-fin
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765 institutional managers reported holding ARES in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 66% of the company; the top 10 hold 36%. 125 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Capital Group (American Funds), among others. On the short side, 18.1M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (7.8 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
It pays a dividend, and has for 2 years running; the current rate is $1.88 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $63.23M in dividends.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at ARES over the trailing three years: 2023: 1 buy totaling $981k; 2025: 1 buy totaling $1.41M; 2026: 2 buys totaling $1.33M. 15 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
ARES's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-11-08 | +6.9% | -9.6% |
| 2023-02-25 | -2.6% | +9.3% |
| 2023-05-09 | +5.2% | +18.6% |
| 2023-08-04 | +1.2% | +8.2% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
ARES's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-10 (items 2.02, 7.01); 2026-06-11 (items 5.07); 2026-05-28 (items 1.01, 2.03, 9.01); 2026-05-01 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-03-31 (items 7.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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