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ARES MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ARES

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.

Investment Managers

Company profile

Business mix

  • Its Direct Lending Group segment provides financing solutions to small-to-medium sized companies.
  • The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, services, energy, industrials and consumer.
  • Its Real Estate Group segment invests in new developments and the repositioning of assets, with a focus on control or majority-control investments.
  • 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.

Current key questions

  • Can asset growth, client flows, fee rates, credit quality, or spread income support durable earnings in asset management?
  • How sensitive are margins and returns to interest rates, market levels, funding costs, and regulation?
  • Do capital allocation, risk controls, and balance-sheet quality improve long-term per-share value?
Holders 2 Current sample portfolio
Public mentions 0 Videos / interviews / letters
Valuation snapshot
PE 58.4 FCF 3.89% Buyback -9.29%
2026-06-07

Current firm holders

Firm Weight Value Filing period
Vulcan Value Partners C.T. Fitzpatrick 4.9% $184.5M 2026-03-31
Soros Fund Management George Soros 0.2% $21.4M 2026-03-31

Recent trading changes over the last 2 quarters

Net buyers 2 Last 2 13F filing periods
Net reducers 0 Last 2 13F filing periods
Unchanged holders 1 Share count unchanged
Increase amount $58.6M Estimated from net added shares
Reduction amount $0 Estimated from net reduced shares
Net share change / base shares +39.8% +536,981 / 1,350,249
Soros Fund Management George Soros 1 filing periods
13F 2026-03-31 Filed 2026-05-15
New Shares - 13F value change +$21.4M
Settlement As of 13F 2026-03-31 · Filed 2026-05-15
Base shares 0 Last 2 periods +196,054 (New) Total shares 196,054 Value $21.4M
Vulcan Value Partners C.T. Fitzpatrick 2 filing periods
13F 2025-12-31 Filed 2026-02-09
Major increase Shares 25.7% 13F value change +$58.6M
13F 2026-03-31 Filed 2026-05-11
Minor reduction Shares -0.3% 13F value change -$89.8M
Settlement As of 13F 2026-03-31 · Filed 2026-05-11
Base shares 1,350,249 Last 2 periods +340,927 (+25.2%) Total shares 1,691,176 Value $184.5M
Lone Pine Capital Stephen Mandel 2 filing periods
13F 2025-03-31 Filed 2025-05-15
New Shares - 13F value change +$235.2M
13F 2025-06-30 Filed 2025-08-14
Sold out Shares -100.0% 13F value change -$235.2M
Settlement As of 13F 2025-06-30 · Filed 2025-08-14
Base shares 0 Last 2 periods +0 (New) Total shares 0 Value $0

Recent mentions

No public mentions.