ARES · NYSECapital Markets — Alternative Asset Management
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Company details
Market cap
$33B
AUM
$644B
P/E ratio
60×
Div yield
3.6%
Quarterly dividend
$1.35
Revenue (TTM)
$6.3B
Net income (TTM)
$0.6B
AUM growth
+18%
In plain English
Ares is one of the world's largest alternative-asset managers — by mid-2026 it oversees roughly $644B of other people's money for pension funds, insurers and sovereign wealth funds. Its centre of gravity is private credit: Ares is a giant direct lender to mid-sized companies (through the listed ARCC business-development company and a wall of private funds). Around that it runs big real-estate, private-equity and secondaries arms — the real-estate side nearly doubled in 2025 after it bought GLP's international platform (GCP International) for $3.7B. Ares earns steady management fees on that capital plus a share of the profits, and increasingly invests insurance 'float' through its Aspida annuity arm.
In simple terms
What Ares Management really sells
Ares is one of the world's largest alternative-asset managers — by mid-2026 it oversees roughly $644B of other people's money for pension funds, insurers and sovereign wealth funds. Its centre of gravity is private credit: Ares is a giant direct lender to mid-sized companies (through the listed ARCC business-development company and a wall of private funds). Around that it runs big real-estate, private-equity and secondaries arms — the real-estate side nearly doubled in 2025 after it bought GLP's international platform (GCP International) for $3.7B. Ares earns steady management fees on that capital plus a share of the profits, and increasingly invests insurance 'float' through its Aspida annuity arm.
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