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Ares Management Corp. ARES

14 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
$5.6B
▲ 44.2% YoY
$527.4M
▲ 13.7% YoY
In brief

What this company does

Ares Management Corporation operates as a global alternative investment manager. It had $622.5 billion of assets under management, more than 4,250 employees and offices in more than 55 locations across more than 25 countries. It offers its investors a range of investment strategies, serving an investor base that includes more than 2,850 direct institutional relationships. As of December 31, 2025, its publicly-traded funds and perpetual wealth vehicles accounted for $108.4 billion, or 17%, of its assets under management. It organizes its investment activities into four groups: Credit, Real Assets, Secondaries and Private Equity. Its Real Assets Group manages equity and debt strategies across real estate and infrastructure investments, with real estate activities managed by teams in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Ares traces its inception to 1997.

Written from the business description in Ares Management Corp's annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 25 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth
USD 5.6B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 14-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 5.6 · Net income 0.5
2B4B20122014201620182020202220242025
Compound annual growth
+22.4%
+26.0%
+21.3%
+46.6%
+28.2%
+39.1%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +26.0% a year over five years — but profit grew faster: net income at +28.2%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability
15 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 23.0% · Net 14.9%
100%200%300%20122014201620182020202220242025
ROE
FY2025 · ROE 13.5%
20%40%20122014201620182020202220242025

Each USD of equity produced 13 cents of profit this year.

Cash & shareholders
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2018 · FCF -1.4
0.8B-0.8B-1.6B20122014201620182020202220242025

Total assetsUSD 28.6B
EquityUSD 4.3B
CashUSD 488.9M

Equity funds 15% of total assets.

The 14-year record
14 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative
Metric 20252024202320222021202020192018201720162015201420132012
Revenue $B5.63.93.63.14.21.81.81.01.51.00.80.60.50.3
Operating income $B1.31.31.30.51.10.40.4·······
EBITDA $B1.31.31.40.51.10.40.4·······
Income tax $B0.20.20.20.10.10.10.10.0−0.00.00.00.00.10.0
Net income $B0.50.50.50.20.40.20.10.10.10.10.00.00.81.2
Free cash flow $B·······−1.4−1.9−0.6−0.51.5··
EPS, diluted $··············
Dividend / sh $····1.88·1.281.331.130.830.880.42··
Payout %··············
ROE %13.517.127.29.827.115.522.05.68.741.47.312.3··
Shares out B·0.310.310.290.290.260.120.100.00·····

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

Provenance
Company facts, as filed
How we verify · 0 failures in 27 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 14 of 19 fiscal years. 30 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures
ActivityInvestment Advice
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inDelaware
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2012

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