ARES Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Ares Management Class A | NYSE:ARES)

Ares Management is one of the world's largest alternative-asset managers, with $622.5 billion in total assets under management, or AUM, including $384.9 billion in fee-earning AUM, at the end of 2025. The company has four main business segments: credit strategies ($406.9 billion in total AUM and $249.8 billion in fee-earning AUM), private equity, ($25.3 billion/$14.4 billion), real estate/real assets ($139.1 billion/$84.1 billion), and other alternatives ($51.2 billion/$36.6 billion). The firm primarily serves institutional investors (80% of AUM) and high-net-worth individuals (20%). Ares operates through more than 35 offices in over 15 countries around the globe.

Ares Management Class A trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol ARES.

As of July 14, 2026, ARES stock price declined to $120.18 with 547,345 million shares trading.

ARES has a beta of 1.58, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. ARES has a correlation of 0.20 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ARES has a market cap of $27.10 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Ares Management Class A reported $990 million in Revenue and $1.24 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-160 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.09.

In the last 3 years, ARES traded as high as $200.49 and as low as $95.80.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that ARES belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, SCHD, VO, IVV.

ARES has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -29.5%, while SPY returned +21.8%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in ARES shares. However, ARES has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +13.9% and +11.7%, while SPY returned +9.8% and +1.5%, respectively. This indicates ARES has been having a stronger performance recently.

ARES support price is $116.63 and resistance is $124.27 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that ARES shares will trade within this expected range on the day.