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 $595.7 billion in total assets under management, or AUM, including $367.6 billion in fee-earning AUM, at the end of September 2025. The company has four main business segments: private credit ($391.5 billion in total AUM and $240.2 billion in fee-earning AUM), private equity, ($25.1 billion/$11.8 billion), real estate/real assets ($132.4 billion/$80.5 billion), and other alternatives ($46.7 billion/$35.1 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 January 21, 2026, ARES stock price declined to $162.34 with 2,224,840 million shares trading.

ARES has a beta of 1.87, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. ARES has a correlation of 0.60 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ARES has a market cap of $35.77 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Ares Management Class A reported $972 million in Revenue and $1.19 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-119 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.05.

In the last 3 years, ARES traded as high as $200.49 and as low as $71.36.

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

ARES has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -12.8% while the SPY ETF gained +15.9%. However, in the short term, ARES had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +11.5% vs +2.4% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, ARES shares have been beat by the market, returning -7.8% compared to an SPY return of -0.9%.

ARES support price is $159.79 and resistance is $166.53 (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.