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 $671.3 billion in total assets under management, including $409.9 billion in fee-earning AUM, at the end of June 2026. The company has four main business segments: credit strategies ($440.5 billion in total AUM and $266.1 billion in fee-earning AUM), private equity ($24.5 billion/$13.9 billion), real estate/real assets ($151.2 billion/$88.6 billion), and other alternatives ($55.1 billion/$41.3 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.

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

As of September 28, 2026, ARES stock price declined to $118.34 with 2,302,507 million shares trading.

ARES has a beta of 1.52, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. ARES has a correlation of 0.18 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ARES has a market cap of $26.69 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Ares Management Class A reported $1 billion in Revenue and $1.29 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-158 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.03.

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, VUG.

ARES has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -24.4% while the SPY ETF gained +17.5%. However, in the short term, ARES had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +6.4% vs +4.5% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, ARES shares have been beat by the market, returning -9.1% compared to an SPY return of +0.4%.

ARES support price is $119.30 and resistance is $124.72 (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.