Is Ares Management Corp (ARES) undervalued?
Ares Management Corp has no meaningful price/earnings ratio: no annual earnings per share reported.
Earnings figures are measured from ARES’s filed annual accounts, not estimated. PEG compares price to earnings growth alone — it says nothing about debt, cash generation, or what an acquirer would pay. Read it alongside the figures below rather than on its own.
Not available — requires positive earnings and a growth estimate.
What it would cost to buy ARES
Enterprise value is not shown for ARES: enterprise value is not meaningful for banks and insurers, whose debt is an operating input rather than financing.
| Measure | Value |
|---|---|
| Diluted earnings per share | — |
| P/E ratio | — |
| Earnings growth | — |
| PEG ratio | — |
| Market capitalisation | — |
| Total debtto 2014-06-30 | $202.9M |
| Net debtto 2026-06-30 | −$354.2M |
| Enterprise value | — |
| EBITDA | — |
| Free cash flowto 2025-12-31 | $3.25B |
| EV / EBITDA | — |
| EV / Sales | — |
| Free cash flow yield | — |
| Net debt / EBITDA | — |
| Return on capital employed | — |
Earnings growth is measured across Ares Management Corp’s own filed annual accounts. PEG conventionally uses forecast growth from analyst estimates; filings contain only history, so this is trailing growth and will read differently from a PEG quoted elsewhere.
Not shown, and why
- Earnings per share
- no annual earnings per share reported.
- P/E ratio
- no annual earnings per share reported.
- Earnings growth
- fewer than two years of reported earnings.
- PEG ratio
- no annual earnings per share reported.
- Market capitalisation
- shares outstanding not reported in a recent filing.
- Enterprise value
- enterprise value is not meaningful for banks and insurers, whose debt is an operating input rather than financing.
- EBITDA
- operating income not reported for a full year.
- EV / EBITDA
- enterprise value is not meaningful for banks and insurers, whose debt is an operating input rather than financing.
- EV / Sales
- enterprise value is not meaningful for banks and insurers, whose debt is an operating input rather than financing.
- Free cash flow yield
- shares outstanding not reported in a recent filing.
- Net debt / EBITDA
- operating income not reported for a full year.
- Return on capital employed
- operating income not reported for a full year.
Against the sector
ARES against 7 listed companies sharing its classification — Investment Advice. A multiple means little on its own; the column that matters is the gap. See what asset managers trade on.
| Measure | ARES | Sector median | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free cash flow margin | 58.0% | 21.4% | +36.6% |
Medians are taken across peers where the measure could be computed, so the sample differs by row. Green marks the direction conventionally read as cheaper or stronger — it is a direction, not a recommendation.
Market ratios
Price-based ratios from market data. Anything drawn from a filed statement is in the enterprise-value section above, with its source.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Price | $131.52 |
| PEGY ratio | — |
| Dividend yield | 4.11% |
| Price / book | — |
| Price / sales | — |
| Return on equity | 18.0% |
| Profit margin | — |
| Operating margin | — |
| Debt / equity | 354.33 |
| Current ratio | — |
| Beta | 1.54 |
| 52-week range | $95.80 – $186.85 |
Not reported for ARES: pegy ratio, price / book, price / sales, profit margin, operating margin, current ratio. A dash means the figure was not available from the source, not that it is zero.
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About ARES’s valuation
- What is the PEG ratio for Ares Management Corp (ARES)?
- Ares Management Corp has a PEG ratio of —, from a P/E of — and earnings growth of — a year. Note that PEG is conventionally quoted against forecast growth; this uses reported history, so it will differ from a PEG you see elsewhere.
- Is ARES undervalued right now?
- That depends on the measure. On PEG, ARES reads —. The PEG ratio compares price to earnings growth alone — it ignores debt, cash generation and asset backing, so it is a starting point rather than a conclusion. The enterprise-value measures above account for debt and cash; they often tell a different story.
- What is the PEGY ratio for ARES?
- The PEGY ratio for Ares Management Corp is —. PEGY adds the dividend yield of 4.11% to the growth rate in the denominator, which gives a fairer reading of companies returning cash as income rather than growth.
- Where do these ARES figures come from?
- Market price and capitalisation come from live market data; earnings, growth and dividend figures come from Ares Management Corp's published financial statements. Every derived ratio on this page shows the arithmetic that produced it.
This page describes published financial data. It is not investment advice and makes no recommendation to buy or sell ARES.