Ares Management ARES
Ares Management is the 271st largest S&P 500 company by market cap, worth $40.3 billion. It joined the S&P 500 in the week of 12 Dec 2025. 10 directors have filed with the SEC in the last 12 months (who counts), 4 of them executives. 3 other officers are on file. At 30 Jun 2026, Vanguard was its largest institutional holder, with 8.2% of the company.
- CEO
- Michael J. Arougheti
- Sector
- Financials
- Sub-industry
- Asset Management & Custody Banks
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, California
- Founded
- 1977
- More
- Wikipedia
- Market cap
- $40.3B
- 271st largest, 23 Oct 2026 close
- Price to sales
- 8.5
- Market cap over revenue
- Market cap per employee
- $9.5M
- Market cap over employees
- Connections
- 0
- S&P 500 companies sharing a director or officer
Largest institutional holders
Each fund group's share of Ares Management. Where a company has several share classes, the share is of its total value.
13F filings for the quarter to 30 Jun 2026
Board and officers
Roles filed up to 30 Sep 2026
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Directors (10) | |
| Michael J. AroughetiCo-Founder and CEO | |
| Ashish BhutaniDirector | |
| Antoinette Cook BushDirector | |
| R. Kipp deVeerCo-President | |
| Paul G. JoubertDirector | |
| David B. KaplanCo-FounderLast filed 18 Dec 2025 | |
| Michael LyntonDirector | |
| Eileen NaughtonDirector | |
| Judy D. OlianDirector | |
| Bennett RosenthalCo-Founder & Chairman of PEGLast filed 18 Dec 2025 | |
| Officers (3) | |
| Jarrod PhillipsChief Financial OfficerLast filed 2 Jul 2026 | |
| Blair JacobsonCo-PresidentLast filed 21 Aug 2026 | |
| Aghili Naseem SagatiGeneral CounselLast filed 6 Feb 2026 | |
Ares Management's market cap since May 2014
Marked weeks are changes in the share count, such as a merger, not market moves.
Weekly, up to 23 Oct 2026
| Week ending | Market cap |
|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2026 | $40.3B |
| 26 Dec 2025 | $55.1B |
| 27 Dec 2024 | $56.2B |
| 29 Dec 2023 | $36.5B |
| 30 Dec 2022 | $20.1B |
| 31 Dec 2021 | $23.6B |
| 25 Dec 2020 | $12.7B |
| 27 Dec 2019 | $4.0B |
| 28 Dec 2018 | $1.8B |
| 29 Dec 2017 | $1.6B |
| 30 Dec 2016 | $1.6B |
| 25 Dec 2015 | $1.0B |
| 26 Dec 2014 | $1.3B |
Download Ares Management's data as JSON, with the weekly market caps in billions of dollars from 2 May 2014.
Workforce
Headcount at 31 Dec 2025
- Employees
- 4,250
As of December 31, 2025, we had over 4,250 employees, comprised of over 1,650 professionals in our investment groups and over 2,550 operations management professionals, located in over 55 offices in more than 25 countries.
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sales by directors and officers. Grants, option exercises and shares withheld for tax are left out.
Trades from 30 Sep 2025 to 30 Sep 2026
Directors and officers sold $94.8 million of stock in 8 sales and bought $1.3 million in 2 purchases in the 12 months to 30 Sep 2026.
| Date | Person | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 20 Feb 2026Buy | Judy D. OlianDirector | $60K |
| 6 Feb 2026Buy | Ashish BhutaniDirector | $1.3M |
| 4 Feb 2026Sale | Aghili Naseem SagatiGeneral Counsel | $529K |
| 22 Jan 2026Sale | Aghili Naseem SagatiGeneral Counsel | $299K |
| 1 Dec 2025Sale | Michael J. AroughetiCo-Founder and CEO | $8.8M |
| 28 Nov 2025Sale | Michael J. AroughetiCo-Founder and CEO | $15M |
| 26 Nov 2025Sale | Michael J. AroughetiCo-Founder and CEO | $21M |
| 25 Nov 2025Sale | Michael J. AroughetiCo-Founder and CEO | $28M |
| 24 Nov 2025Sale | Michael J. AroughetiCo-Founder and CEO | $17M |
| 1 Oct 2025Sale | Aghili Naseem SagatiGeneral Counsel | $3.3M |
Trades by members of Congress and officials
Trades members of Congress and senior executive branch officials disclosed, including their families'. Amounts are filed as ranges.
Trades from 20 Oct 2023 to 20 Oct 2026
7 people disclosed 11 purchases and 7 sales of Ares Management stock since October 2023.
| Date | Member or official | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Jul 2026 | Donald J TrumpPresident 路 Bought | $1K to $15K |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Rohit KhannaHouse, D-CA 路 Bought | $1K to $15K |
| 15 Jun 2026 | Donald J TrumpPresident 路 Bought | $15K to $50K |
| 13 Apr 2026 | Rohit KhannaHouse, D-CA 路 Bought | $1K to $15K |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Donald J TrumpPresident 路 Bought | $1K to $15K |
| 13 Mar 2026 | John BoozmanSenate, R-AR 路 Bought | $1K to $15K |
| 24 Feb 2026 | Rohit KhannaHouse, D-CA 路 Sold | $1K to $15K |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Rohit KhannaHouse, D-CA 路 Bought | $1K to $15K |
| 23 Jan 2026 | Donald J TrumpPresident 路 Sold | $1K to $15K |
| 23 Jan 2026 | Rohit KhannaHouse, D-CA 路 Bought | $1K to $15K |
Showing 10 of 18 trades
Not on file: no director or officer shared with another S&P 500 company and no WARN layoff notices under its own name since October 2023.