Growth Metrics

Ares Management (ARES-PB) Return on Sales (2016 - 2025)

Ares Management's Return on Sales history spans 13 years, with the latest figure at 0.3% for Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Sales rose 6.0% year-over-year to 0.3%; the TTM value through Dec 2025 reached 0.28%, up 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.23%, 6.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.3% in Q4 2025 per ARES-PB's latest filing, down from 0.47% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.64% in Q4 2023 to a low of 0.43% in Q4 2021.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.25%, with a median of 0.26% recorded in 2023.
  • The largest YoY upside for Return on Sales was 104bps in 2021 against a maximum downside of -85bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.43% in 2021, then skyrocketed by 161bps to 0.26% in 2022, then soared by 144bps to 0.64% in 2023, then tumbled by -62bps to 0.24% in 2024, then grew by 23bps to 0.3% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for ARES-PB's Return on Sales are 0.3% (Q4 2025), 0.47% (Q3 2025), and 0.22% (Q2 2025).