Growth Metrics

Ares Management (ARES) Net Margin (2016 - 2026)

Ares Management filings provide 13 years of Net Margin readings, the most recent being 4.39% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Net Margin fell 640.0% to 4.39% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 10.81%, a 24.0% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at 8.96%, down 239.0% from a year prior.
  • Net Margin hit 4.39% in Q4 2025 for Ares Management, down from 22.87% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Net Margin ranged from a high of 26.42% in Q4 2023 to a low of 20.24% in Q4 2021.
  • Median Net Margin over the past 5 years was 10.53% (2022), compared with a mean of 9.67%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Net Margin: crashed -3297bps in 2021 and later skyrocketed 3081bps in 2022.
  • Ares Management's Net Margin stood at 20.24% in 2021, then soared by 152bps to 10.57% in 2022, then surged by 150bps to 26.42% in 2023, then tumbled by -59bps to 10.79% in 2024, then plummeted by -59bps to 4.39% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Net Margin were 4.39% (Q4 2025), 22.87% (Q3 2025), and 10.74% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.