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Buybacks for Ares Management (ARES)

TTM repurchases $538.40M · 5Y diluted share change +45.4%.

Analysis

Buyback yield (TTM)

2.20%

Shareholder yield (TTM)

9.71%

5Y share count change

45.4%

Buyback spend (TTM)

$538.40M

Key takeaways

  • Ares Management (ARES) repurchased about $538.40M of stock over the trailing twelve months.
  • Diluted share count is up 45.4% over the last ~5 fiscal years — equity issuance and stock-based compensation are outpacing repurchases.

Dividend & buyback yield over time for Ares Management (ARES)

Stacked annual yields — buyback yield (TTM cash repurchases ÷ market cap) plus dividend yield from the same fiscal-year-end key-metrics period — show how total cash return per dollar of equity has evolved.

Diluted vs basic shares (annual) for Ares Management (ARES)

Diluted weighted-average shares are the EPS denominator — a falling count means buybacks are outpacing SBC dilution.

Year-over-year change in diluted shares for Ares Management (ARES)

Green is fewer shares vs the prior fiscal year (net repurchase); red is growth (dilution). The earliest year shown has no prior year to compare.

Cash buyback spend over time for Ares Management (ARES)

Latest: $0.00

Overview

In 2025, Ares Management (ARES) buyback spend totalled $0.00.

Ares Management buyback spend plunged from $10.45M in 2019 to $0.00 in 2025, a 100.0% drawdown.

Across the available history, buyback spend reached its high of $10.45M in 2019 and its low of $0.00 in 2011.

Ares Management Buyback Spend 2025: $0.00

Ares Management buyback spend in 2025 was $0.00.

Ares Management Buyback Spend 2024: $0.00

Ares Management buyback spend in 2024 was $0.00.

Ares Management Buyback Spend 2023: $0.00

Ares Management buyback spend in 2023 was $0.00.

Ares Management Buyback Spend 2022: $0.00

Ares Management buyback spend in 2022 was $0.00.

Ares Management Buyback Spend 2021: $0.00

Ares Management buyback spend in 2021 was $0.00.

See more financial history for Ares Management (ARES).

Buyback, SBC & dilution history

Buyback spend, SBC, net dilution effect, and share count.

  • 2025$0.00
  • 2024$0.00
  • 2023$0.00
  • 2022$0.00
  • 2021$0.00
  • 2020$0.00
  • 2019$10.45M
  • 2018$0.00
  • 2017$0.00
  • 2016$0.00
  • 2015$0.00
  • 2014$0.00
  • 2013$0.00
  • 2012$0.00
  • 2011$0.00

Buybacks vs stock-based compensation for Ares Management (ARES)

Annual cash repurchases set against stock-based compensation. Coverage above 1× means buybacks fully offset the equity dilution from SBC. TTM coverage: N/A.

Buybacks vs dividends (share of cash returned) for Ares Management (ARES)

How Ares Management splits cash returned to shareholders between dividends and buybacks.

Sector peers by buyback spend

Companies in the same sector as Ares Management, ranked by their latest buyback spend.

Buyback capacity (TTM)

Free cash flow minus dividends paid versus actual TTM repurchases — the headroom bar shows how much of post-dividend FCF is still being deployed elsewhere.

TTM buybacks vs headroom (FCF − dividends, TTM)N/A

Headroom $0.00 (TTM FCF − TTM dividends, clamped at zero).

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