ARES Stock Ownership Breakdown

A company's 13F filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) provides investors with comprehensive information about institutional ownership in a listed company, a sign of strength in terms of how many institutions have confidence in that company. The number of institutional investors who currently own ARES shares is 908, representing 83.76% of the company's common stock.

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC, in the last quarter, reduced its stake in ARES by -0.03% restricting it's holding to 1.57 million shares of worth nearly $208.45M. BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP also lessened -13.85% of the ARES shares from its portfolio, reducing its holding to 1.63 million shares of worth $216.42M. CANADA PENSION PLAN INVESTMENT BOARD also shunned ARES shares holding by -0.51% last quarter which brought its holding to 1.77 million shares worth $235.91M.

As per its latest 13F filing, CURATED WEALTH PARTNERS LLC increased its stake in ARES by 100% in the last quarter. The institutional holder raised its holding to 1.66 million shares having worth more than $221.17M. LRI INVESTMENTS, LLC also added 100% more shares of ARES to its portfolio, raising its holding to 1.89 million shares of worth $264.73M. FMR LLC also increased its ARES shares holding by 0.76% which brought its holding to 7.02 million shares worth $933.09M.

The insider with the most stakes in ARES is ARES MANAGEMENT LLC , 10 percent owner at the company. Additionally, ARES stock is highly held by director Ares Corporate Opportunities Fund IV, L.P. and Head of Credit Group deVeer R. Kipp among others.

Company executives, directors, and other insiders own 13.12% percent of Ares Management Corporation's stock. Within the last six months, there have been 78 transaction(s) in which ARES insiders have sold stock, totaling 633.27K shares. Insiders that have sold shares include BERRY RYAN, DEVEER R. KIPP, and KAPLAN DAVID B.

There have been 0 transaction(s) during the past 6-months in which Ares Management Corporation insiders have bought stock, totalling 0 shares

Around 16.1M Ares Management Corporation shares are held by insiders, which represents about 13.12% of ARES stock.

ARES 10 percent owner, ARES MANAGEMENT LLC holds the largest portfolio of the company's shares. ARES shares owned by ARES total nearly 38.91 million.

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP INC is the largest institutional owner in ARES which holds 1.57 million shares worth $208.45M or 0.83% of the total ARES shares outstanding followed by BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON CORP with ownership of 1.63 million shares representing 0.86% of the ARES ownership. CURATED WEALTH PARTNERS LLC is the third largest stakeholder with 1.66 million shares or 0.88% of the ownership worth more than $221.17M.

Stock options give the owner the ability but not the obligation to buy or sell a security at a predetermined price and date. Stock options can be classified into two types: puts and calls. A put is a bet on falling stock, and a call is a bet on rising stock. As far as the ARES is concerned, it is a stock which is optionable.

Number of ARES shares short is 3.77M. Shares short is a market sentiment in which investors have sold their shares short in a given stock but have not yet covered them or closed them out.

As of today, 198.39M shares of ARES are outstanding.

Float represents the number of tradeable shares in a specific stock. By subtracting restricted and closely-held shares from a firm's total outstanding shares, we can calculate its floating stock. The term "closely-held shares" refers to shares held by employees, major shareholders, and company insiders. At present, ARES has 193.87M shares in float.

Short ratio is calculated by dividing the number of short shares, short interest or bets that shareholders will sell short from the average daily volume. A higher ratio indicates longer times needed to repurchase borrowed shares (sold). The short ratio for ARES is 3.84.