ARES MANAGEMENT LLC
CIK 1259313 · View on SEC EDGAR ↗
- Portfolio value
- $2.3B
- Positions
- 44
- As of
- June 30, 2026
#1,394 of 9,443 by 13F value · top 14.8%
Portfolio value QoQ: +51.2% 13F does not disclose cash
- Top 10 holdings weight
- 83.31%
- Top 25 holdings weight
- 96.81%
- Positions above 1%
- 16
- Effective number of positions
- 3.5
Based on 13F long-equity holdings only (cash, bonds, shorts not disclosed)
Turnover Q2 2026: 5.77% Est. buys $481,514,232 · sells $109,926,154
Median holding: 5.0 quarters Tracked Q4 2024–Q2 2026 · 77.2% still held
- New positions
- 8
- Increased
- 20
- Decreased
- 2
- Closed
- 1
On this page
- Performance vs S&P How this manager's 13F portfolio performed against the S&P 500.
- Sector breakdown How the portfolio splits across market sectors.
- Portfolio Every stock this institution reports holding, from its latest 13F.
- High-conviction bets The holdings this manager is most concentrated in.
- Biggest new bets Brand-new positions opened in the latest quarter.
- Top moves The biggest position increases and decreases this quarter.
- Exited positions Positions the manager fully sold out of last quarter.
- Related The person behind this filer, where we can match one.
Performance vs S&P 500
Annualized: +5.7% · S&P 500: +18.0%
Approximates a buy-and-hold portfolio built from quarterly SEC 13F snapshots. Excludes cash, short positions, options/derivatives, and non-13(f) securities — reflects the disclosed long-equity book only, not total fund AUM. SEC filing lag is up to 45 days; this is not a real-time-copyable timing.
Priceable coverage: 99.5% · Options excluded: 0.2%
Sector breakdown
Retail
52.4%
Financial Services
16.6%
Communication Services
4.6%
Consumer Discretionary
4.2%
Health Care
3.2%
Energy
0.3%
Industrials
0.2%
N/A
0.1%
Telecommunication
0.0%
Other/Unmapped
18.3%
Full portfolio 44 positions
| Type | Streak | 8Q trend | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SVV Savers Value Village, Inc. Common Stock | $1,185,062,307 | 51.65% | 117,449,188 | $311,240,348 | |||
| Unknown issuer (CUSIP: 98386P102) | $254,186,581 | 11.08% | 13,844,585 | Up ×1 | |||
| CCO Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. Common Stock | $99,697,928 | 4.35% | 41,197,491 | $2,059,874 | |||
| CTEV Claritev Corporation Class A Common Stock | $63,550,512 | 2.77% | 1,863,105 | $33,107,376 | |||
| Unknown issuer (CUSIP: 45826HAD1) | $61,533,397 | 2.68% | 63,830,000 | $8,218,779 | Up ×1 | ||
| Unknown issuer (CUSIP: 04339D105) | $57,884,799 | 2.52% | 1,254,547 | Up ×1 | |||
| KDK Kodiak AI, Inc. - Common Stock | $53,903,154 | 2.35% | 10,610,857 | Up ×1 | |||
| ARCC Ares Capital Corporation - Closed End Fund | $51,572,047 | 2.25% | 2,783,165 | $4,495,247 | Up ×4 | ||
| GBDC Golub Capital BDC, Inc. - Closed End Fund | $43,239,641 | 1.88% | 3,357,115 | $4,520,854 | Up ×3 | ||
| GBTG Global Business Travel Group, Inc. Class A Common Stock | $40,736,299 | 1.78% | 4,338,264 | $-36,747,709 | Down ×1 | ||
| BBDC Barings BDC, Inc. Common Stock | $35,480,066 | 1.55% | 4,164,327 | $5,603,718 | Up ×2 | ||
| OBDC Blue Owl Capital Corporation Common Stock | $31,226,869 | 1.36% | 2,872,757 | $-269,323 | Up ×1 | ||
| Unknown issuer (CUSIP: 405024AD2) | $31,135,411 | 1.36% | 30,765,000 | Up ×1 | |||
| GSBD Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. Common Stock | $29,835,939 | 1.30% | 3,147,251 | $10,555,923 | Up ×3 | ||
| OCSL Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation - Closed End Fund | $26,319,402 | 1.15% | 2,204,305 | $2,597,256 | Up ×2 | ||
| TSLX Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. Common Stock | $24,120,055 | 1.05% | 1,404,779 | $-780,783 | Up ×1 | ||
| BXSL Blackstone Secured Lending Fund Common Shares of Beneficial Interest | $21,236,739 | 0.93% | 895,687 | $2,150,014 | Up ×2 | ||
| OTF Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp. Common Stock | $20,351,671 | 0.89% | 1,966,345 | $3,677,767 | Up ×3 | ||
| ARKO ARKO Corp. - Common Stock | $16,943,300 | 0.74% | 2,110,000 | $5,211,700 | |||
| MSIF MSC Income Fund, Inc. Common Stock | $14,669,719 | 0.64% | 1,267,910 | $4,601,171 | Up ×3 | ||
| HTGC Hercules Capital, Inc. Common Stock | $12,247,077 | 0.53% | 776,606 | $776,606 | |||
| NCDL Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp. Common Stock | $11,908,619 | 0.52% | 958,826 | $4,596,680 | Up ×3 | ||
| CCAP Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. - Common Stock | $11,882,958 | 0.52% | 1,088,183 | $5,244,089 | Up ×2 | ||
| MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund Common Stock | $11,719,935 | 0.51% | 775,128 | $5,968,415 | Up ×2 | ||
| KDKRW Kodiak AI, Inc. - Warrant | $10,583,430 | 0.46% | 14,300,000 | Up ×1 | |||
| TRIN Trinity Capital Inc. - Common Stock | $9,762,984 | 0.43% | 545,723 | $1,735,399 | |||
| TEM Tempus AI, Inc. - Class A Common Stock | $9,522,707 | 0.42% | 164,383 | $2,089,308 | |||
| RWAY Runway Growth Finance Corp. - Common Stock | $8,511,374 | 0.37% | 1,517,179 | $419,730 | Up ×3 | ||
| BCSF Bain Capital Specialty Finance, Inc. Common Stock | $7,367,657 | 0.32% | 588,471 | $6,193,947 | Up ×2 | ||
| OPAL OPAL Fuels Inc. - Class A Common Stock | $6,730,973 | 0.29% | 3,059,533 | $-979,050 | |||
| FIP FTAI Infrastructure Inc. - Common Stock | $5,556,651 | 0.24% | 1,197,554 | $-359,266 | |||
| OPTU Optimum Communications, Inc. Class A common stock | $5,143,843 | 0.22% | 3,547,478 | $532,122 | |||
| CGBD Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. - Closed End Fund | $4,972,129 | 0.22% | 472,187 | $2,346,529 | Up ×1 | ||
| ECC Eagle Point Credit Company Inc. Common Stock | $4,458,119 | 0.19% | 1,198,419 | $430,603 | Up ×2 | ||
| TCPC BlackRock TCP Capital Corp. - Closed End Fund | $3,544,031 | 0.15% | 1,054,771 | $1,576,693 | Up ×1 | ||
| OXLC Oxford Lane Capital Corp. - Closed End Fund | $2,352,621 | 0.10% | 268,564 | $-177,387 | Up ×2 | ||
| BRCB Black Rock Coffee Bar, Inc. - Class A Common Stock | $2,078,104 | 0.09% | 250,676 | $-1,160,630 | |||
| FSK FS KKR Capital Corp. Common Stock | $1,792,644 | 0.08% | 170,728 | $-13,655,323 | Down ×1 | ||
| YJ Yunji Inc. - American Depository Shares | $766,090 | 0.03% | 215,800,000 | $-48,555 | |||
| RENT Rent the Runway, Inc. - Class A Common Stock | $533,556 | 0.02% | 169,383 | $-276,095 | |||
| UNIT Uniti Group Inc. - Common Stock | $166,521 | 0.01% | 14,518 | $30,342 | |||
| LIDR AEye, Inc. - Class A Common Stock | $6,572 | 0.00% | 4,564 | Up ×1 | |||
| SKIL Skillsoft Corp. Class A Common Stock | $4,481 | 0.00% | 865 | Up ×1 | |||
| ARDC Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund, Inc. Common Shares | $745 | 0.00% | 59 | Up ×1 | |||
| No matches | |||||||
Conviction holdings
Positions increased for 3+ consecutive quarters.
Share counts are as reported in 13F filings (not split-adjusted)
Biggest new bets
New positions opened this quarter, largest first.
| Security | Value | Shares | % of portfolio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unknown issuer (CUSIP: 98386P102) | $254,186,581 | 13,844,585 | 11.08% |
| Unknown issuer (CUSIP: 04339D105) | $57,884,799 | 1,254,547 | 2.52% |
| KDK | $53,903,154 | 10,610,857 | 2.35% |
| Unknown issuer (CUSIP: 405024AD2) | $31,135,411 | 30,765,000 | 1.36% |
| KDKRW | $10,583,430 | 14,300,000 | 0.46% |
| LIDR | $6,572 | 4,564 | 0.00% |
| SKIL | $4,481 | 865 | 0.00% |
| ARDC | $745 | 59 | 0.00% |
Top movers (QoQ)
| Security | Action | Shares Δ | Value Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| SVV | Price move only | +0 | +$311.2M |
| GBTG | Trimmed | -9.5M | -$36.7M |
| CTEV | Price move only | +0 | +$33.1M |
| GSBD | Bought more | +976K | +$10.6M |
| — | Bought more | +8.3M | +$8.2M |
| MSDL | Bought more | +363K | +$6.0M |
| BBDC | Bought more | +534K | +$5.6M |
| CCAP | Bought more | +542K | +$5.2M |
| ARKO | Price move only | +0 | +$5.2M |
| MSIF | Bought more | +441K | +$4.6M |
2 positions hidden (data completeness check)
Exited positions
Includes corporate events (mergers, delistings) — not all exits are sells
Closed positions reflect 13F reporting changes; for index managers these are often mechanical (delisting, M&A, index rebalancing), not active decisions.
| Security | Quarter | Shares before | Value before | Price since exit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FYBR | Sept. 30, 2025 | 3,131,679 | $113,993,116 | No longer tracked |
| CRC | Sept. 30, 2025 | 708,676 | $32,365,233 | 3.4% |
| XHB | Dec. 31, 2025 | 200,000 | $22,160,000 | No longer tracked |
| FLYYQ | Sept. 30, 2025 | 1,378,343 | $6,877,932 | No longer tracked |
| MFIC | June 30, 2026 | 545,532 | $6,131,780 | -1.6% |
| NMFC | March 31, 2026 | 602,575 | $5,549,716 | -1.9% |
| SMC | March 31, 2025 | 80,594 | $3,044,841 | 1.9% |
| OBDE | March 31, 2025 | 187,449 | $2,703,015 | No longer tracked |
| SLRC | Dec. 31, 2025 | 138,502 | $2,117,696 | -17.4% |
| TCPC | March 31, 2025 | 93,053 | $810,492 | -48.9% |
| ARKOW | Dec. 31, 2025 | 1,100,000 | $10,230 | No longer tracked |
| XHG | Dec. 31, 2025 | 419,729 | $217 | 424.6% |