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ARES vs HLNE

Side-by-side comparison of Ares Management Corporation (ARES) and Hamilton Lane Incorporated (HLNE): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both ARES and HLNE operate in Investment Managers (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
  • ARES is the larger of the two at $41.85B, about 9.4x HLNE ($4.44B).
  • Over the past year, ARES is down 26.3% and HLNE is down 47.3% - ARES leads by 21.0 points.
  • HLNE has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 8 for ARES).
  • ARES has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 20 for HLNE).
PerformanceARES-26.27%HLNE-47.29%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-09
MetricARESHLNE
Company
Ares Management Corporation
Hamilton Lane Incorporated
Price
$127.20+0.24%
$80.05+0.13%
Market cap
$41.85B
$4.44B
1M return
+0.66%
-10.06%
1Y return
-26.27%
-47.29%
Industry
Investment Managers
Investment Managers
Exchange
NYSE
NASDAQ
IPO
2014
2017
News (4w)
8
12
Recent ratings
25
20
ARES

Ares Management Corporation

Ares Management Corporation operates as an alternative asset manager in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company's Tradable Credit Group segment manages various types of investment funds, such as commingled and separately managed accounts for institutional investors, and publicly traded vehicles and sub-advised funds for retail investors in the tradable and non-investment grade corporate credit markets. Its Direct Lending Group segment provides financing solutions to small-to-medium sized companies. The company's Private Equity Group segment focuses on majority or shared-control investments primarily in under-capitalized companies. Its Real Estate Group segment invests in new developments and the repositioning of assets, with a focus on control or majority-control investments; and originates and invests in a range of self-originated financing opportunities for middle-market owners and operators of commercial real estate. The firm was previously known as Ares Management, L.P. Ares Management Corporation was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California with additional offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Ares Management GP LLC is the general partner of the company.

HLNE

Hamilton Lane Incorporated

Hamilton Lane Incorporated is an investment firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. It provides following services: separate accounts (customized to each individual client and structured as single client vehicles); specialized strategies (fund-of-funds, secondaries, co-investments, taft-hartley, distribution management); advisory relationships (including due diligence, strategic portfolio planning, monitoring and reporting services); and reporting and analytics solutions. For direct investments, the firm invests in early, mid and late venture, mature companies, growth equity, emerging growth, distressed debt, later stage, turnarounds, bridge financing, mezzanine financing, and buyouts in middle market companies. For fund of fund investments, it invests in mezzanine, venture capital, private equity, turnaround, secondary investments, real estate, and special situation funds. The firm invests in real estate investments. It also invest in technology, healthcare, education, natural resources, energy and essential consumer goods sectors, cleantech, and environment, community development, and financial empowerment. It invests in private equity markets in North America, Latin America, United States, Western Europe, Middle East, Africa, United Kingdom, Asia, Japan, and Australia. The firm prefer to invest $1 million to $100 million in companies. It prefers to have majority stake in companies. Hamilton Lane Incorporated was founded in 1991 and is based in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania with additional offices across Europe, North America, and Asia.

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