Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation (ACRE): Price and Financial Metrics

ACRE POWR Grades

• Quality is the dimension where ACRE ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 69.9% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for ACRE is in Value, which has been heading up over the past 177 days.
• ACRE ranks lowest in Growth; there it ranks in the 12th percentile.

ACRE Stock Summary

• With a price/earnings ratio of 161.94, ARES COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE CORP P/E ratio is greater than that of about 96.4% of stocks in our set with positive earnings.
• For ACRE, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 98.49% of US equities we're observing.
• ARES COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE CORP's shareholder yield -- a measure of how much capital is returned to stockholders via dividends and buybacks -- is 64.84%, greater than the shareholder yield of 97.07% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to ACRE, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are TWO, BKCC, VEL, CIM, and RC.
• ACRE's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit ARES COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE CORP's official web site, go to www.arescre.com.

ACRE Valuation Summary

• ACRE's price/sales ratio is 5.2; this is 372.73% higher than that of the median Real Estate stock.
• Over the past 141 months, ACRE's price/sales ratio has gone up 4577.4.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for ACRE.

ACRE Growth Metrics

Its 5 year cash and equivalents growth rate is now at 67.21%.
• The 2 year revenue growth rate now stands at 24.49%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at -81.62%.

Over the past 34 months, ACRE's revenue has gone up $22,613,000.

The table below shows ACRE's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31	106.849	57.157	29.785
2022-09-30	106.551	60.137	44.029
2022-06-30	106.484	57.721	53.336
2022-03-31	104.869	54.641	60.92
2021-12-31	102.069	48.35	60.46
2021-09-30	93.164	39.298	57.713

ACRE's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• ACRE has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 47.42% of graded US stocks.
• ACRE's asset turnover comes in at 0.043 -- ranking 307th of 444 Trading stocks.
• LAZ, WHG, and SBRA are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with ACRE.

The table below shows ACRE's key quality metrics over time.