Ares Management Corp. (ARES) Dividends

ARES Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

A technique commonly used by dividend investors to value dividend-issuing stocks is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM), which seeks to determine a fair share price based on the dividend provided by the company relative to a number of other company-specific factors. As for ARES, the DDM model, as implemented by StockNews, implies a negative return of 59.34% relative to its current price. Digging deeper, the aspects of Ares Management Corp's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• Ares Management Corp has annual revenue of approximately $4 billion; this puts it in the mid-sized revenue class -- where its dividend growth rate surpasses that of 88.98% of US-listed, dividend-issuing stocks in the same revenue class.
• A stock's beta generally indicates its volatility relative to the broader equity market; for Ares Management Corp, its beta is lower than 4.58% of dividend issuing stocks we observed.
• In comparison to its fellow dividend issuing stocks in the Financial Services sector, Ares Management Corp has an equity discount rate lower than 6.03% of them.

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