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Ares Management LLC: 13F holdings, Q2 2026

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Ares Management LLC disclosed 44 US equity positions worth $2.3bn in its Q2 2026 13F filing (holdings as of June 30, 2026, filed August 14, 2026). Its largest position is SVV at 51.7% of the reported book, followed by XE, CCO. The top ten holdings are 83.3% of the book, and the portfolio behaves like about 3 equal-weight positions. Versus the prior filing it opened 8 new positions, added to 20, reduced 2 and exited 1. Note: this manager's most recent filing is 3934 quarters behind the newest quarter on file, so these figures are history rather than current positioning.

This manager's most recent filing is 3934 quarter(s) behind the newest quarter on file. Treat these figures as history, not current positioning.
$2.3bnreported US equity book
44positions
51.7%largest position
83.3%top 10 weight
3.49effective positions (1/HHI)
2quarters on file since Q1 2026

What does Ares Management LLC own? Top holdings as of June 30, 2026

Change is measured in shares against the previous filing (Q1 2026), so price moves do not read as decisions. This quarter: 8 new, 20 added, 2 reduced, 1 exited.

#StockSectorWeightValueSharesΔ sharesAction
1 SVV Savers Value Village Inc Consumer Cyclical 51.7%$1.2bn117,449,188 0% held
2 XE X-Energy Inc Industrials 11.1%$254.2m13,844,585 new
3 CCO Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. Communication Services 4.3%$99.7m41,197,491 0% held
4 CTEV Multiplan Corp 2.8%$63.6m1,863,105 0% held
5 Integer Holdings Corp 2.7%$61.5m63,830,000 15% added
6 ARXS Arxis Inc 2.5%$57.9m1,254,547 new
7 Kodiak Robotics Inc 2.3%$53.9m10,610,857 new
8 ARCC Ares Capital Corp Financial Services 2.2%$51.6m2,783,165 7% added
9 GBDC Golub Capital BDC Inc 1.9%$43.2m3,357,115 10% added
10 GBTG Global Business Travel Group I 1.8%$40.7m4,338,264 -69% reduced
11 Barings BDC Inc 1.5%$35.5m4,164,327 15% added
12 OBDC Blue Owl Capital Corp Financial Services 1.4%$31.2m2,872,757 1% added
13 Haemonetics Corporation 1.4%$31.1m30,765,000 new
14 Goldman Sachs BDC Inc 1.3%$29.8m3,147,251 45% added
15 OCSL Oaktree Specialty Lending Corp 1.1%$26.3m2,204,305 5% added
16 Sixth Street Specialty Lending Inc 1.1%$24.1m1,404,779 4% added
17 BXSL Blackstone Secured Lending Fund 0.9%$21.2m895,687 11% added
18 OTF Blue Owl Technology Finance Corp 0.9%$20.4m1,966,345 46% added
19 ARKO Arko Corp 0.7%$16.9m2,110,000 0% held
20 MSC Income Fund Inc 0.6%$14.7m1,267,910 53% added
21 HTGC Hercules Capital Inc 0.5%$12.2m776,606 0% held
22 NCDL Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp 0.5%$11.9m958,826 67% added
23 CCAP Crescent Capital BDC Inc 0.5%$11.9m1,088,183 99% added
24 MSDL Morgan Stanley Direct Lending Fund 0.5%$11.7m775,128 88% added
25 Kodiak Robotics Inc 0.5%$10.6m14,300,000 new
26 TRIN Trinity Capital Inc 0.4%$9.8m545,723 0% held
27 TEM Tempus AI, Inc. Healthcare 0.4%$9.5m164,383 0% held
28 RWAY Runway Growth Finance Corp 0.4%$8.5m1,517,179 29% added
29 Bain Capital Specialty Finance Inc 0.3%$7.4m588,471 522% added
30 OPAL OPAL Fuels Inc 0.3%$6.7m3,059,533 0% held
31 FIP FTAI Infrastructure Inc. 0.2%$5.6m1,197,554 0% held
32 OPTU Altice USA Inc Communication Services 0.2%$5.1m3,547,478 0% held
33 Carlyle Secured Lending Inc 0.2%$5.0m472,187 97% added
34 Eagle Point Credit Co Inc 0.2%$4.5m1,198,419 12% added
35 BlackRock TCP Capital Corp 0.2%$3.5m1,054,771 94% added
36 Oxford Lane Capital Corp. 0.1%$2.4m268,564 4% added
37 BRCB Black Rock Coffee Bar, Inc. Consumer Cyclical 0.1%$2.1m250,676 0% held
38 FSK FS KKR Capital Corp 0.1%$1.8m170,728 -89% reduced
39 Yunji Inc 0.0%$766.1k215,800,000 0% held
40 RENT Rent the Runway, Inc. 0.0%$533.6k169,383 0% held
41 UNIT Uniti Group Inc Real Estate 0.0%$166.5k14,518 0% held
42 LIDR AEYE INC 0.0%$6.6k4,564 new
43 SKIL SkillSoft Corporation 0.0%$4.5k865 new
44 Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund, Inc. 0.0%$74559 new

What did Ares Management LLC sell? Positions exited since the previous filing

StockPrior weightPrior value
MFIC MidCap Financial Investment Corp100.0%$6.1m

Sector mix

SectorWeight
Consumer Cyclical51.7%
Industrials11.1%
Communication Services4.6%
Financial Services3.6%
Healthcare0.4%
Real Estate0.0%

Sectors cover positions whose ticker resolved to a sector; the remainder is unclassified, not cash.

Filing history

QuarterPositionsEquity value
Q2 202644$2.3bn
Q1 202637$1.5bn

How concentrated is Ares Management LLC's portfolio?

Across every quarter Ares Management LLC has filed, its median largest position is 54.6% of the book and its median top-ten weight is 84.7%, which WhaleCreep classifies as concentrated (the gate is a median largest position of 5%). Of 1.0 completed holding spells, the median lasted 1.0 quarters; 44.0 positions are still open and their final length is unknown.