ARES options flow: unusual options activity in Ares Management Corp.

Updated 28 September 2026, 09:54 ET

Over the last week the tape recorded 8 unusual options prints in Ares Management Corp. (ARES), $432K of tracked premium, leaning firmly bearish. Bullish premium was $50K against $346K bearish; $78K went into calls and $354K into puts, a put call ratio of 4.53. The largest print was $120K of ARES 18 Dec 2026 $115 puts on 24 September 2026, swept at ask. The last session with prints, 25 September 2026, added 1 print and $35K of premium. ARES closed at $122.01 on 25 September 2026, up 1.6%.

This week's unusual flow

Prints from 22 September 2026 to 25 September 2026, 3 sessions. Delayed tier: every print is shown twenty minutes after it executed, and the page is rebuilt after each session.

Net premium is bullish minus bearish premium. The put call ratio is put premium divided by call premium, weighted by money rather than by contract count. Sweeps is the share of prints executed across several exchanges at once. Read the guide: Reading the Pulse.

Largest prints of the week

Size above open interest means the trade opened a position larger than everything that existed in the contract the night before. Above ask and below bid are the most aggressive executions. Read the guide: Size versus open interest.

Where the money is aimed

The most premium, $181K, is aimed at the 18 Dec 2026 expiry; the nearest expiry with unusual prints is 9 Oct 2026.

A print in a contract expiring this week is a view about the next few days, often about a known event; a print months out is a different kind of statement. Read the guide: 0DTE options flow.

The last session, 25 September 2026

Every print in ARES with its full detail, the live tape, one tap filters and saved screeners: open ARES in Options Sentiment Screener.

Price

The live quote and the price chart sit beside the ticker's flow in the app: open ARES in Options Sentiment Screener.

Analysts

The most recent analyst targets on file, from 10 firms, have a median of $154, 26.2% above the last close.

Calls bought at a strike above the average target are a bet that the analysts are too cautious; puts far below the price in a name they like are protection or a strong disagreement. Read the guide: Reading one ticker's flow.

About Ares Management Corp.

Exchange

NYSE

Sector

Financials

Industry

Trading

Headquarters

LOS ANGELES, California

Website

aresmgmt.com

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. Its Direct Lending Group segment provides financing solutions to small-to-medium sized companies. Its Private Equity Group segment focuses on majority or shared-control investments primarily in under-capitalized companies.

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Learn

• What unusual options activity means
• Reading one ticker's flow
• Sweeps, blocks and where a trade printed
• Size versus open interest
• Bullish or bearish, how a print's sentiment is inferred
• The conviction score and whale prints