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David B Kaplan is Co-founder at ARES. David B Kaplan's net worth is not public. Form 4 filings only show shares in the companies where this person is an insider; those holdings are worth an estimated $127.0M at current prices.
Our model assigns David B Kaplan a below-average insider score of 49/100, based on 47 past trades. Over a 12-month horizon, 36.2% of those trades were profitable, with an average 12-month return of -10.8%.
The ARES filings lean toward selling, a net 4,525,000 shares.
David B Kaplan has 50 Form 4 filings on record from April 2020 to December 2025, all as Co-founder at Ares Management (ARES), 2020–2025.
The 222 reported transactions were 213 open-market sales, 7 conversions and 2 gifts.
Counted by filing, the open-market trades come to no purchases and 46 sales worth about $362.7M.
The largest open-market sale was 500,000 shares of ARES at an average $72.36 on October 27, 2022, about $36.2M. Twelve months later ARES was up 37%.
All 21 sales since April 2023 were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, set up in advance.
| Date | Ticker | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value | Chg% | 3M | 12M | SEC |
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| May 30, 2025 | ARES Ares Management Corp | Co-founder | Sell10b5-1 | 33,145 | $165.12 | $5,472,902.40 | -100% | +8.9% | -22.4% | |
| May 29, 2025 | ARES Ares Management Corp | Co-founder | Sell10b5-1 | 29,355 | $165.06 | $4,845,342.56 | -47.0% | +8.9% | -22.1% | |
| May 15, 2025 | ARES Ares Management Corp | Co-founder | Sell10b5-1 | 62,500 | $169.36 | $10,584,827.18 | -50.0% | +13.2% | -26.8% | |
| Mar 5, 2025 | ARES Ares Management Corp | Co-founder | Sell10b5-1 | 100,000 | $160.99 | $16,098,996.69 | -100% | +3.4% | -28.2% | |
| Nov 27, 2024 | ARES Ares Management Corp | Co-founder | Sell10b5-1 | 30,680 | $176.16 | $5,404,446.60 | -100% | -4.2% | -10.3% | |
| Nov 26, 2024 | ARES Ares Management Corp | Co-founder | Sell10b5-1 | 85,668 | $177.37 | $15,195,297.33 | -73.6% | -5.5% | -13.6% | |
| Nov 22, 2024 | ARES Ares Management Corp | Co-founder | Sell10b5-1 | 78,061 | $173.91 | $13,575,309.13 | -40.2% | +2.4% | -16.0% | |
| Nov 19, 2024 | ARES Ares Management Corp | Co-founder | Sell10b5-1 | 55,591 | $168.09 | $9,344,356.12 | -22.2% | +10.2% | -14.8% | |
| Aug 30, 2024 | ARES Ares Management Corp | Co-founder | Sell10b5-1 | 55,762 | $145.34 | $8,104,233.62 | -100% | +20.7% | +22.4% | |
| Aug 27, 2024 | ARES Ares Management Corp | Co-founder | Sell10b5-1 | 80,846 | $146.68 | $11,858,291.00 | -59.2% | +20.5% | +22.8% |