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

ACRE POWR Grades

• ACRE scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 70.15% of US stocks.
• ACRE's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving down over the last 26 weeks.
• ACRE's current lowest rank is in the Growth metric (where it is better than 11.92% of US stocks).

ACRE Stock Summary

• ACRE's current price/earnings ratio is 156.14, which is higher than 96.2% of US stocks with positive earnings.
• The ratio of debt to operating expenses for ARES COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE CORP is higher than it is for about 98.46% of US stocks.
• Shareholder yield, a measure of how much is returned to shareholders via dividends and share repurchases, for ACRE comes in at 67.25% -- higher than that of 97.39% 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 BBDC.
• Visit ACRE's SEC page to see the company's official filings. To visit the company's web site, go to www.arescre.com.

ACRE Valuation Summary

• ACRE's price/sales ratio is 5.3; this is 10.42% higher than that of the median Real Estate stock.
• ACRE's EV/EBIT ratio has moved up 1571.2 over the prior 142 months.

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.