Company Analysis

Apollo Global Management, Inc. (APO)

NYSE: APO · Investment Advice · New York, NY · filing with the SEC since 2021
Grade5.1
◀ Past 5.9● Present 5.1▶ Future 4.4
1 est.

The grade of Apollo Global Management, Inc.

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.1/10
◀ Past5.930% of the headline
● Present5.140% of the headline
▶ Future4.430% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

5.9/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
7.2/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2021.

weight 22% of this tense · 72nd percentile among 48 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Apollo Global Management, Inc.'s filings since 2021 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
6.3/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+68.6% a year over 6 filed years; profitable in 5 of 6.

weight 45% of this tense · 63rd percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Apollo Global Management, Inc.'s 6 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $2.4 billion in fiscal 2020 to $32 billion in fiscal 2025, up 68.6% a year; it rose in 4 of 5 years; the deepest fall was 20% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 5 of 6 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span68.6%top 4% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosetop 26% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profitbottom 37% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak20.0%bottom 46% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
4.5/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count grew 0.5% a year. 33% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 9 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 33% of this tense · 45th percentile among 36 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Apollo Global Management, Inc.'s diluted share count grew about 0.5% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 33% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 9 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-06 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 40% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 29% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.1/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
4.3/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE 8%: 8¢ of profit per shareholder dollar. Leverage 91%: owes 91¢ per asset dollar.

weight 22% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 44 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Apollo Global Management, Inc. earned about 8 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money. Leverage: it owed about 91 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.7% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetsbottom 17% of its family
  • return on equitybottom 33% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 22% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
7.5/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

top 25% of 43 in its family; net margin 10.9%.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 43 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Apollo Global Management, Inc.'s standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $32 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 1% by size; a net margin of 10.9% ranks in the bottom 34%; revenue growth of 43% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 8% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the family$32.05Btop 1% of its family
  • net margin10.9%bottom 34% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth43.0%top 8% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
2.5/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 2.5/10, confidence 35 of 100 (one part).

weight 33% of this tense · 25th percentile among 42 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
Read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the bottom 25% of 42 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2022-01-01 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 4.9 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
What the record cannot read
The record of its people begins on 2022-01-01 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 4.9 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
one part: officer and director changes on Form 8-K, against the people in charge, the one part on file, ranked among 42 in its family.
Confidence
35 of 100
What would change it
A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: Apollo Global Management, Inc.'s leadership is put at 2.5 of 10 with a confidence of 35 of 100, because read from one part only, officer and director changes on Form 8-K over three years, against the people in charge, which ranks in the bottom 25% of 42 in its family; the record of its people begins on 2022-01-01 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 4.9 years and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge. A filing that carries the missing parts replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

4.4/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
4.6/10

How much room does it have to grow?

bottom 46% of 42 in its family for room to expand.

weight 33% of this tense · 46th percentile among 42 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Apollo Global Management, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $21 billion against debt of $13 billion leaves 1.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 34% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 22.6% of revenue (top 43%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets1.6%bottom 34% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue22.6%top 43% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.3/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 43% of 41 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 43rd percentile among 41 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

Apollo Global Management, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 43% a year over the last three filed years against 68.6% over all 6, slowing (bottom 9% of its family); the newest year grew 22.7% (top 23%) (its annual reports). Apollo Global Management, Inc. reported 2 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Retirement Services at $27 billion (84%), Asset Management at $5.0 billion (16%); 2 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-25.6 points a yearbottom 9% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth22.7%top 23% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.4/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 44% of 41 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 33% of this tense · 44th percentile among 41 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Apollo Global Management, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $32 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 20.4% below the $40 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 9% of its family); net income of $3.5 billion against a prior three-year average of $2.6 billion (top 50%); a net margin of 10.9% against 5% before (top 28%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace-20.4%bottom 9% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average+37%top 50% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average+5.9 pointstop 28% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton APO · research, not advice