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Apollo Global Management (APO)

X-Ray dated Oct 28, 2026 · Share price as of Oct 28, 2026 intraday, when the valuation snapshot was captured · Financials from SEC filings (EDGAR) · Valuation multiples from a labelled secondary source
The verdict — valuation label: FAIRLY PRICED

Forward P/E is 11.79x against a peer median of 11.52x, a ratio of 1.02x — inside the 0.90–1.15 fairly priced band — with trailing P/E 40.64x and PEG 0.93. Latest-quarter revenue grew 63.7% year over year (PRIMARY, EDGAR), far above the cluster pace, but the ratio is not at or below the 0.95x level needed, with growth and PEG support, to call the shares undervalued. Delivered demand check: the Asset management & custody banks group's median growth was 14.3% — demand rising, and Apollo is growing far faster than that pace.

11.8×
Forward P/E — price vs next year’s expected earnings (secondary source)
11.5×
Peer median forward P/E — closest comparable companies
40.6×
Trailing P/E — price vs the last twelve months of earnings
1.9×
Price / sales

What would change this label: Move to UNDERVALUED if the forward P/E compresses to about 10.37x or below (0.90x the peer median) at unchanged estimates with revenue growth holding above 14.3% year over year. Move to OVERVALUED if the forward P/E rises above about 13.25x (1.15x the peer median) without a matching upgrade to growth, or if revenue growth falls below 14.3% year over year while the forward multiple stays above 11.79x.

In simple words

Apollo, which manages private equity, credit and other alternative investments, trades at about 12 times expected earnings — about the same as similar companies — while its sales grew about 64%. That fast growth balances the price, so the shares look fairly priced. The risk is that profits already delivered are much smaller than the profits the price expects next.

Words we use, in plain English: P/E ratio — the share price divided by earnings per share; how many dollars you pay for one dollar of yearly profit. Forward P/E — the same, using next year’s expected earnings. Free cash flow — cash a company has left after running the business and buying equipment. TTM — the last twelve months. Drawdown — the worst fall from a peak to the low after it.
The share price vs the market — six years
Apollo Global Management (APO)S&P 500 (SPY)
551392243083922021202220232024202520262020-09-012026-10-27

Both lines start at 100 on 2020-09-01. Over the full window Apollo Global Management returned +137.20% and the S&P 500 +118.28% (price returns; dividends not reinvested). Worst peak-to-trough fall for Apollo Global Management: -43.8% (2024-12-11 to 2026-03-12). Source: Nasdaq official daily history.

What the label rests on

Forward P/E is 11.79x against a peer median of 11.52x, a ratio of 1.02x — inside the 0.90–1.15 fairly priced band — with trailing P/E 40.64x and PEG 0.93. Latest-quarter revenue grew 63.7% year over year (PRIMARY, EDGAR), far above the cluster pace, but the ratio is not at or below the 0.95x level needed, with growth and PEG support, to call the shares undervalued. Delivered demand check: the Asset management & custody banks group's median growth was 14.3% — demand rising, and Apollo is growing far faster than that pace. The company’s forward P/E is 11.8× against a peer median of 11.5×. Its own history: UNVERIFIED — no sourced range available. Sector demand read: Delivered demand check: the Asset management & custody banks group's median latest-quarter revenue growth was 14.3% year over year (SEC filings) — demand rising. Latest-quarter sales growth was +63.7% versus a year earlier (SEC filings).

CompanyPrice (Oct 28, 2026)Forward P/ETrailing P/E
Apollo Global Management (APO)$114.1811.8×40.6×
KKR$92.0411.0×29.4×
BX$116.7317.6×26.0×
STT$172.8611.5×14.1×
AMP$488.7710.0×11.8×
BNY$148.4114.7×16.4×
Peer median11.5×

Multiples: stockanalysis.com (SECONDARY, S&P Global data), fetched Oct 28, 2026. Peer set chosen by sector; the median is the middle value of the set. The label and its numbers were recorded in the programme’s label registry on Oct 28, 2026 and will be scored at 6 and 12 months.

Sales, profit and cash

Sales and profit each quarter
SalesNet income (profit)
$0B$5B$10B$15BMar 2021Mar 2022Mar 2023Mar 2024Mar 2025Mar 2026Jun 2026

This company does not report a gross-profit line in its SEC facts (normal for banks, payment networks and some health insurers), so profit is shown as net income instead — gross margin is marked UNVERIFIED-absent rather than estimated.

Free cash flow by quarter is not shown for Apollo Global Management. Its SEC cash-flow facts do not separately tag spending on plant and equipment (normal for a bank), so a quarterly free-cash-flow figure cannot be built without estimating — and this programme does not estimate.

QuarterSalesGross marginNet incomeEPS (GAAP, diluted)Free cash flow
Q/E Jun 2026
2026-06-30
$11.2B—$1.4B2.15—
Q/E Mar 2026
2026-03-31
$5.1B—$-1.9B-3.27—
Q/E Dec 2025
2025-12-31
$9.9B—$684M——
Q/E Sep 2025
2025-09-30
$9.8B—$1.7B2.78—
Q/E Jun 2025
2025-06-30
$6.8B—$630M0.99—
Q/E Mar 2025
2025-03-31
$5.5B—$442M0.68—
Q/E Dec 2024
2024-12-31
$5.3B—$1.5B——
Q/E Sep 2024
2024-09-30
$7.8B—$811M1.29—
Q/E Jun 2024
2024-06-30
$6.0B—$853M1.35—
Q/E Mar 2024
2024-03-31
$7.0B—$1.4B2.28—
Q/E Dec 2023
2023-12-31
$11.0B—$2.8B——
Q/E Sep 2023
2023-09-30
$2.6B—$682M1.10—

The last twelve reported quarters. Full 22-quarter history sits in the data pack behind this page. A dash means the figure is not tagged as a standalone quarter in the company’s SEC facts (the usual case is the fourth quarter, which many companies only report inside the full-year filing) — it is missing, not zero.

Earnings: getting better or worse?

Each box is one quarter’s earnings per share (EPS). Green means EPS was higher than the same quarter a year earlier; red means lower; a dash means the figure is not tagged in the filings.

Sep 2022
-1.52
Dec 2022
—
Mar 2023
1.66
Jun 2023
1.00
Sep 2023
1.10
Dec 2023
—
Mar 2024
2.28
Jun 2024
1.35
Sep 2024
1.29
Dec 2024
—
Mar 2025
0.68
Jun 2025
0.99
Sep 2025
2.78
Dec 2025
—
Mar 2026
-3.27
Jun 2026
2.15

Basis: GAAP diluted EPS from SEC company facts, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

Key facts

ItemValue
Company (legal name in filings)Apollo Global Management, Inc.
Chief executiveMarc Rowan (source: https://www.apollo.com/aboutus/leadership-and-people/marc-rowan)
SectorFinancials — Asset Management & Custody Banks — manages alternative investments such as private equity and credit for clients
Share price (Oct 28, 2026)$114.18
Market value (market cap)$67.5B — share price times shares outstanding of 590,543,159 (SEC filings; SEC EDGAR dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (latest))
Sales, last twelve months$35.9B
Net income, last twelve months$1.9B
Free cash flow, last twelve months—
Latest reported quarterQ/E Jun 2026 (of 22 quarters in the data pack)
Six-year price return vs S&P 500+137.20% vs +118.28%
Worst peak-to-trough fall-43.8% (2024-12-11 to 2026-03-12)

What we could not verify

  • Gross profit / gross margin: not tagged as a standalone line in this company's EDGAR company facts (common for banks, payment networks and some healthcare payers) — shown as UNVERIFIED-absent; the page charts revenue and net income instead.
  • TTM GAAP diluted EPS could not be summed from company facts because at least one of the last four quarters (typically Q4) has no standalone tagged EPS; trailing P/E is therefore taken from the labelled secondary source in valuation_label.md.
  • Free cash flow is absent for one or more quarters: either the filer does not separately tag PP&E purchases in its EDGAR cash-flow facts (common for banks), or — for a successor registrant's newest quarter — the cash-flow lines are year-to-date without the prior-quarter rung needed to difference them. Affected quarters are null in the data, never estimated.
  • Own-history P/E range not yet compiled for this company in the Phase 1 batch run; the label rests on peer-median, growth and PEG evidence.
  • Guidance record (each quarter scored against the guidance the company gave the quarter before) is not yet compiled for this company — it is a Phase 2 layer. The earnings strip below therefore uses reported EPS versus a year earlier, which is fully sourced from filings.

The IT factor — the most exciting thing the market is overlooking — is not assessed on an X-Ray page. It belongs to the Deep Dive (Phase 2), where it gets the evidence standard it needs. Leadership-era scoring (the six years split by chief executive) is likewise a Phase 2 layer; this page names the current chief executive only, from a sourced profile.

Sources

  • SEC EDGAR submissions — Filing index; company legal name. https://data.sec.gov/submissions/CIK0001858681.json
  • SEC EDGAR company facts — Quarterly financial spine: revenue, gross profit, net income, GAAP diluted EPS, operating cash flow, PP&E capex, buybacks, dividends, diluted shares. https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001858681.json
  • Nasdaq official daily history — Daily closes for the company; SPY (assetclass=etf) saved as raw/nasdaq_spy_raw.json over identical dates. https://api.nasdaq.com/api/quote/APO/historical?assetclass=stocks
  • Valuation multiples and peer figures — stockanalysis.com (SECONDARY, S&P Global data), fetched Oct 28, 2026; see valuation_label.md in the data pack.

Conventions: earliest-filed value per period, as first reported; cash-flow years-to-date differenced quarter by quarter; EPS never differenced; free cash flow = operating cash flow minus plant-and-equipment spending. This page is a dated snapshot — updates are new versions, never silent edits.

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