Apollo Global Management, Inc. (APO) · Nov 3, 2026 · Earnings

Apollo earnings miss as fee growth offsets weaker spread income

Miss — ANI per share $2.07 vs ~$2.20-$2.21 consensus

Apollo’s third-quarter earnings show record fee growth and inflows, but adjusted EPS missed consensus as Athene’s spread income weakened.

Apollo is in the middle of scaling a large alternative-asset and retirement-services platform: the prior-quarter setup was already above $1 trillion of AUM, with credit, Athene and perpetual capital driving the expansion. The headline result missed the market’s earnings bar. Adjusted Net Income was $2.07 per share versus published expectations around $2.20-$2.21, a roughly 6% shortfall. The miss matters because Apollo’s key earnings measure was below consensus even though the company’s operating narrative remained strong.

3Q'263Q'25Consensus
ANI per share (Financial Highlights)$2.07$2.17~$2.20-$2.21
FRE (Total Segment Earnings)$802M$652M
SRE (Total Segment Earnings)$844M$871M
SRE excluding notable items (Total Segment Earnings)$909M$846M
Total AUM (Financial Highlights)$1,074B$908B

The underlying asset-management engine was better than the EPS headline. Fee Related Earnings rose 23% year over year to a record $802 million, while capital-solutions fees reached a fourth consecutive quarterly record at $290 million; that points to healthy fundraising, origination and fee-bearing growth rather than a deterioration in the core asset-management franchise.

Athene’s spread business was the offset. Reported SRE fell 3% year over year to $844 million, and net spread narrowed to 1.06% from 1.24% as funding costs rose faster than investment income. Excluding the $65 million annual assumption-review item, SRE grew 7% to $909 million, so the weakness is partly non-recurring—but the underlying spread still compressed to 1.14% from 1.21%. This is the main reason strong FRE did not translate into a consensus-level earnings print.

Capital formation and scale continued to advance. Apollo generated $53 billion of quarterly inflows, reached $1.074 trillion of AUM, and lifted fee-generating AUM to $880 billion. The growth is meaningful for the longer-term business model, although the filing says $65 billion of the last-twelve-month inflows came from Athora’s acquisition of PIC, so not all of the momentum was organic.

GAAP results look much worse than operating earnings because of rate-driven marks. Apollo reported a $1.1 billion common-stockholder net loss, primarily from unrealized mark-to-market losses in Retirement Services tied to higher interest rates. That is economically important for reported book value and volatility, but it does not overturn the recurring fee-growth story by itself.

Bottom line: Apollo’s franchise kept expanding and its fee engine delivered a genuinely strong quarter, but weaker Athene spreads left adjusted earnings below consensus. The event is mixed, leaning slightly negative: the long-term growth story is intact, while near-term earnings conversion is less clean than expected.

What to watch next

Fourth-quarter results, early February 2027

Original filing on SEC EDGAR

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