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BAM, Brookfield Asset Mgmt

Revenue is led by Infrastruture (33%) and Real estate (25%), with 3 more segments behind.

Latest annual: FY2025 10-K
BAM · Brookfield Asset Mgmt
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2025
$3.9B
+16.7% YoY
Vital signs · TTM, with 3-yr average
Revenue $4.0B 3-yr avg $3.5B
Operating margin 42.8% 3-yr avg 49.8%
Net margin 62.2% 3-yr avg 63.7%
Return on equity 29% 3-yr avg 65%

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

What it is
An asset manager, paid a fee on the money it runs for other people.
What moves the needle
Assets under management and the fee rate on them. What decides it: net flows in or out, the market's move on the assets already there (the firm rises and falls with the indices it invests in), the drift toward cheaper passive products, and the operating leverage on a largely fixed cost base. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
Is it a good business?
Operating margin has run at the high end of fee-business margins across the record (median 50%, above 25% in 3 of 3 years), the economics of a business that takes a cut without carrying the risk. It earns this on little capital, so return on equity has run near 65%, the leverage of a model that needs almost no plant to grow. A high return that does not fade can mark a moat, but whether the assets stay (net flows, not last year's market) is what the flow disclosures and the 10-K settle, not the multiple.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

Where the money comes from

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Revenue spreads across 5 segments, the largest Infrastruture at 33%.

Revenue by reportable segment, FY2025
  • Infrastruture33%$1.3B
  • Real estate25%$986M
  • Renewable power and transition22%$852M
  • Credit11%$423M
  • Private equity10%$392M
By geographyUnited States31%United Kingdom22%Canada20%Other13%

From the segment footnote of the company's own 10-K. Shares are of total revenue; the profit bar shows each segment's share of segment operating profit, before unallocated corporate costs.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2023–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMMar 2026
Income statement
$3.1B$3.4B$3.9B$4.0BRevenueRevenue
50.8%50.3%48.2%42.8%Operating marginOp. mgn
68.0%62.3%60.8%62.2%Net marginNet mgn
$2.1B$2.1B$2.4B$2.5BNet incomeNet inc.
16%17%18%18%Effective tax rateTax rate
Cash flow & returns
$1.4B$1.6B$2.1B$2.3BOwner earningsOwner earn.
103%65%27%29%Return on equityROE
2%−11%−5%−5%Retained to equityRetained/eq
Balance sheet
$3.2B$14.2B$17.0B$17.9BTotal assetsAssets
$9M$404M$1.6B$1.0BCash & investmentsCash+inv
$2.1B$3.2B$8.9B$8.6BShareholders’ equityEquity

The record, charted

FY2023–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.

Revenue
$3.9Blow FY2023
III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2025 10-K · source on SEC EDGAR →

Is it a good business?

  • Wide fee margin (≥30%)
    Operating income $1.9B ÷ revenue $3.9B
    Industry peers: median 21%
    What this means

    The heart of a asset manager: how much of each fee dollar survives the cost of running the business. Fees ride on assets under management, so the swing factors are net flows in or out and the market's move on the assets already there; the cost base is largely fixed, which lifts margins in a bull market and squeezes them in a bear one. A high margin held for years, through a market it does not control, is the operational mark of a real franchise.

  • Net margin 60.8%
    Wide
    Net income $2.4B ÷ revenue $3.9B
    What this means

    What reaches the owner after tax and interest. For a capital-light fee business this should be a wide share of revenue; when it is thin despite a high operating margin, debt taken on for acquisitions is usually the reason, so read it next to the balance sheet.

  • Very high (≥25%)
    Net income $2.4B ÷ equity $8.9B
    Industry peers: median 13%
    What this means

    Because the business ties up little capital, a healthy fee stream throws off a high return on the equity behind it. Read it with the buyback record: returning capital lifts this ratio honestly, but heavy debt taken to do so can flatter it.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Moderate contestability

AI is likely to reshape costs and some products here without clearly contesting or sparing the core moat; how the company itself frames it is the tell.

In its own filing A competitive risk, new this year

Its FY2025 10-K names artificial intelligence as a competitive threat, in language that was not in the prior year's filing.

“AI may be used more effectively by our competitors and our employees or third parties may inappropriately use the technology.”

The question is whether a moat the record shows as durable outlasts a technology that lowers the cost of part of what the firm sells. The durability is read in the record above, the filing's own framing of AI beside it; the industry label decides nothing on its own.

Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

Management, ownership & pay

From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid.

  • Stock-based compensation$123M

    The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 3% of revenue, equal to 6% of operating profit. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.

What an owner would ask, FY2025

read the 10-K →
  • Which reported numbers are a judgment call?
    Management names Revenue recognition as critical estimates

    each rests partly on management's judgment; the filing's note sets out the assumptionsverify →

The questions the record and the charts do not answer on their own; each carries the figure and the place to look.

Peers, Capital Markets & Asset Management

The same industry, side by side on fee margins. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.

CompanyRevenueOp. marginNet marginROE
ARESAres Management$5.6B13.1%9.0%13%
CGCarlyle Group$4.8B23.5%11.6%13%
BAMBrookfield Asset Mgmt$3.9B50.3%62.3%65%
EVREvercore$3.9B21.1%15.0%29%
LAZLazard$3.2B18.5%11.6%44%
JHGJanus Henderson Group plc$3.1B25.0%18.8%10%
OWLBlue Owl Capital$2.9B14.3%2.7%4%
HLIHoulihan Lokey$2.6B20.5%16.1%18%
Group median20.8%13.3%16%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Type today's close and see the owner-earnings growth you'd have to believe to justify it, beside what Brookfield Asset Mgmt has delivered.

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The assumptions

9.0% = the 4.55% 10-year Treasury (Jul 15, 2026) + 4.45 points of equity premium. The rate you require is yours to set.

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Implied by the price
Owner-earnings growth · since FY2023+21%/yr
Owner-earnings yield
P/E (3-yr earnings ’23–’25)
P/B
Graham’s price gate

Graham capped the multiple at 15×; Buffett and Munger let that rule go: a wonderful business can deserve 50× if the thesis holds. The gate marks the bargain-hunter's floor.

Against a high-grade bond: Graham’s yardstick bond yield%

Prefilled with the 10-year Treasury (4.55%, as of Jul 15, 2026). Edit it for today’s exact figure, or a AAA corporate yield.

Graham measured a stock against the bond you could own instead, the heart of his margin of safety. Enter a price above to weigh the owner-earnings yield against this bond.

Free cash flow $2.3B on 1597M shares outstanding (a weighted cover-text, the only count this filer tags); net debt $1.9B. The base is the latest year by default; Normalize values it on the through-cycle median owner-earnings margin (to avoid paying on a peak year). Net of stock comp treats option pay as the expense it is. Capex ($13M) runs well above depreciation ($50M), so this is a build-out; Steady-state swaps total capex for maintenance (≈ depreciation), lifting the base to about $2.3B, the cash it would throw off if it stopped expanding. The dials set the multiple a growth belief justifies; the price, and every dollar on this page, is yours.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Brookfield Asset Mgmt (BAM), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/BAM, data as of 2026-07-09.

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