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Hamilton Lane Incorporated Class AHLNECompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Financials›Investment Managers

Manages and advises on private markets investments (private equity, credit, infrastructure) for institutional and retail investors.

Momentum neutral 48
Mkt cap
$4.99B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
75%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$55.8M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
12.3×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 10.3%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
95 days
9 Feb 2027
Close · USD$89.46
1D-0.7%
1W+6.6%
1M+4.4%
3M-10.9%
6M+0.5%
YTD-33.4%
1Y-27.8%
ATR %4.6%
Beta1.24
52w lowhigh42.5% off high

What Hamilton Lane does

Manages and advises on private markets investments (private equity, credit, infrastructure) for institutional and retail investors.

Is paid recurring fees by institutions for advising on or running their private-markets programmes, based on the assets it manages or advises, plus performance fees when underlying investments are sold at a gain. Retail evergreen funds, which keep taking in money instead of locking it up for years, are a newer channel.

Products and services

  • Fund investment/co-investment management
  • Investment advisory/reporting services
  • Evergreen retail private markets funds

Customers

  • Pension funds/institutions
  • Sovereign wealth funds
  • Retail investors (via evergreen funds)

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Asset management
  • Private markets investment…
  • Institutional and retail (evergreen…

What could go right

  • Retail investor access to private markets
  • Institutional private markets allocation growth

What could go wrong

  • Private markets fundraising cyclicality
  • Fee compression from larger competitors

Moat: narrow (brand, data, scale). Decades of private markets data and manager relationships give an edge in access and due diligence versus newer entrants.

Headquarters: Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, United States · Founded: 1991 · Employees: 785

Named competitors

Hamilton Lane at a glance

Size Hamilton Lane (HLNE) is a United States Financials company (Investment Managers) with a market value of $4.99B, the 1190th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $89.46 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 0.5%, against +0.2% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 11th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 18.9% over the last twelve months (peer median +13.3%); the operating margin is 58.3% (peer median 29.6%).

Valuation It trades at 12.3× forward earnings against a peer median of 12.6× (9th cheapest of 19).

Short interest Short interest is 9.4% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 9 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026HLNE 101Peer median 100
Six months, rebased to 100: Hamilton Lane against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Hamilton Lane financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$872M$759M$713M$554M$529M
Revenue growth—+6%+29%+5%—
EBITDA$518M$418M$347M$257M$269M
Net income$282M$249M$217M$141M$113M
Free cash flow$330M$455M$311M$124M$238M
Capital expenditure$10.5M$5.84M$12.2M$11.1M$4.75M
Total debt$361M$356M$368M$275M$292M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Hamilton Lane competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%+20%+40%0%+10%HASI360ONECIGI601108N91BPTFHIABDN601136EMG1359STEP2799ANANDRATHIVONNEFGN002945CNSRFAMPHLNE6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Hamilton Lane is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-20%0%+20%+40%0×50×HASI360ONECIGI601108N91BPTABDNEMG1359STEP2799ANANDRATHIEFGNCNSRFHLNERevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Hamilton Lane is the large dot.

Hamilton Lane competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (HLNE vs STEP vs BX vs PGHN.SW)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Hamilton Lane HLNE$4.99B+1%+19%58%12.3×n/a
StepStone STEP$5.73B-15%+51%-53%18.1×n/a
Blackstone BX$149B-3%+9%57%18.1×n/a
Partners PGHN.SW$21.3B-24%+9%56%16.7×n/a

How Hamilton Lane compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Hamilton Lane against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureHLNEPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+4.4%+3.2%10th highest of 21
6-month return+0.5%+0.2%11th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-42.5%-16.1%2nd lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+18.9%+13.3%7th highest of 21
Operating margin58.3%29.6%3rd highest of 21
Forward P/E12.3×12.6×9th cheapest of 19

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Hamilton Lane HLNEUnited States$4.99B+1%+19%58%12.3×n/an/a
HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital HASIUnited States$5.00B-5%+27%69%12.6×n/an/a
360 One Wam 360ONE.NSIndia$4.95B+3%+25%33%35.1×n/an/a
Colliers International CIGI.TOCanada$4.88B-5%+14%7%11.8×n/an/a
Caitong Securities 601108.SSChina$5.12B-11%-12%31%10.7×n/an/a
Ninety One N91.LUnited Kingdom$5.18B-6%+10%26%11.1×n/an/a
Bridgepoint BPT.LUnited Kingdom$4.79B+55%+36%49%10.7×n/an/a
Federated Hermes FHIUnited States$4.73B+14%+13%28%10.9×n/an/a
Aberdeen ABDN.LUnited Kingdom$5.36B+2%+2%37%14.3×n/an/a
Capital Securities 601136.SSChina$5.41B-21%+1%36%n/an/an/a
Man EMG.LUnited Kingdom$4.43B+10%+24%28%8.4×n/an/a
China Cinda Asset Management 1359.HKHong Kong$4.36B-21%-25%53%11.7×n/an/a
StepStone STEPUnited States$5.73B-15%+51%-53%18.1×n/an/a
China CITIC Financial Asset Management 2799.HKHong Kong$5.83B-24%-18%135%3.1×n/an/a
Anand Rathi Wealth ANANDRATHI.NSIndia$4.18B+31%+35%41%90.5×n/an/a
Vontobel VONN.SWSwitzerland$6.18B+36%+11%25%12.6×n/an/a
EFG International EFGN.SWSwitzerland$6.26B-1%-1%26%14.4×n/an/a
ChinaLin Securities 002945.SZChina$6.27B0%+15%25%n/an/an/a
Cohen & Steers CNSUnited States$3.76B+1%+13%33%20.1×n/an/a
Eurazeo RF.PAFrance$3.70B+2%+18%-2%28.7×n/an/a
AMP AMP.AXAustralia$3.69B+46%-5%-1%15.7×n/an/a

Questions

Who are Hamilton Lane's main competitors?
Named competitors: StepStone Group (STEP), Blackstone (BX), Neuberger Berman (private or unlisted), Partners Group (PGHN.SW). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes HA Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI), 360 One Wam (360ONE.NS), Colliers International (CIGI.TO), Caitong Securities (601108.SS), Ninety One (N91.L), Bridgepoint (BPT.L).
Is Hamilton Lane expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 12.3× against a peer median of 12.6×, 9th cheapest of 19 in its peer set.
How has Hamilton Lane stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +0.5% against +0.2% for the median peer; over one year -27.8%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.