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Did Leadership Moves and UBS Coverage Just Recast Carlyle Group's (CG) Global Growth Story?

Simply Wall St·12/15/2025 17:11:52
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  • Carlyle Group recently saw founder-director David M. Rubenstein sell and donate 625,000 shares, while long‑time General Counsel Jeffrey W. Ferguson announced plans to retire in 2026 and move into a Senior Advisor role, as the firm also expands with moves such as an India side fund and ARMADA’s acquisition of Poseidon Industrial.
  • At the same time, multiple banks, including UBS initiating coverage and others reaffirming positive views, are focusing investor attention on Carlyle’s fee-based growth potential and global alternative-assets platform.
  • We’ll now examine how UBS’s new coverage and Carlyle’s emerging-markets expansion may influence the company’s existing investment narrative.

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Carlyle Group Investment Narrative Recap

To own Carlyle Group, you need to believe in the long term growth of global alternatives, with durable, recurring fee income at the core. Recent insider selling, management transition plans, and UBS’s fresh coverage do not appear to materially alter the near term focus on scaling fee based revenues or the key risk that intense competition could pressure fees and margins.

UBS’s initiation, highlighting Carlyle’s fee growth potential, is especially relevant because it directly ties into the company’s push to broaden its global platform, including the new India side fund and ARMADA’s acquisition of Poseidon Industrial.

Yet even as expansion headlines grab attention, investors still need to be aware of how rising competition could eventually...

Read the full narrative on Carlyle Group (it's free!)

Carlyle Group's narrative projects $5.1 billion revenue and $1.7 billion earnings by 2028. This requires a 2.6% yearly revenue decline and an earnings increase of about $0.4 billion from $1.3 billion today.

Uncover how Carlyle Group's forecasts yield a $65.73 fair value, a 13% upside to its current price.

Exploring Other Perspectives

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Three members of the Simply Wall St Community currently place Carlyle’s fair value between US$51.11 and US$67.62, underlining how far views can differ. As you weigh those perspectives against Carlyle’s push for fee based growth, it is worth considering how competitive pressure on management and performance fees could shape the long term outcome.

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