diff --git a/pandas/core/base.py b/pandas/core/base.py
index e070005c56d7a..1c74c977e39bc 100644
--- a/pandas/core/base.py
+++ b/pandas/core/base.py
@@ -602,9 +602,9 @@ def _aggregate_multiple_funcs(self, arg, _level, _axis):
         if not len(results):
             raise ValueError("no results")
 
-        try:
+        if all(np.ndim(x) > 0 for x in results):
             return concat(results, keys=keys, axis=1, sort=False)
-        except TypeError:
+        else:
 
             # we are concatting non-NDFrame objects,
             # e.g. a list of scalars