Share count
286Mpeak FY2025
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COLD, Americold
Americold is a global leader in temperature-controlled logistics and real estate, supporting the safe, efficient movement of food worldwide.
Leveraging deep industry expertise, advanced technology, and sustainable practices, Americold delivers reliable cold storage and transportation solutions that create lasting value for customers and communities.
Throughout 2025 we viewed our business through three primary business segments: Warehouse, Transportation, and Third-Party Managed.
The business
What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.
Revenue · FY2025
$2.6B
−2.4% YoY · 6% 5-yr CAGR
Vital signs · TTM, with 5-yr average
Revenue $2.6B 5-yr avg $2.7B
Revenue $615M +0.2% vs yr-ago qtr
Operating margin 2.3% yr-ago 3.6%
Net income ($14M) yr-ago ($16M)
Net margin −2.2% yr-ago −2.7%
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
- Revenue is led by Warehouse services (52%) and Warehouse rent and storage (37%), with 2 more lines behind.
- Situation
- Unprofitable. No sustained operating profit across the record; an earnings multiple has nothing to rest on. What the record does show is revenue, the gross-margin trajectory, and the burn against the cash on hand.
- What moves the needle
- Occupancy, rents, and the cost of debt. Read on funds from operations and net asset value, because GAAP depreciation distorts the earnings, and a property downturn meets a balance sheet built on leverage. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on customer concentration, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.
- Is it a good business?
- Funds from operations per share have shrunk (−7% a year). The dividend takes 102% of FFO, more than it earns. Debt is 44% of assets, moderate for a REIT. The quality and location of the properties, the lease terms and occupancy, and the cost of the debt are what the 10-K settles, and no single ratio captures them.
Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.
Where the money comes from
read the 10-K →Revenue spreads across 4 lines, the largest Warehouse services at 52%.
Revenue by product line, FY2025
- Warehouse services52%$1.3B
- Warehouse rent and storage37%$971M
- Transportation7%$188M
- Third-party managed1%$37M
By geographyNorth America76%Asia Pacific12%Europe9%South America1%
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.
The record
Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.
The record, 2016–2025
realized figures from each filing · older years to the left| 2016’16 | 2017’17 | 2018’18 | 2019’19 | 2020’20 | 2021’21 | 2022’22 | 2023’23 | 2024’24 | 2025’25 | TTMTTMMar 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | |||||||||||
| $1.5B | $1.5B | $1.6B | $1.8B | $2.0B | $2.7B | $2.9B | $2.7B | $2.7B | $2.6B | $2.6B | RevenueRevenue |
| $5M | ($608K) | $48M | $48M | $25M | ($30M) | ($19M) | ($336M) | ($94M) | ($115M) | ($112M) | Net incomeNet inc. |
| Cash flow & returns | |||||||||||
| $124M | $116M | $166M | $212M | $240M | $289M | $312M | $18M | $267M | $253M | $258M | Funds from operationsFFO |
| Balance sheet | |||||||||||
| 16% | 17% | 46% | 64% | 69% | 79% | 77% | 1382% | 95% | 103% | 102% | Dividend payout (FFO)Payout |
| — | — | — | — | $5.0B | $5.4B | $5.5B | $5.7B | $5.8B | $6.3B | $6.3B | Real estate (gross)RE gross |
| — | $2.4B | $2.5B | $4.2B | $7.8B | $8.2B | $8.1B | $7.9B | $7.7B | $8.1B | $8.1B | Total assetsAssets |
| — | 72% | 96% | 75% | 64% | 56% | 32% | 33% | 39% | 47% | 44% | Debt / assetsDebt/assets |
| — | $1.7B | $2.4B | $3.1B | $5.0B | $4.6B | $2.6B | $2.6B | $3.0B | $3.8B | $3.6B | Total debtDebt |
| — | $1.7B | $2.2B | $2.9B | $4.4B | $4.5B | $2.5B | $2.5B | $3.0B | $3.7B | $3.5B | Net debt / (cash)Net debt |
| 1.1× | 1.2× | 1.9× | 1.4× | 1.8× | 0.7× | 0.8× | -0.8× | 0.9× | 0.0× | -0.0× | Interest coverageInt. cov. |
| ($149M) | ($187M) | $707M | $1.8B | $3.8B | $4.0B | $3.8B | $3.6B | $3.3B | $2.9B | $2.8B | Shareholders’ equityEquity |
| Per share | |||||||||||
| 140M | 140M | 144M | 184M | 207M | 259M | 270M | 276M | 285M | 286M | 286M | Shares out (diluted)Shares |
| $0.88 | $0.83 | $1.15 | $1.15 | $1.16 | $1.12 | $1.16 | $0.06 | $0.94 | $0.88 | $0.90 | FFO / shareFFO/sh |
| $0.14 | $0.14 | $0.53 | $0.74 | $0.81 | $0.88 | $0.89 | $0.88 | $0.89 | $0.91 | $0.92 | Dividends / shareDiv/sh |
| $-1.07 | $-1.33 | $4.90 | $9.96 | $18.32 | $15.52 | $14.00 | $13.11 | $11.52 | $10.09 | $9.85 | Book value / shareBVPS |
Share counts before 2018 are restated ×2 for a stock split, so per-share figures sit on one basis.
Per-share growththe realized rate an owner's share compounded
| 9-yr | 5-yr | |
|---|---|---|
| Revenue / share | −1.7%/yr | −1.1%/yr |
| Dividends / share | +22.7%/yr | +2.5%/yr |
| Capital spending / share | +15.9%/yr | +2.1%/yr |
| Book value / share | — | −11.2%/yr |
The record, charted
FY2016–2025Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked. Share counts on the current split basis.
Revenue
$2.6Blow FY2016
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?
- about $0.88 per shareNet income ($115M) + depreciation $367M
What this means
GAAP net income with property depreciation added back, because the buildings a REIT charges against earnings usually hold or grow their value. This, not net income, is what a REIT is actually priced on. It is an approximation here: where a filing reports gains on property sales, we remove them, the way the NAREIT definition does.
- Not covered by FFODividends $261M ÷ FFO $253MIndustry peers: median 73%
What this means
A REIT must distribute most of its taxable income, so a high payout is normal and the question is whether FFO covers it. Above 100%, the trust is funding the dividend with debt or asset sales, and a cut usually follows.
Is it sound?
- Debt / assets 73%HeavyTotal debt $6.0B ÷ assets $8.1BIndustry peers: median 49%
What this means
Every REIT runs on leverage; how much is the question. Heavy debt is what turns a property downturn into a wipeout, as 2008 showed, so a conservative balance sheet is part of the moat here, not a drag on it.
- Adequate(operating income + depreciation) ÷ interest $148MIndustry peers: median 3.4×
What this means
How many times the property cash earnings cover the interest bill. Comfortable coverage is what lets a REIT refinance through a tight credit market instead of being forced to sell into one.
Does AI threaten the moat?
Low contestabilityThe moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.
In its own filing Raised, but not as a competitor
The filing raises AI among its risks, but in other terms (security, regulation, energy or the like), not as a competitor to its product; it frames AI mainly as a capability.
AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat, and the company is using it that way.
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.
Acquisitions & goodwill
from the balance sheet & the 10-year cash-flow recordGoodwill grows only when a company acquires and falls only when it concedes it overpaid. The size of that bet, the cash put into buying rather than building, and how much has already been written off.
Goodwill & intangibles$1.6B20% of all assets; the premium carried on the balance sheet for businesses acquired
Against book equity29%goodwill is this share of book equity; the rest is the company’s own retained and paid-in capital
Cash spent acquiring$4.1Bover 10 years buying other businesses, against $2.9B of capital spent building
$240M written down across 2 years (2022, 2023): goodwill the company has already conceded it overpaid for, charged against earnings. A write-down costs no cash (the cash went out when the deal was signed), but it is management marking its own past judgment to market.
Goodwill, acquired intangibles and equity from the latest balance sheet; acquisition spend and write-downs summed across the 10-year record, from the company's own filings.
Management, ownership & pay
read the proxy →From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid, beside what the business earned for its owners in the same years.
| Fiscal year | Chief executive | Pay, as filed | “Actually paid” | Owner earnings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Fred Boehler | $4.7M | −$4.9M | ($47M) |
| 2021 | George F. Chappelle, who served as our Chief Executive officer through August, 2025. | $1.5M | $1.6M | ($47M) |
| 2022 | George F. Chappelle, who served as our Chief Executive officer through August, 2025. | $7.7M | $7.7M | ($8M) |
| 2023 | George F. Chappelle, who served as our Chief Executive officer through August, 2025. | $8.1M | $10.1M | $102M |
| 2024 | George F. Chappelle, who served as our Chief Executive officer through August, 2025. | $11.0M | $1.8M | $102M |
| 2025 | George F. Chappelle, who served as our Chief Executive officer through August, 2025. | $6.3M | $846k | ($8M) |
| 2025 | Robert S. Chambers | $3.5M | $1.9M | ($8M) |
Both pay figures are the company’s own, from the pay-versus-performance table its proxy statement files. “As filed” is the Summary Compensation Table total: salary, bonus, and equity awards at their value on the day of grant. “Actually paid” is the SEC’s prescribed recalculation, which re-marks those equity awards to what they became as they vested; it can swing far above or below the filed figure in either direction, and negative years occur. Owner earnings are the whole business's, from the record above, for the same fiscal years.
- Insider ownership<1%
The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.
- CEO pay ratio67:1
What the chief earns for every dollar the median employee makes, per the 2026 proxy. A high ratio alone settles nothing; some businesses are genuinely top-heavy in scarce skill. A runaway figure is where Buffett starts asking whether the board is doing its job.
What an owner would ask, FY2025
read the 10-K →- Which reported numbers are a judgment call?Management names Acquisitions 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, Specialty REITs
The same industry, side by side on the REIT lens. 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.
| Company | Revenue | FFO margin | FFO / assets | Payout (FFO) | Debt / assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WYWeyerhaeuser | $6.9B | 17% | 7.5% | 74% | 33% |
| IRMIron Mountain Inc | $6.9B | 20% | 6.5% | 73% | 66% |
| LINELineage Inc. | $5.4B | 13% | 3.6% | 48% | 32% |
| COLDAmericold | $2.6B | 10% | 3.5% | 73% | 56% |
| LAMRLamar Advertising | $2.3B | 36% | 11.9% | — | 51% |
| OUTOUTFRONT Media Inc. | $1.8B | 16% | 5.1% | 70% | 48% |
| HHHHoward Hughes Holdings Inc. | $1.5B | 19% | 2.9% | — | 55% |
| EPREPR Properties | $718M | 53% | 5.7% | 80% | 49% |
| Group median | — | 18% | 5.4% | 73% | 50% |
The price
What a price has to assume.
What the price implies
price / FFOA REIT is priced on a multiple of its funds from operations (FFO), the cash it earns once the depreciation on its buildings is added back. Type today’s price; we show the multiple you would pay and the income and growth it implies.
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The assumptions
FFO / share, delivered−7%/yr’20→’25
The justified multiple is 1 ÷ (required return − growth), a perpetuity on FFO. At an 8% required return and 3% growth, a REIT is worth about 20× FFO.
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FFO about $0.90 per share on 285M shares. The dials set the multiple they justify; your price sets the multiple you are paying. FFO here adds back depreciation and removes property-sale gains, the NAREIT method; it does not net out maintenance capex (AFFO), occupancy or lease terms, which the 10-K does.
Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Americold (COLD), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/COLD, data as of 2026-07-09.
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