Americold Realty Trust, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2023 Results

Delivers Strong Operational Results and Raises Annual Guidance

With Three Consecutive Quarters of Record Economic Occupancy, Americold Shifts Focus to Growth

ATLANTA, GA, Aug. 03, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Americold Realty Trust, Inc. (: COLD) (the “Company”), a global leader in temperature-controlled logistics real estate, and value-added services focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition and development of temperature-controlled warehouses, today announced financial and operating results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2023.

George Chappelle, Chief Executive Officer of Americold Realty Trust, Inc., stated, “We are pleased with our second quarter results where we delivered AFFO per share of $0.28. This performance was primarily driven by our global warehouse same store pool, which generated revenue growth of 3.9% and NOI growth of 13.8%, versus prior year, both on a constant currency basis. Our strong same-store pool results were driven by meaningful economic occupancy growth and our continued pricing initiatives. Our same store economic occupancy increased by 687 basis points over prior year to 84.8%, a record-setting, second quarter level. Additionally, this quarter, we derived 48.5% of rent and storage revenue from fixed commitment storage contracts, which is another record-setting level for Americold.”

“As a result of the progress we have made around economic occupancy and pricing initiatives in our same store pool, we are increasing our full year 2023 AFFO per share guidance to the range of $1.20 to $1.30. This guidance increase reflects both a strong first half of the year in combination with continued progress throughout the second half of the year.”

“Lastly, during the quarter, we announced our agreement with Canadian Pacific Kansas City, or CPKC, one of North America's largest railroad companies. Our agreement with CPKC is a strategic collaboration in which Americold will build, own and operate cold storage facilities on the land located on CPKC’s railroad network. Similar to our recent DP World announcement, our agreement with CPKC illustrates Americold’s unique ability to create value by collaborating with global leaders in the supply-chain. We look forward to continuing to support our customers’ growth through these exclusive collaborations as well as through other traditional greenfield development and expansion opportunities.”

Second Quarter 2023 Highlights

• Total revenue decreased 11.0% to $649.6 million.
• Total NOI increased 9.4% to $184.1 million.
• Net loss of $104.8 million, or $0.39 loss per diluted common share.
• Core EBITDA increased 12.1% to $134.7 million, and increased 13.5% on a constant currency basis.
• Core FFO of $62.5 million, or $0.23 per diluted common share.
• AFFO of $75.6 million, or $0.28 per diluted common share.
• Global Warehouse segment revenue increased 3.0% to $581.2 million.
• Global Warehouse segment NOI increased 14.5% to $172.8 million.
• Global Warehouse segment same store revenue increased 2.8%, or 3.9% on a constant currency basis, Global Warehouse segment same store NOI increased by 12.7%, or 13.8% on a constant currency basis.
• Completed the Atlanta Phase 2 development project for approximately $39 million, consisting of 6.3 million cubic feet and 24,000 pallet positions.
• Completed the purchase of our previously leased Green Bay facility for $20.1 million.
• Sold our minority ownership interest in the LATAM JV to Patria, the majority owner, for proceeds of $37 million.

Year to Date 2023 Highlights

• Total revenue decreased 7.6% to $1.33 billion.
• Total NOI increased 13.8% to $371.6 million.
• Core EBITDA increased 15.9% to $267.8 million, or 17.6% on a constant currency basis.
• Net loss of $107.3 million, or $0.40 loss per diluted common share.
• Core FFO of $123.3 million, or $0.46 per diluted common share.
• AFFO of $155.4 million, or $0.57 per diluted common share.
• Global Warehouse segment revenue increased 6.4% to $1.18 billion.
• Global Warehouse segment NOI increased 17.0% to $347.7 million.
• Global Warehouse segment same store revenue increased 6.7%, or 8.1% on a constant currency basis, Global Warehouse segment same store NOI increased 18.5%, or 19.9% on a constant currency basis.

Second Quarter 2023 Total Company Financial Results

Total revenue for the second quarter of 2023 was $649.6 million, a 11.0% decrease, which was driven by decreases in our Third-party managed and Transportation segments, largely offset by growth within our Global Warehouse segment. The growth within our Global Warehouse segment was driven by our pricing initiatives, rate escalations, improvements in economic occupancy and incremental revenue from recently completed expansion and development projects, partially offset by a decline in throughput due to the inability to move product in certain warehouses during the cyber incident.

Total NOI for the second quarter of 2023 was $184.1 million, an increase of 9.4% from the same quarter of the prior year. This increase is a result of the improvement in our Global Warehouse segment as previously mentioned above, partially offset by ongoing inflationary pressure on operating costs.

For the second quarter of 2023, the Company reported net loss of $104.8 million, or $0.39 loss per diluted share, compared to net income of $4.0 million, or $0.01 loss per diluted share, for the same quarter of the prior year.

Core EBITDA was $134.7 million for the second quarter of 2023, compared to $120.2 million for the same quarter of the prior year. This reflects a 12.1% increase over prior year on an actual basis, and 13.5% on a constant currency basis. The increase is due to the same factors driving the increase in NOI mentioned above.

For the second quarter of 2023, Core FFO was $62.5 million, or $0.23 per diluted share, compared to $65.4 million, or $0.24 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2022.

For the second quarter of 2023, AFFO was $75.6 million, or $0.28 per diluted share, compared to $73.9 million, or $0.27 per diluted share, for the same quarter of the prior year.

Please see the Company’s supplemental financial information for the definitions and reconciliations of non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP financial measures.

Second Quarter 2023 Global Warehouse Segment Results
For the second quarter of 2023, Global Warehouse segment revenue was $581.2 million, an increase of $16.8 million, or 3.0%, compared to $564.4 million for the second quarter of 2022. This growth was principally driven by growth in our same store pool resulting from higher economic occupancy, our pricing initiative, and rate escalations. Additionally, our non-same store pool contributed revenue from our recently completed development projects and acquisitions. This was partially offset by lower throughput pallets in our same store pool as a result of the inability to move product for a period of time during the cyber incident and the unfavorable impact of foreign currency translation.

Global Warehouse segment contribution (NOI) was $172.8 million for the second quarter of 2023 as compared to $151.0 million for the second quarter of 2022. Global Warehouse segment contribution (NOI) increased due to the drivers of warehouse revenue increase mentioned above, partially offset by the impact of inflationary pressures, start-up costs for our developments, and the unfavorable impact of foreign currency translation. Global Warehouse segment margin was 29.7% for the second quarter of 2023, a 299 basis point increase compared to the same quarter of the prior year.

We had 220 same store warehouses for the three months ended June 30, 2023. The following table presents revenues, contribution (NOI) and margins for our same store and non-same store warehouses with a reconciliation to the total financial metrics of our warehouse segment for the three months ended June 30, 2023. Refer to our “Real Estate Portfolio” section below for the composition of our non-same store pool.