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Americold Realty Trust, Inc. scores 4/10 on the AskCyborg Cyborg Score (Mixed). Mature market leader with operational headwinds facing industry overcapacity but maintains attractive dividend yield and strategic positioning in essential food logistics infrastructure. Shares are down 41.6% over the prior year, and economic occupancy fell to 76.1% and throughput pallets declined 4.3%, with changes in consumer buying, competitive capacity.

What is Americold Realty Trust, Inc.'s industry? Americold Realty Trust, Inc. (americold.com) operates in Temperature-Controlled Logistics REIT. AskCyborg classifies Americold Realty Trust, Inc. under Temperature-Controlled Logistics REIT in its company registry.

Americold Realty Trust is the global leader in temperature-controlled logistics, ensuring safe, efficient food movement worldwide. The company operates 231 warehouses with approximately 1.4 billion cubic feet of stora...

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Industry Temperature-Controlled Logistics REIT
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Americold Realty Trust, Inc. Overview

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Americold Realty Trust is the global leader in temperature-controlled logistics, ensuring safe, efficient food movement worldwide. The company operates 231 warehouses with approximately 1.4 billion cubic feet of storage, 5.5 million pallet positions, and serves around 3,000 customers with 13,000 associates worldwide.

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Americold is the world's second-largest owner and operator of temperature-controlled warehouses behind privately held Lineage Logistics. The company is expanding beyond its core business in retail and frozen food to adjacent markets including pet food, floral, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, and is focused on growing its retail and QSR presence globally, particularly in Europe and the Middle East.

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Americold remains the No. 2 cold-storage REIT, with an 18% market share in North America and 6% globally. Lineage Logistics is the privately held market leader. The industry faces structural headwinds with overcapacity pressuring occupancy and pricing.

Industry Context

Americold Realty Trust, Inc. operates in Temperature-Controlled Logistics REIT.

Key facts

Founded: 1991 · Headquarters: Atlanta, Georgia · Employees: 13,000 · Revenue: $2.6B · Market cap: $3.5B

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  • Net debt to pro forma Core EBITDA was about 6.8x at December 31, 2025, raising leverage concerns
  • The market is nearly 10% overbuilt given recent warehouse additions, with new deliveries up 4% this year but expected to slow to 1.5% next year
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Recent developments

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  • February 2026Q4 2025 results reported with adjusted FFO per share of $0.38 and full-year adjusted FFO of $1.43
  • January 2026Entered cooperation agreement with activist investor Ancora, appointing two new board members
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Lineage LogisticsPrivately held market leader in temperature-controlled warehousing with proprietary technology→Prologis Inc.Industrial real estate operator with some temperature-controlled assets→STAG IndustrialIndustrial REIT with diverse logistics portfolio→

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What does Americold Realty Trust, Inc. do?+
Americold Realty Trust is the global leader in temperature-controlled logistics, ensuring safe, efficient food movement worldwide. The company operates 231 warehouses with approximately 1.4 billion cubic feet of stora...
What is Americold Realty Trust, Inc.'s Cyborg Score?+
Americold Realty Trust, Inc. has a Cyborg Score of 4/10 (Mixed). The score synthesizes business model, financials, leadership, competitive position, technology, marketing, and ESG dimensions across hundreds of data points.
Who are Americold Realty Trust, Inc.'s main competitors?+
Named competitors include Lineage Logistics, Prologis Inc., STAG Industrial. The full competitive landscape is in the AskCyborg report.
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