Americold Realty Trust (NYSE:COLD) Updates FY 2025 Earnings Guidance

Americold Realty Trust (NYSE:COLD) updated its FY 2025 earnings guidance on Thursday. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 1.510-1.590 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 1.260. The company issued revenue guidance of -.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts have recently weighed in on the stock. Scotiabank lowered their price objective on shares of Americold Realty Trust from $31.00 to $27.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, December 10th. Royal Bank of Canada reduced their target price on shares of Americold Realty Trust from $33.00 to $30.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, November 13th. Robert W. Baird reduced their target price on shares of Americold Realty Trust from $31.00 to $28.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a report on Friday, November 8th. Truist Financial reduced their target price on shares of Americold Realty Trust from $33.00 to $30.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Thursday, December 5th. Finally, Barclays reduced their target price on shares of Americold Realty Trust from $28.00 to $26.00 and set an “equal weight” rating for the company in a report on Monday, November 18th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $29.17.

Americold Realty Trust Price Performance

Shares of COLD stock traded up $1.10 on Thursday, reaching $22.12. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 2,082,587 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,723,472. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $21.57 and its 200-day simple moving average is $24.84. Americold Realty Trust has a 1 year low of $20.41 and a 1 year high of $30.45. The company has a current ratio of 0.15, a quick ratio of 0.15 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.11. The company has a market capitalization of $6.29 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of -21.96, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.56 and a beta of 0.61.

Americold Realty Trust (NYSE:COLD) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 20th. The company reported $0.37 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.10 by $0.27. Americold Realty Trust had a negative return on equity of 8.08% and a negative net margin of 10.63%. Analysts forecast that Americold Realty Trust will post 1.37 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Americold Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, January 15th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, December 31st were paid a dividend of $0.22 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, December 31st. This represents a $0.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 3.98%. Americold Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is currently -87.13%.

Insider Buying and Selling at Americold Realty Trust

In related news, SVP Robert E. Harris sold 1,836 shares of Americold Realty Trust stock in a transaction dated Thursday, December 5th. The stock was sold at an average price of $22.64, for a total transaction of $41,567.04. Following the completion of the sale, the senior vice president now owns 1,837 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $41,589.68. The trade was a 49.99 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink. 0.17% of the stock is owned by insiders.

About Americold Realty Trust

Americold Realty Trust, Inc is a real estate investment trust, which focuses on the ownership, operation, development, and acquisition of temperature-controlled warehouses. It operates through the following segments: Warehouse, Third-Party Managed, Transportation, and Other. The Warehouse segment collects rent and storage fees from customers to store frozen and perishable food and other products within the firm’s real estate portfolio.