Prologis, Inc. (PLD) — BATS 0/100 — 2026-07-16

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Presentation

(1/7) Call opening and forward-looking disclosures
• 📢 Justin Meng opened the Prologis second quarter 2026 earnings conference call and introduced Dan Letter, Tim Arndt, and Chris Caton.
• ⚠️ Management noted the call contains forward-looking statements and non-GAAP measures such as FFO and EBITDA with reconciliations in the press release.
• 🚫 For U.K. Takeover Code reasons, Prologis will not take or respond to questions related to Zebra or the possible Sabre offer.

(2/7) CEO overview: next phase of logistics, data centers, and energy growth
• 📈 Dan Letter said Prologis is entering the next phase of growth where logistics, data centers, and energy increasingly reinforce one another and raised the outlook after an exceptional quarter.
• 🏭 The company signed a record 67 million square feet of leases and holds a 14,000-acre land bank representing 240 million square feet of embedded development opportunity, with $1.6 billion of new project starts.
• ⚡ The power pipeline expanded to about 5.8 gigawatts, representing roughly $17 billion of powered-shell or up to $87 billion of turnkey investment potential, still described as early innings.

(3/7) Financial results, occupancy, and capital deployment
• 💰 Core FFO was $1.63 per share including net promote income and $1.60 without, each ahead of expectations, with $83 million of promote revenue in the quarter.
• 📊 Occupancy ended at 95.5%, rent change exceeded 36% net effective and 22% cash, and same-store NOI grew 6.4% net effective and 8.5% cash.
• 🏗️ Development starts exceeded $1.6 billion including about $800 million in logistics, acquisitions were $1.8 billion at roughly a 20% discount to replacement cost, and dispositions totaled $800 million.

(4/7) Data center platform advancement and power pipeline
• 🖥️ Prologis started a 260-megawatt build-to-suit campus with about $800 million expected investment and year-to-date data center starts of $2.1 billion, exceeding full-year guidance.
• 💵 Nearly $4 billion of data center development has commenced, more than 50% in turnkey projects, and a 100-megawatt power land sale generated an 82% margin.
• ⚡ The power pipeline reached about 5.8 gigawatts, more than double over two years, with roughly 85% positioned to support starts through 2030 and over 10 gigawatts of opportunity seen over 10 years.

(5/7) Market conditions in the U.S. and Europe
• 📈 U.S. net absorption totaled 66 million square feet in Q2, the highest since 2022, with vacancy declining to 7.2% and market rents up about 70 basis points.
• 🔗 Customer demand is broadening across e-commerce, advanced manufacturing, and digital-infrastructure support, with research estimating each $1 trillion of data center CapEx drives 30 to 40 million square feet of incremental logistics demand.
• 🌍 Europe’s recovery is nearly 12 months ahead of the U.S., with vacancy tight at 5.2% and rents up about 60 basis points in the quarter and 160 basis points from the trough.

(6/7) Capital markets, balance sheet, and raised guidance
• 🏦 Prologis completed about $3.4 billion of financing across the U.S., Europe, and Asia and ended at 4.7x debt-to-EBITDA.
• 📊 Guidance was raised for average occupancy to 95.25%–95.75%, net effective same-store growth to 5.25%–5.75%, and development starts to $5.5–$6.5 billion.
• 💰 Net earnings guidance moved to $4.40–$4.55 per share and core FFO to $6.22–$6.30 per share, a 100 basis point midpoint increase versus prior guidance.

(7/7) M&A posture and Sabre proposal comments
• 🚫 Dan reiterated Prologis will not take Sabre questions for regulatory reasons while restating a high bar for M&A on asset quality, strategic fit, and price discipline.
• 💼 On Sgro, management said it put forward a compelling proposal with a meaningful premium and a valuation above stated NTA.
• 🤝 The proposal is framed as letting Sgro shareholders participate in upside of a stronger combined company, with further updates only if and when there is something to share.

Q&A

(1/17) Q&A: How much market rent growth is needed for mark-to-market to expand again?
• 📊 Tim said lease mark-to-market fully leveled this quarter and should eventually normalize toward a low-double-digit run-rate range.
• 📈 Mark-to-market would expand again if market rent growth exceeds rent change on rollover in a given year, with replacement-cost rents still viewed as favorable.
• 🏆 Dan added that continued occupancy outperformance shows Prologis taking more market share each quarter.

(2/17) Q&A: Is leasing demand pent-up or from newer customers?
• 📝 Dan highlighted 67 million square feet of Q2 leasing, a fourth record in seven quarters, alongside 66 million square feet of U.S. net absorption.
• 💬 Customer conversations continue to improve as companies focus on growth, invest in supply chains, and make longer-term decisions, with very limited large-box availability.
• 🏭 Chris said growth drivers include e-commerce, advanced manufacturing including data-center construction support, supply-chain reconfiguration, with housing-related categories still under-punching.

(3/17) Q&A: How are data center starts baked into raised development guidance?
• 📐 Tim confirmed overall starts guidance was taken up meaningfully after already achieving the prior $2 billion data center starts assumption.
• 🏗️ The uplift in starts guidance is correctly inferred as coming from logistics.
• 📈 Dan cited improving fundamentals in over two dozen markets for potential spec and a build-to-suit pipeline up about 10%–12% quarter-over-quarter.

(4/17) Q&A: U.S. market rent growth and net absorption outlook
• 🔄 Chris said Prologis is upgrading its view on market fundamentals as the inflection phase gives way to a broader recovery.
• 📊 U.S. net absorption is expected at 220 million square feet this year versus 195 million square feet of completions, allowing market occupancies to rise about 30 basis points.
• 📈 U.S. market rent growth in the quarter was 70 basis points, with potential for more consistent inflation-plus growth over time versus replacement costs.

(5/17) Q&A: Southern California recovery pace
• 📍 Chris said Southern California has bottomed and is moving toward early recovery with more consistent, broad-based demand.
• 📈 Net absorption in Southern California was 9 million square feet in the quarter, vacancies fell 30 basis points to below 7%, and market rents are stable with some pocket increases.
• ⏱️ Dan said SoCal is following the broader market inflection by two or three quarters as previously signaled, aided by portfolio quality and location.

(6/17) Q&A: Build-to-suit versus speculative development appetite
• 🏗️ Dan said market improvement across many markets means more spec from Prologis while the build-to-suit pipeline is also growing.
• ⚖️ Build-to-suits are binary and multi-quarter, and historically land around 40% to 50% of overall volume.
• 🌍 Limited large-format availability plus 14,000 acres and 240 million square feet of opportunity support Prologis’s development positioning.

(7/17) Q&A: Powered shell versus turnkey mix in the data center pipeline
• 💵 Dan reiterated the wide $17 billion to $87 billion opportunity range and said outcomes will fall somewhere between powered shell and full turnkey.
• 🤝 Prologis prefers turnkey when possible but the business is customer-led, so it will deliver what customers want.
• 📊 The firm also sold power land last quarter at an 82% margin when risk-adjusted returns were most attractive at that stage.

(8/17) Q&A: Why development yields declined 160 basis points quarter-over-quarter
• 🧩 Dan said the 160 basis point decline in development yield starts was entirely mix-driven and can be lumpy quarter by quarter.
• 📈 Tim added that margin best contextualizes the mix together with expectations on stabilized cap rates.
• ✅ Those margin and stabilized-cap-rate expectations looked very strong in the quarter.

(9/17) Q&A: How the 10-gigawatt data center outlook compares with 2023 Investor Day
• ⚡ Dan noted the power pipeline has doubled in two years and that 2023 commitments to build pipeline, internal capabilities, and round-trip properties have been executed.
• 🗺️ Prologis is confident it will deliver the 10-gigawatt projection and sees more megawatts beyond that across its buildings and land sites.
• 💰 Tim stressed capital availability is a critical ingredient and that the company is clearing the decks via logistics development ventures and other capacity.

(10/17) Q&A: Data center capitalization plans and residual value underwriting
• 🏷️ Tim said the plan remains to sell assets at completion, with another package likely in the next six to nine months after related campus projects stabilize.
• 🤝 No single structure optimizes the vast unique opportunity set, so Prologis has formed frameworks with a range of partners aligned to powered shell, turnkey, hold, or development preferences.
• 💵 Dan said margins remain supported by build-to-suit hyperscale leases, maturing stabilized-asset pricing visibility, and logistics land basis uplift to power-land value.

(11/17) Q&A: Cap rates, asset pricing, and promote drivers
• 📉 Tim said market cap rates and unlevered IRRs have been relatively stable in the low-to-mid 5% and low-to-mid 7% ranges.
• 📈 Valuation uplifts come from portfolios chewing through lease mark-to-market and rising cash flows amid constant return requirements.
• 🌍 The promote was predominantly from the Mexico FIBRA vehicle, which has outperformed and been a fairly perennial promote source.

(12/17) Q&A: Acquisition competition and 4.1% stabilized cap rates
• 🛒 Tim said Prologis feels great about quarter acquisitions, including balance-sheet buys with deeply below-market leases in premier coastal markets.
• 💰 The reported cap rate reflects those below-market leases and a deep discount to replacement cost, including attractive basis in SoCal and Southern Florida.
• 🎯 Dan emphasized Prologis is an IRR and total-return-focused investor rather than fixating on going-in cap rates.

(13/17) Q&A: What will Prologis throttle up most in the next phase of the cycle?
• 📊 Dan pointed to continued portfolio refinement, market-share gains, 17% mark-to-market, and further upside to replacement-cost rents as multiyear rent-growth fuel.
• 🏗️ Development starts were raised again on logistics confidence, while data centers continue to grow with profits round-tripped into the core business as outlined in 2023.
• ⚡ Strategic capital vehicle formation, energy with 1.3 gigawatts on roofs and only 8% coverage, and Operating Essentials are additional growth drivers.

(14/17) Q&A: Dispersion of U.S. market rent growth and strongest markets
• 📉 Chris said dispersion across markets has been wide but is narrowing as the market enters the next growth phase.
• 🌊 Over time there could be a rotation back toward coastal outperformance, already visible in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
• 🗺️ Strongest markets currently include Texas, the Southeast, the Midwest, and the Bay Area, while Seattle is probably the softest.

(15/17) Q&A: NIMBYism and data center entitlement barriers
• ⚠️ Dan agreed approvals and entitlements are a growing issue and a meaningful barrier to supply for complex multiyear projects.
• 🏢 Prologis differentiates through 110 global offices of local teams embedded in communities who educate municipalities on project benefits.
• ✅ The firm said it is not impacted by the cited moratorium and aims to be the most responsible data center developer by staying ahead of these issues.

(16/17) Q&A: Why Europe still has room to run despite supply risk
• 📈 Chris said European demand is really attractive, with healthy secular drivers including e-commerce and supply-chain modernization, equal to or better than the U.S. on the continent.
• 🚧 Stringent barriers to supply, green-space focus, and greater planning requirements mean supply does not come on as quickly as the question suggested.
• 🕰️ More than 25 years on the ground across multiple cycles and a diversified business give Prologis confidence in Europe.

(17/17) Q&A: Clarifying 70 bps rent growth and occupancy path to guidance
• 📊 Chris confirmed the 70 basis points of U.S. market rent growth was quarter-on-quarter and pointed to a brokerage consensus published on the Prologis IR website.
• 📉 Tim said nothing noteworthy drove average occupancy below ending occupancy; averages are typically lower because leases often roll at the beginning of the quarter.
• 📈 Elevated 2026 rollover from COVID-era leasing is being rebuilt, and management feels great about occupancy for the balance of the year after the quarter’s build.