Analyzing Prologis – A Fundamental Overview

By Ken Smith • Tuesday, August 19 15:29 • Permanent Link

With gains of 4.5%, Prologis was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $110.14 and have logged a -1.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

Prologis has moved -15.1% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 15.2%
PLD has an average analyst rating of buy and is -7.64% away from its mean target price of $119.25 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $3.71
Prologis has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 29.7 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $3.52 and its forward P/E ratio is 31.3
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.94 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Prologis is part of the Real Estate sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 27.31 and an average P/B of 1.94
PLD has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -34.0% and gross profit margins of 0.8%
The company has a free cash flow of $5.04 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Prologis, Inc., is the global leader in logistics real estate with a focus on high-barrier, high-growth markets. At March 31, 2025, the company owned or had investments in, on a wholly owned basis or through co-investment ventures, properties and development projects expected to total approximately 1.3 billion square feet (120 million square meters) in 20 countries. Prologis leases modern logistics facilities to a diverse base of approximately 6,500 customers principally across two major categories: business-to-business and retail/online fulfillment.

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