Is COLD a high-quality business?

AlphaMadera's AlphaQuality grade scores Americold Realty Trust, Inc. on six pillars — profitability, capital efficiency, balance-sheet strength, growth durability, cash generation, and shareholder yield. The composite letter grade reflects how COLD compares to a Buffett-style quality bar.

What is Americold Realty Trust, Inc.'s AlphaQuality grade?

AlphaQuality assigns a letter grade (A through F) to COLD based on a six-pillar quantitative model. The live page shows the composite grade plus each pillar's individual score with the underlying metrics.

What makes COLD a quality stock?

AlphaQuality looks at return on capital, free-cash-flow margins, debt-to-equity, revenue stability, dividend and buyback policy, and operating-margin trend. Stocks scoring well across all six pillars earn higher grades — the methodology favors compounders over cyclicals.

COLD - Americold Realty Trust, Inc.

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AlphaQuality

Quantitative six-pillar business-quality grade

Real Estate Investment Trust

AlphaQuality — archetype-weighted quantitative grade

F 20.9 / 100 pillar composite

Composite Grade

Composite of six pillars weighted for real estate investment trust businesses. Purely quantitative — the six pillars score only reported financials, no analyst input.

⚠ 5 of the last 5 fiscal years showed negative net income — AlphaQuality will not grade above F for persistent unprofitability in a real estate investment trust business.

Grade overrides the 20.9 pillar composite because hard gates always win. Use the pillar breakdown below to see where the underlying numbers sit.

Profitability

Weight: 20%

F 17.0

Scored using FFO margin — REIT-archetype substitution.

FFO Margin 9.7% 17/100

Capital Efficiency

Weight: 15%

F 2.0

5yr Avg ROE -3.5% 3/100
5yr Share-Count CAGR 6.7% 0/100

Growth Quality

Weight: 15%

D- 30.0

Scored using FFO/share — REIT-archetype substitution.

5yr FFO/Share CAGR -5.3% 0/100
Positive-FFO Years (5) 5/5 100/100

Cash Generation

Weight: 15%

F 0.0

Scored using AFFO dividend coverage — REIT substitution.

AFFO Dividend Coverage -0.83x 0/100
5yr FCF/NI 0.00x 0/100

Balance Sheet

Weight: 25%

D 35.6

Scored using Debt/Assets — REIT-archetype substitution.

Debt / Assets 55.4% 54/100
Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int) 0.08x 1/100

Stability

Weight: 10%

D 37.8

EPS Volatility (σ/μ) 0.43 40/100
Negative-Revenue Years (5) 3/5 40/100
Piotroski F-Score 3 33/100

3 of 4 gurus held; 3 trimmed; 1 full exit.

Holders: 3 -1
Avg Δ position: -25.5%
New buys: 0
Full exits: 1

Cooperman sold -100%
Wood decreased -52%
Greenblatt decreased -12%

How this is calculated

AlphaQuality grades six pillars from 0-100 and weights each by archetype:

Profitability (20%) — FFO Margin
Capital Efficiency (15%) — 5yr Avg ROE, 5yr Share-Count CAGR
Growth Quality (15%) — 5yr FFO/Share CAGR, Positive-FFO Years (5)
Cash Generation (15%) — AFFO Dividend Coverage, 5yr FCF/NI
Balance Sheet (25%) — Debt / Assets, Interest Coverage (EBIT/Int)
Stability (10%) — EPS Volatility (σ/μ), Negative-Revenue Years (5), Piotroski F-Score

The six pillars read only reported financial-statement fields — no analyst targets or consensus ratings. The archetype that picks which pillar formulas apply is not fully price-free, though: it can route a company to the distressed/ungradable archetype based on price vs. its 52-week high, and beta affects one classification check. A minimum of 5 fiscal years of audited statements is required. Insurers and banks are graded on their own methodology — insurers on loss ratio, its trend and stability, and premiums-to-surplus; banks on the efficiency ratio, its trend and stability, and equity-to-assets — rather than on industrial margin/ROIC signals. Distressed, highly leveraged infrastructure, asset-manager, and other financial businesses are declared ungradable rather than forced into a numeric score.