4/16/2026

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Operator
Conference Operator

Greetings and welcome to the Prologis Q1 2026 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. The question and answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce Justin Meng, Senior Vice President, Head of Investor Relations. Thank you. You may begin.

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Justin Meng
Senior Vice President, Head of Investor Relations

Thank you, Operator, and good morning, everyone. Welcome to our first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Joining us today are Dan Letter, CEO, Tim Arndt, CFO, and Chris Keaton, Managing Director. I'd like to note that this call will contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of federal securities laws and including statements regarding our outlook, expectations, and future performance. These statements are based on the current assumptions and are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. Please refer to our SEC filings for a discussion of these risks. We undertake no obligation to update any forward-looking statements. Additionally, during this call, we will discuss certain financial measures, such as FFO and EBITDA, that are not GAAP. And in accordance with Reg G, we have provided a reconciliation to the most directly comparable GAAP measures in our first quarter earnings press release and supplemental. Both are available on our website at www.prologist.com. And with that, I will hand the call over to Dan.

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Dan Letter
Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Justin. Good morning and thank you for joining us. We entered 2026 with solid momentum, and we saw that continue in our first quarter results. While the geopolitical backdrop has become more uncertain in recent weeks, our business continues to perform at a very high level, supported by resilient demand, disciplined execution, and the strength and scale of our global platform. Last quarter, we outlined our top three priorities for the business. Let me highlight how our strategy is translating into results across operations, value creation, and capital formation. First, we delivered another quarter of record leasing with 64 million square feet of signings, supported by both strong retention and healthy new leasing activity. Occupancy exceeded our expectations and we are raising our full year outlook. Second, we are putting our land bank to work across logistics and data centers with $2.1 billion of starts in the quarter, of which $1.3 billion was data center build-a-suits. The depth of customer interest for our data center offerings is significant, and we believe our ability to bring together land, power, and development expertise is a key differentiator for our business and positions us to capture a growing share of this opportunity. And third, we are expanding our strategic capital platform. We announced a $1.6 billion joint venture with GIC and subsequent to quarter end, a $1.2 billion joint venture with LaCasse. These partnerships reflect strong investor demand for our platform and our ability to deploy capital into high quality opportunities worldwide. Taken together, these initiatives reinforce a simple point. We're building a broader, more resilient platform, one that is positioned to compound growth over time. Before I pass the call to Tim, let me briefly address the geopolitical backdrop. The conflict in the Middle East has introduced yet another source of economic uncertainty, most directly through higher energy prices and renewed pressure on inflation and interest rates. Rather than speculate, I'll focus on what we're seeing in our data, what we're hearing from our customers, and how we are operating the business. Our lease signings, proposal volume, and build-to-suit pipeline point to continued strength in underlying demand. In fact, March was a very active month for new leasing. By comparison, when our business faced abrupt tariff-related uncertainty in April of 2025, the pause in leasing activity was relatively immediate before thawing out in the following weeks and months. At the same time, our customer insights are grounded in direct, ongoing engagement with hundreds of real-time interactions each quarter. Seven weeks into this conflict, most are actively monitoring the situation, and they are telling us 2026 business plans are unchanged. The risk today is that uncertainty slows customer decision-making. We have not seen meaningful evidence of that to date. That said, we're operating with a heightened level of awareness guided by the same discipline that has defined our business for decades. This is a time-tested platform, and the structural drivers of growth across logistics, digital infrastructure, and energy remain firmly in place. And with that, I'll hand the call to Tim to walk you through our results and outlook.

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