Lineage Faces First Earnings Hurdle After Year’s Biggest US IPO
- Consumers are buying less food, testing Lineage’s business
- Cold-storage REIT stock is down 7% since IPO on macro concerns
Lineage Inc. signage during the company's initial public offering at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, on July 25.
Photographer: Jeenah Moon/BloombergLineage Inc.’s first quarterly report after raising $5.1 billion in the year’s biggest US initial public offering will be a crucial test, as the temperature-controlled storage firm faces potentially weak demand for food supplies.
The bar is low for the $16-billion cold-storage real estate investment trust that has fallen 7% since its July IPO. Wall Street expects the company to report $1.3 billion in revenue and an adjusted diluted loss per share of $1.73 for the quarter that ended in September. Between a challenged US consumer and lower volumes from food producers, cold-storage companies are battling several macro headwinds, according to RBC Capital Markets analyst Michael Carroll.