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Earnings call · FY2026 Q1

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Q1 FY2026 Earnings Call

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. Q1 FY2026 Earnings Call

Concluded Apr 28, 2026 Audio replay
Apr 28, 2026 1:19:40 94 turns
Period
FY2026 Q1
Runtime
1:19:40
Sources
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Executive readout · one minute

What matters this quarter

Alexandria Real Estate Equities reported Q1 2026 FFO per share diluted as adjusted of $1.73 in a tough operating environment, reaffirming the midpoint of its 2026 FFO guidance at $6.40 while tightening the range, executing $2.2 billion of dispositions/partial-interest sales and $647,000 square feet of leasing for the quarter.

Disposition / capital recycling 25 Path forward strategy execution 25 Development project re-scoping / pivots 23 Regulatory and policy environment 22 Tough operating environment / biotech capital markets 22 Mega campus platform and tenant quality 11

Management tone

Balanced

Net tone +5 · moderate hedging

Grounding quotes
  • “First of all, as I always do, I want to say a thank you to our remarkable family team for their awesome efforts during a tough first quarter operating environment.”
  • “Moving to the first quarter, as all of you know, it was a very tough operating environment, but we made very solid progress on our path forward laid out in detail at our Investor Day.”
  • “This is maybe the first quarter in the history of the company that I can remember where we didn't sign a single public biotech lease. So that gives you a sense of what the environment is out there.”
  • “It's just a little bit too early to tell on what happens with the rest of the expirations for 2027.”

Forward guidance

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Revenue $671.02M -11.5% YoY
Diluted EPS $2.10
Net income $361.65M

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Key takeaways

What improved, and what deserves a closer read.

Constructive signals

  • Reaffirmed midpoint of 2026 FFO per share diluted as adjusted guidance at $6.40 and tightened the range
  • Executed $2.2 billion of dispositions and sales of partial interests pending or in process
  • Recorded a $366 million gain from an unsecured bond tender that reduced overall debt
  • Development/redevelopment leasing momentum with executed leases and LOIs aggregating 394,000 square feet
  • Mission Bay 409/499 Illinois Street disposition achieved a record $1,645 per square foot pricing for a San Francisco lab asset
  • Continued G&A savings of $7.4 million compared to the 2024 quarterly average

Risks & pressure points

  • First quarter where the company signed zero public biotech leases, reflecting a very tough biotech capital markets backdrop
  • Leasing volume of only 647,000 square feet for the quarter; company does not expect 3.5–4 million square feet to be a run rate
  • $97.5 million of 2027 lease expirations are likely to have downtime with retention rate still uncertain
  • Public biotech markets described as a 'very tough slog' for preclinical/clinical companies without data or milestones
  • FDA progress described as sluggish amid leadership and staffing pressures
  • Several development projects under review for potential pivot away from traditional lab use, with decision milestones approaching in early next year

Key moments

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“It's pretty clear that AI is not fully autonomous discovery, but is aimed at compressing timelines and increasing throughput and recovering lost institutional knowledge, and that is all really good. I think most experts believe that AI will have a small impact on real estate requirements and could even see the need for additional dry and wet space as they run experiments designed by AI.” Joel Marcus, Chairman
“Our disposition of 409/499 Illinois Street in Mission Bay received a record pricing of $1,645 per square foot, the highest ever achieved for a lab asset in San Francisco. And by the way, it was 40% occupied.” Joel Marcus, Chairman

Guidance from the call

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Metric Guided
Year-end 2026 occupancy
year-end 2026
87%

Quarter detail

How the reported period landed and where the business moved.

Revenue · segments

Reportable Segment Aggregation Before Other Operating Segment$625.79M -11.3% YoY
All Other Segments$45.23M -13.7% YoY

Capital returned

Dividend / share
$0.72
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