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Long-Term Compensation
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2024
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract]  
Long-Term Compensation

NOTE 12. LONG-TERM COMPENSATION

 

2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan

 

The 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan ("2020 LTIP") provides for grants of awards to officers, directors, employees and consultants of the Parent or its subsidiaries. Awards can be in the form of: full value awards, stock appreciation rights and stock options (non-qualified options and incentive stock options). Full value awards generally consist of: (i) common stock; (ii) restricted stock units (“RSUs”); (iii) OP LTIP units (“LTIP Units”) and (iv) performance stock units ("PSUs”). Awards may be made under the 2020 LTIP until it is terminated by the Board or until the ten-year anniversary of the effective date of the plan.

 

The awards have been issued under the following components of our equity-based compensation programs at December 31, 2024: (i) Performance Stock Unit Program; (ii) Prologis Outperformance Plan ("POP"); (iii) Prologis Promote Plan (“PPP”); (iv) annual long-term incentive (“LTI”) equity award program (“Annual LTI Award”); and (v) annual bonus exchange program.

 

At December 31, 2024, we had 15.9 million shares of common stock remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans.

 

Equity-Based Compensation Programs

 

Performance Stock Unit ("PSU") Program

 

On January 16, 2024, PSUs were granted under the Company's 2020 Long-Term Incentive Plan and will be settled in equity at the end of a three-year performance period, if applicable market-based performance hurdles are met. Such hurdles are based on a performance scale of Prologis’ percentile ranking in the Morgan Stanley Capital International US REIT Index (the “Index”) for a three-year performance period. Prologis must perform at the 55th percentile to earn a target award of 100.0%. The award is capped at 200.0% of the target for performance at or above the 85th percentile, and there is no payout in the event Prologis’ performance is below the 35th percentile. There is a proportional scaling between the 35th and the 85th percentiles, starting with 50.0% of the target being earned at the 35th percentile. The fair value of the awards is measured at the grant date and amortized over the period from the grant date to the date at which the awards vest, regardless of whether the market condition has been satisfied, which ranges from three to five years.

 

We granted PSUs for the 2024 – 2026 performance period in January 2024, with a fair value of $31.5 million using a Monte Carlo valuation model that assumed a risk-free interest rate of 4.2% and an expected volatility of 27.0% for Prologis and 30.5% for the peer group companies. We apply a discount to the fair value of the awards to reflect the illiquidity imposed by post-vesting holding periods, utilizing a weighted discount of 10% from valuation models that consider the length of the restriction, and the illiquidity associated with the awards. If an award is earned at the end of the initial three-year performance period, one-third of the award vests at the end of the performance period and the remaining award vests equally one and two years after the award is earned. The award is subject to an additional three-year holding requirement. Awards are in the form of common stock, RSUs and LTIP Units.

 

Prologis Outperformance Plan ("POP")

 

We have allocated participation points or a percentage of the compensation pool to participants under our POP corresponding to three-year performance periods beginning every January 1. The fair value of the awards is measured at the grant date and amortized over the period from the grant date to the date at which the awards vest, which ranges from three to ten years. The performance hurdle (“Outperformance Hurdle”) at the end of the initial three-year performance period requires our three-year compound annualized total stockholder return (“TSR”) to exceed a threshold set at the three-year compound annualized TSR for the Index for the same period plus 100 basis points. If the Outperformance Hurdle is met, a compensation pool will be formed equal to 3.0% of the excess value created, subject to a maximum as defined by each performance period. POP awards cannot be paid at a time when we meet the outperformance hurdle, yet our absolute TSR is negative. If after seven years our absolute TSR has not been positive, the awards will be forfeited.

 

Commencing in 2024, the named executive officers ("NEOs") and certain select employees received PSUs, discussed above, and no new awards will be made to these individuals under the POP. We granted participation points for the 2024 – 2026 performance period in January 2024 to other employees, as discussed in the table below. The 2024 – 2026 performance period has an absolute maximum cap of $60 million. If an award is earned at the end of the initial three-year performance period, then 20.0% of the POP award is paid at the end of the initial performance period and the remaining 80.0% is subject to additional seven-year cliff vesting. The 20.0% that is paid at the end of the initial three-year performance period is subject to an additional three-year holding requirement.

 

Each participant is eligible to receive a percentage of the total compensation pool based on the number of participation points allocated to the participant, or in the case of certain executive officers for previous POP awards, a set percentage of the compensation pool. If the performance criteria are met, the participants’ points or compensation pool percentage will be paid in the form of common stock, RSUs, POP LTIP Units or LTIP Units, as elected by the participant.

 

At December 31, 2024, all awards were equity classified. The grant date fair value was calculated using a Monte Carlo valuation model.

 

The following table details the assumptions used for each POP grant based on the year it was granted (dollars in thousands):

 

 

2024

 

 

2023

 

 

2022

 

Risk free interest rate

 

 

4.2

%

 

 

4.2

%

 

 

1.0

%

Prologis expected volatility

 

 

27.0

%

 

 

35.0

%

 

 

31.0

%

Index expected volatility

 

 

20.0

%

 

 

31.0

%

 

 

29.0

%

Grant date fair value

 

$

19,000

 

 

$

28,300

 

 

$

30,400

 

 

Total remaining compensation cost at December 31, 2024, was $52.5 million, prior to adjustments for capitalized amounts due to our development activities. The remaining compensation cost will be recognized through 2033, with a weighted average period of 2.8 years.

 

The performance criteria were met for the performance periods ended 2022 and 2023. The absolute maximum cap was earned and awarded in January of the following year for each respective performance period. The performance criteria was not met for the

performance period ended 2024. The tables below include POP awards that were earned but are unvested while any vested awards are reflected within the Consolidated Statements of Equity and Capital.

 

Prologis Promote Plan (“PPP”)

 

Under the PPP, for promotes earned after January 2024, we award up to 25% of the third-party portion of promotes earned by Prologis from co-investment ventures to employees through a compensation pool. The awards may be settled in some combination of cash and full value awards, at our election. For promotes earned prior to January 2024, up to 40% of the third-party portion of promotes was awarded to certain employees.

 

Annual LTI Equity Award Program (“Annual LTI Award”)

 

The Annual LTI Award provides for grants to certain employees related to the most recent performance period.

 

Annual Bonus Exchange Program

 

Under our bonus exchange program, generally all our employees may elect to receive all or a portion of their annual cash bonus in equity. Equity awards granted through the bonus exchange are valued at a premium to the cash bonus exchanged and vest over three years, excluding certain executive officers. As certain executive officers do not receive a bonus exchange premium for participating in the bonus exchange program, the equity they receive upon exchange for their cash bonuses does not have a vesting period.

 

Under the PPP, Annual LTI Award and Annual Bonus Exchange Program, awards may be issued in the form of RSUs or LTIP Units at the participants’ elections. RSUs and LTIP Units are valued based on the market price of the Parent’s common stock on the date the award is granted, and the grant date value is charged to compensation expense over the service period. The service period is generally four years, except for awards under the annual bonus exchange program. Dividends and distributions are paid with respect to both RSUs and LTIP Units during the vesting period, and therefore they are considered participating securities. We do not allocate undistributed earnings to participating securities as our net earnings per share or unit would not be materially different. The value of the dividend is charged to retained earnings for RSUs and the distribution is charged to Net Earnings Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests in the OP for LTIP Units in the Consolidated Financial Statements of the Parent.

 

Summary of Award Activity

 

PSUs

 

The following table summarizes the activity for PSUs for the year ended December 31, 2024 (units in thousands):

 

 

 

Unvested PSUs

 

 

Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value

 

Balance at January 1, 2024

 

 

-

 

 

$

-

 

Granted

 

 

244

 

 

 

129.10

 

Vested and distributed

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

Forfeited

 

 

-

 

 

 

-

 

Balance at December 31, 2024

 

 

244

 

 

$

129.10

 

 

No PSUs vested during the year ended December 31, 2024. Total remaining compensation cost related to the PSUs at December 31, 2024, was $20.0 million, prior to adjustments for capitalized amounts due to our development activities. The remaining compensation cost will be recognized through 2028, with a weighted average period of 1.5 years.

 

RSUs

 

Each RSU represents the right to receive one share of common stock of the Parent.

 

The following table summarizes the activity for RSUs for the year ended December 31, 2024 (units in thousands):

 

 

 

Unvested RSUs

 

 

Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value

 

Balance at January 1, 2024

 

 

2,097

 

 

$

98.23

 

Granted

 

 

820

 

 

 

111.00

 

Vested and distributed

 

 

(757

)

 

 

108.04

 

Forfeited

 

 

(97

)

 

 

104.73

 

Balance at December 31, 2024

 

 

2,063

 

 

$

99.39

 

 

The fair value of stock awards granted and vested was $91.0 million and $81.7 million for 2024, $122.1 million and $65.0 million for 2023 and $98.9 million and $48.6 million for 2022, respectively, based on the weighted average grant date fair value per unit.

 

Total remaining compensation cost related to RSUs outstanding, excluding POP awards, at December 31, 2024, was $109.4 million, prior to adjustments for capitalized amounts due to our development activities. The remaining compensation cost will be recognized through 2028, with a weighted average period of 1.2 years.

 

LTIP Units

 

An LTIP Unit represents a partnership interest in the OP. After vesting and the satisfaction of certain conditions, an LTIP Unit may be exchangeable for a common limited partnership unit in the OP and then redeemable for a share of common stock or cash at our option. Once LTIP Units are vested and converted into common stock, they reduce the total share reserve under the equity compensation plan but do not count as available shares for future awards. At December 31, 2024, 6.7 million LTIP Units were vested but not yet converted, and therefore, they remain excluded from the available share pool but included in fully diluted share calculations.

 

The following table summarizes the activity for LTIP Units for the year ended December 31, 2024 (units in thousands):

 

 

 

Unvested LTIP Units

 

 

Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value

 

Balance at January 1, 2024

 

 

5,379

 

 

$

76.72

 

Granted

 

 

1,274

 

 

 

98.19

 

Vested LTIP Units

 

 

(1,357

)

 

 

113.19

 

Forfeited

 

 

(46

)

 

 

117.59

 

Balance at December 31, 2024

 

 

5,250

 

 

$

72.15

 

 

The fair value of unit awards granted and vested was $125.1 million and $153.6 million for 2024, $259.0 million and $151.1 million for 2023 and $188.8 million and $84.3 million for 2022, respectively, based on the weighted average grant date fair value per unit.

 

Total remaining compensation cost related to LTIP Units, excluding POP awards, at December 31, 2024, was $156.6 million, prior to adjustments for capitalized amounts due to our development activities. The remaining compensation cost will be recognized through 2030, with a weighted average period of 1.3 years.

 

Other Plans

 

The Prologis 401(k) Plan (the “401(k) Plan”) includes a matching employer contribution of $0.50 for every dollar contributed by an employee, up to 12% of the employee’s annual compensation (within the statutory compensation limit). In the 401(k) Plan, vesting in the matching employer contributions is based on the employee's years of service, with 100% vesting at the completion of one year of service. Our contributions under the matching provisions were $10.2 million, $8.9 million and $8.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

 

We have a non-qualified savings plan that allows highly compensated employees the opportunity to defer the receipt and income taxation of a certain portion of their compensation in excess of the amount permitted under the 401(k) Plan. There has been no employer matching within this plan in the three-year period ended December 31, 2024.