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Big Yellow

August 2006

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • BYG
  • Price:
  • 412p
Self storage firm Big Yellow’s latest trading statement revealed further excellent progress with turnover for the quarter ending 30 July up 21% to £11.6m over the same period last year, while annualised revenue is up 20% to £47.6m. Big Yellow now has 40 stores open with a total self storage capacity of 2.39m sq. ft. Within this, its occupied space has increased 13% to 1.74m sq. ft. implying overall occupancy of 75% and there has been no adverse impact on utilisation from the 4.5% price increase put through in May. During the quarter, Big Yellow acquired a fifth site in Poole, which will provide 53,000 sq. ft. when developed and it now has an overall pipeline of 19 development sites, which when completed will take the gr ...

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