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Big Yellow

August 2009

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:
  • 340p
In an update covering the first quarter to 30 June self-storage group Big Yellow announced that total store revenue increased 1% to £13.5m. This was driven by its wholly owned stores increasing occupancy by 3% or 56,000 sq. ft. to 1,788,000. Within that, same store occupancy increased 1% to 1,389,000 sq. ft while occupancy of the 16 leased up stores open more than a year rose 9% to 380,000. Meanwhile, net rents have averaged £25.70, broadly unchanged from the £25.73 in the previous quarter. During the period, Big Yellow achieved one new opening and now has 51 wholly owned stores, with total storage capacity of 3.2m sq. ft. It intends to open a further five in the current year to add a further 293,000 sq. ft. Meanwhile 13 of the ...

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