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Big Yellow

August 2016

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:
  • 675p
Self storage group Big Yellow is more resilient than most to any Brexit slow-down, given the structural increase in demand for storage space and chronic lack of supply in London and South East (80% of turnover).Final results show it continues in fine fettle with revenues up 20% to £101.4m and pretax profit rising 24% to £49m. Eps increased 15% to 31.1p while the dividend rose 15% to 24.9p. Adjusted NAV rose 12% per share to 569p.Its 56 mature stores (opened since 2007) increased average occupancy from 73.1% to 76.3% driving an increase in store EBITDA margins from 67.2% to 68.6%. The remaining 15 grew occupancy from 71.4% to 76.4%. Average net rent per sq. ft. rose 3% to £25.73 but as occupancy ...

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