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Authoritative Independent Monthly Share Selections Using Technical & Fundamental Analysis

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Big Yellow - Take a part profit

January 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:
  • 764p
The shares hit a new high of 838p over the month while interims were also strong with pretax profit and eps rising 30% and 16%, respectively, to £23.9m and 15.1p. Net bank debt was £277m, making for a loan to value of just 26%. Income covered debt interest 6.2 times (2014: 4.2 times).The power came from a 4.1% increase in like-for-like occupancy at its 70 stores as at 30 September 2015. Its 56 stores that were opened pre-2007 grew occupancy from 75% to 78.3%, while its 11 stores opened post-2007 rose from 70.7% to 73.9%. When occupancy gets towards 80% it becomes easier to raise prices and net rent increased by 3.5% to £25.7.Big Yellow acquired two sites at King’s Cross and Camberwell, both subject to ...

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