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Big Yellow - NAV rises 47%

July 2007

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  • Epic Code:
  • BYG
  • Price:
  • 568p
Another highly impressive set of results from self-storage operator Big Yellow. For the year ended 31 March, turnover increased 22% to £41.9m, with pretax profit before property gains rising 13% to £14.2m. The juiciest part of the results was the huge revaluation of its (mostly freehold) properties, which increased £180m or 23% to £590m. Adding this back meant overall profit rose 29% to £153m, while its net asset value (NAV) rose a whopping 47% to 438p, helped by a red hot commercial property market. The costs of expansion meant that net debt increased from £142m to £188m but gearing fell to 38% and borrowing facilities have been raised by £50m to £275m. During the year, Big Ye ...

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