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Big Yellow

July 2011

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:
  • 314p
With self-storage firm Big Yellow's fortunes geared towards the fortunes of the UK economy, the shares have become somewhat moribund, although its full year results were respectable enough. These showed a 7% rise in revenue to £61.9m, adjusted pretax profit up 22% to £20.2m and net assets broadly unchanged at 450p per share. Net debt fell £3.4m to £266m. Helped by its focus on London, Big Yellow enjoyed an increase in occupancy of 215,000 sq. ft. to 2,130,000 sq. ft. across its 63 stores last year (52 wholly owned, 11 through a partnership). Those wholly owned stores delivered EBITDA up 13% to £37.1m, with its 32 established stores increasing occupancy rates 1% to 71% while its 19 immature stores increased occupancy from 35% ...

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