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Big Yellow - Massive rise in occupancy from 65% to 73%

July 2015

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The shares hit a new high of 710p after Big Yellow released strong finals. Revenues, pretax profit and eps rose 17%, 35% and 32% to £84.3m, £39.4m and 27.1p respectively, while net asset value per share rose 14% to 510p. Net debt was £277m (2014: £226.1m) after buying the two-thirds interest in Pramerica it didn’t own, while income cover improved from 4.1x to a healthy 5.4x.The group owns 73 largely freehold centres focused in London, South East and large metropolitan cities, of which 70 are open, making for a current maximum lettable area of 5.1m sq. ft. The model is simply to choose well-located sites in areas with high demand and limited supply and gradually fill them up.Helped by a growing ec ...

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SSP Group - Kate Swann driving up margins again

Hill & Smith

Big Yellow (August 2016)

Big Yellow - Take a part profit (January 2016)

Big Yellow - Eps forecast to rise 82% in 3 years (January 2015)

Big Yellow - Sharp rise in occupancy (September 2014)

Big Yellow (July 2014)

Big Yellow - Shares smash through Â£5 (March 2014)

Big Yellow - Rise in housing transactions should lift profits (May 2013)

Big Yellow - Sharply rising occupancy drives strong profit growth (February 2013)

Big Yellow (September 2012)

Big Yellow - Trading on 33% discount to NAV (July 2012)

Big Yellow - Huge discount to NAV (February 2012)

Big Yellow (July 2011)

Big Yellow - Bounce in occupancy rates (January 2011)

Big Yellow - Undervalued self-storage firm sees recovery in demand (July 2010)

Big Yellow - Net debt falls by £35m (February 2010)

Big Yellow (August 2009)

Big Yellow - Outlook improving for self-storage group (July 2009)

Big Yellow - Hopeful of pick up in Spring (February 2009)

Big Yellow - Benefiting from base rate cuts (January 2009)

Big Yellow (July 2008)

Big Yellow - 22% discount to NAV (February 2008)

Big Yellow - Five more planning consents (October 2007)

Big Yellow - NAV rises 47% (July 2007)

Big Yellow (April 2007)

Big Yellow - Shares stay strong in spite of (March 2007)

Big Yellow - Shares gain more than 250p (January 2007)

Big Yellow (August 2006)

Big Yellow - Major property revaluation gains (June 2006)

Big Yellow (April 2006)

Big Yellow - Growth in self storage estate driving massive property gains (February 2006)

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