Primary Recommendations

Safestore - Pays 90p dividends for every £1 invested at IPO; could be next target after LOK

June 2024

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.

The sale of trophy assets such as London’s luxury hotels has often fascinated commentators; for example the Savoy changed hands for £220m back in 1995 or £1m a room while the Ritz was sold, for only the third time in its 117-year history, for £800m during the Pandemic - a princely £6.1m per guest room - and a nice profit for the Barclay family on the £75m they paid for it in 1995. While you might consider the self storage industry an unlikely comparable when it comes to trophy assets it, too, is having the time of its life and driven by similar characteristics, namely a shortage of available land to build new outlets, only made worse by an opaque planning permission regime. And the demand side of the equation for self storage out ...

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Safestore (March 2022)

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Safestore (August 2019)

Safestore (April 2019)

Safestore - Self storage firm shows strong growth (August 2018)

Safestore (August 2016)

Safestore - Self storage operator enjoying strong gains in occupancy (April 2016)

Safestore - Property values stabilise (March 2010)

Safestore (October 2009)

Safestore - Shares in self-storage firm offer good value as trading improves (September 2009)

Safestore - NAV rises 44% to 199p (March 2008)

Safestore (October 2007)

Safestore - Under-valued self storage operator (June 2007)

Safestore - Newly listed self-storage company also under-valued (April 2007)

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