Life Storage, Inc. (LSI): Price and Financial Metrics

LSI POWR Grades

• LSI scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 96.13% of US stocks.
• The strongest trend for LSI is in Momentum, which has been heading up over the past 179 days.
• LSI ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 13th percentile.

LSI Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Life Storage Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 13.7% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For LSI, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 93.88% of US equities we're observing.
• LSI's price/sales ratio is 15.12; that's higher than the P/S ratio of 90.55% of US stocks.
• Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to Life Storage Inc are HHC, BRX, GATX, WES, and KIM.
• LSI's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit Life Storage Inc's official web site, go to www.lifestorage.com.

LSI Valuation Summary

• LSI's price/sales ratio is 14.7; this is 764.71% higher than that of the median Real Estate stock.
• Over the past 243 months, LSI's price/earnings ratio has gone up 40.1.
• Over the past 243 months, LSI's price/earnings ratio has gone up 40.1.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LSI.

LSI Growth Metrics

The 3 year price growth rate now stands at -14.46%.
• The 2 year cash and equivalents growth rate now stands at 166.39%.
• The 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 120.14%.

LSI's revenue has moved up $408,247,000 over the prior 70 months.

The table below shows LSI's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date	Revenue	Operating Cash Flow	Net Income to Common Stock
2021-12-31	788.565	433.901	249.317
2021-09-30	733.91	395.345	216.76
2021-06-30	681.964	351.456	183.581
2021-03-31	641.715	321.026	162.522
2020-12-31	616.771	298.966	151.571
2020-09-30	597.819	290.564	153.486

LSI's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.

• LSI has a Quality Grade of C, ranking ahead of 31.52% of graded US stocks.
• LSI's asset turnover comes in at 0.143 -- ranking 131st of 444 Trading stocks.
• AFIN, SITC, and PZN are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LSI.

The table below shows LSI's key quality metrics over time.