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

LSI POWR Grades

• LSI scores best on the Sentiment dimension, with a Sentiment rank ahead of 72.2% of US stocks.
• LSI's strongest trending metric is Stability; it's been moving down over the last 155 days.
• LSI ranks lowest in Value; there it ranks in the 17th percentile.

LSI Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of LIFE STORAGE INC's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; just 13.38% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For LSI, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 94.36% of US equities we're observing.
• With a price/sales ratio of 10.28, LIFE STORAGE INC has a higher such ratio than 89.66% of stocks in our set.
• Stocks that are quantitatively similar to LSI, based on their financial statements, market capitalization, and price volatility, are BRX, HHC, NNN, ADC, and REG.
• 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 EV/EBIT ratio is 29.6; this is 12.55% higher than that of the median Real Estate stock.
• Over the past 243 months, LSI's EV/EBIT ratio has gone up 14.6.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for LSI.

LSI Growth Metrics

Its 5 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 237.17%.
• Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 63.38%.
• Its 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate is now at 237.17%.

Over the past 15 months, LSI's revenue has gone up $302,685,000.

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
2022-09-30	984.649	567.204	338.489
2022-06-30	919.951	514.555	310.258
2022-03-31	850.167	472.152	275.51
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

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.