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

LSI POWR Grades

• Sentiment is the dimension where LSI ranks best; there it ranks ahead of 89.25% of US stocks.
• LSI's strongest trending metric is Sentiment; it's been moving up over the last 48 weeks.
• LSI's current lowest rank is in the Value metric (where it is better than 14.21% of US stocks).

LSI Stock Summary

• Of note is the ratio of Life Storage Inc's sales and general administrative expense to its total operating expenses; merely 14.73% of US stocks have a lower such ratio.
• For LSI, its debt to operating expenses ratio is greater than that reported by 93.05% of US equities we're observing.
• With a price/sales ratio of 13.75, Life Storage Inc has a higher such ratio than 86.64% of stocks in our set.
• If you're looking for stocks that are quantitatively similar to Life Storage Inc, a group of peers worth examining would be BRX, GATX, HHC, CMRE, and WES.
• 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 4 year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at 120.14%.
• Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 9.67%.
• Its 5 year revenue growth rate is now at 64.14%.

LSI's revenue has moved up $190,159,000 over the prior 52 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
2021-06-30	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
2020-06-30	587.143	285.831	256.393
2020-03-31	585.158	288.987	260.678

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 33.31% of graded US stocks.
• LSI's asset turnover comes in at 0.14 -- ranking 130th of 456 Trading stocks.
• LIVE, AFIN, and ARCC are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with LSI.

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