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Lok 'n' Store - Gain to date: 290%

June 2022

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  • Epic Code:
  • LOK
  • Price:
  • 975p
Lok’s interims, well flagged by its earlier update, were excellent once again. The pandemic has encouraged people to move and has enhanced already strong tailwinds due to lack of space in people’s homes and greater demand to store stuff. Consequently, Lok increased sales 31% and EBITDA 46.5% to £13.4m and £8.1m, respectively. Net assets value per share increased a massive 48% to 843p driven by yield compression (valuer’s assumption for exit yields compressed from 6.15% to 5.54%). Profit growth came partly from increases in selling prices with unit occupied space rising 6% to £24.22 per sq .ft. and also greater utilisation of storage space. As a result store EBITDA margins rose from 58.6% to 63.6%. Trading in the two months po ...

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