Public Storage said net income allocable to common shareholders for the quarter ended March 31, 2024 was $459.2 million, or $2.60 per diluted common share, compared with $467.6 million, or $2.65 per diluted share, a year earlier. The company cited an increase in depreciation and amortization expense of $63.6 million and an increase in interest expense of $31.7 million as factors behind the decline.

1. 01

   Public Storage said net income allocable to common shareholders for the quarter ended March 31, 2024 was $459.2 million, or $2.60 per diluted common share, compared with $467.6 million, or $2.65 per diluted share, a year earlier. The company cited an increase in depreciation and amortization expense of $63.6 million and an increase in interest expense of $31.7 million as factors behind the decline.

2. 02

   The company said Same Store Facilities revenues rose 0.1% ($0.6 million) this quarter, while Same Store cost of operations increased 4.8% ($10.9 million). It cited a higher realized annual rent per occupied square foot as the driver of the revenue increase, partly offset by lower occupancy.

3. 03

   Public Storage said FFO per diluted share for the quarter was $4.24, compared with $3.94 a year earlier, an increase of 7.6%. The company explained that the $25.1 million increase in self-storage net operating income consisted of an increase from non-same store facilities of $35.4 million and a decrease from Same Store Facilities of $10.3 million.

4. 04

   Public Storage said PSOC issued €150 million of senior notes on April 11, 2024 to institutional investors, bearing interest at a fixed rate of 4.080% and maturing on April 11, 2039, and received net proceeds of $162.6 million. It also said that on April 16, PSOC issued $1.0 billion of senior notes and received net proceeds of $988.5 million, and that on April 23 it repaid $700 million of floating rate senior notes at maturity.

Key figures

Quarter ended March 31, 2024

Revenue

$1.2B

Net income

$509M

EPS

$2.60

Operating cash flow

$666M

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