PSAPublic Storage
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (BBB), and steady price behavior.
Insiders were net sellers (-$463K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -38% · now 12% below its 52-week high.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can PSA take a bad year?
Public Storage carries $9.92B of net debt at 3.23× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.23×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.06× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 5.86×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 23%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $10.2B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $260M
- Net debt
- $9.92B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $3.07B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.91B
- Debt / equity
- 1.11×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.31×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 23%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −38%
- Below its 52-week high
- 12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
REIT, Industrial
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