Stock Valuation & Dividend Analysis: National Storage Affiliates Trust (NSA) – ProThinker

Name of Company	Country of Origin/ Exchange Traded	Sector	Stock Price
NATIONAL STORAGE AFFILIATES TRUST	US/ NYSE	Real Estate – REITs – REIT – Industrial	USD30.08
			@ 12 Jul 2018
COMPANY PROFILE	National Storage Affiliates Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company makes investments in self-storage properties located in the United States. National Storage Affiliates Trust is a real estate investment trust. The company owns, operates, and acquires self-storage properties located within the metropolitan statistical areas throughout the United States. It owned a diversified portfolio of more than 270 self-storage properties, located in more than 10 states, comprising approximately 15.0 million rentable square feet, configured in approximately 120,000 storage units. National Storage’s portfolio consists of self-storage properties designed to offer convenient, affordable, and secure storage units.
Stock Code	NSA
Stock Valuation and Dividend Analysis Below

For stocks that has a history of paying meaningful dividends, the stock price is often dependent on how much dividend the company pays.
At the price of USD30.08 as at 12 Jul 2018, National Storage Affiliates Trust is trading at a Dividend Yield of 3.7%. This is a 4.0% premium to its historical average Dividend Yield of 3.9%. (Note: The lower/higher the dividend yield, the more expensive/cheaper the stock is.) However, the historical average Dividend Yield cannot be determined with accuracy due to the short history.
Is the stock overvalued? One should not just look at one indicator to determine the fair value of a stock.
ProThinker believes in using a combination of valuation methods to decide whether a stock is over or undervalued? The five ratios we use are Price to Earnings, Price to Sales, Price to Cash Flow, Price to Book and Dividend Yield. We use multiple methods to value a stock because each has its benefits as well as shortcomings. Price to Earnings and Price to Cash Flow Ratios relate stock price to profitability but are meaningless when the comany has negative earnings or cash flows. Price to Sales Ratio is more stable because sales are never negative. However, this does not tell us whether the company is able to sell profitably. Price to Book Ratio gives us an indication as to how much we are paying for the company’s assets but it is not directly related to the company’s profitability. Dividend Yield cannot be used for companies that are paying little to no dividends.
While it is important to value stocks based on multiple valuation methods, this often leads to differing views on valuation. One indicator may suggest that a stock is overvalued while another suggest that it is undervalued. This does not help an investor who needs to make a definite decision whether to buy, hold or sell the stock. That is why we advocate the use of a Composite Valuation Indicator, which is derived from the best combination of the five indicators above. A Composite Valuation Indicator will give you ONE conclusion on whether a stock is under or over valued.
To find out more about our valuation methodology, click here.
We should not only be concerned about the amount of dividends, we should determine if the dividends paid out by the company are sustainable. One way to do that is to compare dividends paid out to the cash flows that the company is generating.
The company always pays less dividends than its funds from operations, which is very good.

Source of Data: Charts are from ProThinker Stock Report. Company description, historical financial statements data and price data are from gurufocus.com. Estimates are from gurufocus and/or 4-traders.com – Thomson Reuters.
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