As previously reported, Wolfe Research analyst Andrew Rosivach downgraded Extra Space Storage to Peer Perform from Outperform, citing valuation and lower expected growth in 2023. The analyst believes valuation is stretched given his estimated growth in 2023 of about 2%. The stock trades at a premium to the storage space and only a slight discount to his REIT coverage, yet has an elevated two-year PEG of 4.6-times versus his REIT coverage at 3.2-times. Rosivach also notes that the company has held occupancy better than any of its peers to end 2022, but he has some concerns about what has happened to street rate and if the company will be able to push ECRI meaningfully enough to offset that as the space enters a challenging operating environment. Additionally, the analyst views the company’s current floating rate debt exposure as a potential headwind to earnings, and believes that is a driver of his subpar growth estimates in 2023.
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