Public Storage
For the period ended Dec 31, 2024. Filed Feb 24, 2025.
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FY2024 · Filed Feb 24, 2025
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm F-
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders and the Board of Trustees of Public Storage
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Public Storage (the Company) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, the related consolidated statements of income, comprehensive income, equity and redeemable noncontrolling interests and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024 , and the related notes and financial statement schedule listed in the Index at Item 15(a) (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2024, based on criteria established in Internal Control–Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated February 24, 2025 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matter
The critical audit matter communicated below is a matter arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that was communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relates to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of the critical audit matter does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matter below, providing a separate opinion on the critical audit matter or on the accounts or disclosures to which it relates.
| Purchase Price Allocation | |
| Description of the Matter | For the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company completed the acquisition of 22 self-storage facilities for a total purchase price of $267 million. As further discussed in Notes 2 and 3 of the consolidated financial statements, the transactions were accounted for as asset acquisitions, and the purchase price was allocated based on a relative fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, which consisted principally of land and buildings.Auditing the accounting for the Company’s 2024 acquisitions of self-storage facilities was subjective because the Company must exercise a high level of management judgment in determining the estimated fair value of land and buildings. The estimated fair value of land is based upon observable transactions involving comparable land in similar locations, as adjusted for location quality, parcel size and date of sale associated with the acquired facilities. Determining the fair value of acquired land was difficult due to the judgment utilized by management in making adjustments to the observable transaction data used in the estimate, particularly when there is a lack of recent comparable land market data. The estimated fair value of the acquired buildings was based upon the income approach, which included estimating the fair value of hypothetical vacant acquired buildings and adjusting for the estimated fair value of land. Determining the fair value of the acquired buildings was challenging due to the judgment utilized by management in determining the assumptions utilized in the income approach, including future stabilized operating cash flows and capitalization rate. |
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| How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit | We obtained an understanding, evaluated the design, and tested the operating effectiveness of controls over management’s accounting for acquired self-storage facilities, including controls over the review of assumptions underlying the purchase price allocation and accuracy of the underlying data used. For example, we tested controls over the determination of the estimated fair values of the land and buildings, including the controls over the review of the valuation models and the underlying assumptions used to develop such estimates.For the 2024 acquisitions of self-storage facilities described above, our procedures included, but were not limited to, reading the purchase and sale agreements and other closing documents, evaluating whether the Company had appropriately determined the transaction was an asset acquisition or business combination and performing a sensitivity analysis to evaluate the impact on the Company’s financial statements resulting from changes in allocated land and building values. For certain of these asset acquisitions, we also evaluated the methods and significant assumptions used by the Company and tested the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data supporting the significant assumptions and estimates. Additionally, for certain of these asset acquisitions, we involved our valuation specialists to assist in the assessment of the methodology utilized by the Company and to perform corroborative analyses to assess whether the assumptions used in the valuation and the estimated fair values were supported by observable market data. |
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company's auditor since 1980.
Los Angeles, California
February 24, 2025
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