Self-Storage Reit Dividend Yield History Data: Dataset Structure and Field Coverage

A yield is annual cash distributed per share divided by share price, so its history needs two dated series joined name by name: declared distributions and prices. For the listed storage cohort those inputs sit in different places, because no cataloged source ships a finished storage-yield time series.

The pool is shallow but clean: Datadory catalogs 18 pooled records for the industry - 11 primary plus 7 related - and only four primaries actually cover storage, since the other seven are cross-tagged semiconductor entries excluded here as a tagging artifact.

The Nareit Self-Storage REIT Sector Hub answers today's number in one block, quality score 9 and free to view. Its FTSE-sourced statistics stand as of 7/31/2026: 4 REITs in the index, a 4.08% dividend yield, 23.49% YTD total return, 2.26% July total return and -9.98% for 2025. That is a monthly snapshot, not a series - each refresh overwrites the last, which is exactly why a yield history requires the assembly steps below.

One structural caution: everything in the panel describes only the listed cohort, 7 companies of which 4 are index constituents, while the industry is dominated by private operators. Treat the 4.08% figure as a four-stock index yield, not a market-wide storage yield.

Seven names form the natural universe, drawn from the hub's roster priced as of the 08/21/2026 close:

The gap between 4 index constituents and 7 roster entries matters for weighting: SELF, SMA and Silver Star sit outside the FTSE block whose 4.08% yield the hub reports, and Silver Star's missing ticker means no price feed at all. Snapshot the membership date whenever you rebuild the screen, because non-traded and non-indexed names drift in and out of comparability.

Per-name yield history is assembled, not downloaded, because quote pages show the current ratio rather than an archived series. The five-step loop produces one dated yield row per holding:

1. Fix the universe from the seven-name roster above, dated to the close you pulled it.

1. Map tickers to filers on SEC EDGAR - Public Storage files under CIK 1393311, and its submissions JSON lists preferred series such as PSA-PH and PSA-PU alongside the common shares, which matters because preferred dividends are not the common yield your screen is pricing.

1. Pull declared distributions from companyfacts. Public Storage's file runs about 3 MB across 454 us-gaap concepts, with period-level start/end/val facts and calendar frames like CY2026Q2; dividend-related concepts arrive in the same call, no key required. Stay inside fair access: declare a User-Agent with contact information, keep request rates low, and expect 403 blocks from aggressive crawling.

Filing text supplies what the aggregate cannot. Occupancy and same-store metrics for storage REITs typically appear in MD&A and exhibits rather than standardized XBRL tags, so the qualitative half of a dividend-safety check - leasing spreads, bad debt, acquisition drag - still means reading documents. Full-text search covers filings since 2001 and returned 462 hits for 'self-storage' in 10-Ks, including National Storage Affiliates and Global Self Storage filings, which makes it the alerting leg when a distribution policy changes.

For benchmarking the yield itself, the Nareit REIT Indexes and Market Performance Landing carries index-level return and yield lines for All REITs, All Equity REITs and Mortgage REITs back to December 1971, so a storage yield of 4.08% can be read against the 4.02% all-REIT print of June 30, 2026 rather than in isolation.

Yes, one industry over. The Nareit REIT & Public Real Estate Company Directory is a server-rendered listing of 166 member companies across nineteen paginated results, each row carrying company name, ticker, headquarters, property type, one-year total return and price as of market close on 08/20/2026, filterable by fourteen property types including Self-storage and by status - Private, Public, Public non-listed. Non-traded storage vehicles never enter the FTSE index whose 4.08% yield the hub reports, so the directory is where their distributions surface at all.