SmartStop Self Storage Reit, Inc. SMA

What this company does

SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. focuses on the acquisition, ownership, and operation of self storage properties located primarily within the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas throughout the United States and Canada. As of December 31, 2025, its wholly-owned portfolio consisted of 177 operating self storage properties diversified across 19 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada, comprising approximately 122,000 units and 13.9 million net rentable square feet. In total, as of December 31, 2025, it managed 273 operating self storage properties that it did not own, consisting of approximately 140,000 units and 20.4 million rentable square feet, through its Managed Platform. As of December 31, 2025, the company had more than 1,000 employees, none of which were represented by a collective bargaining agreement. The company operates in two reportable business segments: self storage operations and its Managed Platform business. Its self storage operations consist of its wholly-owned self storage facilities, primarily generating month-to-month rental revenue and related ancillary revenue, while its Managed Platform business consists of the management services it performs for the Managed REITs and, pursuant to its Third Party Platform, for third-party owned properties it manages, including property management, asset management, and construction and development management contracts. SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. is a Maryland corporation formed on January 8, 2013 under the Maryland General Corporation Law.

Written from the business description in SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 27 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.