Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Stock Rating Upgraded by Barclays

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) was upgraded by research analysts at Barclays from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating in a research report issued to clients and investors on Tuesday, MarketBeat Ratings reports. The firm presently has a $164.00 target price on the real estate investment trust’s stock, up from their previous target price of $161.00. Barclays‘s price objective suggests a potential upside of 3.12% from the company’s current price.

A number of other brokerages have also commented on DLR. Jefferies Financial Group decreased their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $206.00 to $184.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Tuesday, December 16th. Truist Financial upped their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $199.00 to $200.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, November 5th. Stifel Nicolaus set a $210.00 target price on Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, October 24th. Moffett Nathanson boosted their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $166.00 to $172.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday, December 12th. Finally, Morgan Stanley started coverage on Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, October 16th. They issued an “equal weight” rating and a $195.00 price objective on the stock. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifteen have issued a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $193.23.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 1.0%

DLR stock opened at $159.04 on Tuesday. Digital Realty Trust has a 1-year low of $129.95 and a 1-year high of $187.74. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $157.85 and its 200 day simple moving average is $166.76. The company has a current ratio of 2.02, a quick ratio of 2.02 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80. The firm has a market capitalization of $54.63 billion, a PE ratio of 41.09, a PEG ratio of 3.76 and a beta of 1.11.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Friday, October 31st. The real estate investment trust reported $0.15 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. The business had revenue of $1.58 billion during the quarter. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 6.41% and a net margin of 23.67%. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.07 EPS for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Digital Realty Trust news, Director Mary Hogan Preusse sold 4,166 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Monday, December 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $157.42, for a total transaction of $655,811.72. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. 0.13% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Trading of Digital Realty Trust

Several large investors have recently made changes to their positions in DLR. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 1.0% during the third quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 53,405,531 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $9,232,748,000 after purchasing an additional 512,974 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 2nd quarter valued at $3,808,270,000. State Street Corp raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1.9% during the 2nd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 20,405,760 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $3,557,336,000 after buying an additional 376,699 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 6.6% during the 3rd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 8,930,551 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,543,914,000 after buying an additional 553,907 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 2.3% in the second quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 8,850,818 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,536,795,000 after buying an additional 196,579 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Digital Realty Trust News Summary

Here are the key news stories impacting Digital Realty Trust this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Barclays upgraded DLR from “underweight” to “equal weight” and nudged its price target up to $164 (from $161), signaling modest analyst support that could help sentiment. Barclays upgrade
• Positive Sentiment: Technical indicator: DLR recently crossed above its 50-day moving average, which traders view as a short-term bullish signal and may attract momentum flows. 50-day MA article
• Positive Sentiment: Management commentary: CEO Andy Power emphasized long-term customer leases (e.g., multi-year contracts) and robust demand, arguing the sector is not in an oversupply state — messaging that supports revenue visibility for a REIT that markets stability and long-duration cash flows. CEO interview
• Neutral Sentiment: Sector activity: Healthpeak disclosed ~$925M of transaction activity (buy/sell moves) — a reminder of ongoing portfolio reshaping in real estate that could influence peers’ capital deployment and M&A dynamics but does not directly change DLR fundamentals. Healthpeak transactions
• Neutral Sentiment: Industry write-ups and broader coverage highlight ongoing developments in data-center real estate and DLR-specific projects — useful context but not immediate catalysts. Kalkine coverage
• Negative Sentiment: Scotiabank trimmed its price target from $206 to $189 while keeping a “sector outperform” rating — the cut reduces the implied upside from some prior analyst views and may weigh on sentiment despite still implying meaningful upside from current levels. Scotiabank price target cut
• Negative Sentiment: Mizuho published a pessimistic forecast for DLR’s stock price, adding a bearish analyst voice that can pressure sentiment and short-term flows if echoed by other brokers. Mizuho forecast

About Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty Trust, Inc (NYSE: DLR) is a real estate investment trust that owns, acquires and operates carrier-neutral data centers and provides related colocation and interconnection solutions. The company focuses on large-scale, mission-critical facilities that support the physical infrastructure needs of cloud providers, enterprises, network operators and content companies. Digital Realty’s offerings are designed to enable secure, reliable and highly available IT infrastructure with an emphasis on power density, cooling, and physical security.

Digital Realty’s product set spans wholesale data center space, turnkey build-to-suit facilities, and retail colocation suites, complemented by interconnection services that allow customers to establish private and public connections to networks, cloud on-ramps and other ecosystem partners.