Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) Receives Consensus Rating of “Moderate Buy” from Brokerages

Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) have been assigned a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” from the twenty-six brokerages that are covering the company, MarketBeat reports. Nine research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating, fifteen have issued a buy rating and two have issued a strong buy rating on the company. The average 12-month price target among brokers that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is $193.2174.

Several brokerages recently weighed in on DLR. Scotiabank dropped their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $206.00 to $189.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating for the company in a report on Wednesday, January 14th. TD Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, October 24th. UBS Group set a $189.00 target price on Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Wednesday, January 14th. Moffett Nathanson boosted their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $166.00 to $172.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, December 12th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus set a $210.00 price target on Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, October 24th.

Insider Buying and Selling at Digital Realty Trust

In related news, Director Mary Hogan Preusse sold 4,166 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $157.42, for a total transaction of $655,811.72. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Corporate insiders own 0.13% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Norges Bank bought a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the second quarter worth about $3,808,270,000. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC grew its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 686.0% during the 3rd quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 4,807,512 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $831,123,000 after buying an additional 4,195,862 shares in the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. increased its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 5,759.4% in the 4th quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 1,357,805 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $210,066,000 after acquiring an additional 1,334,632 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1.6% during the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 54,260,359 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $8,394,620,000 after acquiring an additional 854,828 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Alyeska Investment Group L.P. boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 581.0% during the 3rd quarter. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. now owns 961,121 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $166,159,000 after acquiring an additional 819,982 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Down 1.1%

Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $164.91 on Friday. Digital Realty Trust has a 12-month low of $129.95 and a 12-month high of $182.48. The firm has a market capitalization of $56.65 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 42.61, a P/E/G ratio of 3.89 and a beta of 1.12. The firm has a 50 day moving average of $158.35 and a 200 day moving average of $165.76. The company has a current ratio of 2.02, a quick ratio of 2.02 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.83 by $0.03. The business had revenue of $1.63 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.58 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 23.67% and a return on equity of 6.41%. The company’s revenue was up 13.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.73 earnings per share. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. As a group, research analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Company Profile

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.