Aptus Capital Advisors LLC Acquires 3,817 Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Aptus Capital Advisors LLC lifted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 4.6% during the third quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 86,949 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after purchasing an additional 3,817 shares during the quarter. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $15,032,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of DLR. Bison Wealth LLC boosted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 17.2% during the fourth quarter. Bison Wealth LLC now owns 2,653 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $471,000 after purchasing an additional 390 shares during the period. Empowered Funds LLC increased its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 9.4% during the 1st quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 6,784 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $972,000 after purchasing an additional 584 shares during the last quarter. AlphaQuest LLC boosted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 163.5% in the second quarter. AlphaQuest LLC now owns 195 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $34,000 after buying an additional 121 shares in the last quarter. Assetmark Inc. lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 139.2% in the second quarter. Assetmark Inc. now owns 2,404 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $419,000 after purchasing an additional 1,399 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Prosperity Consulting Group LLC purchased a new position in Digital Realty Trust in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $238,000. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of brokerages have recently weighed in on DLR. Sanford C. Bernstein initiated coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday. They set an “outperform” rating and a $218.00 target price on the stock. Mizuho cut their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $191.00 to $180.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, January 12th. The Goldman Sachs Group increased their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $188.00 to $190.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, February 6th. Truist Financial boosted their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $200.00 to $202.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 18th. Finally, Barclays raised shares of Digital Realty Trust from an “underweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and lifted their target price for the stock from $161.00 to $164.00 in a research report on Tuesday, January 13th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have issued a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $193.36.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 2.0%

Shares of Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $176.21 on Friday. The stock has a market cap of $60.55 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 48.95, a PEG ratio of 3.98 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a current ratio of 1.59 and a quick ratio of 1.59. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 1 year low of $129.95 and a 1 year high of $184.79. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $167.28 and its two-hundred day moving average is $166.39.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.83 by $0.03. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 5.88% and a net margin of 21.41%.The company had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.58 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company posted $1.73 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. As a group, research analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 13th will be given a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 13th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.8%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is currently 135.56%.

Digital Realty Trust 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.