Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Position Increased by BNP Paribas Financial Markets

BNP Paribas Financial Markets raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 85.2% in the fourth quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 882,003 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 405,683 shares during the period. BNP Paribas Financial Markets’ holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $136,455,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in DLR. Bison Wealth LLC boosted its holdings 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 buying an additional 390 shares in the last quarter. Empowered Funds LLC boosted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 9.4% in the 1st quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 6,784 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $972,000 after purchasing an additional 584 shares during the period. NewEdge Advisors LLC boosted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 23.0% in the 2nd quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 21,739 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $3,790,000 after purchasing an additional 4,069 shares during the period. Treasurer of the State of North Carolina boosted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 3.9% in the 2nd quarter. Treasurer of the State of North Carolina now owns 157,567 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $27,469,000 after purchasing an additional 5,909 shares during the period. Finally, Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp boosted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 0.8% in the 2nd quarter. Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp now owns 27,631 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $4,816,000 after purchasing an additional 231 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

NYSE DLR opened at $189.94 on Monday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a current ratio of 1.59 and a quick ratio of 1.59. The firm has a market capitalization of $66.75 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 50.12, a P/E/G ratio of 5.16 and a beta of 1.03. The company’s fifty day moving average is $189.93 and its two-hundred day moving average is $173.61. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52-week low of $146.23 and a 52-week high of $208.14.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.46. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.73% and a return on equity of 6.05%. The company had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.63 billion. During the same period last year, the business posted $1.77 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 16.2% on a year-over-year basis. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. Equities research analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.06 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be given a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.6%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, June 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is 128.76%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

DLR has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. BNP Paribas Exane increased their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $224.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, April 24th. Morgan Stanley raised their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $215.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Raymond James Financial raised their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $235.00 and gave the company a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $230.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th. Finally, Citigroup reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Monday, April 27th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have assigned a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $215.89.

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.