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

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) has been given a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by the twenty-nine analysts that are covering the firm, MarketBeat reports. Eight research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation, twenty have given a buy recommendation and one has assigned a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 12 month price objective among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $215.8889.

A number of research analysts have weighed in on the company. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $215.00 price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Wolfe Research raised their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $194.00 to $211.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, April 6th. UBS Group raised their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $225.00 to $227.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Morgan Stanley raised their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $215.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Barclays raised their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $182.00 to $189.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Thursday, April 16th.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. Centersquare Investment Management LLC raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 5.0% during the 3rd quarter. Centersquare Investment Management LLC now owns 3,118,869 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $539,190,000 after buying an additional 149,770 shares in the last quarter. Aberdeen Group plc raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 6.8% during the 3rd quarter. Aberdeen Group plc now owns 934,898 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $158,652,000 after buying an additional 59,815 shares in the last quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 53.1% during the 4th quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 673,347 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $104,288,000 after buying an additional 233,676 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE raised its holdings 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 in the last quarter. Finally, Metis Global Partners LLC raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 14.5% during the 3rd quarter. Metis Global Partners LLC now owns 138,006 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $23,858,000 after buying an additional 17,427 shares in the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 2.1%

Shares of Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $180.97 on Thursday. The business’s 50 day simple moving average is $191.41 and its 200 day simple moving average is $175.00. Digital Realty Trust has a 52-week low of $146.23 and a 52-week high of $208.14. The firm has a market cap of $63.59 billion, a PE ratio of 47.75, a P/E/G ratio of 5.02 and a beta of 1.02. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a current ratio of 1.59.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 6.05% and a net margin of 21.73%.The business had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.63 billion. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned $1.77 EPS. Digital Realty Trust’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. On average, analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust will post 8.05 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be paid a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, June 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 128.76%.

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.