Capital Research Global Investors Buys 8,530 Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Capital Research Global Investors raised its holdings in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 0.7% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 1,265,664 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 8,530 shares during the period. Capital Research Global Investors’ holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $195,813,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Centersquare Investment Management LLC raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 5.0% in the third quarter. Centersquare Investment Management LLC now owns 3,118,869 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $539,190,000 after buying an additional 149,770 shares during the period. Aberdeen Group plc raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 6.8% in the third quarter. Aberdeen Group plc now owns 934,898 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $158,652,000 after buying an additional 59,815 shares during the period. Nordea Investment Management AB raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 53.1% in the fourth quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 673,347 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $104,288,000 after buying an additional 233,676 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 6.6% in the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 8,930,551 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,543,914,000 after buying an additional 553,907 shares during the period. Finally, Metis Global Partners LLC raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 14.5% in the third quarter. Metis Global Partners LLC now owns 138,006 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $23,858,000 after buying an additional 17,427 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several analysts have issued reports on the company. Raymond James Financial upped their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $235.00 and gave the company a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $230.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. UBS Group upped their price objective 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. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $215.00 price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft upped their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $220.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, May 18th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have given a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $215.89.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $182.70 on Tuesday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 12 month low of $146.23 and a 12 month high of $208.14. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $191.11 and its 200-day moving average is $174.66. The company has a current ratio of 1.59, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78. The company has a market capitalization of $64.20 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 48.21, a PEG ratio of 5.08 and a beta of 1.03.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 EPS for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.46. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 6.05% and a net margin of 21.73%.The company had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.63 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.77 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter 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 expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.05 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The company 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 $1.22 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.7%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is presently 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.