Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Shares Purchased by Systematic Financial Management LP

Systematic Financial Management LP lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 80.8% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The fund owned 12,063 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after purchasing an additional 5,390 shares during the quarter. Systematic Financial Management LP’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $1,866,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in DLR. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 686.0% in 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 worth $831,123,000 after acquiring an additional 4,195,862 shares during the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. lifted its holdings in shares of 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. lifted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1.6% in 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 during the last quarter. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. lifted its holdings in 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 worth $166,159,000 after buying an additional 819,982 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Resolution Capital Ltd lifted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 25.2% during the 2nd quarter. Resolution Capital Ltd now owns 2,967,618 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $517,345,000 after buying an additional 596,420 shares in the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

DLR has been the topic of a number of research reports. Morgan Stanley increased their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $215.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Jefferies Financial Group increased their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $223.00 to $233.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Scotiabank increased their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $222.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th. Weiss Ratings upgraded shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “buy (b)” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company increased their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, April 21st. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have issued a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $215.89.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Shares of DLR opened at $192.14 on Monday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a twelve month low of $146.23 and a twelve month high of $208.14. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $188.75 and its 200-day simple moving average is $172.79. The firm has a market capitalization of $67.52 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 50.70, a PEG ratio of 5.22 and a beta of 1.06. The company has a current ratio of 1.59, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.73% and a return on equity of 6.05%. The business 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 earned $1.77 EPS. The company’s 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 analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.06 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be issued a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.5%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, June 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 128.76%.

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.