Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Stock Holdings Decreased by Dimensional Fund Advisors LP

Dimensional Fund Advisors LP decreased its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 0.4% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The fund owned 4,662,906 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 18,380 shares during the period. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP owned about 1.36% of Digital Realty Trust worth $806,089,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of DLR. Security National Bank of Sioux City Iowa IA lifted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 0.4% during the 3rd quarter. Security National Bank of Sioux City Iowa IA now owns 14,335 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $2,478,000 after buying an additional 60 shares during the last quarter. Commons Capital LLC raised its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 4.6% during the 3rd quarter. Commons Capital LLC now owns 1,463 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $253,000 after acquiring an additional 64 shares in the last quarter. Zions Bancorporation National Association UT lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 14.3% during the second quarter. Zions Bancorporation National Association UT now owns 520 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $91,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares during the last quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 11.2% in the third quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 646 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $112,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares during the period. Finally, True North Advisors LLC raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 5.4% during the third quarter. True North Advisors LLC now owns 1,302 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $225,000 after purchasing an additional 67 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of brokerages recently weighed in on DLR. KeyCorp reaffirmed a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, January 29th. TD Cowen reiterated a “hold” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Wall Street Zen lowered Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a research report on Saturday, November 8th. Mizuho dropped their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $191.00 to $180.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a research report on Monday, January 12th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus lowered their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $192.33.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 0.4%

DLR stock opened at $178.02 on Wednesday. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $165.76 and its two-hundred day moving average is $166.10. The company has a market capitalization of $61.17 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 49.45, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.95 and a beta of 1.12. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52 week low of $129.95 and a 52 week high of $184.79. The company has a current ratio of 1.59, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81.

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

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

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 issued a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is presently 135.56%.

About Digital Realty Trust

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.