OP Asset Management Ltd Makes New $6.22 Million Investment in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

OP Asset Management Ltd purchased a new stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) in the 1st quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The fund purchased 34,499 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $6,217,000.

Several other large investors have also modified their holdings of DLR. Sunbelt Securities Inc. boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 347.2% in the third quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 161 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $28,000 after acquiring an additional 125 shares during the last quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc increased its position in Digital Realty Trust by 56.9% during the first quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc now owns 171 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after purchasing an additional 62 shares during the last quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 970.6% during the third quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd now owns 182 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after purchasing an additional 165 shares during the period. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd acquired a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 3rd quarter valued at $34,000. Finally, MCF Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 4th quarter valued at $35,000. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of analysts have recently commented on the company. Evercore upped their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $200.00 to $230.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, April 21st. Scotiabank lifted their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $222.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th. Weiss Ratings upgraded Digital Realty Trust from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “buy (b)” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, May 18th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group lifted their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $223.00 to $233.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. One investment 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 stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $216.52.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

NYSE:DLR opened at $192.35 on Friday. The firm’s fifty day simple moving average is $192.25 and its 200 day simple moving average is $177.32. 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, Inc. has a twelve month low of $146.23 and a twelve month high of $208.14. The firm has a market capitalization of $67.59 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 50.75, a PEG ratio of 5.24 and a beta of 1.02.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share (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 firm had revenue of $1.64 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.63 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.77 EPS. The firm’s quarterly revenue 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. As a group, equities research analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.05 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

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