SG Americas Securities LLC Increases Stock Holdings in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

SG Americas Securities LLC raised its position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 3,200.5% in the 4th quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 291,306 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after acquiring an additional 282,480 shares during the quarter. SG Americas Securities LLC owned approximately 0.08% of Digital Realty Trust worth $45,068,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently bought and sold shares of DLR. New York State Common Retirement Fund boosted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 7.1% in the 3rd quarter. New York State Common Retirement Fund now owns 233,569 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $40,379,000 after buying an additional 15,569 shares during the period. Jones Financial Companies Lllp grew its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 13.5% in the third quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 148,970 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $25,545,000 after acquiring an additional 17,729 shares in the last quarter. OFI Invest Asset Management increased its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 37,575.7% during the third quarter. OFI Invest Asset Management now owns 271,265 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $46,896,000 after acquiring an additional 270,545 shares during the period. Centersquare Investment Management LLC raised its stake in shares of 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 acquiring an additional 149,770 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Gallacher Capital Management LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the third quarter valued at $762,000. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms recently commented on DLR. Citigroup lowered their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, February 6th. KeyCorp reaffirmed a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, January 29th. Sanford C. Bernstein started coverage on Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, March 5th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $218.00 price objective for the company. Moffett Nathanson upped their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $166.00 to $172.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday, December 12th. Finally, Barclays raised their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $164.00 to $182.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Wednesday, March 18th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have issued a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $194.68.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 1.0%

Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $174.72 on Wednesday. The stock has a market cap of $60.04 billion, a PE ratio of 48.53, a P/E/G ratio of 3.90 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a current ratio of 1.59 and a quick ratio of 1.59. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $172.71 and its two-hundred day moving average is $167.49. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 1-year low of $129.95 and a 1-year high of $184.79.

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

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Investors 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 2.8%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is 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.