Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) Receives $214.41 Consensus Target Price from Analysts

Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) have earned a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the twenty-nine ratings firms that are currently covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Eight equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation, twenty have given a buy recommendation and one has issued a strong buy recommendation on the company. The average 1-year price objective among analysts that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $215.8889.

Several equities analysts recently weighed in on the company. Weiss Ratings upgraded Digital Realty Trust from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “buy (b)” rating in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th. TD Cowen lifted their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $185.00 to $192.00 and gave the company a “hold” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Raymond James Financial lifted their price target 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. BNP Paribas Exane lifted their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $224.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus lifted their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

A number of large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in DLR. Bison Wealth LLC lifted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 17.2% in the fourth quarter. Bison Wealth LLC now owns 2,653 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $471,000 after acquiring an additional 390 shares during the last quarter. Empowered Funds LLC lifted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 9.4% in the first quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 6,784 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $972,000 after acquiring an additional 584 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC lifted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 23.0% in the second quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 21,739 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $3,790,000 after acquiring an additional 4,069 shares during the last quarter. Treasurer of the State of North Carolina lifted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 3.9% in the second quarter. Treasurer of the State of North Carolina now owns 157,567 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $27,469,000 after acquiring an additional 5,909 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp lifted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 0.8% in the second quarter. Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp now owns 27,631 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $4,816,000 after acquiring an additional 231 shares during the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Shares of Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $192.14 on Friday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.59, a current ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78. Digital Realty Trust has a twelve month low of $146.23 and a twelve month high of $208.14. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $188.75 and a 200 day moving average price of $172.79. The firm has a market cap of $67.52 billion, a PE ratio of 50.70, a P/E/G ratio of 5.22 and a beta of 1.06.

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 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 analyst estimates of $1.63 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $1.77 EPS. Digital Realty Trust’s revenue for the quarter 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. Sell-side analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust will post 8.06 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

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

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.