Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) Receives Consensus Rating of “Moderate Buy” from Analysts

Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) have received an average recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the twenty-nine brokerages that are currently covering the company, Marketbeat Ratings reports. Eight investment 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 twelve-month target price among analysts that have covered the stock in the last year is $215.8889.

Several research firms recently commented on DLR. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, May 18th. Wolfe Research raised their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $194.00 to $211.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, April 6th. HSBC downgraded shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and raised their price objective for the stock from $193.00 to $210.00 in a report on Monday, April 27th. Barclays raised their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $182.00 to $189.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Thursday, April 16th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $230.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several large investors have recently bought and sold shares of DLR. Norges Bank bought a new position in Digital Realty Trust in the 4th quarter valued at $3,402,995,000. Cohen & Steers Inc. boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 18.0% in the 4th quarter. Cohen & Steers Inc. now owns 28,001,340 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $4,332,366,000 after purchasing an additional 4,276,073 shares during the period. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC boosted its holdings in 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 valued at $831,123,000 after purchasing an additional 4,195,862 shares during the period. Viking Global Investors LP bought a new position in Digital Realty Trust in the 4th quarter valued at $233,301,000. Finally, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 78.8% in the 4th quarter. Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD now owns 3,190,797 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $493,650,000 after purchasing an additional 1,405,791 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Down 1.8%

Shares of DLR stock opened at $187.01 on Thursday. The company has a 50 day moving average of $191.85 and a 200-day moving average of $175.97. The firm has a market cap of $65.72 billion, a P/E ratio of 49.34, a PEG ratio of 5.18 and a beta of 1.02. Digital Realty Trust has a 12-month low of $146.23 and a 12-month high of $208.14. 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 (NYSE:DLR) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 EPS for the quarter, hitting the consensus estimate of $0.46. The company had revenue of $1.64 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.63 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.73% and a return on equity of 6.05%. Digital Realty Trust’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.77 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust will post 8.05 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

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 of this dividend is Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.6%. 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.