Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Issues FY 2026 Earnings Guidance

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) issued an update on its FY 2026 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided EPS guidance of 8.150-8.200 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 8.050. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.9 billion-$7.0 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.7 billion.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Up 0.7%

Shares of DLR traded up $1.30 during trading hours on Thursday, reaching $179.71. 3,141,606 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,376,480. Digital Realty Trust has a 52 week low of $146.23 and a 52 week high of $208.14. The company has a market cap of $63.15 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 47.42, a PEG ratio of 4.88 and a beta of 1.03. The stock has a fifty day simple moving average of $184.61 and a 200 day simple moving average of $180.41. 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 (NYSE:DLR) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 EPS for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.46. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.73% and a return on equity of 6.05%. The firm had revenue of $1.64 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.63 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.77 EPS. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.2% on a year-over-year basis. On average, equities analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust will post 8.04 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th were issued a $1.22 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.7%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is currently 128.76%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of brokerages recently commented on DLR. Sanford C. Bernstein lifted their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $218.00 to $232.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Citizens Jmp increased their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $220.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, April 27th. BMO Capital Markets raised their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $205.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, April 20th. Scotiabank increased their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $222.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, April 27th. Finally, The Goldman Sachs Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $215.00 price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Friday, April 24th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-two have issued a Buy rating and seven have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $216.17.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Digital Realty Trust

Several large investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. Compound Planning Inc. boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 52.6% in the 4th quarter. Compound Planning Inc. now owns 4,891 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $757,000 after buying an additional 1,686 shares during the period. Invesco Ltd. raised its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 8.5% during the 4th quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 4,433,515 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $685,909,000 after acquiring an additional 346,200 shares during the period. Corient Private Wealth LLC lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 14.7% during the fourth quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 65,874 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $9,279,000 after acquiring an additional 8,429 shares in the last quarter. First Commonwealth Financial Corp PA lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 5.8% during the fourth quarter. First Commonwealth Financial Corp PA now owns 4,589 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $710,000 after acquiring an additional 251 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Beacon Pointe Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 15.6% in the fourth quarter. Beacon Pointe Advisors LLC now owns 8,303 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,285,000 after acquiring an additional 1,118 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

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.