Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Shares Acquired by Cetera Investment Advisers

Cetera Investment Advisers boosted its stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 5.4% in the first quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The firm owned 85,609 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after purchasing an additional 4,392 shares during the quarter. Cetera Investment Advisers’ holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $15,428,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Dynamic Wealth Strategies LLC raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 134.3% during the first quarter. Dynamic Wealth Strategies LLC now owns 321 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $58,000 after purchasing an additional 184 shares during the period. Prestige Wealth Management Group LLC grew its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 3,080.7% during the 1st quarter. Prestige Wealth Management Group LLC now owns 4,771 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $860,000 after buying an additional 4,621 shares during the period. First Trust Advisors LP grew its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 38.6% during the 1st quarter. First Trust Advisors LP now owns 139,965 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $25,223,000 after buying an additional 38,992 shares during the period. Pacific Sun Financial Corp increased its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1.9% during the 1st quarter. Pacific Sun Financial Corp now owns 8,390 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,512,000 after buying an additional 154 shares during the last quarter. Finally, PNC Financial Services Group Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 9.6% during the 1st quarter. PNC Financial Services Group Inc. now owns 47,730 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $8,601,000 after buying an additional 4,199 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

DLR has been the topic of a number of research analyst reports. BNP Paribas Exane lifted their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $224.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, April 21st. JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, July 24th. 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. Finally, Wolfe Research boosted their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $194.00 to $211.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, April 6th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-four have issued a Buy rating and six have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $218.00.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

DLR stock opened at $193.14 on Wednesday. The stock’s 50 day moving average is $184.84 and its two-hundred day moving average is $181.43. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52-week low of $146.23 and a 52-week high of $208.14. The company has a market capitalization of $67.87 billion, a PE ratio of 93.76, a P/E/G ratio of 5.60 and a beta of 1.03. The company has a quick ratio of 1.59, a current ratio of 0.87 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last released its earnings results on Thursday, July 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.21 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.98 by ($0.77). Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 11.80% and a return on equity of 3.34%. The business had revenue of $1.92 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.66 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $1.87 earnings per share. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 28.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 8.150-8.200 EPS. Analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.32 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 15th were paid a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.5%. The ex-dividend date was Monday, June 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is 236.89%.

Digital Realty Trust 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.