Jefferies Financial Group Inc. Invests $1.05 Million in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. purchased a new stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) in the second quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The fund purchased 5,872 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $1,055,000.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. BlackRock Inc. acquired a new position in Digital Realty Trust in the second quarter worth $7,277,032,000. Cohen & Steers Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 18.0% during the fourth quarter. Cohen & Steers Inc. now owns 28,001,340 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $4,332,366,000 after purchasing an additional 4,276,073 shares during the period. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 4th quarter worth about $3,402,995,000. State Street Corp lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1.1% in the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 20,649,053 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $3,219,256,000 after buying an additional 231,933 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Bank of America Corp DE boosted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 6.0% in the 1st quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 9,470,695 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,706,714,000 after buying an additional 534,158 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several equities research analysts recently weighed in on DLR shares. Cantor Fitzgerald increased their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $211.00 to $221.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 29th. KeyCorp reaffirmed a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Friday, July 24th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “buy” rating and set a $229.00 price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Monday, July 27th. Argus raised Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $212.00 price target on the stock in a report on Wednesday, August 5th. Finally, Mizuho set a $223.00 price objective on Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Monday, August 10th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-five have issued a Buy rating and six have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $219.45.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

DLR opened at $185.26 on Monday. The company has a current ratio of 1.06, a quick ratio of 1.06 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. The business’s 50 day moving average is $187.16 and its 200-day moving average is $186.34. The stock has a market cap of $68.73 billion, a PE ratio of 89.93, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.26 and a beta of 1.03. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a twelve month low of $146.23 and a twelve month high of $208.14.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.98 by ($0.77). Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 3.34% and a net margin of 11.80%.The business had revenue of $1.92 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.66 billion. During the same period last year, the company earned $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. On average, analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.4 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, September 30th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, September 15th will be issued a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.6%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, September 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 236.89%.

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.