Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Stock Position Decreased by Dimensional Fund Advisors LP

Dimensional Fund Advisors LP cut its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 0.4% during the third quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 4,662,906 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 18,380 shares during the quarter. Dimensional Fund Advisors LP’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $806,089,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of DLR. Security National Bank of Sioux City Iowa IA boosted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 0.4% in the third quarter. Security National Bank of Sioux City Iowa IA now owns 14,335 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $2,478,000 after buying an additional 60 shares during the period. Commons Capital LLC raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 4.6% during the 3rd quarter. Commons Capital LLC now owns 1,463 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $253,000 after purchasing an additional 64 shares during the period. Zions Bancorporation National Association UT lifted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 14.3% in the second quarter. Zions Bancorporation National Association UT now owns 520 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $91,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares in the last quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 11.2% during the third quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 646 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $112,000 after buying an additional 65 shares in the last quarter. Finally, True North Advisors LLC raised its position in Digital Realty Trust by 5.4% during the third quarter. True North Advisors LLC now owns 1,302 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $225,000 after buying an additional 67 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Shares of DLR opened at $178.02 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a current ratio of 1.59. The firm has a market cap of $61.17 billion, a PE ratio of 49.45, a PEG ratio of 3.95 and a beta of 1.12. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $165.76 and its 200 day moving average price is $166.10. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a twelve month low of $129.95 and a twelve month high of $184.79.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.83 by $0.03. The company had revenue of $1.63 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.58 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.41% and a return on equity of 5.88%. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.73 earnings per share. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. As a group, research analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 13th will be issued a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 135.56%.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of equities research analysts have commented on DLR shares. Scotiabank decreased their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $206.00 to $189.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, January 14th. Moffett Nathanson raised their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $166.00 to $172.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, December 12th. Citigroup lowered their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Stifel Nicolaus dropped their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Finally, KeyCorp reissued a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Two equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have given a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $192.33.

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.