Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Holdings Lowered by Deutsche Bank AG

Deutsche Bank AG reduced its stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 18.0% in the fourth quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The fund owned 2,220,716 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 488,300 shares during the quarter. Deutsche Bank AG’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $343,567,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in DLR. Sunbelt Securities Inc. raised its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 347.2% during the third quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 161 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $28,000 after purchasing an additional 125 shares in the last quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd boosted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 970.6% during the 3rd quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd now owns 182 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $31,000 after purchasing an additional 165 shares in the last quarter. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd acquired a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter valued at $34,000. MCF Advisors LLC bought a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 4th quarter worth $35,000. Finally, Hantz Financial Services Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 157.4% in the fourth quarter. Hantz Financial Services Inc. now owns 242 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $37,000 after buying an additional 148 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of research analysts recently issued reports on the company. Cantor Fitzgerald reaffirmed an “overweight” rating and set a $211.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Friday, May 1st. UBS Group increased their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $225.00 to $227.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Stifel Nicolaus lifted their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, April 24th. HSBC lowered 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 research note on Monday, April 27th. Finally, Scotiabank raised their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $222.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have assigned a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $215.89.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

NYSE DLR opened at $180.97 on Thursday. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $191.41 and a 200-day simple moving average of $175.00. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52-week low of $146.23 and a 52-week high of $208.14. The firm has a market capitalization of $63.59 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 47.75, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.02 and a beta of 1.02. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a current ratio of 1.59 and a quick ratio of 1.59.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last released its earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.73% and a return on equity of 6.05%. The company had revenue of $1.64 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.63 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.77 EPS. The company’s revenue was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. Equities research analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.05 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be paid a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.7%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 128.76%.

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.