Vinva Investment Management Ltd Purchases 3,574 Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Vinva Investment Management Ltd boosted its position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 19.8% in the third quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 21,616 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 3,574 shares during the quarter. Vinva Investment Management Ltd’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $3,677,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Several other hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in the company. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter valued at $25,000. South Plains Financial Inc. increased its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 280.5% in the 2nd quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. now owns 156 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $27,000 after acquiring an additional 115 shares during the last quarter. Tobam purchased a new stake in Digital Realty Trust in the 2nd quarter worth about $28,000. Salomon & Ludwin LLC bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust in the 3rd quarter valued at about $28,000. Finally, First Horizon Corp bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust in the 3rd quarter valued at about $31,000. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of equities analysts have weighed in on the stock. Scotiabank cut their target price on shares of 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. BMO Capital Markets boosted their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $205.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 17th. TD Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Friday, February 6th. The Goldman Sachs Group lifted their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $188.00 to $190.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Finally, Raymond James Financial lowered their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $205.00 to $195.00 and set a “strong-buy” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, February 11th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $193.36.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 2.0%

DLR opened at $176.21 on Monday. The stock has a market cap of $60.55 billion, a PE ratio of 48.95, a P/E/G ratio of 3.90 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a quick ratio of 1.59, a current ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52 week low of $129.95 and a 52 week high of $184.79. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $167.28 and its 200 day simple moving average is $166.39.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its quarterly 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. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.41% and a return on equity of 5.88%. The firm had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.58 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.73 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. 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 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 13th will be paid a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.8%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 135.56%.

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.