Inspire Investing LLC Has $5.37 Million Stock Holdings in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Inspire Investing LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 8.6% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 34,693 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 2,746 shares during the quarter. Inspire Investing LLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $5,367,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other hedge funds have also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. increased its position in Digital Realty Trust by 1.6% during the fourth quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 54,260,359 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $8,394,620,000 after buying an additional 854,828 shares during the last quarter. Cohen & Steers Inc. boosted its holdings in 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 valued at $4,332,366,000 after acquiring an additional 4,276,073 shares during the period. Norges Bank bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the fourth quarter valued at about $3,402,995,000. State Street Corp boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 1.1% during the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 20,649,053 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $3,219,256,000 after acquiring an additional 231,933 shares during the period. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 2.2% during the fourth quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 9,234,073 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,423,373,000 after acquiring an additional 197,180 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of research firms have issued reports on DLR. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $220.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a report on Tuesday, April 21st. Weiss Ratings upgraded shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “buy (b)” rating in a report on Wednesday, May 6th. Sanford C. Bernstein upped their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $218.00 to $232.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Jefferies Financial Group increased their target price on shares of 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, JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $230.00 and gave the company an “overweight” 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 assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Digital Realty Trust currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $215.89.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 1.8%

NYSE DLR opened at $187.01 on Thursday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a current ratio of 1.59. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average of $191.85 and a 200 day simple moving average of $175.97. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a twelve month low of $146.23 and a twelve month high of $208.14. The stock has a market cap of $65.72 billion, a PE ratio of 49.34, a PEG ratio of 5.18 and a beta of 1.02.

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

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be paid a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date is Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.6%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 128.76%.

Digital Realty Trust Company 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.