8,434 Shares in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Acquired by Meeder Advisory Services Inc.

Meeder Advisory Services Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) during the second quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor acquired 8,434 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $1,515,000.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Cherry Creek Investment Advisors Inc. grew its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 0.3% during the 1st quarter. Cherry Creek Investment Advisors Inc. now owns 18,745 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $3,378,000 after purchasing an additional 51 shares in the last quarter. Columbia Bank raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 0.9% in the first quarter. Columbia Bank now owns 6,167 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,111,000 after purchasing an additional 53 shares in the last quarter. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 9.1% in the first quarter. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. now owns 657 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $118,000 after purchasing an additional 55 shares in the last quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. lifted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 25.7% during the fourth quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. now owns 274 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $42,000 after purchasing an additional 56 shares during the period. Finally, Twin Capital Management Inc. lifted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 1.1% during the first quarter. Twin Capital Management Inc. now owns 5,618 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,012,000 after purchasing an additional 59 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities analysts have commented on DLR shares. KeyCorp reissued a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Friday, July 24th. Evercore reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and set a $240.00 price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Tuesday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, July 24th. Citizens Jmp lifted their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $220.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company upgraded shares of Digital Realty Trust from an “overweight” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, August 5th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-five have assigned a Buy rating and six have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $219.45.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $192.21 on Thursday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 12-month low of $146.23 and a 12-month high of $208.14. The company has a quick ratio of 1.06, a current ratio of 1.06 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. The business’s 50-day moving average price is $186.53 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $185.18. The stock has a market cap of $71.13 billion, a PE ratio of 93.31, a P/E/G ratio of 5.53 and a beta of 1.03.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, July 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.21 EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.98 by ($0.77). The business had revenue of $1.92 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.66 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 3.34% and a net margin of 11.80%.The firm’s revenue was up 28.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.87 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 8.150-8.200 EPS. As a group, analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.4 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 Wednesday, September 30th. Investors of record on Tuesday, September 15th will be given a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.5%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is currently 236.89%.

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.