Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Releases FY 2026 Earnings Guidance

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) issued an update on its FY 2026 earnings guidance on Thursday morning. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 7.900-8.000 for the period, compared to the consensus earnings per share estimate of 5.310. The company issued revenue guidance of $6.6 billion-$6.7 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $6.7 billion.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Shares of Digital Realty Trust stock traded down $1.88 on Thursday, hitting $164.91. The company’s stock had a trading volume of 1,698,922 shares, compared to its average volume of 1,994,594. The company has a market capitalization of $56.65 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 42.61, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.84 and a beta of 1.12. Digital Realty Trust has a 1 year low of $129.95 and a 1 year high of $182.48. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of $158.23 and a 200-day moving average price of $165.77. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80, a quick ratio of 2.02 and a current ratio of 2.02.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Friday, October 31st. The real estate investment trust reported $0.15 earnings per share for the quarter. The firm had revenue of $1.58 billion for the quarter. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 23.67% and a return on equity of 6.41%. As a group, sell-side analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of research firms have recently weighed in on DLR. Morgan Stanley assumed coverage on Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, October 16th. They set an “equal weight” rating and a $195.00 price target for the company. KeyCorp restated a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $200.00 to $210.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday, October 24th. Wolfe Research raised Digital Realty Trust from a “peer perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $194.00 target price on the stock in a report on Monday, October 20th. Finally, Loop Capital set a $205.00 price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Monday, October 27th. Two investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifteen have assigned a Buy rating and nine have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $193.22.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In related news, Director Mary Hogan Preusse sold 4,166 shares of Digital Realty Trust stock in a transaction on Monday, December 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $157.42, for a total value of $655,811.72. The transaction was disclosed in a document filed with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. 0.13% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Digital Realty Trust

Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in DLR. CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC boosted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 35.6% during the 3rd quarter. CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC now owns 3,380 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $584,000 after acquiring an additional 888 shares in the last quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. lifted its stake in shares of 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 valued at $28,000 after buying an additional 125 shares during the period. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter worth $34,000. Hancock Whitney Corp boosted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 11.2% in the 3rd quarter. Hancock Whitney Corp now owns 41,523 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $7,179,000 after buying an additional 4,171 shares during the last quarter. Finally, NewEdge Advisors LLC boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 4.7% in the third quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 22,760 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $3,935,000 after acquiring an additional 1,021 shares during the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

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.