Stance Capital LLC Reduces Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Stance Capital LLC trimmed its holdings in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 96.4% during the 3rd quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 266 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 7,109 shares during the quarter. Stance Capital LLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $46,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other large investors also recently bought and sold shares of DLR. New York State Common Retirement Fund increased its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 7.1% in the 3rd quarter. New York State Common Retirement Fund now owns 233,569 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $40,379,000 after buying an additional 15,569 shares during the period. Jones Financial Companies Lllp boosted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 13.5% in the 3rd quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 148,970 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $25,545,000 after buying an additional 17,729 shares during the period. OFI Invest Asset Management boosted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 37,575.7% in the 3rd quarter. OFI Invest Asset Management now owns 271,265 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $46,896,000 after buying an additional 270,545 shares during the period. Gallacher Capital Management LLC bought a new position in Digital Realty Trust in the 3rd quarter worth about $762,000. Finally, Centersquare Investment Management LLC grew its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 5.0% in the 3rd quarter. Centersquare Investment Management LLC now owns 3,118,869 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $539,190,000 after acquiring an additional 149,770 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities analysts have recently issued reports on the company. Citigroup dropped their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 6th. TD Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, February 6th. UBS Group set a $189.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Wednesday, January 14th. Truist Financial boosted their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $200.00 to $202.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 18th. Finally, BMO Capital Markets upped their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $205.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 17th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have given a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $194.68.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Down 0.9%

NYSE DLR opened at $178.86 on Thursday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 1 year low of $129.95 and a 1 year high of $184.79. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a current ratio of 1.59 and a quick ratio of 1.59. The company has a market capitalization of $61.46 billion, a PE ratio of 49.68, a P/E/G ratio of 3.99 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a fifty day moving average of $171.22 and a 200 day moving average of $167.12.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 earnings per share for the quarter, beating 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 during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.58 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the firm earned $1.73 EPS. The business’s quarterly revenue was up 13.8% on a year-over-year basis. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. Research analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced 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 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is presently 135.56%.

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.