IFM Investors Pty Ltd Has $22.96 Million Stock Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

IFM Investors Pty Ltd raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 2.6% in the 1st quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 127,397 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after acquiring an additional 3,177 shares during the quarter. IFM Investors Pty Ltd’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $22,958,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in the business. Sunbelt Securities Inc. lifted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 347.2% during the 3rd quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 161 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $28,000 after buying an additional 125 shares in the last quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc increased its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 56.9% in the first quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc now owns 171 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $31,000 after acquiring an additional 62 shares during the last quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd raised its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 970.6% during the third quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd now owns 182 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after acquiring an additional 165 shares in the last quarter. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter worth about $34,000. Finally, MCF Advisors LLC acquired a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $35,000. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts have weighed in on the company. Barclays boosted their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $182.00 to $189.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, April 16th. Citizens Jmp raised their target price 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. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $230.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th. Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 21st. Finally, Wolfe Research increased their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $194.00 to $211.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, April 6th. One investment 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. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $216.52.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

DLR opened at $179.40 on Wednesday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.59, a current ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 12-month low of $146.23 and a 12-month high of $208.14. The business has a 50 day moving average of $191.55 and a 200-day moving average of $177.86. The stock has a market cap of $63.04 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 47.33, a PEG ratio of 5.18 and a beta of 1.02.

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

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th were given a $1.22 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.7%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is presently 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.