Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Upgraded at Wall Street Zen

Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) from a sell rating to a hold rating in a research report released on Saturday.

A number of other equities research analysts also recently commented on DLR. BNP Paribas Exane raised their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $224.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. BTIG Research began coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, July 10th. They set a “buy” rating and a $215.00 price target on the stock. Evercore increased their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $200.00 to $230.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, April 21st. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $220.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, May 18th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group upped their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $223.00 to $233.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, April 24th. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-four have given a Buy rating and six have issued a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $218.00.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

NYSE DLR opened at $195.69 on Friday. The stock has a market capitalization of $68.77 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 94.99, a PEG ratio of 5.27 and a beta of 1.03. The business’s 50 day moving average is $184.70 and its two-hundred day moving average is $181.16. Digital Realty Trust has a 12-month low of $146.23 and a 12-month high of $208.14. The company has a current ratio of 0.87, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its quarterly 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). Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 11.80% and a return on equity of 3.34%. The business had revenue of $1.92 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.66 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.87 earnings per share. The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 28.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 8.150-8.200 EPS. Research analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust will post 8.26 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th were issued a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, June 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is 236.89%.

Institutional Trading of Digital Realty Trust

A number of large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Sunbelt Securities Inc. raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 347.2% in the 3rd quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 161 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $28,000 after purchasing an additional 125 shares during the last quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc boosted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 56.9% during the 1st quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc now owns 171 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after purchasing an additional 62 shares during the last quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd boosted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 970.6% during the 3rd quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd now owns 182 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after purchasing an additional 165 shares during the last quarter. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd purchased a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter worth about $34,000. Finally, MCF Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the fourth quarter worth about $35,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

More Digital Realty Trust News

Here are the key news stories impacting Digital Realty Trust this week:

• Positive Sentiment: RBC raised its price target to $227 and maintained an “outperform” rating, signaling increased confidence in Digital Realty’s growth prospects and implying meaningful upside from recent trading levels. Tickerreport analyst coverage
• Positive Sentiment: Scarce power availability and rising demand for data-center capacity are viewed as structural advantages for DLR. The company’s global facilities could benefit from constrained supply and sustained demand from cloud computing and artificial-intelligence workloads. Digital Realty: Scarce Power, Rising Demand, And A Long Growth Runway
• Positive Sentiment: Fresh data-center demand and AI infrastructure investment continue to draw attention to Digital Realty as a potential beneficiary of large technology-company spending on AI facilities. Digital Realty Trust Draws Attention on Fresh Data Center Demand
• Positive Sentiment: TD Cowen upgraded DLR to “Buy,” while the shares previously gapped higher following analyst support. These actions reinforce improving sentiment around the data-center REIT. TD Cowen Upgrades Digital Realty Trust
• Neutral Sentiment: Higher guidance has lifted optimism, but some analysts question whether the positive outlook is already reflected in DLR’s valuation. Its elevated earnings multiple could make the stock more sensitive to interest rates or any slowdown in growth. Is Digital Realty Trust Fully Priced?
• Negative Sentiment: Recent quarterly EPS of $1.21 missed the $1.98 consensus estimate, despite revenue of $1.92 billion exceeding expectations and rising year over year. The earnings shortfall remains a near-term concern, although fiscal 2026 guidance of $8.15–$8.20 per share provides support.

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.