Swiss National Bank Has $167.84 Million Stock Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Swiss National Bank lessened its holdings in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 4.8% during the third quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 970,849 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 48,500 shares during the period. Swiss National Bank owned about 0.28% of Digital Realty Trust worth $167,840,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other large investors have also added to or reduced their stakes in DLR. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. acquired a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter valued at about $25,000. South Plains Financial Inc. raised its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 280.5% in the second quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. now owns 156 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 115 shares during the last quarter. Tobam bought a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the second quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Salomon & Ludwin LLC purchased a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Finally, First Horizon Corp purchased a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at approximately $31,000. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities research analysts recently commented on the company. UBS Group set a $189.00 price target on Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Wednesday, January 14th. KeyCorp reiterated a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Scotiabank lowered their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $206.00 to $189.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating for the company 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 stock a “buy” rating in a report on Wednesday, February 18th. Finally, Citigroup reduced their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Three investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $193.36.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Up 1.8%

DLR stock opened at $179.33 on Tuesday. The stock has a market cap of $61.62 billion, a P/E ratio of 49.81, a P/E/G ratio of 3.90 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a current ratio of 1.59, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $167.75 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $166.50. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 1-year low of $129.95 and a 1-year high of $184.79.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.83 by $0.03. The firm had revenue of $1.63 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.58 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 5.88% and a net margin of 21.41%.The business’s revenue was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.73 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. Analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Investors of record on Friday, March 13th will be issued a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 135.56%.

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.