Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) Given Average Recommendation of “Moderate Buy” by Analysts

Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) have received a consensus recommendation of “Moderate Buy” from the twenty-six ratings firms that are covering the company, MarketBeat reports. Nine equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation, fifteen have assigned a buy recommendation and two have given a strong buy recommendation to the company. The average 12-month price objective among brokers that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is $193.2174.

Several research firms have recently weighed in on DLR. Scotiabank decreased their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $206.00 to $189.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, January 14th. Wolfe Research raised Digital Realty Trust from a “peer perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $194.00 target price for the company in a research report on Monday, October 20th. HSBC set a $193.00 price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, January 15th. Wall Street Zen cut shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a report on Saturday, November 8th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $200.00 to $210.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, October 24th.

Insider Activity

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

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Digital Realty Trust

Large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the company. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at approximately $25,000. South Plains Financial Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 280.5% during the 2nd quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. now owns 156 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $27,000 after acquiring an additional 115 shares during the last quarter. Salomon & Ludwin LLC bought a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter valued at $28,000. Sunbelt Securities Inc. increased its stake in shares of 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 worth $28,000 after purchasing an additional 125 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Tobam purchased a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the second quarter valued at $28,000. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 1.1%

Shares of Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $164.91 on Friday. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $158.35 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $165.76. The stock has a market capitalization of $56.65 billion, a PE ratio of 42.61, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.89 and a beta of 1.12. Digital Realty Trust has a 52-week low of $129.95 and a 52-week high of $182.48. 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 posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.83 by $0.03. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 23.67% and a return on equity of 6.41%. The firm had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.58 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company posted $1.73 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter 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. On average, analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.07 EPS for the current fiscal year.

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.