Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Shares Bought by Centersquare Investment Management LLC

Centersquare Investment Management LLC grew its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 5.0% during the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 3,118,869 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after purchasing an additional 149,770 shares during the period. Digital Realty Trust makes up about 5.4% of Centersquare Investment Management LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 4th largest position. Centersquare Investment Management LLC owned about 0.91% of Digital Realty Trust worth $539,190,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Other large investors have also made changes to their positions in the company. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. acquired a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter worth about $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 in the last quarter. Salomon & Ludwin LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $28,000. Tobam acquired a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $28,000. Finally, First Horizon Corp purchased a new position in Digital Realty Trust in the 3rd quarter valued at approximately $31,000. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Digital Realty Trust news, Director Mary Hogan Preusse sold 4,166 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated 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 SEC, which can be accessed through this hyperlink. Company insiders own 0.13% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several research firms have weighed in on DLR. Wall Street Zen lowered Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “strong sell” rating in a report on Saturday, November 8th. Raymond James Financial lowered their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $205.00 to $195.00 and set a “strong-buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. TD Cowen restated a “hold” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Bank of America reiterated a “neutral” rating and issued a $170.00 price target (down from $210.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, January 8th. Finally, KeyCorp restated a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, January 29th. Two 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. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $192.33.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

Shares of NYSE DLR opened at $179.64 on Thursday. The company has a market cap of $61.72 billion, a PE ratio of 49.90, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.94 and a beta of 1.12. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 12 month low of $129.95 and a 12 month 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 50-day simple moving average of $163.66 and a 200-day simple moving average of $165.84.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its quarterly earnings data 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 business had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.58 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.41% and a return on equity of 5.88%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm posted $1.73 earnings per share. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. On average, equities analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Investors of record on Friday, March 13th will be paid a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is presently 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.