Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Hits New 52-Week High Following Analyst Upgrade

Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) reached a new 52-week high during trading on Wednesday after Scotiabank raised their price target on the stock from $189.00 to $195.00. Scotiabank currently has a sector outperform rating on the stock. Digital Realty Trust traded as high as $187.40 and last traded at $185.0710, with a volume of 4417 shares trading hands. The stock had previously closed at $182.42.

A number of other research firms have also issued reports on DLR. BMO Capital Markets boosted their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $205.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 17th. Citigroup lowered their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Weiss Ratings raised shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research report on Tuesday, February 17th. TD Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Finally, Bank of America reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and set a $170.00 price objective (down from $210.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, January 8th. Four equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fifteen have given a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $195.80.

Trending Headlines about Digital Realty Trust

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

• Positive Sentiment: Wolfe Research raised its price target to $211 from $194 and kept an outperform rating, signaling a sizable upside and institutional confidence in DLR’s growth trajectory. Wolfe Research price target lift
• Positive Sentiment: Scotiabank increased its price target to $195 and maintained a “sector outperform” rating, adding further analyst support and incremental upside expectations. Scotiabank price target update
• Positive Sentiment: Digital Realty opened its first Asia‑Pacific Innovation Lab (DRIL) at NRT12 in Tokyo to help customers test and optimize AI and hybrid‑cloud deployments — a strategic move to capture rising demand for high‑density, GPU‑centric infrastructure in Japan and the broader APAC market. DRIL Japan opening
• Positive Sentiment: Digital Realty also announced NRT14, the third facility at its NRT campus, designed for high‑power, liquid‑ and air‑cooled hybrid environments optimized for next‑gen GPUs — expanding physical capacity to serve AI/HPC workloads. NRT14 data center opening
• Neutral Sentiment: MarketWatch noted the stock rose on Wednesday but still lagged the broader market, providing context that DLR’s move is part of a mixed short‑term performance picture. MarketWatch performance note
• Neutral Sentiment: KalkineMedia highlighted DLR’s improved standing after the Wolfe Research action, reinforcing attention from institutional research but not adding new operational detail. KalkineMedia coverage
• Negative Sentiment: A Yahoo Finance feature questions whether DLR is fairly valued after a strong one‑year rally, flagging that part of the upside may already be priced in and urging investors to weigh fundamentals versus recent momentum. Valuation caution piece

Institutional Trading of Digital Realty Trust

Several large investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. New York State Common Retirement Fund raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 7.1% during the 3rd quarter. New York State Common Retirement Fund now owns 233,569 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $40,379,000 after buying an additional 15,569 shares during the period. Jones Financial Companies Lllp raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 13.5% during the 3rd quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 148,970 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $25,545,000 after buying an additional 17,729 shares during the period. OFI Invest Asset Management lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 37,575.7% in the third quarter. OFI Invest Asset Management now owns 271,265 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $46,896,000 after buying an additional 270,545 shares in the last quarter. Centersquare Investment Management LLC lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 5.0% in the third quarter. Centersquare Investment Management LLC now owns 3,118,869 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $539,190,000 after buying an additional 149,770 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Gallacher Capital Management LLC bought a new position in Digital Realty Trust in the third quarter valued at approximately $762,000. 99.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

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 stock’s 50 day simple moving average is $176.79 and its two-hundred day simple moving average is $168.17. The stock has a market cap of $63.70 billion, a P/E ratio of 51.49, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.02 and a beta of 1.07.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.83 by $0.03. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.41% and a return on equity of 5.88%. The firm had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.58 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.73 earnings per share. The business’s revenue 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. As a group, research analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 13th were paid a $1.22 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, March 13th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.6%. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is presently 135.56%.

About Digital Realty Trust

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.