Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Now Covered by Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald

Cantor Fitzgerald initiated coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) in a research report report published on Thursday morning, Marketbeat.com reports. The firm issued an overweight rating and a $211.00 target price on the real estate investment trust’s stock.

DLR has been the topic of several other research reports. UBS Group set a $189.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Wednesday, January 14th. Stifel Nicolaus dropped their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Moffett Nathanson upped their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $166.00 to $172.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday, December 12th. Weiss Ratings raised shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 17th. Finally, Wolfe Research boosted their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $194.00 to $211.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have issued a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Digital Realty Trust presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $196.38.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Up 1.4%

Shares of NYSE DLR opened at $188.17 on Thursday. The firm’s 50 day moving average price is $177.20 and its 200-day moving average price is $168.31. The company has a market cap of $64.66 billion, a PE ratio of 52.27, a P/E/G ratio of 4.11 and a beta of 1.07. Digital Realty Trust has a 52-week low of $137.77 and a 52-week high of $190.08. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a current ratio of 1.59.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.83 by $0.03. The firm 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 business’s revenue was up 13.8% on a year-over-year basis. 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 research analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.07 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

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

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at approximately $25,000. Salomon & Ludwin LLC purchased a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at approximately $28,000. Sunbelt Securities Inc. increased its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 347.2% during the third quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 161 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $28,000 after buying an additional 125 shares during the last quarter. First Horizon Corp purchased a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at approximately $31,000. Finally, Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd increased its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 970.6% during the third quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd now owns 182 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $31,000 after buying an additional 165 shares during the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Key Stories Impacting Digital Realty Trust

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

• Positive Sentiment: Company targets nearly S$7 billion (~US$5.5B) total investment in Singapore to scale AI-focused data center capacity, with >S$4.3B planned for new developments; management frames Singapore as a critical Asia‑Pacific AI inference and production‑scale hub, which should materially expand addressable demand and long‑term revenue opportunity. Digital Realty Targets Nearly S$7 Billion Investment
• Positive Sentiment: Cantor Fitzgerald initiated coverage with an “overweight” and a $211 price target (meaningful upside to current levels), bringing incremental sell‑side attention and a bullish valuation anchor. Benzinga coverage note
• Positive Sentiment: Scotiabank raised its price target to $195 and kept a sector‑outperform view, reinforcing the narrative of improving fundamentals and supporting near‑term upside. Scotiabank price target note
• Positive Sentiment: Opened Asia‑Pacific Innovation Lab (DRIL) in Tokyo and commissioned the NRT14 data center (third facility at NRT campus) — moves that expand product capabilities for production‑scale AI, hybrid cloud testing, and high‑density GPU workloads in Japan and support cross‑regional customer deployments. NRT14 data center announcement DRIL Japan announcement
• Positive Sentiment: Wolfe Research / other sell‑side actions (S&P 500 inclusion talk and upgrades noted) add to positive sentiment and broaden institutional investor focus. Wolfe Research / coverage note
• Neutral Sentiment: The stock has seen above‑average volume and recent media coverage noting the share movement, but peers and macro factors (rate/real‑estate sentiment) will still influence near‑term performance; prior quarterly results showed a revenue beat and FY‑2026 EPS guidance of 7.90–8.00, which underpins the upgrades but may already be partly priced in.

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.