Jefferies Financial Group Boosts Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Price Target to $223.00

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) had its price target boosted by analysts at Jefferies Financial Group from $189.00 to $223.00 in a research report issued on Tuesday,MarketScreener reports. The brokerage presently has a “buy” rating on the real estate investment trust’s stock. Jefferies Financial Group’s price objective points to a potential upside of 14.01% from the stock’s current price.

Other research analysts have also issued reports about the stock. KeyCorp reaffirmed a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday, January 29th. Mizuho lowered their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $191.00 to $180.00 and set an “outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Monday, January 12th. 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. The Goldman Sachs Group lifted their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $188.00 to $190.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Finally, Citigroup decreased their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a report on Friday, February 6th. Four research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have issued a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $198.27.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Down 0.1%

NYSE DLR opened at $195.59 on Tuesday. The company has a market cap of $67.21 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 54.33, a P/E/G ratio of 4.33 and a beta of 1.07. Digital Realty Trust has a 52 week low of $143.83 and a 52 week high of $196.41. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $179.38 and a 200-day moving average price of $168.84. The company has a quick ratio of 1.59, a current ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81.

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 analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.83 by $0.03. The company had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.58 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 5.88% and a net margin of 21.41%.Digital Realty Trust’s quarterly revenue was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business earned $1.73 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. As a group, equities analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Digital Realty Trust

Several large investors have recently made changes to their positions in the business. South Plains Financial Inc. boosted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 25.7% during the fourth quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. now owns 274 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $42,000 after purchasing an additional 56 shares during the period. Security National Bank of Sioux City Iowa IA raised its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 0.4% in the third quarter. Security National Bank of Sioux City Iowa IA now owns 14,335 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $2,478,000 after purchasing an additional 60 shares during the period. Pinnacle Wealth Management Advisory Group LLC lifted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 2.6% during the 4th quarter. Pinnacle Wealth Management Advisory Group LLC now owns 2,404 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $372,000 after buying an additional 61 shares in the last quarter. PDS Planning Inc lifted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. PDS Planning Inc now owns 1,785 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $276,000 after buying an additional 62 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Clarius Group LLC boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 3.2% in the 4th quarter. Clarius Group LLC now owns 2,024 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $313,000 after buying an additional 63 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

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.