Jefferies Financial Group Increases Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Price Target to $233.00

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) had its target price raised by Jefferies Financial Group from $223.00 to $233.00 in a research report issued to clients and investors on Friday,MarketScreener reports. The firm currently has a “buy” rating on the real estate investment trust’s stock. Jefferies Financial Group’s price target would suggest a potential upside of 16.52% from the stock’s previous close.

DLR has been the topic of several other research reports. HSBC set a $193.00 price objective on Digital Realty Trust and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, January 15th. Cantor Fitzgerald began coverage on Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, April 9th. They issued an “overweight” rating and a $211.00 price objective on the stock. Scotiabank upped their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $189.00 to $195.00 and gave the company a “sector outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 7th. Bank of America reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and issued a $170.00 price objective (down from $210.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, January 8th. Finally, Barclays upped their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $182.00 to $189.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, April 16th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have assigned a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Digital Realty Trust currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $210.50.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 0.0%

Shares of NYSE:DLR opened at $199.96 on Friday. Digital Realty Trust has a 1 year low of $146.23 and a 1 year high of $208.14. The company has a market cap of $69.78 billion, a PE ratio of 52.76, a P/E/G ratio of 4.43 and a beta of 1.07. 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 moving average is $183.22 and its 200 day moving average is $170.18.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 6.08% and a net margin of 21.73%.The firm had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.63 billion. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.77 EPS. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.2% on a year-over-year basis. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. Sell-side analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.94 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Digital Realty Trust

A number of institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of DLR. New York State Common Retirement Fund grew its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 7.1% during the third quarter. New York State Common Retirement Fund now owns 233,569 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $40,379,000 after purchasing an additional 15,569 shares in the last quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp grew its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 13.5% during the third quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 148,970 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $25,545,000 after purchasing an additional 17,729 shares in the last quarter. Centersquare Investment Management LLC grew its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 5.0% during 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 purchasing an additional 149,770 shares in the last quarter. Gallacher Capital Management LLC purchased a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at about $762,000. Finally, World Investment Advisors grew its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 412.7% during the third quarter. World Investment Advisors now owns 11,003 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,902,000 after purchasing an additional 8,857 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Key Stories Impacting Digital Realty Trust

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

• Positive Sentiment: Q1 beat and raised outlook — DLR reported beats on core metrics and raised FY‑2026 EPS and revenue guidance, citing leasing momentum and strong AI-driven demand that improved visibility for 2026. DLR Q1 Earnings Beat on Leasing Momentum and AI Demand, View Raised
• Positive Sentiment: FFO and revenue upside — DLR posted FFO and revenue above expectations (core FFO and FFO per share improved year-over-year), reinforcing cash‑flow growth supporting dividends and valuation. Digital Realty Trust (DLR) Beats Q1 FFO and Revenue Estimates
• Positive Sentiment: Strong backlog and development pipeline — management highlighted a record backlog (~$1.8B total, ~$1.0B DLR share), a >50% sequential increase in pipeline to ~1.2 GW under construction, and ~61% pre‑leased at attractive yields, giving multi‑year revenue visibility. Earnings Call Transcript
• Positive Sentiment: Broad analyst upgrades — multiple firms (Raymond James, Jefferies, Bernstein, BNP Paribas Exane, Citigroup, Stifel, Mizuho, others) raised price targets and/or ratings after results, signaling stronger sell‑side conviction on growth from AI/data‑center demand. Raymond James PT Raise Jefferies PT Raise
• Neutral Sentiment: Operational notes on the call — management flagged some supply‑chain and operational hurdles; these appear manageable but are worth monitoring for timing of capacity deliveries. Earnings Call Highlights
• Neutral Sentiment: Valuation to watch — shares have rallied into a premium multiple (high P/E), so investors should weigh continued execution and AI demand against a stretched valuation when sizing positions.
• Negative Sentiment: Corporate governance/activist item — an unrelated activist presentation at Americold called for votes against re‑electing board members including DLR’s CEO (Andrew Power) on Americold’s board; this could be a near‑term distraction or governance headline risk. Sieve Capital Presentation

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.