Raymond James Financial Increases Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Price Target to $235.00

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) had its target price raised by Raymond James Financial from $210.00 to $235.00 in a note issued to investors on Friday,MarketScreener reports. The firm currently has a “strong-buy” rating on the real estate investment trust’s stock. Raymond James Financial’s price target points to a potential upside of 17.52% from the stock’s previous close.

DLR has been the subject of several other reports. Bank of America reiterated a “neutral” rating and set a $170.00 price objective (down from $210.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday, January 8th. KeyCorp restated a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, January 29th. BMO Capital Markets boosted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $205.00 to $220.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, April 20th. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating and set a $215.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Friday. Finally, BNP Paribas Exane boosted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $224.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have assigned a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Digital Realty Trust has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $210.50.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Down 0.0%

NYSE:DLR opened at $199.96 on Friday. Digital Realty Trust has a 12 month low of $146.23 and a 12 month high of $208.14. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $183.22 and a 200-day simple moving average of $170.18. The company has a current ratio of 1.59, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81. The company has a market capitalization of $69.78 billion, a P/E ratio of 52.76, a PEG ratio of 4.43 and a beta of 1.07.

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

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Large investors have recently modified their holdings of the company. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the third quarter worth about $25,000. Salomon & Ludwin LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter worth about $28,000. Sunbelt Securities Inc. increased its stake in shares of 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 worth $28,000 after purchasing an additional 125 shares in the last quarter. First Horizon Corp purchased a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter worth about $31,000. Finally, Bell Investment Advisors Inc increased its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 56.9% during the first quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc now owns 171 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after purchasing an additional 62 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Key Digital Realty Trust News

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

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.