Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Price Target Raised to $222.00 at Scotiabank

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) had its target price raised by Scotiabank from $195.00 to $222.00 in a research note published on Monday morning, Marketbeat reports. The firm currently has a sector outperform rating on the real estate investment trust’s stock.

A number of other equities analysts have also issued reports on DLR. Morgan Stanley raised their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $215.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Friday. Cantor Fitzgerald began coverage on Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday, April 9th. They issued an “overweight” rating and a $211.00 target price for the company. Stifel Nicolaus raised their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday. Sanford C. Bernstein raised their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $218.00 to $232.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday. Finally, UBS Group raised their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $225.00 to $227.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have given a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $213.86.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

Shares of DLR stock opened at $196.01 on Monday. The firm has a market capitalization of $68.40 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 51.72, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.36 and a beta of 1.07. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a current ratio of 1.59 and a quick ratio of 1.59. The business has a fifty day moving average of $183.52 and a 200 day moving average of $170.30. Digital Realty Trust has a 1 year low of $146.23 and a 1 year high of $208.14.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46. The company had revenue of $1.64 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.63 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 6.05% and a net margin of 21.73%.The firm’s quarterly revenue was up 16.2% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.77 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. As a group, research analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust will post 8.07 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Investors of record on Friday, March 13th were issued a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.5%. The ex-dividend date was Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is presently 128.76%.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Digital Realty Trust

Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 1.6% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 54,260,359 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $8,394,620,000 after buying an additional 854,828 shares during the last quarter. Cohen & Steers Inc. boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 18.0% in the 4th quarter. Cohen & Steers Inc. now owns 28,001,340 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $4,332,366,000 after buying an additional 4,276,073 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in Digital Realty Trust in the 4th quarter worth about $3,402,995,000. State Street Corp boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 1.1% in the 4th quarter. State Street Corp now owns 20,649,053 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $3,219,256,000 after buying an additional 231,933 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 2.2% in the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 9,234,073 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,423,373,000 after buying an additional 197,180 shares during the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Key Digital Realty Trust News

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

• Positive Sentiment: Multiple brokers raised price targets and maintained bullish ratings, signaling upside potential and supporting investor demand — JPMorgan raised its target to $230 and kept an Overweight rating. MarketScreener
• Positive Sentiment: Scotiabank increased its target to $222 and kept a Sector Outperform call, reinforcing buy-side pressure. The Fly
• Positive Sentiment: Citizens Jmp raised its price target to $250 with a Market Outperform rating, implying ~27% upside from current levels and adding bullish momentum. TickerReport
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts and industry pieces highlight Digital Realty as well‑positioned for AI-driven data-center demand; Stifel raised its target to $230 and outlets list DLR among under-the-radar data-center buys. This supports a growth narrative tied to capacity and AI workloads. Yahoo Finance / InsiderMonkey
• Positive Sentiment: Management sees material expansion: Digital Realty projects ~6 GW of additional capacity in the future, which signals long-term growth runway as AI and hyperscale demand increases. Seeking Alpha
• Neutral Sentiment: Q1 results were mixed-to-in-line: revenue beat marginally, EPS met consensus, and FY26 EPS guidance was set at $7.95–$8.05 (analysts expect ~8.07). The report supports the story but doesn’t materially surprise the market. Globe and Mail
• Negative Sentiment: HSBC cut DLR to Hold, arguing strong AFFO growth may already be priced into the stock — a view that can trigger profit-taking and cap enthusiasm from some investors. Seeking Alpha (HSBC)

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.