Royal Bank Of Canada Issues Positive Forecast for Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Stock Price

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) had its price objective lifted by Royal Bank Of Canada from $207.00 to $227.00 in a research note released on Monday morning, MarketBeat.com reports. The brokerage currently has an outperform rating on the real estate investment trust’s stock.

Other equities analysts have also issued reports about the company. Guggenheim raised Digital Realty Trust from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $200.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, July 15th. TD Cowen raised shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and raised their price objective for the stock from $192.00 to $222.00 in a research report on Friday. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lifted their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Friday. Citizens Jmp boosted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $220.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, April 27th. Finally, Evercore increased their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $200.00 to $230.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, April 21st. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-four have assigned a Buy rating and six have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $218.00.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

Shares of Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $195.69 on Monday. The business has a 50-day moving average price of $184.70 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $181.16. Digital Realty Trust has a 1-year low of $146.23 and a 1-year high of $208.14. The company has a current ratio of 0.87, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. The company has a market cap of $68.77 billion, a P/E ratio of 94.99, a PEG ratio of 5.27 and a beta of 1.03.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.98 by ($0.77). Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 11.80% and a return on equity of 3.34%. The business had revenue of $1.92 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.66 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.87 earnings per share. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 28.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 8.150-8.200 EPS. As a group, analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust will post 8.26 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Investors of record on Monday, June 15th were given a $1.22 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a yield of 2.5%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 236.89%.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors have recently bought and sold shares of the business. Nomura Asset Management Co. Ltd. increased its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 3.6% during the 4th quarter. Nomura Asset Management Co. Ltd. now owns 598,259 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $92,557,000 after purchasing an additional 20,735 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the fourth quarter worth approximately $3,402,995,000. Legal & General Group Plc lifted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 5.9% in the fourth quarter. Legal & General Group Plc now owns 4,007,211 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $619,956,000 after purchasing an additional 224,688 shares in the last quarter. Pacific Heights Asset Management LLC boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 20.0% during the fourth quarter. Pacific Heights Asset Management LLC now owns 150,000 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $23,206,000 after buying an additional 25,000 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Eurizon Capital SGR S.p.A. purchased a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $21,224,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

More Digital Realty Trust News

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

• Positive Sentiment: RBC raised its price target to $227 and maintained an “outperform” rating, signaling increased confidence in Digital Realty’s growth prospects and implying meaningful upside from recent trading levels. Tickerreport analyst coverage
• Positive Sentiment: Scarce power availability and rising demand for data-center capacity are viewed as structural advantages for DLR. The company’s global facilities could benefit from constrained supply and sustained demand from cloud computing and artificial-intelligence workloads. Digital Realty: Scarce Power, Rising Demand, And A Long Growth Runway
• Positive Sentiment: Fresh data-center demand and AI infrastructure investment continue to draw attention to Digital Realty as a potential beneficiary of large technology-company spending on AI facilities. Digital Realty Trust Draws Attention on Fresh Data Center Demand
• Positive Sentiment: TD Cowen upgraded DLR to “Buy,” while the shares previously gapped higher following analyst support. These actions reinforce improving sentiment around the data-center REIT. TD Cowen Upgrades Digital Realty Trust
• Neutral Sentiment: Higher guidance has lifted optimism, but some analysts question whether the positive outlook is already reflected in DLR’s valuation. Its elevated earnings multiple could make the stock more sensitive to interest rates or any slowdown in growth. Is Digital Realty Trust Fully Priced?
• Negative Sentiment: Recent quarterly EPS of $1.21 missed the $1.98 consensus estimate, despite revenue of $1.92 billion exceeding expectations and rising year over year. The earnings shortfall remains a near-term concern, although fiscal 2026 guidance of $8.15–$8.20 per share provides support.

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.