Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Stock Price Expected to Rise, Jefferies Financial Group Analyst Says

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) had its price objective lifted by investment analysts at Jefferies Financial Group from $184.00 to $189.00 in a research report issued on Friday,MarketScreener reports. The brokerage presently has a “buy” rating on the real estate investment trust’s stock. Jefferies Financial Group’s price objective indicates a potential upside of 10.33% from the stock’s current price.

Other research analysts have also issued reports about the company. Bank of America reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and set a $170.00 target price (down from $210.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, January 8th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft began coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Monday, January 5th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $180.00 price objective on the stock. Morgan Stanley started coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday, October 16th. They set an “equal weight” rating and a $195.00 target price for the company. Moffett Nathanson lifted their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $166.00 to $172.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, December 12th. Finally, Scotiabank cut their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $206.00 to $189.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, January 14th. Two analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, fourteen have given a Buy rating and nine have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Digital Realty Trust has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $192.13.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Up 4.0%

NYSE DLR opened at $171.30 on Friday. The firm has a market capitalization of $58.84 billion, a PE ratio of 47.58, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.01 and a beta of 1.12. Digital Realty Trust has a one year low of $129.95 and a one year high of $182.48. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $158.57 and a 200-day simple moving average of $165.63. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.80, a quick ratio of 2.02 and a current ratio of 2.02.

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. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.41% and a return on equity of 5.92%. The firm had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.58 billion. During the same quarter last year, the company posted $1.73 earnings per share. Digital Realty Trust’s revenue was up 13.8% on a year-over-year basis. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. On average, equities analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current year.

Insiders Place Their Bets

In other Digital Realty Trust news, Director Mary Hogan Preusse sold 4,166 shares of the business’s stock in a transaction on Monday, December 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $157.42, for a total transaction of $655,811.72. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through the SEC website. Insiders own 0.13% of the company’s stock.

Institutional Trading of Digital Realty Trust

A number of hedge funds have recently made changes to their positions in DLR. Americana Partners LLC acquired a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 4th quarter valued at $3,564,000. Kingdom Financial Group LLC. bought a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the fourth quarter valued at about $552,000. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 4.2% in the fourth quarter. Meiji Yasuda Asset Management Co Ltd. now owns 3,855 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $596,000 after buying an additional 154 shares during the last quarter. FourThought Financial Partners LLC boosted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 2.0% during the 4th quarter. FourThought Financial Partners LLC now owns 31,247 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $4,834,000 after acquiring an additional 617 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Global Retirement Partners LLC increased its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 391.9% during the 4th quarter. Global Retirement Partners LLC now owns 9,119 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,411,000 after acquiring an additional 7,265 shares during the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Key Stories Impacting Digital Realty Trust

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

• Positive Sentiment: Q4 core FFO rose ~7.5% year-over-year and revenue jumped ~13.8%; leasing momentum drove higher rental rates across data centers — a clear operational beat that supports higher near-term cash flow expectations. Digital Realty’s Q4 Core FFO & Revenues Top Estimates, Rentals Rise
• Positive Sentiment: Company issued FY‑2026 guidance of $7.90–$8.00 EPS and revenue around $6.6–$6.7B; the EPS target is above many street models and signals management confidence in FFO growth. Digital Realty Reports Fourth Quarter 2025 Results
• Positive Sentiment: Management reiterated an ~8% core FFO growth target for 2026 and highlighted accelerating demand from hyperscalers and AI workloads — a structural demand argument supporting longer‑term occupancy and pricing power. Digital Realty outlines 8% core FFO growth target for 2026 as hyperscale and AI demand accelerate
• Positive Sentiment: Two major firms (Jefferies and Goldman Sachs) nudged price targets higher to ~$189–$190 and kept Buy ratings, reflecting continued analyst conviction on DLR’s growth runway. Jefferies adjusts price target on Digital Realty Trust to 189 Goldman Sachs adjusts price target on Digital Realty Trust to 190
• Neutral Sentiment: Management presentation and earnings‑call materials available; call highlights note record financial performance and provide detail on leasing, pricing, and capital deployment — useful for modeling but not a single catalyst. Digital Realty Trust Inc (DLR) Q4 2025 Earnings Call Highlights
• Neutral Sentiment: Analysis on strategic moves such as the Malaysian data-center acquisition explains expansion strategy and potential capacity/market diversification — longer‑term relevance for growth assumptions. What Digital Realty Trust (DLR)’s Malaysian Data Center Acquisition Means For Shareholders
• Negative Sentiment: Citigroup trimmed its price target from $212 to $190 (maintained Buy) — a cut that tempers upside expectations from some institutional investors despite the earnings beat. Citigroup adjusts price target on Digital Realty Trust to 190
• Negative Sentiment: Stifel lowered its target from $210 to $200 (also kept Buy), another modest signal that some analysts are re‑calibrating upside after previous higher targets. Stifel adjusts price target on Digital Realty Trust to 200

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.