Aptus Capital Advisors LLC Purchases 3,817 Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Aptus Capital Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 4.6% in the third quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The firm owned 86,949 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after acquiring an additional 3,817 shares during the quarter. Aptus Capital Advisors LLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $15,032,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission.

Other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Security National Bank of Sioux City Iowa IA grew its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 0.4% in the 3rd quarter. Security National Bank of Sioux City Iowa IA now owns 14,335 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $2,478,000 after buying an additional 60 shares in the last quarter. Commons Capital LLC increased its position in Digital Realty Trust by 4.6% during the 3rd quarter. Commons Capital LLC now owns 1,463 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $253,000 after buying an additional 64 shares in the last quarter. Zions Bancorporation National Association UT lifted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 14.3% during the second quarter. Zions Bancorporation National Association UT now owns 520 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $91,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares during the period. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 11.2% during the third quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 646 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $112,000 after buying an additional 65 shares in the last quarter. Finally, True North Advisors LLC increased its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 5.4% in the 3rd quarter. True North Advisors LLC now owns 1,302 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $225,000 after acquiring an additional 67 shares in the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of research analysts recently commented on the company. HSBC set a $193.00 price objective on Digital Realty Trust and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, January 15th. Weiss Ratings raised Digital Realty Trust from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 17th. Raymond James Financial cut their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $205.00 to $195.00 and set a “strong-buy” rating for the company in a research note on Wednesday, February 11th. Citigroup reduced their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, February 6th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft assumed coverage on Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Monday, January 5th. They set a “buy” rating and a $180.00 target price on the stock. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have given a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $193.36.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 2.0%

DLR opened at $176.21 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $60.55 billion, a P/E ratio of 48.95, a P/E/G ratio of 3.98 and a beta of 1.12. The firm’s fifty day moving average price is $167.28 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $166.39. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a fifty-two week low of $129.95 and a fifty-two week high of $184.79. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a current ratio of 1.59 and a quick ratio of 1.59.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.83 by $0.03. The firm had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.58 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.41% and a return on equity of 5.88%. The company’s revenue was up 13.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the firm earned $1.73 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. On average, analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 13th will be issued a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.8%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is currently 135.56%.

Digital Realty Trust 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.