Capital Investment Advisors LLC Has $11.09 Million Stock Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Capital Investment Advisors LLC raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 4.3% in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund owned 71,680 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 2,976 shares during the quarter. Capital Investment Advisors LLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $11,090,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of the company. Bison Wealth LLC raised its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 17.2% in the 4th quarter. Bison Wealth LLC now owns 2,653 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $471,000 after acquiring an additional 390 shares in the last quarter. Empowered Funds LLC increased its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 9.4% during the first quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 6,784 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $972,000 after purchasing an additional 584 shares during the period. Global Retirement Partners LLC bought a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the second quarter valued at approximately $293,000. CreativeOne Wealth LLC raised its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 25.1% in the second quarter. CreativeOne Wealth LLC now owns 1,752 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $305,000 after purchasing an additional 352 shares in the last quarter. Finally, J.W. Cole Advisors Inc. lifted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 21.4% in the second quarter. J.W. Cole Advisors Inc. now owns 2,625 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $458,000 after purchasing an additional 463 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities research analysts have weighed in on DLR shares. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft assumed coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Monday, January 5th. They set a “buy” rating and a $180.00 price target on the stock. TD Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Friday, February 6th. UBS Group set a $189.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Wednesday, January 14th. Bank of America reissued a “neutral” rating and issued a $170.00 price target (down from $210.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, January 8th. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus cut their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have issued a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $194.68.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Up 0.5%

Shares of Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $175.60 on Friday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 12-month low of $129.95 and a 12-month high of $184.79. The stock has a market capitalization of $60.34 billion, a P/E ratio of 48.78, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.87 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $173.58 and a 200 day simple moving average of $167.70. The company has a quick ratio of 1.59, a current ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 EPS for the quarter, beating 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 5.88%. The firm had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.58 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.73 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. Research analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The business 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 dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, March 13th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.8%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is currently 135.56%.

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.