Jefferies Financial Group Forecasts Strong Price Appreciation for Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Stock

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) had its target price increased by research analysts at Jefferies Financial Group from $189.00 to $223.00 in a research note issued on Tuesday,MarketScreener reports. The brokerage currently has a “buy” rating on the real estate investment trust’s stock. Jefferies Financial Group’s price target suggests a potential upside of 14.61% from the company’s previous close.

A number of other equities research analysts also recently commented on DLR. Citigroup cut their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating for the company in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Raymond James Financial reissued a “strong-buy” rating and set a $210.00 price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, March 12th. HSBC set a $193.00 price objective on Digital Realty Trust and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, January 15th. UBS Group set a $189.00 target price on Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Wednesday, January 14th. Finally, Bank of America reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and set a $170.00 price target (down from $210.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, January 8th. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have given a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $198.27.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

NYSE DLR opened at $194.58 on Tuesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a current ratio of 1.59. The company has a market capitalization of $66.86 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 54.12, a PEG ratio of 4.24 and a beta of 1.07. The stock has a 50-day moving average of $178.81 and a 200 day moving average of $168.65. Digital Realty Trust has a one year low of $143.83 and a one year high of $196.41.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its quarterly earnings results 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. 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 during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.58 billion. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $1.73 earnings per share. The business’s revenue for the quarter 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, sell-side analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.07 EPS for the current year.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Several institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in DLR. Purpose Unlimited Inc. bought a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $507,000. Hsbc Holdings PLC raised its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 14.4% during the fourth quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC now owns 1,354,201 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $209,625,000 after acquiring an additional 170,466 shares during the period. Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 30.2% in the fourth quarter. Rockefeller Capital Management L.P. now owns 621,180 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $96,159,000 after acquiring an additional 144,092 shares in the last quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC boosted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 2.6% in the fourth quarter. Corient Private Wealth LLC now owns 58,919 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $9,132,000 after acquiring an additional 1,474 shares during the period. Finally, SHP Wealth Management bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the 4th quarter valued at approximately $57,000. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

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.