Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR is Centersquare Investment Management LLC’s 4th Largest Position

Centersquare Investment Management LLC lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 5.9% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The firm owned 3,301,513 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 182,644 shares during the period. Digital Realty Trust makes up 5.0% of Centersquare Investment Management LLC’s portfolio, making the stock its 4th biggest position. Centersquare Investment Management LLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $510,777,000 as of its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently modified their holdings of the company. Aberdeen Group plc boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 6.8% in the third quarter. Aberdeen Group plc now owns 934,898 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $158,652,000 after buying an additional 59,815 shares during the period. Nordea Investment Management AB boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 53.1% in the fourth quarter. Nordea Investment Management AB now owns 673,347 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $104,288,000 after buying an additional 233,676 shares during the period. Bank of America Corp DE boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 6.6% in the third quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 8,930,551 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,543,914,000 after buying an additional 553,907 shares during the period. Metis Global Partners LLC boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 14.5% in the third quarter. Metis Global Partners LLC now owns 138,006 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $23,858,000 after buying an additional 17,427 shares during the period. Finally, ING Groep NV boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1,846.2% in the third quarter. ING Groep NV now owns 24,444 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $4,226,000 after buying an additional 23,188 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Up 1.1%

Shares of DLR opened at $182.74 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $64.21 billion, a P/E ratio of 48.22, a P/E/G ratio of 4.91 and a beta of 1.02. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a one year low of $146.23 and a one year high of $208.14. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a current ratio of 1.59. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $191.46 and a 200 day moving average price of $175.18.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last released its earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 EPS for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 6.05% and a net margin of 21.73%.The company had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.63 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.77 EPS. Digital Realty Trust’s quarterly revenue was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.05 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be issued a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 128.76%.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

Several equities research analysts have recently weighed in on DLR shares. Weiss Ratings raised Digital Realty Trust from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “buy (b)” rating in a research report on Wednesday, May 6th. Sanford C. Bernstein increased their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $218.00 to $232.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Stifel Nicolaus increased their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Raymond James Financial increased their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $235.00 and gave the company a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald reissued an “overweight” rating and issued a $211.00 price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Friday, May 1st. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have given a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $215.89.

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.