Weatherly Asset Management L. P. Buys 3,436 Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Weatherly Asset Management L. P. boosted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 6.7% during the 1st quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The firm owned 54,427 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 3,436 shares during the quarter. Digital Realty Trust makes up approximately 0.8% of Weatherly Asset Management L. P.’s portfolio, making the stock its 26th biggest position. Weatherly Asset Management L. P.’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $9,808,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in the company. South Plains Financial Inc. raised its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 25.7% during the fourth quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. now owns 274 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $42,000 after acquiring an additional 56 shares during the last quarter. Pinnacle Wealth Management Advisory Group LLC lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 2.6% in the 4th quarter. Pinnacle Wealth Management Advisory Group LLC now owns 2,404 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $372,000 after purchasing an additional 61 shares during the period. PDS Planning Inc lifted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 3.6% in the 4th quarter. PDS Planning Inc now owns 1,785 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $276,000 after purchasing an additional 62 shares during the period. Clarius Group LLC boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 3.2% during the 4th quarter. Clarius Group LLC now owns 2,024 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $313,000 after purchasing an additional 63 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Commons Capital LLC grew its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 4.6% during the third quarter. Commons Capital LLC now owns 1,463 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $253,000 after purchasing an additional 64 shares during the period. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

DLR has been the subject of a number of research analyst reports. Evercore lifted their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $200.00 to $230.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Tuesday, April 21st. Barclays raised their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $182.00 to $189.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Thursday, April 16th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft boosted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $220.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Monday, May 18th. The Goldman Sachs Group restated a “buy” rating and issued a $215.00 price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Morgan Stanley lifted their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $215.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have assigned a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $215.89.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

Shares of Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $188.15 on Friday. The company has a market cap of $66.12 billion, a PE ratio of 49.64, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.11 and a beta of 1.02. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $192.03 and a 200-day moving average price of $176.25. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52 week low of $146.23 and a 52 week high of $208.14. The company has a quick ratio of 1.59, a current ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78.

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

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be given a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.6%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is presently 128.76%.

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.