Trust Co. of Vermont Takes Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Trust Co. of Vermont purchased a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) during the second quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 8,671 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $1,557,000.

Other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. Cherry Creek Investment Advisors Inc. boosted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 0.3% during the 1st quarter. Cherry Creek Investment Advisors Inc. now owns 18,745 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $3,378,000 after purchasing an additional 51 shares during the period. Columbia Bank increased its position in Digital Realty Trust by 0.9% in the first quarter. Columbia Bank now owns 6,167 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,111,000 after buying an additional 53 shares during the period. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 9.1% in the first quarter. GHP Investment Advisors Inc. now owns 657 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $118,000 after buying an additional 55 shares during the last quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 25.7% in the fourth quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. now owns 274 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $42,000 after buying an additional 56 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Twin Capital Management Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1.1% during the first quarter. Twin Capital Management Inc. now owns 5,618 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,012,000 after acquiring an additional 59 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

A number of analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Raymond James Financial increased their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock a “strong-buy” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Scotiabank boosted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $222.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. Mizuho set a $223.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Monday, August 10th. BTIG Research started coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, July 10th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $215.00 price target on the stock. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada lifted their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $207.00 to $227.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Monday, July 27th. One research analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-five have assigned a Buy rating and six have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $219.45.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Shares of DLR opened at $195.49 on Wednesday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a one year low of $146.23 and a one year high of $208.14. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $186.30 and its 200-day moving average is $185.00. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a quick ratio of 1.06 and a current ratio of 1.06. The firm has a market capitalization of $72.34 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 94.90, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.67 and a beta of 1.03.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.21 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.98 by ($0.77). The company had revenue of $1.92 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.66 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 3.34% and a net margin of 11.80%.The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 28.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company earned $1.87 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 8.150-8.200 EPS. Equities analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.4 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, September 30th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, September 15th will be paid a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, September 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is currently 236.89%.

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.