Nisa Investment Advisors LLC Increases Stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Nisa Investment Advisors LLC boosted its position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 12.6% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 109,539 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after acquiring an additional 12,252 shares during the period. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $17,072,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the business. New York State Common Retirement Fund raised its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 7.1% during the 3rd quarter. New York State Common Retirement Fund now owns 233,569 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $40,379,000 after acquiring an additional 15,569 shares during the period. Jones Financial Companies Lllp boosted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 13.5% in the third quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 148,970 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $25,545,000 after acquiring an additional 17,729 shares during the period. OFI Invest Asset Management grew its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 37,575.7% in the third quarter. OFI Invest Asset Management now owns 271,265 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $46,896,000 after purchasing an additional 270,545 shares in the last quarter. Centersquare Investment Management LLC grew its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 5.0% in the third quarter. Centersquare Investment Management LLC now owns 3,118,869 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $539,190,000 after purchasing an additional 149,770 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Gallacher Capital Management LLC bought a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter valued at $762,000. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of analysts recently issued reports on the company. Citigroup dropped their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, February 6th. UBS Group set a $189.00 price target on Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Wednesday, January 14th. Sanford C. Bernstein assumed coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, March 5th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $218.00 price target on the stock. Mizuho cut their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $191.00 to $180.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, January 12th. Finally, TD Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Three research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have issued a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $194.88.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

NYSE:DLR opened at $180.45 on Thursday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52-week low of $129.95 and a 52-week high of $184.79. The stock has a fifty day moving average of $174.65 and a 200 day moving average of $167.83. 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 firm has a market capitalization of $62.00 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 50.12, a P/E/G ratio of 3.99 and a beta of 1.12.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.83 by $0.03. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 5.88% and a net margin of 21.41%.The business had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.58 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the company earned $1.73 EPS. The company’s quarterly revenue 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. On average, research analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 13th were issued a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, March 13th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.7%. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is presently 135.56%.

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.