Jefferies Financial Group Increases Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Price Target to $233.00

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) had its price target boosted by research analysts at Jefferies Financial Group from $223.00 to $233.00 in a research note issued on Friday,MarketScreener reports. The brokerage presently has a “buy” rating on the real estate investment trust’s stock. Jefferies Financial Group’s target price would indicate a potential upside of 12.73% from the stock’s current price.

DLR has been the subject of a number of other reports. Weiss Ratings upgraded Digital Realty Trust from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research note on Tuesday, February 17th. Scotiabank upped their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $189.00 to $195.00 and gave the stock a “sector outperform” rating in a research note on Tuesday, April 7th. Citigroup increased their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $190.00 to $226.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday. Mizuho increased their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $180.00 to $217.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a report on Thursday. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft began coverage on Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Monday, January 5th. They issued a “buy” rating and a $180.00 target price on the stock. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, nineteen have assigned a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $208.50.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Up 3.3%

Digital Realty Trust stock traded up $6.69 on Friday, hitting $206.69. 838,987 shares of the stock traded hands, compared to its average volume of 2,012,727. The business’s fifty day simple moving average is $182.84 and its 200 day simple moving average is $170.06. The company has a current ratio of 1.59, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81. The firm has a market cap of $72.12 billion, a P/E ratio of 57.41, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 4.45 and a beta of 1.07. Digital Realty Trust has a 1 year low of $146.23 and a 1 year high of $206.58.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its quarterly 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 return on equity of 5.88% and a net margin of 21.41%.Digital Realty Trust’s quarterly revenue was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $1.77 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.94 earnings per share for the current year.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Digital Realty Trust

Institutional investors have recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at about $25,000. Salomon & Ludwin LLC bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at about $28,000. Sunbelt Securities Inc. boosted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 347.2% during the third quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 161 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $28,000 after purchasing an additional 125 shares in the last quarter. First Horizon Corp bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at about $31,000. Finally, Bell Investment Advisors Inc boosted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 56.9% during the first quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc now owns 171 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $31,000 after purchasing an additional 62 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Key Headlines Impacting Digital Realty Trust

Here are the key news stories impacting Digital Realty Trust this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q1 results: Digital Realty beat FFO and revenue estimates (FFO outperformance of ~5%, revenue ~ $1.64B) and reported solid year-over-year growth, underpinning the stock’s positive move today. Digital Realty Trust (DLR) Beats Q1 FFO and Revenue Estimates
• Positive Sentiment: Guidance raise: Management lifted annual core FFO and revenue forecasts, citing strong AI-driven data-center demand — a direct driver of upside to earnings power and investor optimism. Digital Realty boosts annual core FFO, revenue forecasts on strong data center demand
• Positive Sentiment: Pipeline & backlog: Management said backlog rose to ~$1.8B (DLR share ~$1.0B) and the development pipeline jumped to ~1.2 GW under construction (61% pre-leased) — giving revenue/FFO visibility into 2027–2028. That supports growth expectations embedded in guidance. Digital Realty (DLR) Q1 2026 Earnings Transcript
• Positive Sentiment: Analyst upgrades/targets: Multiple firms raised targets (e.g., Stifel to $230, Mizuho to $217), signaling buy-side confidence and adding fresh catalyst for shares. Stifel raises DLR price target Mizuho raises DLR price target
• Neutral Sentiment: Earnings-call nuance: Management flagged some supply-chain and operational hurdles even as leasing momentum remains strong — a mixed signal for near-term margins and execution cadence. Digital Realty Trust Inc (DLR) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Highlights
• Neutral Sentiment: Valuation context: Recent strong share performance has drawn attention to DLR’s valuation after multi-year gains; investors should weigh growth outlook against elevated multiples. Weighing Digital Realty Trust (DLR) Valuation After A Strong Multi Year Return
• Negative Sentiment: Governance noise: An activist presentation at a different REIT named an executive (Andrew Power) as part of its critique, creating a small governance/distraction angle that could draw headlines though it’s not directly about DLR operations. Sieve Capital Issues Presentation

Digital Realty Trust Company 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.