Jefferies Financial Group Inc. Purchases 40,256 Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Jefferies Financial Group Inc. raised its position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 666.0% in the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The firm owned 46,300 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 40,256 shares during the quarter. Jefferies Financial Group Inc.’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $7,163,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the company. Sunbelt Securities Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 347.2% during the 3rd quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 161 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $28,000 after acquiring an additional 125 shares during the last quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd lifted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 970.6% during the 3rd quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd now owns 182 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after acquiring an additional 165 shares during the last quarter. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd bought a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter worth $34,000. Salomon & Ludwin LLC lifted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 63.5% during the 4th quarter. Salomon & Ludwin LLC now owns 255 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $40,000 after acquiring an additional 99 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Colonial Trust Co SC lifted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 43.0% during the 3rd quarter. Colonial Trust Co SC now owns 236 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $41,000 after acquiring an additional 71 shares during the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research firms have recently issued reports on DLR. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft lifted their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a report on Monday, May 18th. Stifel Nicolaus lifted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, April 24th. TD Cowen lifted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $185.00 to $192.00 and gave the stock a “hold” rating in a research report on Friday, April 24th. Sanford C. Bernstein lifted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $218.00 to $232.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Scotiabank lifted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $222.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, April 27th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have assigned a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to MarketBeat, Digital Realty Trust currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $215.89.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

DLR stock opened at $192.14 on Tuesday. The firm’s 50-day moving average price is $188.99 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $172.96. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 12-month low of $146.23 and a 12-month high of $208.14. The stock has a market capitalization of $67.52 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 50.70, a PEG ratio of 5.22 and a beta of 1.06. The company has a current ratio of 1.59, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46. The firm had revenue of $1.64 billion for 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 company’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.77 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. As a group, equities analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.06 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The business also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be paid a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.5%. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is presently 128.76%.

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.