MUFG Securities EMEA plc Purchases 101,801 Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

MUFG Securities EMEA plc lifted its position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 1,659.1% during the 4th quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The fund owned 107,937 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after purchasing an additional 101,801 shares during the period. MUFG Securities EMEA plc’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $16,699,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also recently made changes to their positions in DLR. Norges Bank bought a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the fourth quarter worth approximately $3,402,995,000. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC grew its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 686.0% in the third quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 4,807,512 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $831,123,000 after purchasing an additional 4,195,862 shares during the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 5,759.4% in the fourth quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 1,357,805 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $210,066,000 after acquiring an additional 1,334,632 shares during the period. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 1.6% in the fourth quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 54,260,359 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $8,394,620,000 after acquiring an additional 854,828 shares during the period. Finally, Alyeska Investment Group L.P. lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 581.0% in the third quarter. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. now owns 961,121 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $166,159,000 after acquiring an additional 819,982 shares during the period. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of analysts recently commented on DLR shares. Truist Financial reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $208.00 price target (up from $207.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday, May 14th. Raymond James Financial raised their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock a “strong-buy” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. UBS Group raised their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $225.00 to $227.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. BNP Paribas Exane raised their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $224.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft raised their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Monday, May 18th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have given a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $215.89.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

DLR opened at $189.94 on Friday. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $189.93 and a 200-day moving average price of $173.58. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a current ratio of 1.59 and a quick ratio of 1.59. The firm has a market cap of $66.75 billion, a PE ratio of 50.12, a P/E/G ratio of 5.16 and a beta of 1.06. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 1 year low of $146.23 and a 1 year high of $208.14.

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

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared 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. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.6%. The ex-dividend date is Monday, June 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 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.