Capital Square LLC Acquires New Shares in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Capital Square LLC bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) during the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund bought 3,698 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $667,000.

Several other institutional investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1.6% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 54,260,359 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $8,394,620,000 after purchasing an additional 854,828 shares in the last quarter. BlackRock Inc. bought a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 2nd quarter valued at approximately $7,277,032,000. Cohen & Steers Inc. increased its position in Digital Realty Trust by 18.0% during the 4th quarter. Cohen & Steers Inc. now owns 28,001,340 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $4,332,366,000 after purchasing an additional 4,276,073 shares in the last quarter. Norges Bank acquired a new stake in Digital Realty Trust in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $3,402,995,000. Finally, State Street Corp grew its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1.1% during the fourth quarter. State Street Corp now owns 20,649,053 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $3,219,256,000 after buying an additional 231,933 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

DLR has been the subject of several research analyst reports. Citizens Jmp upped their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $220.00 to $250.00 and gave the stock a “market outperform” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th. TD Cowen upgraded Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and boosted their price objective for the stock from $192.00 to $222.00 in a research report on Friday, July 24th. Argus raised Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $212.00 target price for the company in a report on Wednesday, August 5th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $229.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Monday, July 27th. Finally, Citigroup reissued a “market outperform” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, July 24th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-five have given a Buy rating and six have issued a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Digital Realty Trust currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $219.45.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Shares of NYSE:DLR opened at $190.81 on Monday. The firm has a market cap of $70.79 billion, a PE ratio of 92.63, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.40 and a beta of 1.03. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $186.89 and its 200-day moving average is $185.56. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a quick ratio of 1.06 and a current ratio of 1.06. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52 week low of $146.23 and a 52 week high of $208.14.

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 analysts’ consensus estimates 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 net margin of 11.80% and a return on equity of 3.34%. The business’s revenue for the quarter was up 28.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company earned $1.87 earnings per share. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 8.150-8.200 EPS. Sell-side analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.4 earnings per share 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. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, September 15th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.6%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is presently 236.89%.

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.