Banque Cantonale Vaudoise Lowers Stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Banque Cantonale Vaudoise lessened its stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 20.4% during the 4th quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The institutional investor owned 21,045 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 5,396 shares during the quarter. Banque Cantonale Vaudoise’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $3,255,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other hedge funds have also recently modified their holdings of DLR. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC lifted 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 buying an additional 4,195,862 shares in the last quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. lifted its holdings in shares of 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 buying an additional 1,334,632 shares in the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its holdings in shares of 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 buying an additional 854,828 shares in the last quarter. Alyeska Investment Group L.P. lifted its holdings in shares of 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 buying an additional 819,982 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Resolution Capital Ltd lifted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 25.2% in the second quarter. Resolution Capital Ltd now owns 2,967,618 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $517,345,000 after buying an additional 596,420 shares in the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $190.23 on Thursday. The company has a quick ratio of 1.59, a current ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52-week low of $146.23 and a 52-week high of $208.14. The company has a market cap of $66.85 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 50.19, a PEG ratio of 5.06 and a beta of 1.06. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $188.25 and its 200 day moving average is $172.48.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its quarterly earnings data 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. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.73% and a return on equity of 6.05%. The business had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.63 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business posted $1.77 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.06 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The company also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Shareholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be given a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date is Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.6%. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is 128.76%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities analysts have recently commented on DLR shares. Truist Financial reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $208.00 target price (up from $207.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, May 14th. BNP Paribas Exane boosted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $196.00 to $224.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. boosted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $230.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th. Sanford C. Bernstein upped their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $218.00 to $232.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Wells Fargo & Company upped their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $220.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Tuesday, April 21st. One research 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.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $215.89.

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.