WealthShield Partners LLC Invests $1.77 Million in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

WealthShield Partners LLC acquired a new stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) in the 2nd quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm acquired 9,842 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $1,767,000.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of the stock. 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 during the last quarter. Gables Capital Management Inc. bought a new position in Digital Realty Trust in the second quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Bell Investment Advisors Inc increased its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 56.9% during the 1st quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc now owns 171 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after purchasing an additional 62 shares during the last quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd increased its position 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 purchasing an additional 165 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd bought a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter worth approximately $34,000. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

DLR has been the subject of several analyst reports. Cantor Fitzgerald raised their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $211.00 to $221.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research note on Wednesday, July 29th. Weiss Ratings cut shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 12th. Citizens Jmp lifted their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $220.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, April 27th. HSBC raised shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their target price for the company from $210.00 to $240.00 in a report on Thursday, August 13th. Finally, Wall Street Zen upgraded shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “sell” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Saturday, July 25th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-five have issued a Buy rating and six have assigned a Hold rating to the company. According to data from MarketBeat, the company has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $219.45.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 1.8%

DLR opened at $190.81 on Friday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 1-year low of $146.23 and a 1-year high of $208.14. The stock’s fifty day simple moving average is $186.89 and its 200 day simple moving average is $185.41. The company has a current ratio of 1.06, a quick ratio of 1.06 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68. The stock 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.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.21 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.98 by ($0.77). Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 3.34% and a net margin of 11.80%.The company had revenue of $1.92 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.66 billion. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.87 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 28.9% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 8.150-8.200 EPS. As a group, research analysts expect 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 announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, September 30th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, September 15th will be paid a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.6%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, September 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 236.89%.

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.