Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) Price Target Raised to $230.00

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) had its price objective boosted by Evercore from $200.00 to $230.00 in a report issued on Tuesday,MarketScreener reports. Evercore currently has an outperform rating on the real estate investment trust’s stock.

A number of other equities research analysts also recently issued reports on the stock. HSBC set a $193.00 price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Thursday, January 15th. KeyCorp restated a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, January 29th. Morgan Stanley raised their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $210.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Monday, April 13th. Mizuho lowered their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $191.00 to $180.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research note on Monday, January 12th. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein initiated coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, March 5th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $218.00 price target for the company. Four investment analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, seventeen have assigned a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $203.67.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

NYSE:DLR opened at $199.76 on Tuesday. Digital Realty Trust has a 52 week low of $146.23 and a 52 week high of $204.94. The firm has a market cap of $69.71 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 55.49, a P/E/G ratio of 4.45 and a beta of 1.07. The firm’s 50-day simple moving average is $182.84 and its 200 day simple moving average is $170.06. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a current ratio of 1.59.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.83 by $0.03. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.41% and a return on equity of 5.88%. The business had revenue of $1.63 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.58 billion. During the same period last year, the firm earned $1.73 earnings per share. Digital Realty Trust’s revenue for the quarter was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust will post 7.94 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The business also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Investors of record on Friday, March 13th were issued a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.4%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is 135.56%.

Hedge Funds Weigh In On Digital Realty Trust

A number of hedge funds and other institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. boosted its holdings 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 worth $8,394,620,000 after buying an additional 854,828 shares during the last quarter. Cohen & Steers Inc. boosted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 18.0% in 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 buying an additional 4,276,073 shares during the last quarter. Norges Bank purchased a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 4th quarter worth about $3,402,995,000. State Street Corp boosted its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1.1% in the 4th 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. Finally, Geode Capital Management LLC raised its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 2.2% in the 4th quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 9,234,073 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $1,423,373,000 after acquiring an additional 197,180 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Key Stories Impacting Digital Realty Trust

Here are the key news stories impacting Digital Realty Trust this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Q1 operating results beat expectations — Digital Realty reported stronger FFO/Core FFO and revenue for 1Q26 (Core FFO ~ $2.04/sh; reported FFO ~ $1.99–$2.04/sh depending on metric reported) and net income improved year-over-year. These beats support the company’s growth trajectory in data-center leasing and drove analyst attention. Digital Realty Reports First Quarter 2026 Results
• Positive Sentiment: FFO and revenue topped consensus — Zacks highlights an FFO beat (around $2.04 vs. ~$1.94 estimate) and revenue slightly above estimates, reinforcing the core cash?flow story that REIT investors monitor. Digital Realty Trust (DLR) Beats Q1 FFO and Revenue Estimates
• Positive Sentiment: FY26 guidance nudged up — management updated FY26 EPS guidance to roughly $7.95–$8.05 (vs. consensus ~7.94) and gave revenue guidance near $6.7–$6.8B, implying continued steady cash?flow growth. That guidance stability helped underpin analyst upgrades. View Press Release
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts raised targets — Mizuho bumped its PT to $217 (outperform) and Stifel raised its PT to $230 (buy), signaling buy?side conviction that upside remains after the beat/guidance. Mizuho Raises Price Target Stifel Raises Price Target
• Positive Sentiment: Additional bullish research notes — Evercore and BMO included positive commentary/forecasts for DLR recently, adding institutional support for the name. Evercore Forecasts Strong Price Appreciation BMO Forecasts Strong Price Appreciation
• Neutral Sentiment: Volume and technicals — Intraday volume was above average and shares recently hit a 12?month high, indicating active repositioning by investors; moving averages are well below the current price. (See market data sources for details.)
• Negative Sentiment: Valuation is rich — the stock trades at a high P/E (~55x) and elevated PEG (~4.5), which can cap upside and invite profit?taking even after strong results. This likely helps explain why the share price is trading lower today despite the beats and upgrades.

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.