Sapient Capital LLC Buys Shares of 2,710 Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Sapient Capital LLC purchased a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) during the first quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund purchased 2,710 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $488,000.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the stock. Sunbelt Securities Inc. raised its holdings 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 worth $28,000 after purchasing an additional 125 shares in the last quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc lifted its position in Digital Realty Trust by 56.9% in the first 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 period. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd boosted its stake in 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 valued at $31,000 after purchasing an additional 165 shares in the last quarter. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd bought a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter valued at $34,000. Finally, MCF Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 4th quarter valued at $35,000. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

DLR has been the topic of a number of research reports. BMO Capital Markets boosted their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $205.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, April 20th. Citizens Jmp raised their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $220.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. Morgan Stanley lifted their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $215.00 and gave the stock an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Stifel Nicolaus boosted their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, April 24th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group upped their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $223.00 to $233.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-four have assigned a Buy rating and six have given a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $218.17.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Up 1.6%

Shares of NYSE:DLR opened at $194.26 on Wednesday. The firm has a 50 day simple moving average of $184.71 and a 200 day simple moving average of $182.61. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52 week low of $146.23 and a 52 week high of $208.14. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a current ratio of 1.06. The company has a market cap of $71.88 billion, a PE ratio of 94.30, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.43 and a beta of 1.03.

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 the consensus estimate 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 firm had revenue of $1.92 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.66 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm posted $1.87 earnings per share. The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 28.9% on a year-over-year basis. 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 8.39 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th were issued a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date was Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.5%. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is currently 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.