Bcwm LLC Makes New Investment in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Bcwm LLC bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) during the second quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The institutional investor bought 58,993 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $10,594,000. Digital Realty Trust accounts for approximately 3.1% of Bcwm LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 8th largest holding.

A number of other hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in DLR. Sunbelt Securities Inc. increased its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 347.2% in the third quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 161 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $28,000 after buying an additional 125 shares during the last quarter. Gables Capital Management Inc. bought a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the 2nd quarter valued at $29,000. Bell Investment Advisors Inc boosted its stake in 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 valued at $31,000 after acquiring an additional 62 shares during the last quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd grew its holdings 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 worth $31,000 after acquiring an additional 165 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Solstein Capital LLC bought a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 2nd quarter worth about $32,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of equities research analysts have recently issued reports on the stock. TD Cowen upgraded shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “buy” rating and upped their target price for the company from $192.00 to $222.00 in a research note on Friday, July 24th. Weiss Ratings downgraded Digital Realty Trust from a “buy (b-)” rating to a “hold (c+)” rating in a research note on Wednesday, August 12th. Barclays boosted their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $189.00 to $197.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Wednesday, July 1st. Truist Financial reduced their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $225.00 to $220.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, July 30th. Finally, Cantor Fitzgerald lifted their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $211.00 to $221.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 29th. One equities research 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. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $219.45.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Shares of NYSE DLR opened at $193.14 on Thursday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 1-year low of $146.23 and a 1-year high of $208.14. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a current ratio of 1.06 and a quick ratio of 1.06. The business’s fifty day moving average price is $187.13 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $186.10. The firm has a market capitalization of $71.65 billion, a PE ratio of 93.76, a P/E/G ratio of 5.45 and a beta of 1.03.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.21 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.98 by ($0.77). The firm had revenue of $1.92 billion for 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 was up 28.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.87 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 8.150-8.200 EPS. On average, research analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.4 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, September 30th. Shareholders 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 yield of 2.5%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, September 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is presently 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.