Highline Wealth Partners LLC reduced its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR – Free Report) by 49.2% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 9,046 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 8,756 shares during the quarter. Highline Wealth Partners LLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $1,400,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.
A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently made changes to their positions in DLR. New York State Common Retirement Fund boosted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 7.1% during the 3rd quarter. New York State Common Retirement Fund now owns 233,569 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $40,379,000 after buying an additional 15,569 shares during the last quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp increased its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 13.5% in the third quarter. Jones Financial Companies Lllp now owns 148,970 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $25,545,000 after acquiring an additional 17,729 shares during the last quarter. OFI Invest Asset Management raised its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 37,575.7% during the third quarter. OFI Invest Asset Management now owns 271,265 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $46,896,000 after acquiring an additional 270,545 shares in the last quarter. Centersquare Investment Management LLC raised its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 5.0% during the third quarter. Centersquare Investment Management LLC now owns 3,118,869 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $539,190,000 after acquiring an additional 149,770 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Gallacher Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at approximately $762,000. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.
Key Headlines Impacting Digital Realty Trust
Here are the key news stories impacting Digital Realty Trust this week:
- Positive Sentiment: Digital Realty closed its inaugural U.S. hyperscale data center fund with $3.25 billion of equity commitments to build and own hyperscale assets across major U.S. Tier-1 metros—this materially increases funding capacity for growth and lets DLR scale large projects while deploying private capital, which can boost long-term revenue and reduce the need for balance-sheet financing. Digital Realty Announces Final Close of $3.25 billion U.S. Hyperscale Data Center Fund
- Positive Sentiment: Truist initiated coverage with a Buy rating and a $207 price target (implying roughly mid-teens upside), which likely supported the rally by giving investors a bullish third-party view on DLR’s growth runway and valuation. Benzinga: Truist starts coverage
- Neutral Sentiment: Digital Realty scheduled its Q1 2026 earnings release and conference call for after market close on April 23 (5:00 p.m. ET). The event creates a near-term catalyst—results and guidance commentary could amplify the move in either direction. Digital Realty Schedules First Quarter 2026 Earnings Release and Conference Call
- Neutral Sentiment: Multiple media/analyst write-ups (Yahoo/Zacks/MSN/Fool) are amplifying the fund-close story and broader data-center sector commentary; these coverage pieces support awareness but are secondary to the fund and analyst action. Zacks: Digital Realty’s $3.25B Fund Close
Digital Realty Trust Price Performance
Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR – Get Free Report) last issued its earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 EPS for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.83 by $0.03. The company had revenue of $1.63 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.58 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 5.88% and a net margin of 21.41%.The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the company posted $1.73 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. On average, analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current year.
Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend
The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 13th were given a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Friday, March 13th. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is 135.56%.
Analysts Set New Price Targets
A number of research analysts have weighed in on the company. Mizuho decreased their price target on 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. Weiss Ratings raised Digital Realty Trust from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a report on Tuesday, February 17th. UBS Group set a $189.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Wednesday, January 14th. Sanford C. Bernstein assumed coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, March 5th. They set an “outperform” rating and a $218.00 target price on the stock. Finally, Moffett Nathanson upped their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $166.00 to $172.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a research report on Friday, December 12th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have issued a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the stock has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $194.88.
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Digital Realty Trust 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.
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