Hsbc Holdings PLC Acquires 170,466 Shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Hsbc Holdings PLC raised its holdings in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 14.4% in the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel.com reports. The fund owned 1,354,201 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after acquiring an additional 170,466 shares during the quarter. Hsbc Holdings PLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $209,625,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Other large investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Bison Wealth LLC increased its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 17.2% during the 4th quarter. Bison Wealth LLC now owns 2,653 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $471,000 after purchasing an additional 390 shares during the last quarter. Empowered Funds LLC lifted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 9.4% in the 1st quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 6,784 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $972,000 after purchasing an additional 584 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 23.0% in the second quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC now owns 21,739 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $3,790,000 after purchasing an additional 4,069 shares in the last quarter. Treasurer of the State of North Carolina increased its position in Digital Realty Trust by 3.9% during the second quarter. Treasurer of the State of North Carolina now owns 157,567 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $27,469,000 after buying an additional 5,909 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp increased its position in Digital Realty Trust by 0.8% during the second quarter. Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp now owns 27,631 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $4,816,000 after buying an additional 231 shares during the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

DLR has been the subject of a number of analyst reports. Scotiabank boosted their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $222.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, April 27th. Citizens Jmp increased their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $220.00 to $250.00 and gave the company a “market outperform” rating in a report on Monday, April 27th. The Goldman Sachs Group reissued a “buy” rating and issued a $215.00 price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Morgan Stanley boosted 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. Finally, Citigroup reiterated an “outperform” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Monday, April 27th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have issued a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $215.89.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Up 0.0%

Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $188.15 on Friday. 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 0.78, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a current ratio of 1.59. The firm has a market capitalization of $66.12 billion, a PE ratio of 49.64, a PEG ratio of 5.11 and a beta of 1.02. The business’s 50-day simple moving average is $192.03 and its 200-day simple moving average is $176.25.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last announced its earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of $0.46. The firm had revenue of $1.64 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.63 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 6.05% and a net margin of 21.73%.The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.77 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. Equities research analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.05 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be paid a $1.22 dividend. The ex-dividend date is Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.6%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is presently 128.76%.

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.