Nisa Investment Advisors LLC Increases Stock Holdings in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Nisa Investment Advisors LLC increased its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 12.6% in the 4th quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 109,539 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 12,252 shares during the quarter. Nisa Investment Advisors LLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $17,072,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds have also bought and sold shares of DLR. Security National Bank of Sioux City Iowa IA grew its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 0.4% in the 3rd quarter. Security National Bank of Sioux City Iowa IA now owns 14,335 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $2,478,000 after acquiring an additional 60 shares in the last quarter. Clarius Group LLC raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 3.2% in the fourth quarter. Clarius Group LLC now owns 2,024 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $313,000 after purchasing an additional 63 shares during the last quarter. Commons Capital LLC lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 4.6% during the third quarter. Commons Capital LLC now owns 1,463 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $253,000 after purchasing an additional 64 shares in the last quarter. Scotia Capital Inc. boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 0.9% during the third quarter. Scotia Capital Inc. now owns 7,379 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,276,000 after purchasing an additional 64 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 11.2% during the third quarter. Physician Wealth Advisors Inc. now owns 646 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $112,000 after purchasing an additional 65 shares during the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

NYSE DLR opened at $180.45 on Thursday. The company has a market capitalization of $62.00 billion, a PE ratio of 50.12, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.99 and a beta of 1.12. 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, Inc. has a 52-week low of $129.95 and a 52-week high of $184.79. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $174.65 and a 200 day simple moving average of $167.83.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last released its earnings results on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 earnings per share for the quarter, beating 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 firm had revenue of $1.63 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.58 billion. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $1.73 EPS. The company’s revenue 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. On average, research analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Shareholders of record on Friday, March 13th were given a $1.22 dividend. 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 dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 135.56%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities research analysts have commented on DLR shares. Moffett Nathanson increased their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $166.00 to $172.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research note on Friday, December 12th. Citigroup cut their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 6th. HSBC set a $193.00 target price on Digital Realty Trust and gave the company a “buy” rating in a report on Thursday, January 15th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft initiated coverage on Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Monday, January 5th. They set a “buy” rating and a $180.00 price target for the company. Finally, Stifel Nicolaus dropped their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $200.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Friday, February 6th. Three analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, sixteen have assigned a Buy rating and eight have issued a Hold rating to the stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, Digital Realty Trust has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $194.88.

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.