Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Stock Holdings Increased by Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.

Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. lifted its position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 5,759.4% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The institutional investor owned 1,357,805 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 1,334,632 shares during the quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co.’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $210,066,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of the company. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 1.6% in the 4th quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 54,260,359 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $8,394,620,000 after buying an additional 854,828 shares in the last quarter. Bank of America Corp DE raised its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 6.6% in the 3rd quarter. Bank of America Corp DE now owns 8,930,551 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,543,914,000 after buying an additional 553,907 shares in the last quarter. APG Asset Management US Inc. raised its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 0.3% in the 3rd quarter. APG Asset Management US Inc. now owns 8,638,801 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $1,481,122,000 after buying an additional 23,430 shares in the last quarter. Northern Trust Corp raised its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 9.1% in the 3rd quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 5,647,534 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $976,346,000 after buying an additional 471,384 shares in the last quarter. Finally, UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC raised its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 686.0% in the 3rd quarter. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC now owns 4,807,512 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $831,123,000 after buying an additional 4,195,862 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 2.2%

Shares of Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $188.52 on Friday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 12-month low of $146.23 and a 12-month high of $208.14. The company has a quick ratio of 1.59, a current ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78. The firm has a market capitalization of $66.25 billion, a PE ratio of 49.74, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.12 and a beta of 1.06. The stock’s fifty day moving average is $187.67 and its 200-day moving average is $172.16.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share for the quarter, meeting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 6.05% and a net margin of 21.73%.The business had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.63 billion. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.77 earnings per share. Digital Realty Trust’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. Equities analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.06 earnings per share for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Stockholders of record on Monday, June 15th will be issued a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date is Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.6%. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is currently 128.76%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

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. Sanford C. Bernstein boosted their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $218.00 to $232.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Friday, April 24th. Evercore boosted their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $200.00 to $230.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 21st. HSBC lowered Digital Realty Trust from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and boosted their target price for the stock from $193.00 to $210.00 in a research report on Monday, April 27th. Finally, Raymond James Financial boosted their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock a “strong-buy” rating in a research report on Friday, April 24th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have assigned a Buy rating and eight have given a Hold rating to the company. According to MarketBeat.com, the company currently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $214.41.

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.