Aew Capital Management L P Trims Stock Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Aew Capital Management L P decreased its holdings in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 16.2% during the 4th quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 549,663 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 106,262 shares during the period. Digital Realty Trust accounts for approximately 6.2% of Aew Capital Management L P’s investment portfolio, making the stock its 7th biggest holding. Aew Capital Management L P’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $85,038,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other institutional investors also recently modified their holdings of DLR. Bison Wealth LLC grew its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 17.2% in the fourth 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 grew its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 9.4% in the first quarter. Empowered Funds LLC now owns 6,784 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $972,000 after purchasing an additional 584 shares during the last quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC grew its stake in shares of 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 during the last quarter. Treasurer of the State of North Carolina grew its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 3.9% in 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 purchasing an additional 5,909 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 0.8% in the second quarter. Peapack Gladstone Financial Corp now owns 27,631 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $4,816,000 after acquiring an additional 231 shares during the last quarter. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analyst Weigh In

Several brokerages recently commented on DLR. KeyCorp reiterated a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, January 29th. Truist Financial reiterated a “buy” rating and issued a $208.00 target price (up from $207.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, May 14th. Morgan Stanley upped their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $210.00 to $215.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a report on Friday, April 24th. Citizens Jmp upped their target price 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. Finally, HSBC cut shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “buy” rating to a “hold” rating and upped their price target for the company from $193.00 to $210.00 in a research report on Monday, April 27th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty have assigned a Buy rating and eight have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat, Digital Realty Trust has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus target price of $215.89.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $190.23 on Thursday. The stock has a market capitalization of $66.85 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 50.19, a PEG ratio of 5.06 and a beta of 1.06. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52-week low of $146.23 and a 52-week high of $208.14. The stock’s 50 day moving average price is $188.25 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $172.48. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a current ratio of 1.59.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46. The firm had revenue of $1.64 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.63 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 6.05% and a net margin of 21.73%.The company’s revenue for the quarter was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.77 EPS. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. On average, equities analysts predict that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.06 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 given a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.6%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Monday, June 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is 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.