Natixis Advisors LLC Grows Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Natixis Advisors LLC increased its holdings in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 3.8% in the 3rd quarter, according to its most recent filing with the SEC. The institutional investor owned 231,619 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 8,400 shares during the quarter. Natixis Advisors LLC owned about 0.07% of Digital Realty Trust worth $40,043,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also bought and sold shares of the stock. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. bought a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at approximately $25,000. South Plains Financial Inc. boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 280.5% in the second quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. now owns 156 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $27,000 after purchasing an additional 115 shares during the last quarter. Tobam bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust in the 2nd quarter worth approximately $28,000. Salomon & Ludwin LLC purchased a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter valued at $28,000. Finally, First Horizon Corp bought a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter valued at $31,000. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

A number of equities analysts have recently issued reports on the company. Weiss Ratings upgraded Digital Realty Trust from a “hold (c+)” rating to a “buy (b-)” rating in a research note on Tuesday, February 17th. Scotiabank lowered their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $206.00 to $189.00 and set a “sector outperform” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, January 14th. Citigroup dropped their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $212.00 to $190.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, February 6th. The Goldman Sachs Group boosted their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $188.00 to $190.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research note on Friday, February 6th. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group upped their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $184.00 to $189.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, February 6th. Three investment 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 company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $193.36.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Up 1.8%

NYSE:DLR opened at $179.33 on Tuesday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a one year low of $129.95 and a one year high of $184.79. The business has a fifty day moving average price of $167.75 and a 200-day moving average price of $166.50. The firm has a market capitalization of $61.62 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 49.81, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.90 and a beta of 1.12. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a current ratio of 1.59 and a quick ratio of 1.59.

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 the consensus estimate of $1.83 by $0.03. The company had revenue of $1.63 billion for 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%.Digital Realty Trust’s quarterly revenue was up 13.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the business earned $1.73 earnings per share. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. Sell-side analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Investors of record on Friday, March 13th will be paid a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 13th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.7%. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is 135.56%.

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.