Shepherd Financial Partners LLC Takes Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Shepherd Financial Partners LLC purchased a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) during the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission. The fund purchased 8,679 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $1,558,000.

Other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. BlackRock Inc. purchased a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the second quarter valued at $7,277,032,000. Norges Bank purchased a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 4th quarter worth about $3,402,995,000. Cohen & Steers Inc. grew its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 18.0% in the 4th quarter. Cohen & Steers Inc. now owns 28,001,340 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $4,332,366,000 after buying an additional 4,276,073 shares during the period. UBS AM A Distinct Business Unit of UBS Asset Management Americas LLC increased 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 acquiring an additional 4,195,862 shares in the last quarter. Finally, Deutsche Bank AG bought a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 2nd quarter worth about $408,371,000. 99.71% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance

Shares of DLR stock opened at $192.21 on Thursday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a one year low of $146.23 and a one year high of $208.14. The company’s 50-day moving average is $186.53 and its 200 day moving average is $185.18. The company has a market capitalization of $71.13 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 93.31, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 5.53 and a beta of 1.03. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a quick ratio of 1.06 and a current ratio of 1.06.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, July 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.21 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.98 by ($0.77). The firm had revenue of $1.92 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.66 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 11.80% and a return on equity of 3.34%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 28.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business posted $1.87 earnings per share. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 8.150-8.200 EPS. Sell-side analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.4 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, September 30th. Investors of record on Tuesday, September 15th will be given a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, September 15th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.5%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 236.89%.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several equities research analysts recently commented on DLR shares. Truist Financial dropped their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $225.00 to $220.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a research note on Thursday, July 30th. Sanford C. Bernstein raised their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $218.00 to $232.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Friday, April 24th. Raymond James Financial boosted their price target 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. Scotiabank upped their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $222.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. Finally, JPMorgan Chase & Co. raised their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the company an “overweight” rating in a research report on Friday, July 24th. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-five have given a Buy rating and six have assigned a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, Digital Realty Trust presently has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $219.45.

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.