Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Position Increased by Centiva Capital LP

Centiva Capital LP increased its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 96.0% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 10,066 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after buying an additional 4,929 shares during the quarter. Centiva Capital LP’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $1,740,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Pinnacle Bancorp Inc. acquired a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter valued at $25,000. South Plains Financial Inc. increased its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 280.5% in the 2nd quarter. South Plains Financial Inc. now owns 156 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $27,000 after acquiring an additional 115 shares during the period. Salomon & Ludwin LLC bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust in the 3rd quarter valued at about $28,000. First Horizon Corp bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust in the 3rd quarter valued at about $31,000. Finally, Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd boosted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 970.6% during the 3rd quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd now owns 182 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $31,000 after purchasing an additional 165 shares during the period. 99.71% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 0.4%

DLR stock opened at $179.62 on Friday. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52 week low of $129.95 and a 52 week high of $184.79. The company has a market capitalization of $61.72 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 49.90, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 3.97 and a beta of 1.12. The firm’s 50-day moving average is $169.75 and its two-hundred day moving average is $166.88. The company has a current ratio of 1.59, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February 5th. The real estate investment trust reported $1.86 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate 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 business had revenue of $1.63 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.58 billion. During the same period last year, the firm posted $1.73 earnings per share. The business’s revenue was up 13.8% on a year-over-year basis. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.900-8.000 EPS. On average, analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 7.07 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Tuesday, March 31st. Stockholders of record on Friday, March 13th will be given a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date is Friday, March 13th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.7%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 135.56%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

Several equities research analysts have commented on DLR shares. Bank of America restated a “neutral” rating and issued a $170.00 price target (down from $210.00) on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday, January 8th. Mizuho reduced their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $191.00 to $180.00 and set an “outperform” rating for the company in a research report on Monday, January 12th. Sanford C. Bernstein started coverage on Digital Realty Trust in a report on Thursday, March 5th. They issued an “outperform” rating and a $218.00 price objective for the company. KeyCorp restated a “sector weight” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Thursday, January 29th. Finally, Raymond James Financial reaffirmed a “strong-buy” rating and set a $210.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Thursday. Three equities research 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. According to MarketBeat.com, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average price target of $193.96.

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.