Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund Raises Stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund lifted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 37.1% during the first quarter, HoldingsChannel.com reports. The firm owned 82,170 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after purchasing an additional 22,250 shares during the period. Fjarde AP Fonden Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $14,808,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors have also recently made changes to their positions in DLR. Sunbelt Securities Inc. grew its position in Digital Realty Trust by 347.2% during the third quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 161 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $28,000 after buying an additional 125 shares during the period. Bell Investment Advisors Inc boosted its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 56.9% during the 1st quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc now owns 171 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after acquiring an additional 62 shares in the last quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd grew its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 970.6% in the 3rd quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd now owns 182 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after acquiring an additional 165 shares during the period. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd acquired a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the third quarter worth $34,000. Finally, MCF Advisors LLC purchased a new stake in Digital Realty Trust during the fourth quarter worth $35,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Wall Street Analysts Forecast Growth

A number of research analysts have recently weighed in on the company. Truist Financial raised their price target on Digital Realty Trust from $208.00 to $225.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Wednesday, June 24th. Wolfe Research lifted their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $194.00 to $211.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, April 6th. Jefferies Financial Group increased their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $223.00 to $233.00 and gave the company a “buy” rating in a research report on Friday, April 24th. BMO Capital Markets lifted their price objective on Digital Realty Trust from $205.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock an “outperform” rating in a research report on Monday, April 20th. Finally, Citigroup reaffirmed an “outperform” rating on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Monday, April 27th. One research 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.com, Digital Realty Trust has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $216.81.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Down 0.1%

Shares of DLR stock opened at $173.09 on Friday. The company has a market capitalization of $60.82 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 45.67, a PEG ratio of 4.71 and a beta of 1.03. The company has a current ratio of 1.59, a quick ratio of 1.59 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.78. The firm has a 50-day moving average price of $189.88 and a 200 day moving average price of $178.09. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a twelve month low of $146.23 and a twelve month high of $208.14.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, April 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $0.46 EPS for the quarter, hitting analysts’ consensus estimates of $0.46. The business had revenue of $1.64 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.63 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 21.73% and a return on equity of 6.05%. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 16.2% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the previous year, the firm posted $1.77 earnings per share. Digital Realty Trust has set its FY 2026 guidance at 7.950-8.050 EPS. Research analysts forecast that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.05 earnings per share for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Tuesday, June 30th. Investors of record on Monday, June 15th were given a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date was Monday, June 15th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.8%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) 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.