Fielder Capital Group LLC Makes New Investment in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Fielder Capital Group LLC bought a new stake in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) in the 2nd quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund bought 32,502 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock, valued at approximately $5,837,000. Digital Realty Trust makes up approximately 1.3% of Fielder Capital Group LLC’s holdings, making the stock its 21st biggest holding.

A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently made changes to their positions in DLR. Sunbelt Securities Inc. boosted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 347.2% during the 3rd quarter. Sunbelt Securities Inc. now owns 161 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $28,000 after acquiring an additional 125 shares in the last quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 56.9% during the first quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc now owns 171 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $31,000 after purchasing an additional 62 shares during the last quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd boosted 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 valued at $31,000 after purchasing an additional 165 shares in the last quarter. Caitong International Asset Management Co. Ltd acquired a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 3rd quarter valued at $34,000. Finally, MCF Advisors LLC bought a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the 4th quarter valued at $35,000. Institutional investors own 99.71% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several research firms recently weighed in on DLR. The Goldman Sachs Group reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a $215.00 price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Friday, April 24th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. increased their target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $230.00 to $235.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Friday, July 24th. Guggenheim upgraded shares of Digital Realty Trust from a “neutral” rating to a “buy” rating and set a $200.00 price target on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, July 15th. Truist Financial decreased their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $225.00 to $220.00 and set a “buy” rating on the stock in a report on Thursday, July 30th. Finally, Scotiabank increased their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $195.00 to $222.00 and gave the company an “outperform” rating in a research note on Monday, April 27th. One investment 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 company. Based on data from MarketBeat, Digital Realty Trust currently has a consensus rating of “Moderate Buy” and a consensus price target of $219.13.

Digital Realty Trust Price Performance

Digital Realty Trust stock opened at $200.07 on Monday. The stock has a 50-day moving average price of $185.78 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $184.53. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 12 month low of $146.23 and a 12 month high of $208.14. The company has a market capitalization of $74.03 billion, a PE ratio of 97.12, a P/E/G ratio of 5.67 and a beta of 1.03. The company has a current ratio of 1.06, a quick ratio of 1.06 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68.

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

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, September 30th. Shareholders of record on Tuesday, September 15th will be issued a dividend of $1.22 per share. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.4%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, September 15th. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is presently 236.89%.

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.