Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR Stock Acquired by Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc.

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. increased its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR - Free Report) by 2.4% in the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor owned 999,524 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock after purchasing an additional 23,695 shares during the period. Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group Inc. owned 0.27% of Digital Realty Trust worth $175,446,000 at the end of the most recent quarter.

Several other large investors have also recently bought and sold shares of the business. Mirae Asset Global Investments Co. Ltd. acquired a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 3rd quarter worth about $22,166,000. Profund Advisors LLC raised its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 27.8% during the 3rd quarter. Profund Advisors LLC now owns 4,540 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $797,000 after acquiring an additional 988 shares in the last quarter. ProShare Advisors LLC lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 11.7% during the third quarter. ProShare Advisors LLC now owns 68,713 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $12,061,000 after purchasing an additional 7,170 shares during the last quarter. Vise Technologies Inc. lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 28.9% during the third quarter. Vise Technologies Inc. now owns 10,936 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $1,920,000 after purchasing an additional 2,451 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Investment Partners LTD. lifted its stake in Digital Realty Trust by 92.6% during the third quarter. Investment Partners LTD. now owns 3,851 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock worth $676,000 after purchasing an additional 1,852 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 99.71% of the company's stock.

Key Digital Realty Trust News

Here are the key news stories impacting Digital Realty Trust this week:

• Positive Sentiment: Third-quarter FFO and revenue exceeded expectations. Core FFO was $2.10 per share, beating estimates by $0.10, while revenue reached approximately $1.90 billion—$140 million above consensus—and increased 20.6% year over year. Digital Realty Trust FFO and revenue results
• Positive Sentiment: Improving data-center fundamentals supported the outlook. Record bookings, higher occupancy and stronger rental rates drove double-digit core FFO growth. Management raised its 2026 core FFO outlook to $8.30-$8.35 per share, broadly in line with the FactSet estimate of $8.34. DLR Q3 FFO and revenue outlook
• Positive Sentiment: Analysts raised their price targets and maintained bullish ratings. Wells Fargo lifted its target to $225 from $220, Cantor Fitzgerald raised its target to $223 from $221, and Citigroup increased its target to $234 from $226. Wells Fargo and Cantor Fitzgerald both retained “overweight” ratings. Wells Fargo Digital Realty Trust rating
• Neutral Sentiment: Investor focus remains on execution and valuation. The raised outlook was close to existing expectations, limiting the potential for a major positive surprise. DLR also trades at a high earnings multiple, making the stock sensitive to interest rates and any slowdown in data-center demand.
• Negative Sentiment: Reported EPS missed the consensus estimate. Digital Realty posted quarterly EPS of $0.48 versus expectations of $0.52, despite the revenue beat. The earnings shortfall may have prompted profit-taking and helped offset the stronger FFO and operating metrics. Digital Realty Trust quarterly earnings
• Negative Sentiment: Put-option activity increased. Traders purchased 3,148 put options, approximately 87% above typical volume, signaling increased near-term hedging or bearish speculation.

Digital Realty Trust Stock Down 0.2%

DLR opened at $180.26 on Monday. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $181.45 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $182.91. The company has a quick ratio of 1.06, a current ratio of 0.72 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.70. The company has a market cap of $66.88 billion, a PE ratio of 75.42, a P/E/G ratio of 3.47 and a beta of 0.97. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 52 week low of $146.23 and a 52 week high of $208.14.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, October 29th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.48 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.52 by ($0.04). The firm had revenue of $1.90 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $1.75 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a net margin of 13.06% and a return on equity of 3.68%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 20.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.89 earnings per share. As a group, research analysts anticipate that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.37 EPS for the current year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The firm also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Wednesday, September 30th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, September 15th were issued a $1.22 dividend. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.7%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend was Tuesday, September 15th. Digital Realty Trust's dividend payout ratio (DPR) is currently 204.18%.

Analyst Ratings Changes

A number of analysts have weighed in on the stock. BTIG Research raised their price objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $215.00 to $220.00 and gave the stock a "buy" rating in a report on Thursday, September 10th. Rothschild & Co Redburn initiated coverage on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a report on Monday, September 21st. They issued a "buy" rating and a $227.00 target price for the company. TD Cowen raised shares of Digital Realty Trust from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating and increased their target price for the company from $192.00 to $222.00 in a research report on Friday, July 24th. Cantor Fitzgerald lifted their price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $221.00 to $223.00 and gave the stock an "overweight" rating in a research note on Friday. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein reissued an "outperform" rating and issued a $229.00 price target on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Friday. Two research analysts have rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-five have assigned a Buy rating and six have issued a Hold rating to the stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and a consensus price target of $221.35.

Insider Buying and Selling at Digital Realty Trust

In related news, Director Mark Patterson sold 200 shares of the company's stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 27th. The stock was sold at an average price of $193.96, for a total transaction of $38,792.00. Following the transaction, the director owned 6,322 shares of the company's stock, valued at $1,226,215.12. This represents a 3.07% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the SEC, which is available at this link. 0.15% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.

About Digital Realty Trust

Digital Realty Trust, Inc is a real estate investment trust that owns, operates and develops data center facilities for businesses, cloud service providers, information technology companies and telecommunications organizations. The company provides the physical infrastructure needed to support data storage, networking, cloud computing and other digital operations.

Its services include data center colocation, interconnection and private connectivity solutions. Digital Realty also offers access to cloud and network providers through its PlatformDIGITAL platform, which is designed to help customers deploy, connect and manage their digital infrastructure across multiple locations.

Founded in 2001, Digital Realty serves customers through a global portfolio of data centers and related facilities across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America.

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