Sculptor Capital LP Takes Position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. $DLR

Sculptor Capital LP purchased a new position in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR - Free Report) in the second quarter, according to its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The institutional investor purchased 175,000 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock, valued at approximately $31,426,000.

Other large investors have also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the company. Gables Capital Management Inc. acquired a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust in the second quarter valued at about $29,000. Sunbelt Securities Inc. lifted its position in 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 boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 56.9% in 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 during the period. Solstein Capital LLC acquired a new stake in Digital Realty Trust in the second quarter valued at approximately $32,000. Finally, Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd grew its position in Digital Realty Trust by 970.6% in the third quarter. Harvest Fund Management Co. Ltd now owns 182 shares of the real estate investment trust's stock valued at $31,000 after acquiring an additional 165 shares in the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Analyst Upgrades and Downgrades

Several brokerages have recently weighed in on DLR. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a "buy" rating and issued a $229.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research note on Monday, July 27th. Guggenheim raised 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 objective on shares of Digital Realty Trust from $225.00 to $220.00 and set a "buy" rating for the company in a research report on Thursday, July 30th. TD Cowen upgraded Digital Realty Trust from a "hold" rating to a "buy" rating and raised their target price for the company from $192.00 to $222.00 in a research note on Friday, July 24th. Finally, Barclays lifted their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $189.00 to $197.00 and gave the stock an "equal weight" rating in a research report on Wednesday, July 1st. One analyst has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, twenty-five have assigned a Buy rating and six have assigned a Hold rating to the company. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the company currently has a consensus rating of "Moderate Buy" and an average price target of $219.45.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Up 1.9%

DLR opened at $192.20 on Wednesday. The stock has a market capitalization of $71.30 billion, a PE ratio of 93.30, a P/E/G ratio of 5.34 and a beta of 1.03. The firm's fifty day moving average price is $187.01 and its 200 day moving average price is $185.90. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.68, a current ratio of 1.06 and a quick ratio of 1.06. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 12-month low of $146.23 and a 12-month high of $208.14.

Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR - Get Free Report) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 23rd. The real estate investment trust reported $1.21 EPS for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates 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 during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.66 billion. During the same quarter last year, the business posted $1.87 earnings per share. The firm'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. As a group, research analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 8.4 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Digital Realty Trust Announces Dividend

The company also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Wednesday, September 30th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, September 15th will be given a $1.22 dividend. The ex-dividend date 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 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.

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