We're taking a closer look at Digital Realty Trust today, as the chatter surrounding the stock has increased notably in the last few weeks. Today, its shares moved 4.0% compared to 1.0% for the S&P 500. Increased investor interest and volatility surrounding the stock are not reason enough to buy in -- you should first perform your own due diligence. Here are some figures that can get you started:
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Digital Realty supports the world's leading enterprises and service providers by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITALR, the company's global data center platform, provides customers a trusted foundation and proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture PDxTM solution methodology for scaling digital business and efficiently managing data gravity challenges.
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Digital Realty Trust has moved -35.9% over the last year compared to -10.9% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -25.0%
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DLR has an average analyst rating of buy and is -18.28% away from its mean target price of $119.0 per share
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Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (EPS) is $1.11
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Digital Realty Trust has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 87.6 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
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Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.27 and its forward P/E ratio is 76.6
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DLR has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of -1.38, which shows the company is fairly valued compared to its earnings.
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The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.7 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
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Digital Realty Trust is part of the Real Estate sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.81 and an average P/B of 2.24
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Digital Realty Trust has on average reported free cash flows of $1,645,493,500.00 over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of 2.5%