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 -1.4% 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 brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data "meeting place" and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges.
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DLR has an average analyst rating of buy and is -1.72% away from its mean target price of $121.28 per share
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Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (EPS) is $1.1
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Digital Realty Trust has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 108.4
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Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.27 and its forward P/E ratio is 93.9
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DLR has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 5.69, which shows the company is potentially overvalued when we factor growth into the price to earnings calculus.
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The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.11