Briefing on the Fundamentals of Digital Realty Trust

By Blake Campbell • Thursday, November 30 16:20 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Digital Realty Trust, a Specialty Real Estate Investment Trust company whose shares moved 0.4% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

DLR has an average analyst rating of buy and is 8.69% away from its mean target price of $127.68 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.89
Digital Realty Trust has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 48.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.19 and its forward P/E ratio is 116.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.41 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
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
DLR has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 209.7% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.97 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
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. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

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