Consider This Before Taking a Position in Digital Realty Trust (DLR)

By Harris Dyer • Thursday, December 14 11:17 • Permanent Link

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 -2.2% compared to 0.0% 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:

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 Trust has moved 31.1% over the last year compared to 20.8% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of 10.2%
DLR has an average analyst rating of buy and is 2.28% away from its mean target price of $129.55 per share
Its trailing 12 month earnings per share (EPS) is $2.88
Digital Realty Trust has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 46.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.14 and its forward P/E ratio is 116.2
DLR has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of -5.49, which shows the company is fairly valued compared to its earnings.
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.3 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 25.55 and an average P/B of 2.1
Digital Realty Trust has on average reported free cash flows of $-624973500.0 over the last four years, during which time they have grown by an an average of -13.4%

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