Key Factors to Evaluate Before Investing in Digital Realty Trust (DLR)

By Harris Dyer • Friday, October 25 10:10 • Permanent Link

With gains of 14.1%, Digital Realty Trust was one of the winners on Wall Street today. Its shares are now trading at $188.48 and have logged a 1.0% daily outperformance of the S&P 500. Don't join the feeding frenzy before checking some basic facts about this stock:

Digital Realty Trust has moved 35.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 41.1%
DLR has an average analyst rating of buy and is 16.64% away from its mean target price of $161.59 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.17
Digital Realty Trust has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 161.1 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.39 and its forward P/E ratio is 135.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 3.01 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Digital Realty Trust is part of the Real Estate sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 31.12 and an average P/B of 2.15
DLR has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -96.1% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
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 data 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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