Navigating Digital Realty Trust (DLR) for Investors – Key Insights

By Harris Dyer • Friday, May 30 09:58 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Digital Realty Trust over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Specialty Real Estate Investment Trust stock at a price of $171.46? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Digital Realty Trust has moved 18.5% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 12.0%
DLR has an average analyst rating of buy and is -7.74% away from its mean target price of $185.84 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.07
Digital Realty Trust has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 160.2 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.21 and its forward P/E ratio is 141.7
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.81 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 27.31 and an average P/B of 1.94
DLR has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -67.0% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.39 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (Digital Realty or the company) owns, acquires, develops, and operates data centers through its operating partnership subsidiary, Digital Realty Trust, L.P. (the operating partnership). The company is focused on providing data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions for domestic and international customers across a variety of industry verticals ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and consumer products. As of March 31, 2025, the company's 308 data centers, including 78 data centers held as investments in unconsolidated joint ventures, contain applications and operations critical to the day-to-day operations of technology industry and corporate enterprise data center customers. Digital Realty's portfolio is comprised of approximately 41.8 million square feet, excluding approximately 9.5 million square feet of space under active development and 5.1 million square feet of space held for future development, located throughout North America, Europe, South America, Asia, Australia, and Africa.

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