Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Co raised its stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR – Free Report) by 10.5% in the second quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund owned 30,585 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after acquiring an additional 2,913 shares during the period. Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Co’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $4,650,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.
Other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in the company. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA raised its position in Digital Realty Trust by 543.6% in the second quarter. Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA now owns 1,447,340 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $220,068,000 after purchasing an additional 1,773,591 shares during the period. Vanguard Group Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 2.0% in the 1st quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 48,503,593 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $6,986,458,000 after buying an additional 951,567 shares during the period. Balyasny Asset Management L.P. acquired a new position in Digital Realty Trust during the 4th quarter worth about $107,372,000. Wulff Hansen & CO. boosted its holdings in Digital Realty Trust by 15,105.0% during the 2nd quarter. Wulff Hansen & CO. now owns 795,830 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $121,006,000 after acquiring an additional 790,596 shares during the period. Finally, Daiwa Securities Group Inc. grew its position in Digital Realty Trust by 16.8% in the 2nd quarter. Daiwa Securities Group Inc. now owns 4,725,971 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock valued at $718,584,000 after acquiring an additional 678,165 shares in the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Insider Activity at Digital Realty Trust
In other Digital Realty Trust news, Director Jean F. H. P. Mandeville sold 600 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction on Thursday, August 1st. The shares were sold at an average price of $150.26, for a total transaction of $90,156.00. Following the transaction, the director now directly owns 9,055 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $1,360,604.30. The sale was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. 0.17% of the stock is owned by insiders.
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Digital Realty Trust Stock Performance
NYSE DLR opened at $158.25 on Thursday. The company has a fifty day moving average of $152.12 and a two-hundred day moving average of $147.23. The company has a market capitalization of $49.44 billion, a PE ratio of 43.96, a P/E/G ratio of 5.06 and a beta of 0.60. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a 1 year low of $113.94 and a 1 year high of $162.58. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.81, a current ratio of 1.78 and a quick ratio of 1.78.
Digital Realty Trust (NYSE:DLR – Get Free Report) last released its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, July 25th. The real estate investment trust reported $0.20 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.63 by ($1.43). The firm had revenue of $1.36 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts’ expectations of $1.38 billion. Digital Realty Trust had a return on equity of 5.93% and a net margin of 20.58%. The company’s quarterly revenue was down .7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the business earned $1.68 EPS. As a group, analysts expect that Digital Realty Trust, Inc. will post 6.65 earnings per share for the current year.
Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement
The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Monday, September 30th. Stockholders of record on Friday, September 13th will be issued a $1.22 dividend. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Friday, September 13th. This represents a $4.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 3.08%. Digital Realty Trust’s payout ratio is 135.56%.
Digital Realty Trust Profile
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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