Digital Realty Trust
DLR on NYSE. Digital Realty rents data center space and connections to businesses. Market value $63.2bn.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Some use the latest annual report instead, as marked. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
We can't read total debt from the filing, so debt is left out.
Recent profit includes a one-time gain, so we price the company excluding that gain.
Should I look at this?
Not a fit for our list right now
Why it could be worth it
See Real estate stocks that passed both tests
This is not advice. Check the numbers below.
For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $-0.80 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
The filings do not give us enough to work this out.
Quality score: 54 of 100. Price score: 23 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$179.87 a share, 23% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $146.23 to $208.14.
Dividend: 2.7% a year
Paid every year for at least 5 years
Prices from Monday’s close (5 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
Spare cash swings from quarter to quarter here: a shortfall of $507 million in the past 12 months, a shortfall of $769 million in the year to December 2025.
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $4.4bn | $4.7bn | $5.5bn | $5.6bn | $6.1bn |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 15.7% | 12.6% | 9.6% | 8.5% | 10.8% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.29bn | 0.30bn | 0.33bn | 0.34bn | 0.35bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive0 of 5 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
- Financial strength (Piotroski)Not enough data
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- DebtUnknown
- Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 9.4% a year
- Buying back its own sharesNo, 22% more shares since 2021
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $1.9 billion last quarter, up 29% on a year ago.
- Profit: $453 million, down 56% on a year ago.
- Over the past 12 months it spent $507 million more cash than it brought in, compared with $632 million a year earlier.
- 5% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
- Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $1.4bn |
| December 2024 | $1.4bn |
| March 2025 | $1.4bn |
| June 2025 | $1.5bn |
| September 2025 | $1.6bn |
| December 2025 | $1.6bn |
| March 2026 | $1.6bn |
| June 2026 | $1.9bn |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $51m |
| December 2024 | $190m |
| March 2025 | $110m |
| June 2025 | $1.0bn |
| September 2025 | $68m |
| December 2025 | $99m |
| March 2026 | $179m |
| June 2026 | $453m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- 22 October 2026
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 13 February 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 30 October 2026
Who owns it
5 long-term investors we follow own it, down from 6 last quarter. 1,323 funds in all.
- Gotham Asset ManagementJoel Greenblatt
- Value
- $53m
- Share of fund
- 0.1%
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Viking Global InvestorsAndreas Halvorsen | $415m | 1.2% | New |
| Barrow HanleyBarrow Hanley team | $115m | 0.3% | Cut |
| Gotham Asset ManagementJoel Greenblatt | $53m | 0.1% | |
| Land & BuildingsJonathan Litt | $24m | 4.2% | Added |
| Davis Selected AdvisersChris Davis | $13m | <0.1% | Cut |
Sold out this quarter
Largest holders overall
- BlackRock$7.3bnAdded
- Vanguard Portfolio Management$5.4bnAdded
- Cohen & Steers$5.2bnAdded
- Vanguard Capital Management$4.0bnAdded
- State Street$3.7bnAdded
- Banque Cantonale Vaudoise$3.6bnCut
- Norges Bank$3.5bnNew
- Blackstone$2.2bnNew
- Geode Capital Management$1.7bnAdded
- Bank of America$1.6bnCut
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
4 investors own more than 5%.
- Vanguard Portfolio ManagementPassive investor8.6%Since 31 March 2026
- Vanguard Capital ManagementPassive investor7.3%Since 31 March 2026
- SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT NORTH AMERICA INC/ DEPassive investor5.9%Since 31 December 2024
- Norges BankPassive investor5.6%Since 30 June 2026
- SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT NORTH AMERICA INC/ DEPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 30 June 2025
- The Vanguard GroupPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 13 March 2026
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
Vanguard Portfolio Management Passive investor | 8.6% | 31 March 2026 | |
Vanguard Capital Management Passive investor | 7.3% | 31 March 2026 | |
SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT NORTH AMERICA INC/ DE Passive investor | 5.9% | 31 December 2024 | |
Norges Bank Passive investor | 5.6% | 30 June 2026 | |
SCHRODER INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT NORTH AMERICA INC/ DE Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 30 June 2025 | |
The Vanguard Group Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 13 March 2026 |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 2 sold $694,604.
- Patterson Mark RDirectorSold
- Date
- 27 August 2026
- Shares
- 200
- Price
- $193.96
- Value
- $38,792
- Preusse Mary HoganDirectorSold
- Date
- 1 December 2025
- Shares
- 4,166
- Price
- $157.42
- Value
- $655,812
| Date | Who | Did | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2026 | Patterson Mark R Director | Sold | 200 | $193.96 | $38,792 |
| 1 December 2025 | Preusse Mary Hogan Director | Sold | 4,166 | $157.42 | $655,812 |
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
Warning signs in its filings
Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.
None of the warning signs we check for were found.
We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.
We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 13 Feb 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 31 Jul 2026 and 9 later 8-Ks.
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
The deep dive
Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.
- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
- Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
- The three things that would make this a mistake
- Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
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Not advice. Numbers on this page come from SEC filings and are updated each night; prices are updated again after the US market closes. The five-year figures are rounded.