Calamos Advisors LLC Has $11 Million Stock Holdings in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR)

Calamos Advisors LLC trimmed its position in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) by 1.3% during the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The institutional investor owned 81,761 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock after selling 1,068 shares during the quarter. Calamos Advisors LLC’s holdings in Digital Realty Trust were worth $11,003,000 at the end of the most recent reporting period.

A number of other institutional investors have also recently modified their holdings of DLR. Norges Bank bought a new stake in shares of Digital Realty Trust during the 4th quarter worth $442,477,000. Resolution Capital Ltd lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 106.7% during the 3rd quarter. Resolution Capital Ltd now owns 2,351,113 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $284,532,000 after buying an additional 1,213,526 shares during the last quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 2.1% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 47,390,848 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $5,735,240,000 after buying an additional 971,032 shares during the last quarter. Heitman Real Estate Securities LLC lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 503.3% during the 2nd quarter. Heitman Real Estate Securities LLC now owns 1,002,134 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $114,113,000 after buying an additional 836,039 shares during the last quarter. Finally, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. lifted its position in shares of Digital Realty Trust by 40.6% during the 2nd quarter. Goldman Sachs Group Inc. now owns 2,748,087 shares of the real estate investment trust’s stock worth $312,925,000 after buying an additional 793,445 shares during the last quarter. 99.71% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, Director Jean F. H. P. Mandeville sold 3,400 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 12th. The stock was sold at an average price of $145.50, for a total transaction of $494,700.00. Following the completion of the sale, the director now owns 8,413 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $1,224,091.50. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. 0.39% of the stock is currently owned by insiders.

Analyst Ratings Changes

DLR has been the subject of several research reports. Scotiabank downgraded Digital Realty Trust from a “sector outperform” rating to a “sector perform” rating and set a $157.00 target price for the company. in a research report on Friday, February 16th. Evercore ISI reiterated an “outperform” rating and issued a $154.00 target price on shares of Digital Realty Trust in a research report on Wednesday, March 27th. Barclays increased their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $110.00 to $119.00 and gave the company an “underweight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, March 5th. Morgan Stanley increased their target price on Digital Realty Trust from $100.00 to $108.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 2nd. Finally, StockNews.com downgraded Digital Realty Trust from a “hold” rating to a “sell” rating in a research report on Friday, February 16th. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a sell rating, five have assigned a hold rating, seven have assigned a buy rating and one has given a strong buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat, the company presently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average price target of $143.33.

Digital Realty Trust Trading Up 0.1 %

NYSE DLR opened at $136.83 on Friday. The business has a 50 day simple moving average of $142.08 and a 200 day simple moving average of $135.90. Digital Realty Trust, Inc. has a one year low of $86.33 and a one year high of $154.18. The stock has a market capitalization of $42.73 billion, a P/E ratio of 46.07, a P/E/G ratio of 3.11 and a beta of 0.54. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.92, a current ratio of 1.14 and a quick ratio of 1.14.

Digital Realty Trust Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Thursday, March 28th. Investors of record on Friday, March 15th were paid a dividend of $1.22 per share. The ex-dividend date was Thursday, March 14th. This represents a $4.88 annualized dividend and a yield of 3.57%. Digital Realty Trust’s dividend payout ratio is currently 164.31%.

About Digital Realty Trust

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.