Digital Realty Trust Inc (DLR) stock analysis
Digital Realty Trust Inc (DLR) clears 3 of this site's 8 mechanical value filters, 1 of 8 Buffett-style checks and 1 of 5 Lynch-style checks. A free-cash-flow DCF does not fit real estate companies, so no margin of safety is shown. Figures are as of October 23, 2026, from SEC filings and market data refreshed weekly; this is educational analysis, not investment advice.
Data as of October 23, 2026. Refreshed weekly from SEC filings and market data.
What does Digital Realty do?
Digital Realty is a REIT that owns and leases data centers where cloud providers, technology firms and other companies run their servers and connect their networks.
Brands and businesses it owns
- Interxion
What stands out about Digital Realty?
- Misses 3 of the 8 value filters. It fails Trailing P/E < 25 (80.37), Price/Sales < 7 (9.48) and EPS Growth YoY > -5% (-58.0%); the other 3 pass and 2 were not evaluated. See every filter.
- Weakest against peers: P/E ratio. At 80.4× (peer median 31.5×) it ranks 26th of 29 among real estate stocks this site tracks. See the ranking.
- Dividend raises 1 of 6 flags. Its trailing yield is 2.76%. See the Sustainable Dividend Screener.
- Held by investors this site follows. George Soros (1.6% of its portfolio), from their latest 13F filings. See Superinvestors.
How has Digital Realty's share price moved?
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Is Digital Realty undervalued? The value diligence check
Every value-investing signal this site computes for this stock, gathered in one place: the same real numbers from the tools below, not a new score.
- Margin of safety (DCF) n/a (Real Estate)
- P/E vs. its own history 80.4x · near the expensive end Real range: 29.3x–97.7x over 5 years (net income per diluted share from each fiscal year's 10-K, paired with the real closing price at that fiscal year-end).
- Wall St. analyst rating Buy · 4.15/5 39 analysts this month: 12 strong buy, 21 buy, 6 hold, 0 sell, 0 strong sell (Finnhub). Down from 4.16 last month.
- Altman Z″-Score (bankruptcy risk) n/a (Real Estate)
- Earnings quality (is the profit real?) n/a (bank, insurer or REIT)
- Shareholder yield (cash back to owners) 2.7% gross Latest fiscal year (2025): dividends 2.7% + buybacks 0.0%. Stock comp is not reported in its filings, so no net figure. Over 14 years its split-adjusted share count rose 251%. See Shareholder Yield Leaders.
- Capital needed to grow (See's test) n/a (bank, insurer, lender or REIT)
- PEG (growth at a reasonable price) n/a (falling or negative earnings)
- Compounder lenses (4) 0 of 4 · misses capital-light (n/a), real profit (n/a), cash back (n/a), price (n/a) Capital-light growth: cannot be measured (bank, insurer, lender or REIT); Profit is real: cannot be measured (bank, insurer or REIT); Cash to owners: cannot be measured (stock comp not reported); Fair price (PEG): cannot be measured (falling or negative earnings). See Compounders at a Fair Price, which also lets you move the PEG bar.
- Munger's Inversion Check 1 flag
- Standing vs. sector peers 0 of 4 measures above the median Compared with the 29 other real estate stocks this site tracks: 0 in the top third, 4 in the bottom third.
- Dividend payout sustainability 1/6 flags
How does Digital Realty compare with its peers?
0 of 4 measures sit above the median of the 29 other real estate stocks tracked here, 4 in the bottom third.
- P/E ratiolower is cheaper · peer median 31.5× 80.4× ✕26th of 29
- Return on equityhigher is better · peer median 8% 3% ✕24th of 30
- Net marginhigher is better · peer median 20.9% 11.8% ✕22nd of 30
- Dividend yieldamong dividend payers · peer median 4.08% 2.76% ✕23rd of 28
Peers are the stocks this site tracks in the same sector group, not every listed competitor. The bar runs from the weakest peer (left) to the strongest (right); the tick is the middle. Measures that don't apply to a sector (cash-flow yield for banks, debt for financials) are left out.
What would Buffett & Lynch say?
Buffett's checklist is built around durable, profitable businesses bought at sensible prices, and DLR doesn't clear enough of it yet. In its favor: DLR has grown earnings per share at a solid clip over five years. Where it comes up short: DLR isn't clearing the return-on-equity bar he'd want to see right now, and its five-year average return on equity falls short too, so this isn't just a one-off dip, carries more debt relative to equity than he typically tolerates, runs thinner pretax margins than he'd like to see, doesn't cover its interest expense as comfortably as he'd want, is trading above what a conservative discounted-cash-flow estimate says it's worth right now, and trades rich relative to owner earnings, the real cash the business could pay out.
- ROE (TTM) > 11% ✕
- ROE (5yr avg) > 11% ✕
- Debt/Equity < 0.5 ✕
- Pretax margin > 15% ✕
- EPS growth (5yr) > 7% ✓
- Interest coverage > 5x ✕
- Trading below intrinsic value (DCF) ✕
- Price vs. owner earnings < 25x ✕
Lynch looked for growth stories that weren't overpriced for that growth, and DLR falls short of his bar. In its favor: DLR pays a real dividend, the actual reason he bought slow growers at all. Where it comes up short: DLR isn't even growing at the modest pace he'd expect from a slow grower, carries more debt than he liked to see, even allowing for the extra room a large, stable business gets, is priced too rich for how little growth is actually left in the business, and trades expensive relative to the cash it actually generates.
- Dividend yield > 2.5% ✓
- EPS growth 0%-10% ✕
- Debt/Equity < 0.6 ✕
- P/E < 20 ✕
- Price/FCF < 25 ✕
Quantitative approximations of each investor's documented approach, not endorsed by either investor or their estates - commentary, not this site's actual ranking criteria. Buffett never published a numeric checklist: only 2 of his 8 checks here trace to his own documented concepts ("owner earnings," from his 1986 shareholder letter, and "price is what you pay, value is what you get," his case against fixed P/E/P/B ceilings) - the other 6 (ROE, debt, margins, growth, interest coverage) use commonly-cited thresholds that are not numbers he himself published. The 8 hard filters below (plus the Munger check and Graham margin of safety) are this site's real, mechanical screen and are computed completely independently of the checklists above.
Berkshire Hathaway's own filing
Which of the 8 value filters does Digital Realty pass?
- Market Cap > $25B $64.2B
- Trailing P/E < 25 80.37
- PEG Ratio < 1.5 -8.58
- Price/Book < 8 2.34
- Price/Sales < 7 9.48
- EPS Growth YoY > -5% -58.0%
- vs 50-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
- vs 200-day MA (±12%) Not evaluated †
What is Digital Realty's margin of safety?
A standard free-cash-flow DCF doesn't fit how real estate companies report cash flow.
Where is Digital Realty in its 52-week range?
What is the short interest in Digital Realty?
8,994,183 shares short as of 2026-09-30 (FINRA settlement date). Reported twice a month, so this only changes roughly every two weeks, not daily.
What could go wrong with Digital Realty? Munger's inversion check
"Invert, always invert." Instead of reasons to buy, these are reasons to hesitate, not a verdict, and not everything worth knowing about a business.
- Margin of safety, even in the bull case n/a (Real Estate)
- Short interest under 5% of float 2.5%
- Passes most of the 6 fundamental filters 3/6 passed
Doesn't cover circle of competence, management quality, or accounting concerns: those need judgment, not data.
How much have Digital Realty shareholders gained per year?
Earnings growth per share plus dividend.
An earnings-based proxy, not a stock-price total return - it doesn't capture multiple expansion/contraction or reinvested dividends. EPS from DLR's own 10-K filings; dividend yield is the current trailing yield on today's price, from the same weekly fetch as the rest of this site.
What do Digital Realty's 10-year financials show?
From DLR's own 10-K filings (SEC EDGAR): up to the last 10 fiscal years. Press any year's bars for the exact figures.
Frequently asked questions about Digital Realty
What kind of company is Digital Realty?
Digital Realty is a REIT that owns and leases data centers where cloud providers, technology firms and other companies run their servers and connect their networks. Brands and businesses it owns include Interxion. This site groups it with Real Estate stocks.
Why does Digital Realty have no margin of safety on this site?
This site's DCF values a company from its free cash flow, and that does not fit real-estate companies, which are valued on property income rather than on free cash flow. So DLR gets no margin of safety; judge it on the other checks on this page, such as its filters, shareholder yield and ranking against its peers. The method is in the Intrinsic Value Calculator.
How many of this site's 8 value filters does Digital Realty pass?
DLR passes 3 of 8. It passes Market Cap > $25B ($64.2B), PEG Ratio < 1.5 (-8.58) and Price/Book < 8 (2.34). It misses Trailing P/E < 25 (80.37), Price/Sales < 7 (9.48) and EPS Growth YoY > -5% (-58.0%). vs 50-day MA (±12%) and vs 200-day MA (±12%) were not evaluated, because the moving-average checks only run on stocks that clear the fundamentals first. The 8-filter list shows every stock that passes all of them.
How much cash does Digital Realty return to shareholders?
DLR's gross shareholder yield is 2.7%: the cash it returns through dividends and buybacks as a share of its market value. Latest fiscal year (2025): dividends 2.7% + buybacks 0.0%. Stock comp is not reported in its filings, so no net figure. Over 14 years its split-adjusted share count rose 251%. Its trailing dividend yield is 2.76%, paid out of 1261% of its free cash flow; the dividend-sustainability check raises 1 of 6 flags (a high cash-flow payout). See Shareholder Yield Leaders and the Sustainable Dividend Screener.
Which well-known investors own Digital Realty?
Among the investors whose SEC 13F filings this site tracks, George Soros (1.6% of the portfolio; added to the position) held DLR as of June 30, 2026. 13F filings cover only US-listed equities and arrive up to 45 days after the quarter ends, so they lag the real portfolios. See Superinvestors.
When does Digital Realty report earnings next?
Digital Realty's next earnings report is expected on October 29, 2026 after the market closes, with analysts expecting earnings of $0.53 per share. Dates come from the Finnhub earnings calendar and can move. In its last 4 quarters it beat the estimate 2 times, by an average of −9.7%.
Where do these numbers come from?
- Financial statements: Digital Realty's 10-K annual report for the year ended Dec 31, 2025, filed Feb 13, 2026 (filing index). Every earlier year in the 10-year financials comes from the company's older 10-K filings, all listed on SEC EDGAR.
- Prices and market data: quotes, P/E and analyst ratings from Finnhub; daily price history and the 52-week range from Twelve Data, both refreshed weekly. Short interest comes from FINRA, reported twice a month.
- How to check a figure: click any number in the card above to see its exact source, and read the Editorial Standards for every rule behind the checks.
About this Digital Realty Trust Inc analysis
This page shows every value-investing check the site runs on Digital Realty Trust Inc (DLR) in one place: the 8 mechanical filters, the Buffett and Lynch checklists, a margin of safety from a disclosed DCF, earnings quality, shareholder yield and how it ranks against its sector peers. The numbers come from SEC filings and public market data, refreshed weekly, and the same rules apply to every stock on the stock list. See Editorial Standards for the sources and the rules, or run your own filters in the stock screener.