If You Invested $10K In Digital Realty Trust Stock 10 Years Ago, How Much Would You Have Now?

Digital Realty Trust Inc. DLR provides data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions for domestic and international customers across a variety of industry verticals.

If You Bought Digital Realty Stock 10 Years Ago

The company's stock traded at approximately $66.04 per share 10 years ago. If you had invested $10,000, you could have bought roughly 151 shares. Currently, shares trade at $171.52, meaning your investment's value could have grown to $25,972 from stock price appreciation alone. However, Digital Realty also paid dividends during these 10 years.

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Digital Realty's dividend yield is currently 2.83%. Over the last 10 years, it has paid about $44.20 in dividends per share, which means you could have made $6,693 from dividends alone.

Summing up $25,972 and $6,693, we end up with the final value of your investment, which is $32,665. This is how much you could have made if you had invested $10,000 in Digital Realty stock 10 years ago. This means a total return of 226.65%. However, this figure is less than the S&P 500 total return for the same period, which was 235.4%.

What Could The Next 10 Years Bring?

Digital Realty has a consensus rating of "Buy" and a price target of $172.67 based on the ratings of 26 analysts. The price target implies less than 1% potential upside from the current stock price.

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On April 24, the company announced its Q1 2025 earnings, posting FFO of $1.77, beating the consensus estimate of $1.73, while revenues of $1.41 billion came in below the consensus of $1.43 billion, as reported by Benzinga.

“Robust demand across our key product segments drove strong leasing and acceleration in Core FFO per share growth in the first quarter,” said CEO Andy Power. “Leasing kept pace with our 2024 record, lifting our backlog to a new high of $919 million and enhancing our visibility, while the successful launch of our first U.S. Hyperscale Data Center Fund further bolstered and evolved our funding model.”

For the full-year 2025, the company expects core FFO per share in the range of $7.05 to $7.15.

Check out this article by Benzinga for 12 analysts' insights on Digital Realty.

Given just 1% expected upside potential, growth-focused investors may not find Digital Realty stock attractive. Conversely, the stock can be a good option for income-focused investors, who can benefit from the company's solid dividend yield of 2.83%.

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