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Digital Realty Trust (Digital Realty Trust) 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate : 2.90% (As of Dec. 2023)


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What is Digital Realty Trust 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate?

Digital Realty Trust's Dividends per Share for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $1.22.

The historical rank and industry rank for Digital Realty Trust's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate or its related term are showing as below:

DLR' s 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 2.9   Med: 6.9   Max: 95.7
Current: 2.9

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate of Digital Realty Trust was 95.70% per year. The lowest was 2.90% per year. And the median was 6.90% per year.

DLR's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate is ranked better than
54.83% of 507 companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 2.1 vs DLR: 2.90

During the past 3 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 2.90% per year. During the past 5 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 3.90% per year. During the past 10 years, the average Dividends Per Share Growth Rate was 5.00% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.

Digital Realty Trust's Dividend Payout Ratio for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was 7.01. As of today, Digital Realty Trust's Dividend Yield % is 3.48%.

Warning Sign:

If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Digital Realty Trust Inc is 6.47, which seems too high.

Warning Sign:

Digital Realty Trust Inc stock dividend yield is close to 2-year low.

For more information regarding to dividend, please check our Dividend Page.


Competitive Comparison of Digital Realty Trust's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate

For the REIT - Specialty subindustry, Digital Realty Trust's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate, along with its competitors' market caps and 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Digital Realty Trust's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Distribution in the REITs Industry

For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, Digital Realty Trust's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Digital Realty Trust's 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate falls into.



Digital Realty Trust 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Calculation

This is the average annual rate that a company has been raising its dividends. The growth rate is calculated with expontential compound based on the latest four year annual data.

Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the average dividends per share growth rate.


Digital Realty Trust  (NYSE:DLR) 3-Year Dividend Growth Rate Explanation

1. Dividend Payout Ratio measures the percentage of the company's earnings paid out as dividends.

Digital Realty Trust's Dividend Payout Ratio for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Dividend Payout Ratio=Dividends per Share (Q: Dec. 2023 )/ EPS without NRI (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=1.22/ 0.174
=7.01

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Payout Ratio of Digital Realty Trust was 6.86. The lowest was 2.78. And the median was 3.85.

Warning Sign:

If a company's dividend payout ratio is too high, its dividend may not be sustainable. The dividend payout ratio of Digital Realty Trust Inc is 6.47, which seems too high.

2. Dividend Yield % measures how much a company pays out in dividends each year relative to its share price.

Digital Realty Trust Recent Full-Year* Dividend History

Amount Ex-date Record Date Pay Date Type Frequency Forex Rate
USD 1.2202024-03-142024-03-152024-03-28Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.2202023-12-142023-12-152024-01-19Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.2202023-09-142023-09-152023-09-29Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000
USD 1.2202023-06-142023-06-152023-06-30Cash DividendquarterlyUSD:USD 1.000000

* GuruFocus has an internal rule that if the most recent dividend payment frequency is at least 4 times a year, then the full year will be calculated according to the frequency of payment or the one-year time frame, whichever is stricter.
* GuruFocus converts dividend currency to local traded share price currency in order to calculate dividend yield. Please refer to the last column "Forex Rate" in the above table.

Digital Realty Trust's Dividend Yield (%) for Today is calculated as

Dividend Yield %=Most Recent Full Year Dividend/Current Share Price
=4.88/141.49
=3.45 %

Current Share Price is $141.49.
Digital Realty Trust's Dividends per Share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Today is $4.88.

During the past 13 years, the highest Dividend Yield of Digital Realty Trust was 6.88%. The lowest was 2.62%. And the median was 3.59%.

Warning Sign:

Digital Realty Trust Inc stock dividend yield is close to 2-year low.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


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Digital Realty Trust (Digital Realty Trust) Business Description

Address
5707 Southwest Parkway, Building 1, Suite 275, Austin, TX, USA, 78735
Digital Realty owns and operates over 300 data centers worldwide. It has nearly 40 million rentable square feet across five continents. Digital's offerings range from retail co-location, where an enterprise may rent a single cabinet and rely on Digital to provide all the accommodations, to "cold shells," where hyperscale cloud service providers can simply rent much, or all, of a barren, power-connected building. In recent years, Digital Realty has de-emphasized cold shells and now primarily provides higher-level service to tenants, which outsource their related IT needs to Digital. Digital Realty has also moved more into the co-location business, increasingly serving enterprises and facilitating network and cloud connections. Digital Realty operates as a real estate investment trust.
Executives
Cindy Fiedelman officer: Chief Human Resources Officer FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3200, SAN FRANCISCO X1 94111
Peter C. Olson officer: Chief Accounting Officer 5707 SOUTHWEST PARKWAY, BUILDING 1, SUITE 275, AUSTIN TX 78735
Mandeville Jean F H P director C/O INTERXION, SCORPIUS 30, HOOFDDORP P7 2132 LR
Dyer Corey officer: EVP, Global Sales & Marketing FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3200, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Christopher Sharp officer: Chief Technology Officer FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3200, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Jeannie Lee officer: EVP, General Counsel 5707 SOUTHWEST PARKWAY, BUILDING 1, SUITE 275, AUSTIN TX 78735
A William Stein officer: CFO And CIO DIGITAL REALTY TRUST, INC., FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3200, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
David C Ruberg officer: MANAGING DIRECTOR, EUROPE 16057 TAMPA PALMS BLVD WEST, #405, TAMPA FL 33647
Kevin Kennedy director
William G Laperch director 360 HAMILTON AVE, C/O ABOVENET INC, WHITE PLAINS NY 10601
Joshua Ananda Mills officer: General Counsel C/O KKR & CO. INC., 30 HUDSON YARDS, NEW YORK NY 10001
Camilla A. Harris officer: Principal Accounting Officer 8020 PARK LANE, DALLAS TX 75231
Andrew Power officer: Chief Financial Officer FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SUITE 3200, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111
Michael A Coke director TERRENO REALTY CORPORATION, 101 MONTGOMERY STREET, SUITE 200, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104
Matt Mercier officer: SVP, Finance and Accounting FOUR EMBARCADERO CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111