Digital Realty Trust, Inc. · DLR · FY2025 Q1 · Calendar Q2 2025

Digital Realty: Record Leasing, Raised FFO Guidance, and Faster Expansion

The transcript supports a constructive operating case for Digital Realty: record leasing, a record backlog, raised core FFO guidance, and additional funding for hyperscale development indicate resilient demand. The case remains dependent on sustaining pricing and AI- and hyperscale-led demand while managing financing, construction-cost, and macroeconomic risks.

Reported Before market openNYSEReal Estate $66.14B market cap
80quality score

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Reported versus consensus
Reported EPS — Consensus $1.72
EPS surprise — Reported versus consensus
Reported revenue — Consensus $1.43B
Revenue surprise — Reported versus consensus

Market reaction

prior-close to event-session close
Stock move +1.4% Event window
SPY move +2.1% Same window
Abnormal move -0.7% Stock minus SPY
Volume 0.8× Versus trailing sessions
Subsequent drift +9.2% Up to 20 sessions
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What changed

Compared with the prior-quarter analysis, management reported record Q1 leasing and a new $1.3 billion backlog, raised 2025 core FFO guidance, launched a hyperscale fund with $1.7 billion of commitments, and added Indonesia and Crete to the expansion story.

Guidance delta

Management raised 2025 core FFO per-share guidance to $7.05-$7.15; revenue and EBITDA outlooks were maintained.

Key takeaways

  • Q1 leasing reached a record $242 million across sub-1 MW and greater-than-1 MW segments.
  • Signed-but-not-commenced lease backlog reached a record $1.3 billion, providing multi-year visibility.
  • Management raised 2025 core FFO guidance after 6.1% core FFO per-share growth.
  • A new hyperscale fund and global expansion support a larger development pipeline, while tariffs, rates, and demand remain risks.

Management priorities

  • Advance the $9.3 billion development pipeline, which was approximately 55% pre-leased.
  • Expand hyperscale campuses and continue land acquisitions in Charlotte and Atlanta.
  • Use the hyperscale fund to finance up to $10 billion of new data-center investments.
  • Add Azure on-ramps and continue renewable-energy and green-data-center initiatives.

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Earnings History

Estimate Beat Miss Match
DLR REVENUE earnings history estimate and actual scatter chart 9 reported fiscal quarters and 4 future estimate-only quarters. Q1 '24 estimate $1B Q1 '24 actual $1B, miss Q2 '24 estimate $1B Q2 '24 actual $1B, miss Q3 '24 estimate $1B Q3 '24 actual $1B, miss Q2 '25 estimate $2B Q2 '25 actual $1B, miss Q3 '25 estimate $2B Q3 '25 actual $2B, match Q4 '25 estimate $2B Q4 '25 actual $2B, beat Q1 '26 estimate $2B Q1 '26 actual $2B, beat Q2 '26 estimate $2B Q2 '26 actual $2B, beat Q3 '26 estimate $2B Q4 '26 estimate $2B Q1 '27 estimate $2B Q2 '27 estimate $2B
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Analyst Consensus ?

ConsensusBuy47 ratings
Bullish3472.4%
Neutral1225.5%
Bearish12.1%

1 unmapped firm rating excluded from the percentages.

Analyst 52W Price Targets

$179.23Current
$81Low
$188.38Average
$240High

Latest persisted target per named analyst; persisted current price from FN2's market snapshot as of Oct 12, 2026. Not an FN2 forecast.

Firm-level rating actions

FMP grade actions identify the grading firm, not a named analyst.

FirmRatingPrior ratingActionDate
BTIG Buy BuyMaintainSep 10, 2026
Evercore ISI Group Outperform OutperformMaintainAug 18, 2026
HSBC Buy HoldUpgradeAug 14, 2026
Argus Research Buy HoldUpgradeAug 5, 2026
Truist Securities Buy BuyMaintainJul 30, 2026
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Named analyst price targets

Upside is calculated against the persisted current price $179.23. FMP does not supply a rating on these named-analyst rows.

FirmAnalyst52W targetPrice when postedUpsideDate
Redburn PartnersAnalyst unavailable$227$182.12 +26.7%Sep 21, 2026
BTIGAnalyst unavailable$220$189.08 +22.7%Sep 10, 2026
Evercore ISIAnalyst unavailable$240$198.08 +33.9%Aug 18, 2026
HSBCAnalyst unavailable$240$197.58 +33.9%Aug 13, 2026
Mizuho SecuritiesAnalyst unavailable$223$193.8 +24.4%Aug 10, 2026
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Company context

Snapshot as of publication

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. owns, acquires, develops, and operates data centers through its operating partnership subsidiary, Digital Realty Trust, L.P. The company is focused on providing data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions for domestic and international customers across a variety of industry verticals ranging from cloud and information technology services, communications and social networking to financial services, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, and consumer products.…

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Sources

  1. Earnings call transcript and parsed analysis · 2026-05-11T10:29:34.698584+00:00
  2. FN2 earnings calendar · 2025-04-10T00:01:43.729046+00:00
  3. Polygon adjusted daily market bars · 2026-10-12T14:10:45.197338+00:00
  4. Financial Modeling Prep analyst price-target consensus and quote snapshot · 2026-10-12T14:10:45.191036+00:00

Methodology

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Analyst target low, average, and high values are derived at request time from each named analyst's latest persisted FMP target. The current-price marker comes from FN2's persisted market snapshot. They are sell-side estimates, not an FN2 valuation or recommendation.

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By FN2 Research · Updated · As of 2026-10-12. For educational purposes only; not investment advice.