Digital Realty Trust Inc. (DLR): Today's Featured Financial Laggard
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) pushed the Financial sector lower today making it today's featured Financial laggard. The sector as a whole closed the day down 0.1%. By the end of trading, Digital Realty fell $4.71 (-7.5%) to $58.28 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 5,699,234 shares of Digital Realty exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,735,000 shares. The stock ranged in price between $56.07-$65.43 after having opened the day at $63.74 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $62.99. Other companies within the Financial sector that declined today were:
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), down 30.6%,
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), down 10.2%,
Cash Store Financial Services
(
CSFS
), down 7.0% and
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), down 6.9%.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc., a real estate investment trust (REIT), through its controlling interest in Digital Realty Trust, L.P., engages in the ownership, acquisition, development, redevelopment, and management of technology-related real estate. Digital Realty has a market cap of $8.1 billion and is part of the real estate industry. Shares are down 7.0% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 7 analysts that rate Digital Realty a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 7 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Digital Realty
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity.
- You can view the full Digital Realty Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 86.3%,
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), up 12.0% and
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), up 6.6% , were all gainers within the financial sector with
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) being today's featured financial sector leader.
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