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Digital Realty Trust (Digital Realty Trust) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

: 2.37% (As of Dec. 2023)
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Digital Realty Trust's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $61,889 Mil. Digital Realty Trust's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 was $1,464 Mil. Digital Realty Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.37%.

The historical rank and industry rank for Digital Realty Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

DLR' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.17   Med: 2.28   Max: 4.4
Current: 2.39

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of Digital Realty Trust was 4.40%. The lowest was 1.17%. And the median was 2.28%.

DLR's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked worse than
55.12% of 889 companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 2.85 vs DLR: 2.39

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. Digital Realty Trust's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.28%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past seven years, and considers growth. The forward rate of return can be thought of as the return that investors buying the stock today can expect from it in the future.


Digital Realty Trust Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for Digital Realty Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

* 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 Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 2.53 1.32 3.18 1.43 2.37

Digital Realty Trust Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.43 1.38 1.42 2.35 2.37

Competitive Comparison

For the REIT - Specialty subindustry, Digital Realty Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %, along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % 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 Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution

For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, Digital Realty Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Digital Realty Trust's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



Digital Realty Trust Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Calculation

In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.

Digital Realty Trusts Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=1463.632/61889.18764
=2.36 %

Digital Realty Trust's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Dec. 2023 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,464 Mil.



Digital Realty Trust  (NYSE:DLR) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Explanation

Joel Greenblatt defines the earnings yield using the above equation because it more accurately reflects the company's profitability relative to its stock price. Items like interest payment and tax etc. are not directly related to the company's operational profitability.

Enterprise Value instead of market cap (share price) is used in the calculation because it is the real price stock and bond investors together pay for the company.


Be Aware

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % based on Don Yacktman's definition is a better measure of the expected rate of return for a stock.


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Digital Realty Trust (Digital Realty Trust) Business Description

Industry
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