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Digital Realty Trust (Digital Realty Trust) Graham Number

: $19.02 (As of Dec. 2023)
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Graham Number is a figure that measures a stock's fundamental value by taking into account the company's earnings per share and book value per share. The Graham number is the upper bound of the price range that a defensive investor should pay for the stock. According to the theory, any stock price below the Graham number is considered undervalued, and thus worth investing in.

As of today (2024-04-19), the stock price of Digital Realty Trust is $136.66. Digital Realty Trust's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $19.02. Therefore, Digital Realty Trust's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 7.18.

The historical rank and industry rank for Digital Realty Trust's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

DLR' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 3.46   Med: 6.13   Max: 9.97
Current: 7.19

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Digital Realty Trust was 9.97. The lowest was 3.46. And the median was 6.13.

DLR's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
99.49% of 585 companies
in the REITs industry
Industry Median: 0.78 vs DLR: 7.19

Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation. It is a very conservative way of valuing a stock.


Digital Realty Trust Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Digital Realty Trust's Graham Number 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
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 18.42 16.69 28.41 18.21 20.90

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
Graham Number 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 19.38 17.20 17.56 17.98 19.02

Competitive Comparison

For the REIT - Specialty subindustry, Digital Realty Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Graham-Number 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 Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the REITs industry and Real Estate sector, Digital Realty Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Digital Realty Trust's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Digital Realty Trust Graham Number Calculation

Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.

Digital Realty Trust's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*21.327*0.91)
=20.90

Digital Realty Trust's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*21.327*0.754)
=19.02

* 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.


Digital Realty Trust  (NYSE:DLR) Graham Number Explanation

Ben Graham actually did not publish a formula like this. But he wrote in The Intelligent Investor (1948 version) regarding to the criteria for purchases:

Current price should not be more than 15 times average earnings of the past three years.

Current price should not be more than 1.5 times the book value last reported. However, a multiplier of earnings below 15 could justify a correspondingly higher multiplier of assets. As a rule of thumb we suggest that the product of the multiplier times the ratio of price to book value should not exceed 22.5. (This figure corresponds to 15 times earnings and 1.5 times book value. It would admit an issue selling at only 9 times earnings and 2.5 times asset value, etc.)

Unlike valuation methods such as DCF or Discounted Earnings, the Graham number does not take growth into the valuation. Unlike the valuation methods based on book value alone, it takes into account the earnings power. Therefore, the Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation.

In general, the Graham number is a very conservative way of valuing a stock. It cannot be applied to companies with negative book values.

Digital Realty Trust's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=136.66/19.02
=7.18

* 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.


Be Aware

Please keep these in mind:

1. Graham Number does not take growth into account. Therefore it underestimates the values of the companies that have good earnings growth. We feel that if the earnings per share grows more than 10% a year, Graham Number underestimates the value.
2. Graham Number punishes the companies that have temporarily low earnings. Therefore, an average of earnings makes more sense in the calculation of Graham Number.
3. Graham Numbers underestimates companies that are light with book.


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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