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Digital Realty Trust, Inc.: Digital Realty’s More Connected and Global Footprint Makes It the Strongest Competitor to Equinix

Symbols
DLR
Sector(s)
Real Estate
Rating
Current Price
$142.83
Fair Value
Economic Moat
Stewardship
Summary

Digital Realty owns and operates nearly 300 data centers worldwide. It has more than 35 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 Digita

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Analyst Profile

Matthew Dolgin

Equity Analyst
Matthew Dolgin is an equity analyst for Morningstar Research Services LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar, Inc. He covers companies in the technology sector.Before joining Morningstar in 2016, Dolgin was a compliance examiner for the National Futures Association.Dolgin holds a bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Northern Illinois University, a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Notre Dame, and a juris doctor degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.