REITs remain attractively valued, with many trading at near 10-year high dividend yields. AFFO yield plus AFFO growth is utilized as a scoring system in this article. ARE leads in value but faces risks from declining occupancy and potential AFFO contraction. Others in the top 5 include VICI, IRM, EQIX and PSA.
Digital Realty Trust is a leading global data center operator with a robust, investment-grade financial profile and over 300 facilities worldwide. DLR's assets are substantial ($48.7B), with 97.8% unencumbered, and secured debt is minimal at 1.4%, supporting strong creditworthiness. Moody's rates DLR Baa2, but an adjusted analysis suggests a higher A2 rating, reflecting superior asset quality, ...
Digital Realty Trust generates high cash flow and is positioning itself for the long-term AI data center boom. Welltower is a leading owner of senior housing properties that will benefit from rising demand as baby boomers get older.
AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 15, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions, today announced the appointment of Stephen Bolze—an accomplished global executive with more than three decades of leadership across the energy and infrastructure sectors—as an independent director to its Boar...
REITs endured a brutal three-plus-year stretch since March 2022, underperforming the S&P 500 by an unprecedented 70 percentage points, far worse than the Global Financial Crisis. Extreme underperformance has left REITs historically cheap despite solid property-level fundamentals, but this valuation discount carries a cost: elevated capital costs, suppressed transaction activity, and limited ext...
U.S. equity markets posted mixed performance after an unusually divided Federal Reserve delivered a third-straight rate cut, but signaled a likely "pause" in the easing cycle. Perhaps the last rate cut under the "Powell Fed," the FOMC voted 9-3 to lower the federal funds rate to 3.75%, with two votes to keep rates unchanged. Markets saw hawkish undertones in the updated Economic Projections and...
Equinix (EQIX) offers superior AFFO/share growth, operational strategy, and valuation versus Digital Realty (DLR), making it the preferred data center REIT investment. EQIX's cross-connect ecosystem drives positive same-store NOI and tenant stickiness, outpacing DLR's commodity-focused approach and mitigating renewal rent pressure. Recent multiple compression—EQIX now trades at 18.4x forward AF...
SINGAPORE, Dec. 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digital Realty ( NYSE: DLR ), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions and an Oracle Partner, today announced it will offer connectivity to an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) FastConnect point-of-presence (PoP) within the Oracle Cloud Singapore West Region. In addition to the n...
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