How Digital Realty Trust, Inc. stacks up

DLR · against 182 other Real Estate companies listed in US-listed

Profitability

22/ 100

Near the bottom of its peers.

Ranked #141 of 183 · scores higher than 22% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score

31 peers with a profitability score of 20–29, including DLR · Click a bar to see the companies

Why profitability scores 22?

Weighted metrics compared with all Real Estate companies.

Mainly because of its operating margin, return on invested capital and return on assets, which are weaker than most Real Estate peers.

a thinner operating margin: weaker than 86% of peers. Operating margin: 0.8% vs peer median 26.8%
a lower return on invested capital: weaker than 84% of peers. Return on invested capital: 0.2% vs peer median 3.4%
a lower return on assets: weaker than 64% of peers. Return on assets: 1.5% vs peer median 2.1%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = DLR, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	DLR	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 179 reported	0.2%	3.6%	11%	33%
Operating marginHigher is better · 160 reported	0.8%	23.6%	10%	33%
Return on assetsHigher is better · 185 reported	1.5%	1.9%	43%	33%
Return on equityHigher is better · 177 reported	2.9%	5.5%	38%	Context only
Gross marginHigher is better · 186 reported	57.0%	66.3%	37%	Context only

Ranking by profitability score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around DLR

Rank	Company	Market cap	Profitability	Overall
1	Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc.ARI · US-listed	310M USD	100	72
2	Annaly Capital Management, Inc.NLY · US-listed	13.7B USD	99	70
3	Apartment Investment and Management CompanyAIV · US-listed	255M USD	98	71
3	SBA Communications CorporationSBAC · US-listed	19.6B USD	98	48
5	Highwoods Properties, Inc.HIW · US-listed	3.5B USD	97	59
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136	Rayonier Inc.RYN · US-listed	5.9B USD	23	43
136	Sabra Health Care REIT, Inc.SBRA · US-listed	5.2B USD	23	44
136	Xenia Hotels & Resorts, Inc.XHR · US-listed	2.1B USD	23	32
141	BrightSpire Capital, Inc.BRSP · US-listed	440M USD	22	27
141	Digital Realty Trust, Inc.DLR · US-listed	68.1B USD	22	33
141	Summit Hotel Properties, Inc.INN · US-listed	759M USD	22	35
144	CoStar Group, Inc.CSGP · US-listed	12.7B USD	21	47
145	Arbor Realty Trust, Inc.ABR · US-listed	355M USD	20	37
145	AH REALTY TRUST INCAHRT · US-listed	633M USD	20	33

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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