Digital Realty Trust, Inc.: EPS $0.48 vs $0.524 expected; revenue $1.90B vs $1.75B
Key Facts
Q3 FY2026 results
| Metric | Actual | Estimate | Surprise | Year ago |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EPS (USD) | 0.480 | 0.524 | −8.4% | 1.890 |
| Revenue (USD bn) | 1.900 | 1.750 | +8.5% | 1.580 |
Recent reports: actual vs estimate
| Reported | Period | EPS (USD) | Estimate | Surprise | Revenue (USD bn) | Estimate | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 29, 2026 | Q3 FY2026 | 0.48 | 0.5240 | −8.4% | 1.90 | 1.75 | +8.5% |
| Jul 23, 2026 | Q2 FY2026 | 1.21 | 0.4829 | — | 1.92 | 1.66 | +16.1% |
| Apr 23, 2026 | Q1 FY2026 | 0.46 | 0.4415 | +4.2% | 1.64 | 1.60 | +2.1% |
| Feb 5, 2026 | Q4 FY2025 | 0.24 | 0.2873 | −16.5% | 1.63 | 1.58 | +3.7% |
| Oct 23, 2025 | Q3 FY2025 | 1.89 | 1.7800 | +6.2% | 1.58 | 1.53 | +3.2% |
| Jul 24, 2025 | Q2 FY2025 | 2.94 | 1.7400 | — | 1.49 | 1.45 | +3.2% |
| Apr 24, 2025 | Q1 FY2025 | 0.27 | 1.7300 | — | 1.41 | 1.42 | −1.2% |
| Feb 13, 2025 | Q4 FY2024 | 0.51 | 0.2700 | — | 1.44 | 1.46 | −1.5% |
Source: Figures from the EL7 database. Estimates are the analyst consensus carried by our data vendor (FMP), not official figures.
Digital Realty Trust, Inc. results: EPS $0.48 vs $0.524 expected; revenue $1.90B vs $1.75B. The results cover the company's Q3 FY2026. EPS came in below analysts' estimate by 8.4%; revenue above the estimate by 8.5%.
Revenue was up 20.6% from $1.58 billion a year earlier (Q3 FY2025). EPS was down 74.6% from $1.89 a year earlier. On its record, EPS topped analysts' estimates in 2 of 3 earlier comparable reports.
What the results mean
Revenue growth reflects an expansion in Digital Realty Trust, Inc.'s data center infrastructure business. Its services host applications and operations that are critical to customers' daily activities, making service continuity central to those relationships.
The company's business model combines owning, developing, and operating data centers with providing colocation and interconnection. These activities serve customers in cloud computing, information technology, communications, financial services, and other industries, so understanding the results requires examining demand for space, technical capacity, and related services alongside asset operating and development costs.
The development portfolio provides room to expand customer capacity, while making the pace of bringing projects into operation and the efficiency of capital deployment important to understanding the business's economics. Revenue growth alone does not establish the returns generated by those investments.
What to watch on the earnings call: Listen for management's discussion of customer demand, the role of colocation and interconnection in the business, and how development projects move into operation. Data center operating costs, development spending, and how business growth translates into margins and returns on capital also merit attention.
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