Digital Realty Trust, Inc. vs Gartner Inc — how do they compare? Digital Realty Trust, Inc. trades at $173.11 (market cap $65.83B), while Gartner Inc trades at $132.89 (market cap $9.46B). The key difference: Digital Realty Trust, Inc. is far larger — about 7× Gartner Inc's market cap, and Digital Realty Trust, Inc. pays a 2.74% dividend while Gartner Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| DLR | IT | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $65.83B | $9.46B |
Sector | Real Estate | Technology |
52-Week High | $203.91 | $363.58 |
52-Week Low | $147.93 | $125.68 |
Enterprise Value | $83.35B | $11.05B |
Dividend Yield | 2.74% | — |
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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 Digital. Digital Realty has also moved more into the co-location business, increasingly serving enterprises and facilitating network connections. Digital Realty operates as a real estate investment trust.
Read more on DLR →Based in Stamford, Conn., Gartner provides independent research and analysis on information technology and other related technology industries. Its research is delivered to clients' desktops in the form of reports, briefings, and updates. Typical clients are chief information officers and other business executives who help plan companies' IT budgets. Gartner also provides consulting services and hosted nearly 80 IT conferences across the globe in 2007.
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