Digital Realty Trust, Inc. vs Moody's Corporation — how do they compare? Digital Realty Trust, Inc. trades at $191.45 (market cap $70.61B), while Moody's Corporation trades at $475 (market cap $82.52B). The key difference: Moody's Corporation is the larger of the two by market cap, and Digital Realty Trust, Inc. pays the higher dividend (2.56%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| DLR | MCO | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $70.61B | $82.52B |
Sector | Real Estate | Financials |
52-Week High | $203.91 | $539.61 |
52-Week Low | $147.93 | $412.23 |
Enterprise Value | $89.32B | $88.54B |
Dividend Yield | 2.56% | 0.86% |
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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 →Moody's, along with S&P Ratings, is a leading provider of credit ratings on fixed income securities. Moody's ratings segment, known as Moody's Investors Service or MIS, includes corporates, structured finance, financial institutions, and public finance ratings. MIS represents a majority of the firm's revenue and profits. Moody's other segment is Moody's Analytics and consists of Research, Data, and Analytics or RD&A and Enterprise Risk Solutions or ERS. RD&A's products include credit research, quantitative credit scores, economic research, business intelligence, know your customer (KYC) tools, commercial real estate data and analytical tools, and training services. ERS includes risk management software solutions to financial institutions.
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