Digital Realty Trust, Inc. vs United Microelectronics Corp — how do they compare? Digital Realty Trust, Inc. trades at $191.45 (market cap $70.61B), while United Microelectronics Corp trades at $19.69 (market cap $47.81B). The key difference: Digital Realty Trust, Inc. 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 | UMC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $70.61B | $47.81B |
Sector | Real Estate | Technology |
52-Week High | $203.91 | $28.02 |
52-Week Low | $147.93 | $6.58 |
Enterprise Value | $89.32B | $44.93B |
Dividend Yield | 2.56% | 2.12% |
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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 →Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with 7% market share in 2021, according to Gartner, after TSMC and GlobalFoundries. UMC's headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and it operates 12 fabs in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and Singapore, with additional sales offices in Europe, the U.S. and South Korea. UMC features a diverse customer base including Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 20,000 people.
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