Digital Realty Trust, Inc. vs Vanguard Global ex-US Real Estate Index Fd ETF — how do they compare? Digital Realty Trust, Inc. trades at $191 (market cap $70.61B), while Vanguard Global ex-US Real Estate Index Fd ETF trades at $45.51. The key difference: Digital Realty Trust, Inc. pays a 2.56% dividend while Vanguard Global ex-US Real Estate Index Fd ETF pays none, and Digital Realty Trust, Inc. is trading nearer its 52-week high, Vanguard Global ex-US Real Estate Index Fd ETF nearer its low. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| DLR | VNQI | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $70.61B | — |
Sector | Real Estate | — |
52-Week High | $203.91 | $50.76 |
52-Week Low | $147.93 | $43.26 |
Enterprise Value | $89.32B | — |
Dividend Yield | 2.56% | — |
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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 →The fund employs an indexing investment approach designed to track the performance of the S&P Global ex-US Property Index, a float-adjusted, market-capitalization-weighted index that measures the equity market performance of international real estate stocks in both developed and emerging markets. The index is composed of stocks of publicly traded equity real estate investment trusts (known as REITs) and certain real estate management and development companies (REMDs).
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