Digital Realty Trust, Inc. vs Verisign, Inc. — how do they compare? Digital Realty Trust, Inc. trades at $191.45 (market cap $70.61B), while Verisign, Inc. trades at $287.62 (market cap $26.00B). The key difference: Digital Realty Trust, Inc. is far larger — about 2.7× Verisign, Inc.'s market cap, and Digital Realty Trust, Inc. pays the higher dividend (2.56%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| DLR | VRSN | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $70.61B | $26.00B |
Sector | Real Estate | Technology |
52-Week High | $203.91 | $310.00 |
52-Week Low | $147.93 | $211.49 |
Enterprise Value | $89.32B | $27.31B |
Dividend Yield | 2.56% | 1.13% |
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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 →Verisign is the sole authorized registry for several generic top-level domains, including the widely utilized .com and .net top-level domains. The company operates critical Internet infrastructure to support the domain name system, including operating two of the world's 13 root servers that are used to route Internet traffic. In 2018, the firm sold off its Security Services business, signalling a renewed focus on the core registry business.
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