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Digital Realty DLR

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Price History

$12$74.98$137.96$200.94
2004-10 · DCA start$12

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-44.4%-29.6%-14.8%0.0%
2004-102026-08 · -1.9%

Worst drawdown: −44%, peaking Dec 2021 and bottoming Mar 2023 — 34 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$26,300
Value today
$88,170
Return
+235.2%
Months invested
263

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $36,083 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +144.4%.

Lump sum instead — $26,300 all at once in Oct 2004: $431,890 (+1542.2%) — lump sum came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Apr 2026): $516.05 on $500 invested (+3.2%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2004-10: +235.2%

About Digital Realty

Digital Realty is a real estate investment trust that owns, operates, and invests in carrier-neutral data centers across the world. The company offers data center, colocation, and interconnection services. It was formed in 2004 by GI Partners. As of June 2023, Digital Realty has over 300 facilities in more than 25 countries. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under real estate and data center reits, with a market cap of about $69.2B.

It rates High Risk at 2.9/5, meaning several rated factors score badly, so this carries materially more risk than a typical holding.

What pushes the score up: earnings quality (5.0/5) and leverage / financial (4.0/5).

Scoring well: liquidity at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

High Risk(2.9/5)80% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility2.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)2/521.4
  • Max drawdown from ATH2/544.4
  • Beta vs S&P 5002/50.74
Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%
  • Avg daily $ volume1/5542.0m
  • Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched
Leverage / Financial4.0/5 · weight 20%
  • Debt / equitynot yet researched
  • Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)4/51.5
Earnings Quality5.0/5 · weight 15%
  • 3yr EPS volatility5/5118
Concentrationunrated · weight 10%
  • Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
  • Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched
Governanceunrated · weight 10%
  • Board independence %not yet researched
  • Share structurenot yet researched
  • Litigation / audit historynot yet researched
Sector / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

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