Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (DLR) Consensus EPS Estimates

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) was up +0.98% ($ 1.01) to $ 104.15 and showed a volume of 2.34 mln shares. It has ranged in price between $ 101.7-$ 106 after having started the session at $ 105.07 as compared to the previous trading day’s close of $ 103.14. The GAP was therefore 1.84%. Over the 52-week time span, the stock notched a high price of $ 113.21 and its minimum price was $ 76.93. The firm’s stock has a market capitalization of $ 16.56 bln.

The analysts offering 12 month price targets for Digital Realty Trust, Inc. have a median target of $ 105, with a high estimate of $ 121 and a low estimate of $ 85. The median estimate represents a 0.82% increase from the last price.

According to Zacks brokerage recommendations, Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR)’s Buy count is 1 and Strong Buy is 6 while the number of analysts recommending Sell and Strong Sell are 0 and 8, respectively. Also, the Hold rating count is 0, as of 17 Feb 2017. The analyst recommendations from a month ago are 1 Buy, 6 Strong Buy, 0 Sell, 0 Hold and 8. Strong Sell. Investors might also notice that two months ago the Buy recommendations (1) outnumbered Sell recommendations (0). The count of Hold ratings in that period was 0. Chicago-based equity research firm Zacks Investment Research has assigned this stock ABR (Average Brokerage Recommendation) of 2.13, suggesting the market has given up on the stock.

Now, the FactSet Research estimate calls for Q1 2017 earnings of US$ 0.38. A month ago, analyst EPS consensus estimated earnings of US$ 0.36 per share. They were forecasting US$ 0.34 per share three months ago. The Q2 2017 consensus earnings estimates for the company have stabilized at US$ 0.4 per share. A month ago, they told us to expect earnings of US$ 0.39 per share while three months ago their EPS consensus estimate was US$ 0.37.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE:DLR) soared 5.99% year-to-date. The shares have accelerated in recent weeks, with their price up about 17.91% in the past three months. DLR fell -2.85%, plunged -0.57% and advanced 4.8% in the week, one month and six months, respectively. The most recent short interest data show 11.16% of the company’s stock are short sold. It would take about 12.93 days to cover all short positions. In terms of volatility, it has a beta coefficient of 0.1 and technical analysis volatility indicator called Average True Range or ATR around 1.88.

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (DLR) closed 6.66% above its 200-day moving average and is 2.5% above another chart threshold, its 50-day moving average. The stock stands nearly -6.3% off versus the 52-week high and 40.54% away from the 52-week low. The number of shares currently owned by investors are 158.96 mln.

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Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (DLR) Consensus EPS Estimates

How to Build Rock Solid Trust Online So Your Best Prospects Buy

So picture this: you’re strolling along in a major department store, cold drink in hand, on one of the hottest days of the year.

All of a sudden, from out of nowhere, in walk two extremely large males, wearing trench coats and ski masks!

Does that particular image breed confidence and trust on your part, or do you think it might be safer if you just got the heck out of there asap?

I’m definitely with you on that! Then again, maybe they just have a thing for wearing trench coats and ski masks on extremely hot days. Who knows?

You’re probably wondering what, if anything, these two particular shoppers have to do with successful online marketing. The answer is quite simple: your potential online customers will not buy a thing from you until they get to know, like, and trust you.

So How Do You Build Unshakable Trust Online?

Here are five proven ways to help you develop this trust. None of these market-tested strategies are expensive or very time-consuming. But if you continue to ignore these proven trust-building tactics, your online ventures will definitely continue to struggle!

Trust-Building Strategy 1 

Ladies and gentlemen, please bear in mind that whenever someone first lands on your site, be it your blog or website, the two of you are strangers.

You have at most three to five seconds to try to convince them to take the action you prefer most.

So it’s best that you try to set up some type of opt in form (especially on your blog) in order to build your opt in email list. You should also offer some type of market-tested, free, “how to,” problem-solving lead generating giveaway. This giveaway should help your target audience members solve one of their major problems or concerns.

Then you can use your follow up email sequence to build trust and credibility with your subscribers.

Trust-Building Strategy 2

Here’s another big one. It’s an all too common online marketing mistake that you see lots of local, offline marketers making with their websites.

For some odd reason, lots of local, offline small business owners fail to place their phone numbers prominently on the home pages of their websites or blogs.

Don’t make your online visitors have to search for your local number! Instead, place it prominently in either your header or in your home page’s footer section.

Trust-Building Strategy 3 

This next tip might seem like good old-fashioned online marketing common sense, but apparently it’s not as common as it ought to be. Technically, every sales page, website, and blog is required by law to have some sort of contact page so your online visitors can get ahold of you.

Ladies and gentlemen, believe it or not, I know some rather popular bloggers whose blogs have no separate contact page! So if their visitors aren’t following them on social media and are not one of their email subscribers, it’s virtually impossible for a stranger to contact them!

This situation definitely does not bode well for building and developing unshakable trust, correct?

Trust-Building Strategy 4 

If you do have a blog component to your website, or if you just have a mobile responsive WordPress blog in general, be sure there is a picture of you. That way, your visitors can begin to associate your face with your business or service.

By the same token, in order for your blog commenting strategy to be effective, be sure you get an avatar at gravatar.com.

With Gravatar, each time you leave a comment, your actual picture appears with your comment, rather than the default (impersonal) image. Remember, the very first thing your visitors buy into is you—or your major competitors!

Trust-Building Strategy 5

Finally, once prospects join your opt in email lists, they want more than a series of thinly disguised sales pitches. If you are doing little or no actual educating of your customers, it will be almost impossible for you to build any type of long-term credibility with them. Then you’ll end up working a lot harder than you actually need to work.

There’s nothing earth-shattering about any of these five tactics. My friend, are you currently marketing online or planning to do so in the not-so-distant future? Then do yourself a favor and stop ignoring these five proven online fundamentals.

Otherwise, you’ll continue to struggle to build long-term trust. Don’t you agree?

Please share your extremely valuable comments in the comments section below. What are strategies people can apply to their businesses, products, or services in the next 30 days or less?

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