Digital Realtyvs.HPE
DLR vs HPE · both in Data centers, part of the AI & digital infrastructure value chain: Servers, networking, optics and data center capacity that tie AI infrastructure together.
HPE is about 1.4× larger than Digital Realty by market cap; HPE trades at the lower P/E (33.6 vs 82.9); year to date, HPE leads (+193.4% vs +19.4%).
Supply-chain link: HPE supplies Digital Realty.
Side by side
| DLR | HPE | |
|---|---|---|
| Market cap | $66.3B | $93.9B |
| Price | $176.07 | $71.00 |
| Today | −2.4% | −1.5% |
| Return YTD | +19.4% | +193.4% |
| Return 1Y | +4.3% | +184.3% |
| Since June 26, 2026 | −8.8% | +62.4% |
| P/E | 82.9 | 33.6 |
| P/S | 9.8 | 2.2 |
| P/B | 2.4 | 3.5 |
Data as of 2026-10-08 · updates daily after U.S. close
Since June 26, 2026: the change in the closing price, from the daily closes Sectivia records itself since that date.
The two companies
Digital RealtyDLR
Owns and runs data centres as a REIT, from wholesale halls let to hyperscalers down to smaller colocation space.
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Cray supercomputers and ProLiant AI servers on one side; on the other, a networking business that grew considerably with the Juniper acquisition.
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