An investor in alternative asset classes, Longview Investments, had lately developed a new investment thesis to take good advantage of numerous macroeconomic themes that were expected to emerge.
The strategy was expected on the belief that rise in price and interest rates were presumably to grow in the foreseeable future and that the digital real estate was most likely to deliver a substantial return due to developing tendency in technology and IT management. Mostly the company noticed tremendous utilization of cloud-based applications and mobile devices; the escalating need for ubiquitous access to digitized data, and the explosion in the quantity of electronic information typically; and also the shifting of firms from the usage of little server closets and toward bigger datacenter environments.
The net result was a heightened curiosity about REITs specializing in real estate that is digital. The case is designed to exhibit the total of the parts valuation methodology as a capstone exercise for an introductory finance class in a first year MBA. It follows an investment professional as he develops a theory linked to Digital Realty Trust (DLR), a publicly traded REIT specializing in digital property.
Sum of the Parts Valuation Digital Realty Trust case study solution
PUBLICATION DATE: May 20, 2014 PRODUCT #: 914529-PDF-ENG
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