Dividend Power Score
A single, comprehensive score designed to measure the true strength of a company’s dividend.
This score combines three essential pillars of dividend quality:
Consistency – Measures how reliable the dividend has been over time, focusing on payment history, stability, and the absence of cuts or suspensions.
Payability – Assesses the company’s financial ability to sustain its dividend, taking into account cash flow, earnings coverage, balance sheet strength, and overall financial health.
Growth – Evaluates the long-term growth of both the dividend and the company’s share price, highlighting businesses that consistently increase payouts while creating shareholder value.
Higher scores identify companies that have historically delivered dependable income alongside sustained dividend growth and long-term capital appreciation.
Company Overview
DigitalBridge Group, Inc. is a global investment management firm focused on digital infrastructure, operating at the intersection of technology, real assets, and private equity. The company invests in and manages assets that support data-intensive applications, including data centers, cell towers, fiber networks, small cells, and edge infrastructure. Its primary revenue driver is fee-based investment management income earned from managing private funds, public investment vehicles, and separately managed accounts for institutional investors.
The firm traces its origins to Colony Capital, which was founded in 1991 as a diversified real estate and credit investment manager. Beginning in 2019, the company initiated a strategic transformation to exit legacy real estate and non-core assets and reposition itself as a pure-play digital infrastructure platform. This transition culminated in the 2021 rebranding to DigitalBridge Group, Inc., reflecting its exclusive focus on digital infrastructure investments and operating platforms.
Business Operations
DigitalBridge operates through two primary business activities: Investment Management and Digital Operating Assets. The Investment Management segment generates revenue through management fees, carried interest, and advisory income from managing digital infrastructure-focused private equity funds, perpetual capital vehicles, and co-investments. Capital is sourced primarily from institutional investors such as pensions, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, and insurance companies.
The firm’s Digital Operating Assets consist of managed portfolio companies and platforms that own and operate infrastructure critical to global connectivity. These include controlled or affiliated businesses such as DataBank, Vertical Bridge, and minority or co-investment interests in companies such as Vantage Data Centers and Switch. DigitalBridge operates globally, with assets and investments spanning North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa, and relies on deep operational expertise rather than passive financial ownership.
Strategic Position & Investments
DigitalBridge’s strategy centers on being a specialized global manager dedicated solely to digital infrastructure, which it views as a long-duration, mission-critical asset class benefiting from secular growth in cloud computing, mobile data, artificial intelligence, and content delivery. Growth initiatives include raising new flagship and sector-specific funds, expanding perpetual capital vehicles, and scaling operating platforms through organic investment and selective acquisitions.
The company has executed major portfolio reshaping transactions to reinforce this focus, including the acquisition and scaling of DataBank and Vertical Bridge, and the monetization or partial sale of mature assets such as Vantage Data Centers while retaining strategic minority stakes. DigitalBridge continues to target emerging areas such as edge computing, hyperscale data centers, and shared communications infrastructure, leveraging its operating partner model to align investment and operational execution.
Geographic Footprint
DigitalBridge is headquartered in the United States, with its principal executive offices in Boca Raton, Florida, and maintains additional offices in key financial and technology hubs. The firm’s investment footprint spans North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa, reflecting the global nature of digital connectivity demand.
Through its managed platforms and investment vehicles, DigitalBridge has exposure to both developed and high-growth emerging markets. Its international presence allows the firm to deploy capital across regions with varying regulatory regimes, infrastructure maturity levels, and growth profiles, positioning it as a globally diversified digital infrastructure manager.
Leadership & Governance
DigitalBridge is led by executives with backgrounds in digital infrastructure operations, telecommunications, and alternative asset management. The leadership team emphasizes operational expertise, long-term capital alignment, and thematic investing in essential digital assets. The company’s governance framework aligns management incentives with investor outcomes through significant co-investment alongside limited partners.
Key executives include:
- Marc Ganzi – Chief Executive Officer
- Ben Jenkins – President
- Ron Nersesian – Chief Operating Officer