Is Sinking Money Into a Data Center a Wise Investment?

Milena Petrova, associate professor of finance at the Whitman School, was quoted in the U.S. News and World Report story “Why Data-Center REITs Are Promising And Risky.”

In the article, Petrova states that “data-center REITs had a remarkable performance in the past five years with an average 25 percent total annual return.” She adds that “their return in the past three years has been less impressive – about 17percent – but still higher than the returns on the stock market and significantly higher than for the REITs’ returns on average.”