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By Matt Frankel, CFP
Data center real estate investment trusts (REITs) were some of the best-performing stocks in the real estate sector in 2020. Despite the overall real estate sector declining by about 5% last year, judging by the performance of the Vanguard Real Estate ETF (NYSEMKT: VNQ), leading data center REITs Equinix (NASDAQ: EQIX) and Digital Realty Trust (NYSE: DLR) delivered total returns of 24.2% and 20.4%, respectively.
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