Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE: MPW) Stock’s Potential for Success in the Coming Months

In the latest trading session,, 2.59 million Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.27. With the company’s most recent per share price at $4.80 changed hands at -$0.19 or -3.71% at last look, the market valuation stands at $2.88B. MPW’s current price is a discount, trading about -39.38% off its 52-week high of $6.69. The share price had its 52-week low at $2.92, which suggests the last value was 39.17% up since then. When we look at Medical Properties Trust Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 10.33 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 12.18 million.

Analysts gave the Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 3.45. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 1 out of 9 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 5 recommended MPW as a Hold, 3 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight. Medical Properties Trust Inc’s EPS for the current quarter is expected to be 0.11.

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Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) trade information

Instantly MPW was in red as seen in intraday trades today. With action 5.37%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date downside of -2.14%, with the 5-day performance at 5.37% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) is 3.11% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 235.73 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 17.59 days.

The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 11, meaning bulls need an upside of 56.36% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, MPW’s forecast low is 4 with 27 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -462.5% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 16.67% for it to hit the projected low.

Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) estimates and forecasts

Data shows that the Medical Properties Trust Inc share is performing relatively much not better than most of its peers within the same industry. As can be gleaned from the statistics, the company’s share value shot 14.68% over the past 6 months, a -44.03% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of -3.30%. Year-over-year growth is forecast to reach -21.90% down from the last financial year.

Consensus estimates given by 4 financial analysts project the company’s revenue in the current quarter to hit an average of 256.82M. 4 analysts are of the opinion that Medical Properties Trust Inc’s revenue for the current quarter will be 253.77M. The company’s revenue for the corresponding quarters a year ago was 306.58M and 336.62M respectively. According to analysts, the company will likely register a growth in its current quarter sales, forecast at -16.20%. The estimates for the next quarter sales put growth at -24.60%.

The 2024 estimates are for Medical Properties Trust Inc earnings to decrease by -19.96%.

MPW Dividends

Medical Properties Trust Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2024-Oct-24. The 14.15% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.68. It is important to note, however, that the 14.15% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 9.26 per year.

Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW)’s Major holders

If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 1.54% of Medical Properties Trust Inc shares while 67.00% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 68.05%. There are 67.00% institutions holding the Medical Properties Trust Inc stock share, with BLACKROCK INC. the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 15.3511% of the shares, roughly 92.15 million MPW shares worth $397.18 million.

VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 15.3429% or 92.1 million shares worth $396.97 million as of 2024-06-30.

Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Jul 31, 2024 were iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF and Vanguard Specialized-Real Estate Index Fund . With 39.66 shares estimated at $189.76 million under it, the former controlled 6.61% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Specialized-Real Estate Index Fund held about 4.07% of the shares, roughly 24.46 shares worth around $117.03 million.