In recent trading session today, 1.21 million shares of the Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) have been traded, and its beta is 1.33. Most recently the company’s share price was $5.51, and it changed around -$0.06 or -1.17% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $3.30B. MPW at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $6.55, offering almost -18.87% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $2.92, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 47.01% since then. We note from Medical Properties Trust Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 7.53 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 12.68 million.
Medical Properties Trust Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 3.45. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 2 out of 14 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 2 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 5 recommended MPW as a Hold, whereas 4 deemed it a Buy, and 1 rated it as Underweight. Medical Properties Trust Inc is expected to report earnings per share of 0.05 for the current quarter.
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Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) trade information
Instantly MPW has been showing red trend so far today with a performance of -1.17% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the red territory. The rise to weekly highs of 5.76 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 4.34%. The company’s shares are currently up 12.12% year-to-date, but still down -4.59% over the last five days. On the other hand, Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) is 10.32% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 233.03 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 18.05 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $7.25, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 24.0% from its current value. Analyst projections state that MPW is forecast to be at a low of $4 and a high of $27.
Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) estimates and forecasts
Medical Properties Trust Inc share prices are performing particularly well not compared to other companies within the same industry. As is evident from the statistics, the company’s shares have risen 28.62 percent over the past six months and at a -46.54% annual growth rate that is well below the industry average of -3.30%. Moreover, analysts have decided to roll up on their fiscal year 2024 revenue estimates. The rating firms predict that it will loss -73.70% in revenue this quarter, and will report a decrease of -77.80% in the next quarter. The year-over-year growth rate is expected to be -23.40%, down from the previous year.
Consensus estimates provided by 6 financial analysts predict the company will bring in an average of 247.23M in revenue for the current quarter. 6 analysts expect Medical Properties Trust Inc to make 240.72M in revenue for the current ending quarter. The company’s sales for the same quarters a year ago were 306.58M and 336.62M respectively. Analysts predict that the company’s current quarter sales will drop, forecast at -19.40%. Forecasts for the next quarter put sales growth at -28.50%.
Medical Properties Trust Inc earnings are expected to increase by -84.88% in 2024, but the outlook is negative -2.00% per year for the next five years.
MPW Dividends
Medical Properties Trust Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2024-Oct-24. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 9.63 percent and its annual dividend per share was 0.53. It is important to note, however, that the 9.63% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 9.32 per year.
Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 7.69% of Medical Properties Trust Inc shares, and 65.75% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 71.22%. Medical Properties Trust Inc stock is held by 658.0 institutions, with BLACKROCK INC. being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 15.3511% of the shares, which is about 92.15 million shares worth $397.18 million.
VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 15.3429% or 92.1 million shares worth $396.97 million as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
