In last trading session, Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) saw 12.13 million shares changing hands with its beta currently measuring 1.33. Company’s recent per share price level of $4.99 trading at $0.28 or 5.94% at ring of the bell on the day assigns it a market valuation of $2.99B. That closing price of MPW’s stock is at a discount of -31.26% from its 52-week high price of $6.55 and is indicating a premium of 41.48% from its 52-week low price of $2.92. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 12.25 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 12.91 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Hold while assigning it a mean rating of 3.45. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 9 analysts covering the stock, 1 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 5 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 3 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight. The company is expected to be making an EPS of 0.05 in the current quarter.
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Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) trade information
Upright in the green during last session for gaining 5.94%, in the last five days MPW remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Friday, 10/18/24 when the stock touched $4.99 price level, adding 0.8% to its value on the day. Medical Properties Trust Inc’s shares saw a change of 1.63% in year-to-date performance and have moved 5.05% in past 5-day. Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) showed a performance of -13.52% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 215.21 million shares which calculate 14.57 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 7.25 to the stock, which implies a rise of 31.17% to its current value. Analysts have been projecting 4 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 27. It follows that stock’s current price would jump 19.84% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a gain of 19.84% for stock’s current value.
Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) estimates and forecasts
Statistics highlight that Medical Properties Trust Inc is scoring comparatively lower than the scores of other players of the relevant industry. The company added 12.90% of value to its shares in past 6 months, showing an annual growth rate of -46.54% while that of industry is -3.40. Apart from that, the company came lowering its revenue forecast for fiscal year 2024. This year revenue growth is estimated to fall -23.40% from the last financial year’s standing.
6 industry analysts have given their estimates about the company’s current quarter revenue by setting an average figure of 247.23M for the same. And 6 analysts are in estimates of company making revenue of 240.72M in the next quarter. Company posted 306.58M and 336.62M of sales in current and next quarters respectively a year earlier.
In 2024, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -84.88% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of -2.00%.
MPW Dividends
Medical Properties Trust Inc is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2024-Oct-24 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 10.62%, the share has a forward dividend of 0.53 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 9.32%.
Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 7.69% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 65.47 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 70.93%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 65.47% institutions for Medical Properties Trust Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. BLACKROCK INC. is the top institutional holder at MPW for having 92.15 million shares of worth $397.18 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 15.3511 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, which was holding about 92.1 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 15.3429 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $396.97 million.
On the other hand, iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF and Vanguard Specialized-Real Estate Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Sep 30, 2024 , the former fund manager was holding 38.1 shares of worth $190.14 million or 6.35% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 23.99 shares on Jul 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $119.72 million in the company or a holder of 4.00% of company’s stock.
