In the latest trading session, 2.86 million Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 1.33. With the company’s most recent per share price at $4.18 changing hands around $0.15 or 3.85% at last look, the market valuation stands at $2.51B. MPW’s current price is a discount, trading about -56.7% off its 52-week high of $6.55. The share price had its 52-week low at $2.92, which suggests the last value was 30.14% up since then. When we look at Medical Properties Trust Inc’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 15.75 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 12.30 million.
Analysts gave the Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, calculated at a mean rating of 3.30. 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 (NYSE:MPW) trade information
Instantly MPW is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 6.76%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 5.95%, with the 5-day performance at 6.76% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) is 3.59% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 230.24 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 17.51 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 6.75, meaning bulls need an upside of 38.07% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, MPW’s forecast low is 6 with 7.5 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -79.43% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to soar -43.54% 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 -12.81% over the past 6 months, a -50.94% in annual growth rate that is considerably lower than the industry average of -4.20%.
The 2025 estimates are for Medical Properties Trust Inc earnings to decrease by -241.62%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 12.00% per year.
MPW Dividends
Medical Properties Trust Inc is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report in February. The 10.99% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 0.46. It is important to note, however, that the 10.99% 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 9.67 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 13.36% of Medical Properties Trust Inc shares while 65.50% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 75.60%. There are 65.50% 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 Oct 31, 2024 were iShares Core S&P Smallcap ETF and Vanguard Specialized-Real Estate Index Fund. With 38.26 shares estimated at $158.77 million under it, the former controlled 6.37% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard Specialized-Real Estate Index Fund held about 3.94% of the shares, roughly 23.64 shares worth around $98.11 million.
