Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) price on current trading day, rose 1.93% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $4.22.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $4.14, moving within a range at $4.15 and $4.24. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.352. Turning to its 52-week performance, $6.55 and $2.92 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MPW moved -8.06% over the past month.
Medical Properties Trust Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $2.53 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in January. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.53, with its dividend yield at 12.56%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 216.41M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 211M and 221.82M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 276.83% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 987.47M, representing a 13.27% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that MPW is a 100% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 100% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Sell category.
9 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 5 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 3 recommend MPW as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 1 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Hold which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
MPW’s current price about -2.62% and -10.58% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 42.43, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.59% and 4.58% in the 30-day chart. Further, Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) has a beta value of 1.33, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.18. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $6.5, forecast between a low of $4 and high of $7.5. Looking at the price targets, the low is 5.21% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -77.73%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -54.03% jump to $6.5 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 10.85 over the past 10 days and 12.11 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 600.23 million shares.
The 13.79% of Medical Properties Trust Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 64.43% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 227.91 million on 2024-11-15, giving us a short ratio of 20.87. The data shows that as of 2024-11-15 short interest in Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) stood at 5261.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 218.13 million registered in 2024-10-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -14.05% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the MPW stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
