Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) price on Wednesday, January 15, rose 2.48% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $4.13.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $4.03, moving within a range at $4.1 and $4.23. 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 2.23% over the past month.
Medical Properties Trust Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $2.48 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in February. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.46, with its dividend yield at 11.14%. 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 220.21M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 210.2M and 230.62M respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 279.93% 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 985.6M, representing a 13.05% 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 50% 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 100% 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 5.82% and -0.67% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 55.24, while 7-day volatility ratio is 6.98% and 5.18% 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 0.21. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $6.75, forecast between a low of $6 and high of $7.5. Looking at the price targets, the low is -45.28% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -81.6%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -63.44% jump to $6.75 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 15.75 over the past 10 days and 12.30 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 600.23 million shares.
The 13.78% of Medical Properties Trust Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 64.44% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 230.24 million on 2024-12-31, giving us a short ratio of 17.51. The data shows that as of 2024-12-31 short interest in Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) stood at 5315.0004 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 230.25 million registered in 2024-11-29. Current price change has pushed the stock 4.56% 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.
