Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.50% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $4.41.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $4.34, falling within a range of $4.25 and $4.46. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 1.352. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $6.55, and the low was $3.08. On the whole, MPW has fluctuated by 17.15% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Medical Properties Trust Inc currently standing at about $2.64 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in February. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 0.46, with its dividend yield at 10.44%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 984.07M, with a low estimate of 210.2M and a high estimate of 230.62M. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 218.92M.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that MPW’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the price of MPW currently trading nearly 10.38% and 6.80% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 63.49, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 4.32% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 5.20%. Furthermore, Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW)’s beta value is 1.35, and its average true range (ATR) is 0.21.
A comparison of Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. MPW showed an intraday change of 1.50% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 35.96%%.
Data on historical trading for Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 14.69 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 12.47 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 600.23 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 13.78% of Medical Properties Trust Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 64.54% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 230.24 million shares as on 2024-12-31, resulting in a short ratio of 17.51. According to the data, the short interest in Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) stood at 5315.00 of shares outstanding as of 2024-12-31; the number of short shares registered in 2024-11-29 reached 230.25 million. The stock has risen by 11.52% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the MPW stock heading into the next quarter.
