Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) price on Wednesday, February 05, rose 0.42% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $4.79.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $4.77, moving within a range at $4.7205 and $4.85. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.352. Turning to its 52-week performance, $6.55 and $3.12 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MPW moved 15.42% over the past month.
Medical Properties Trust Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $2.88 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.46, with its dividend yield at 9.60%. 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 220.27M 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 279.98% 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 985.73M, representing a 13.07% 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 Hold. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Buy 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 10.11% and 14.73% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 66.22, while 7-day volatility ratio is 5.63% and 6.30% in the 30-day chart. Further, Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) has a beta value of 1.42, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.25. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $6.5, forecast between a low of $6 and high of $7. Looking at the price targets, the low is -25.26% off current price level while to achieve the yearly target high, price needs to move -46.14%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -35.7% 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 15.68 over the past 10 days and 13.63 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 64.75% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 230.79 million on 2025-01-15, giving us a short ratio of 15.46. The data shows that as of 2025-01-15 short interest in Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) stood at 5327.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 236.03 million registered in 2024-12-13. Current price change has pushed the stock 21.27% 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.
