Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) price on current trading day, fall -2.03% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $5.07.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $5.17, moving within a range at $5.05 and $5.165. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 1.317. Turning to its 52-week performance, $6.55 and $3.51 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MPW moved -12.97% over the past month.
Medical Properties Trust Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $3.04 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-Feb-26. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.54, with its dividend yield at 10.66%. 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 233.79M for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 215.5M and 272.09M respectively. The average forecast suggests down to a -13.83% 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 963.11M, representing a -3.26% decline 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% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy 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 -12.13% and -6.85% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 37.15, while 7-day volatility ratio is 11.00% and 5.00% in the 30-day chart. Further, Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) has a beta value of 1.47, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.30. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $9, forecast between a low of $9 and high of $9. Looking at the price targets, the low is -77.51% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -77.51%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -77.51% jump to $9 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 12.9 over the past 10 days and 12.51 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 600.40 million shares.
The 17.69% of Medical Properties Trust Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 61.38% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 176.85 million on 2025-03-14, giving us a short ratio of 13.67. The data shows that as of 2025-03-14 short interest in Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) stood at 4079.9999999999995 of shares outstanding, with shares short falling to 196.44 million registered in 2025-02-14. Current price change has pushed the stock 28.23% 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.
