Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) price on Friday, April 19, fall -5.51% below its previous day’s close as a downside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $4.72.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $4.99. Turning to its 52-week performance, $10.74 and $2.92 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MPW moved 10.94% over the past month.
Medical Properties Trust Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $2.82 billion. The company has a Forward Dividend ratio of 0.59, with its dividend yield at 12.51%. As such, investors might be keen on an upside in the stock’s price ahead of the scheduled earnings report.
Revisions could be used as tool to get short term price movement insight, and for the company that in the past seven days was no upward and no downward review(s). 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% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in Hold category.
MPW’s current price about 8.70% and 13.87% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 57.56, while 7-day volatility ratio is 7.41% and 6.08% in the 30-day chart. Further, Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) has a beta value of 1.18, and an average true range (ATR) of 0.30.
If we refocus on Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 19.74 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 598.99 million shares.
The 2.02% of Medical Properties Trust Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 73.33% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock -3.97% 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.
