The trading price of Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) floating higher at last check on current market day and closing at $6.31, 3.27% higher than its previous close.
Traders who pay close attention to intraday price movement should know that it has been fluctuating between $6.12 and $6.34. In examining the 52-week price action we see that the stock hit a 52-week high of $6.55 and a 52-week low of $3.51. Over the past month, the stock has gained 30.09% in value.
Medical Properties Trust Inc, whose market valuation is $3.79 billion at the time of this writing, is expected to release its quarterly earnings report on 2025-Feb-26. The dividend yield on the company stock is 8.56%, while its Forward Dividend ratio is 0.54. Investors’ optimism about the company’s current quarter earnings report is understandable.
On the technical side, indicators suggest MPW has a 100% Buy on average for the short term. According to the data of the stock’s medium term indicators, the stock is currently averaging as a 100% Buy, while an average of long term indicators suggests that the stock is currently 50% Buy.
Here is the average analyst rating on the stock as represented by 1.00 to 5.00, with the extremes of 1.00 and 5.00 suggesting the stock should be considered as either strong buy or strong sell respectively. The number of analysts that have assigned MPW a recommendation rating is 9. Out of them, 5 rate it a Hold, while 3 recommend Buy, whereas 0 assign an Overweight rating. 0 analyst(s) have tagged Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) as Underweight, while 1 advise Sell. Analysts have rated the stock Hold, likely urging investors to take advantage of the opportunity to add to their holdings of the company’s shares.
A quick review shows that MPW’s price is currently 8.14% off the SMA20 and 23.58% off the SMA50. The RSI metric on the 14-day chart is currently showing 70.13, and weekly volatility stands at 2.75%. When measured over the past 30 days, the indicator reaches 4.43%. Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW)’s beta value is currently sitting at 1.35, while the Average True Range indicator is currently displaying 0.23. With analysts defining $9-$9 as the low and high price targets, we arrive at a consensus price target of $9 for the trailing 12-month period. The current price is about -42.63% off the estimated low and -42.63% off the forecast high, based on this estimate. Investors will be thrilled if MPW’s share price rises to $9, which is the median consensus price. At that level, MPW’s share price would be -42.63% below current price.
To see how Medical Properties Trust Inc stock has been performing today in comparison to its peers in the industry, here are the numbers: MPW stock’s performance was 3.27% at last check in today’s session, and 48.11% in the past year.
An evaluation of the daily trading volume of Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) indicates that the 3-month average is 12.84 million. However, this figure has increased over the past 10 days to an average of 9.76.
Currently, records show that 600.40 million of the company’s shares remain outstanding. The insiders hold 17.70% of outstanding shares, whereasinstitutions hold 61.49%. The stats also highlight that short interest as of 2025-02-28, stood at 184.39 million shares, resulting in a short ratio of 14.8 at that time. From this, we can conclude that short interest is 4254.00 of the company’s total outstanding shares. It is noteworthy that short shares in February were down slightly from the previous month’s figure, which was 215.69 million. However, since the stock’s price has seen 59.74% year-to-date, investors’ interest is likely to be reignited due to its potential to move even higher.
