Currently, there are 598.99M common shares owned by the public and among those 588.57M shares have been available to trade.
Insiders at the company have transacted a total of 24 times over the past 12 months, according to data filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). 9 of these insider trades were purchases, accounting for 227,624 shares. Insider sales of the common stock occurred on 15 occasions, with total insider shares sold totaling 105,812 shares.
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However, the script later moved the day high at 3.8700, up 4.07%. The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of -0.52% and -15.42% over the past three months. MPW shares are trading -21.79% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance down to -68.52% lower. It has a 12-month low price of $2.92 and touched a high of $12.19 over the same period. MPW has an average intraday trading volume of 22.05 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 12.26%, -2.18%, and -39.23% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE: MPW) shares accounts for 73.52% of the company’s 598.99M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $2.30B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 1.17. The earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at -$0.93. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio at 1.32. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 8.01% over the week and 6.28% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW) will achieve an EPS of $0.16 for the current quarter, $0.18 for the next quarter and $0.77 for 2025. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is $0.12 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of $0.21. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was $0.05 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 171.16%, and -4.69% over the next financial year.
Looking at the support for the MPW, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Deutsche Bank stated their Sell rating for the stock in a research note on January 30, 2024, with the firm’s price target at $2. Stifel was of a view on November 10, 2023 that the stock is Hold, while Wells Fargo gave the stock Underweight rating on October 16, 2023, issuing a price target of $7- $4. Exane BNP Paribas on their part issued Neutral rating on October 11, 2023.
