Nastco/iStock via Getty Images High amounts of debt, combined with issues with tenants, has resulted in tremendous downside from where shares traded not long ago. As an example, the 52 week high mark for the stock was $10.74. As of this writing, shares are down more than half at $5.04. And at one point in the past year, they have been down as far as $2.92. I originally started acquiring the stock back in May of 2022. The highest price I paid for it was $18.55 per share. So as you can tell, it has been a rou ...

Medical Properties Trust (MPW) has battled a barrage of issues. Financially strapped tenants have struggled to pay rent while rising interest rates have increased its borrowing costs. Those two factors have made it difficult to refinance existing debt as it matures. However, the healthcare REIT has been working with its tenants to address their issues. It has also sold some hospital properties to repay debt and boost liquidity. Because of that, it's starting to get easier to refinance maturing debt. This pr ...

MPT is already sitting on a significant debt load of $10.1 billion as of March 31, which has been increasing over the past decade. Is the dividend sustainable? Last year, Medical Properties reduced its quarterly per-share dividend from $0.29 to $0.15. When a dividend stock's yield is exceptionally high, there's usually some concerning cause behind the elevation. If a dividend was considered safe, investors would be buying up the high-yielding stock, pushing the share price up and the yield down. When that i ...

This REIT's yield might look tempting, but know what you're getting into. Medical Properties Trust (MPW 4.39%) has received a lot of attention from investors due to its sky-high dividend yield. However, there's a good reason it's such a high-paying stock, and it's important to fully understand what you're getting into. In this video, two of our experts dive into the current state of the business and what investors need to know about it. *Stock prices used were the morning prices of May 17, 2024. The video w ...

Rents aren't the issues plaguing these properties Medical Properties Trust expects to replace its troubled top tenant over the coming months. Medical Properties Trust (MPW -2.15%) stock has gotten clobbered over the past few years. Shares are down nearly 80% from their peak in 2022. That has driven its dividend yield up to over 10%, even after it cut its payout by nearly half last year. The biggest weight on its stock has been the financial troubles of top tenant Steward Health Care, which recently filed fo ...

Luis Alvarez Introduction The embattled REIT Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPW) has had no shortage of conflicting headlines recently, ranging from further signs of financial distress to rays of hope of a turnaround. MPW has been dealing with a range of issues, most of which are of their own doing. The economic impacts of Covid-19 undoubtedly exacerbated the problems threatening the business model, but the pandemic was not the root cause. Most investors still in possession of MPW shares are likely left hol ...

1 and and which and a would and 1 Children Frances of the Property. I xefstock MPW stock's 10% dividend yield I last wrote about Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPW) about a year ago (in Jun of 2023 to be more precise, as seen in the screenshot below). At that point, the stock was featuring a quarterly dividend payout of $0.29 per share and a dividend yield of 12.6% on an FWD basis. More than its high dividend yield, what really got my attention was the short interest on MPW stock at that time. Quote: The cu ...

This process has gone awry for Medical Properties. It has a total of $10.1 billion in debt. In the first quarter, its revenue of $271.3 million was larger than its total expenses, including interest, of $222.4 million. But between 2025 and the end of 2027, 62% of its debt load will be due, which means that its repayment costs will soar when it has to refinance that debt. To make matters much worse, its largest tenant, Steward Health Care, which is responsible for around 20% of its rental revenue, declared b ...

Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) experienced a remarkable surge of close to 17% on Monday, catching the attention of investors and analysts alike. This surge can be primarily attributed to short covering, as MPW is one of the most shorted stocks on the NYSE, with approximately 38% of its float being short. The rally on Monday was part of a broader trend observed in heavily shorted stocks. Are you looking for signals & alerts from pro-traders? Sign-up to Invezz Signals™ for FREE. Takes 2 mins. Despite ...

Adam Gault/OJO Images via Getty Images Before we entered 2024, I issued an interesting piece on Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPW) - Medical Properties Trust: Outlining An Optimal Way To Capture Double-Digit Yield - outlining my views on how the investors could play this distressed case in a more risk-averse manner. In my view, going higher in MPW's capital structure offered still enticing yield potential (coupons plus price appreciation from the convergence back to par), while at the same time keeping ...