Medical Properties Trust: Multi-Bagger or Bust?

It is the fifth round of a cage match between Medical Properties Trust Inc. (MPW, Financial) and the bears, which has now lasted for over two years. The real estate investment trust is bloodied and staggering. Will it survive? Or will it have to be taken on a stretcher to bankruptcy? Thus is the situation for one of the largest private owners of hospital real estate in the U.S. Medical Properties Trust is a self-managed real estate investment trust with a market capitalization of $2.1 billion (down from $6. ...