Is Another Dividend Cut Coming for Medical Properties Trust?

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 ...