With 8.49 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 13.52 million shares. The 52-week range on MPW shows that it touched its highest point at $6.55 and its lowest point at $3.51 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $4.75. With its current market cap of 3.44 billion, MPW has annualized dividend of $0.46 while the current yield stands at 8.03%. Beta for the stock currently stands at 1.38.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of MPW was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 20.13%, but this was up by 19.37% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 30.52% while six-month performance rose 27.33%. The stock gained 30.82% in the past year, while it has gained 45.06% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MPW yields -4.02 with Next year EPS estimates of 0.20. For the next quarter, that number is 0.02. This implies an EPS growth rate of 102.81% for this year and 74.34% for next year.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 600.40 million MPW shares are outstanding with a float of 494.30 million shares on hand for trading.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for MPW since 9 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 3 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 1 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 5 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of -$3.15085 being high and -$3.37517 being low. For MPW, this leads to a yearly average estimate of -$3.19177. Based on analyst estimates, the high estimate for the next quarter is $0 and the low estimate is $0. The average estimate for the next quarter is thus $0.
Summary of Insider Activity:
Insiders traded MPW stock several times over the past three months with 0 Buys and 0 Sells. In these transactions, 0 shares were bought while 0 shares were sold. The number of buy transactions has remained unchanged to 0 while that of sell transactions has remained unmoved to 0 over the past year. The total number of shares bought during that period was 0 while 0 shares were sold.
