Head-To-Head Survey: Medical Properties Trust (MPT) and Its Competitors

Medical Properties Trust (NYSE:MPT) is one of 36 publicly-traded companies in the “Real Estate Investment Trusts” industry, but how does it contrast to its peers? We will compare Medical Properties Trust to similar businesses based on the strength of its analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, profitability and risk.

Dividends

Medical Properties Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%. Medical Properties Trust pays out -78.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. As a group, “Real Estate Investment Trusts” companies pay a dividend yield of 4.9% and pay out 127.3% of their earnings in the form of a dividend. Medical Properties Trust is clearly a better dividend stock than its peers, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

71.8% of Medical Properties Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 53.6% of shares of all “Real Estate Investment Trusts” companies are held by institutional investors. 1.3% of Medical Properties Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.2% of shares of all “Real Estate Investment Trusts” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Medical Properties Trust and its peers top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Medical Properties Trust	$972.02 million	-$277.05 million	-10.13
Medical Properties Trust Competitors	$256.79 million	$32.70 million	14.15

Medical Properties Trust has higher revenue, but lower earnings than its peers. Medical Properties Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than its peers, indicating that it is currently more affordable than other companies in its industry.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Medical Properties Trust and its peers, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Medical Properties Trust	1	0	0	0	1.00
Medical Properties Trust Competitors	297	1259	502	2	2.10

As a group, “Real Estate Investment Trusts” companies have a potential upside of 24.44%. Given Medical Properties Trust’s peers stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Medical Properties Trust has less favorable growth aspects than its peers.

Risk & Volatility

Medical Properties Trust has a beta of 1.39, indicating that its stock price is 39% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Medical Properties Trust’s peers have a beta of 1.21, indicating that their average stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Medical Properties Trust and its peers’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Medical Properties Trust	-28.50%	-5.87%	-1.85%
Medical Properties Trust Competitors	-108.50%	-16.29%	-2.16%

Summary

Medical Properties Trust beats its peers on 8 of the 15 factors compared.

About Medical Properties Trust

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is a self-advised real estate investment trust formed to capitalize on the changing trends in healthcare delivery by acquiring and developing net-leased healthcare facilities. MPT’s financing model allows hospitals and other healthcare facilities to unlock the value of their underlying real estate in order to fund facility improvements, technology upgrades, staff additions and new construction. Facilities include acute care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals, and other medical and surgical facilities.