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Medical Properties Trust, Inc. operates as a real estate investment trust (REIT) in the United States. It acquires and develops healthcare facilities, and leases the facilities to healthcare operating companies. The company also makes mortgage loans to healthcare operators secured by their real estate assets. The company's facilities include general acute care hospitals, inpatient physical rehabilitation hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals, and surgery centers, as well as centers for treatment of specific conditions, such as cardiac, pulmonary, cancer, and neurological hospitals; and other healthcare-oriented facilities. As of September 30, 2007, it owned 24 operating healthcare facilities and held 5 mortgage loans secured by interests in real property. Medical Properties Trust has elected to be treated as a REIT for federal income tax purposes and would not be subject to federal income tax, if it distributes at least 90% of its REIT taxable income to its shareholders. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Birmingham, Alabama.

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Key Statistics

Closing Price	9.52
Volume	923038
Volume Avg	(mio) 1.35
52 Week High	12.65
52 Week Low	8.17
PE	42.39
PE (group average)	40
EPS Year	0.23
EPS change Q/Q	11.11%
EPS change Q/Q Yr ago	-1000%
EPS change Q/Q next Q est	-54.55%
EPS change Y/Y	-18.18%
REV change Q/Q	12.26%
REV change Q/Q Yr ago	15.53%
EPS next Q est	0.22
EPS next Y est	1.00
Divident Annual	0.80
Dividend Yield	8.4%