Despite a lofty 7.4% or so dividend yield, Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW) is not going to be an investment that will be interesting to every high-yield investor. In fact, this healthcare-focused landlord is really something of an acquired taste. If you are looking at this stock’s huge yield and wondering if it is right for you, here are three things that matter (a lot) right now.
Just because something happens once doesn’t mean it will ever happen again. And if that thing happens twice, well, that doesn’t mean it will ever happen again, either. But when things start to repeat, even if it’s just two times, that thing starts to feel like a possible trend. For Medical Properties Trust, that thing was a pair of dividend cuts that took the dividend from $0.29 per share per quarter to $0.08.
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