Medical Properties Trust is a self-advised healthcare real estate investment trust. Co. is primarily investing in and owning net-leased healthcare facilities. Co. may also make real estate mortgage loans and other loans to its tenants. Co. conducts its business operations in one segment. Co. has healthcare investments in the U.S., Europe, Australia, and South America. Co. conducts substantially all of its business through its operating partnership, MPT Operating Partnership, L.P. The MPW YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the MPW YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether MPW YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the MPW YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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