Subscriber Preview: Another Article About Medical Property Trust's Dividend

This is a subscriber preview. It is different from usual subscriber articles. It is prepared for the public side and just pre-published here.

Compared to our regular subscriber articles, the "preview" articles have:

1. Less length.

2. Less fundamentals.

3. More attitude.

Note: Sometimes SA censors the attitude on public releases. That's been an increasing trend: Cracking down on snark rather than on articles with terrible fundamental research.

Article Starts

Seeking Alpha is already flooded with articles on Medical Properties Trust (MPW) because people keep clicking them. Got 10 bull calls wrong? Just publish more!

Sorry, whose article did you think you clicked? I say it how it is.

We don't typically cover MPW. I've written only 3 public articles on the stock. Here they are, with the rating (Seeking Alpha premium feature) and the price at publication:

Source: Seeking Alpha

Transparency is good. With so much interest in MPW, it would be great for every analyst to include their own image. Hmm? Too much snark? Never enough.

You didn't follow me because I'm the most polite analyst on the site. You just like seeing someone hit calls. That's cool. Me too.

Dividend Disaster

In April, I told readers a dividend cut was likely for Medical Properties Trust.

Now investors are waking up to the risk.

This was my quick take on the results: