Medical Properties Trust Inc Dividends
The next dividend date for Medical Properties Trust Inc has not yet been scheduled.
What is a Dividend Date
When we talk about a dividend date, we’re referring specifically to the ex-dividend date.
This is the date on which all stockholders will earn a dividend. Technically, a person needs to be the owner of a share of stock as of the night before the ex-dividend date in order to earn the dividend.
The ex-dividend date is different than the date when the dividend is issued. Although you earn a dividend on the ex-dividend date, that dividend is typically not disbursed to your account until several weeks later.
Most brokerages will automatically credit the dividend to your account once it’s issued.
Historical Dividends for Medical Properties Trust Inc (MPW)
More About Medical Properties Trust Inc
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is a self-advised real estate investment trust formed in 2003 to acquire and develop net-leased hospital facilities. From its inception in Birmingham, Alabama, the Company has grown to become one of the world's largest owners of hospital real estate with 393 facilities and approximately 39,000 licensed beds in nine countries and across three continents as of March 31, 2025. MPT's financing model facilitates acquisitions and recapitalizations and allows operators of hospitals to unlock the value of their real estate assets to fund facility improvements, technology upgrades and other investments in operations.
Owning Medical Properties Trust Inc Stock on the Dividend Date
If you own Medical Properties Trust Inc stock on the ex-dividend date, then you earn the associated dividend.
Theoretically, the price of Medical Properties Trust Inc stock should go down by the amount of the dividend (in addition to any other pressures that market forces have on the price of Medical Properties Trust Inc stock).
Therefore, it is typically not expected that there is any incremental profit to be gained from buying Medical Properties Trust Inc stock right before the ex-dividend date and then selling it immediately after. It’s not like you get the Medical Properties Trust Inc dividend payout for free just by doing that since there is typically an equivalent commensurate drop in the stock price.
Owning Medical Properties Trust Inc Options on the Dividend Date
Unlike the stock price, which will normally have an abrupt decrease by the amount of the dividend on the ex-dividend date, option prices typically do not reflect the same phenomenon.
The reason is that in the time leading up to the ex-dividend date, that projected drop in Medical Properties Trust Inc stock price from the dividend is already baked into Medical Properties Trust Inc option prices.
That means the prices of call options that overlap the Medical Properties Trust Inc ex-dividend date typically go down in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
The prices of put options that overlap the Medical Properties Trust Inc ex-dividend date typically go up in the period leading up to the ex-dividend date.
Owners of Medical Properties Trust Inc call options do not receive the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date. Owners of Medical Properties Trust Inc put options are not responsible to pay the dividend, even if they own the options on the ex-dividend date.
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