If You Invested $10,000 in Medical Properties Trust 10 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Now

Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW) has really gone through the wringer over the last year or so. Several of its top hospital-operator tenants faced serious financial difficulties. One of them even reorganized via a Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve jacked up interest rates to levels not seen in decades. This put a damper on MPT's expansion plans.

Unsurprisingly, shares of the healthcare real estate investment trust (REIT) have plunged. But the story wasn't always so bleak: The stock delivered impressive total returns throughout much of the last decade. Were the good times positive enough to outweigh the bad times? If you invested $10,000 in Medical Properties Trust 10 years ago, here's how much you'd have now.

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