Got $774? Buy 50 Shares of This Beaten-Down Hospital Stock Before It Rebounds

Investors in Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW) might be feeling a bit sick lately as the market continues to beat down the share price of a company that's one of the largest private owners of hospitals in the world.

But if you have $774 to invest, you could do far worse than buying 50 shares of this real estate investment trust (REIT) that currently owns and lends to 440 facilities with 46,000 licensed beds in 10 countries.

That $774 figure comes from the $15.48 per share the stock was selling for at the time of this writing. Year to date, the stock is down about 35%, even worse than the S&P 500, but that collapse has helped drive its yield up to about 7.4%, compared to 1.7% for that major index.

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