Do you know the company that owns the building where your local hospital operates? Probably not, but there's a chance that it's one of the holdings of Medical Properties Trust (NYSE: MPW), because it owns and leases quite a few such spaces as part of its business.

Medical Properties Trust isn't a stock that's right for all investors, though. In fact, it's a pretty bad option for a certain kind of buyer, even if others might flourish while collecting the dividends it pays out.

To figure out which camp you might fall into, let's take a look at the bull case and the bear case for this stock. 

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