Medical Properties Trust
This stock may be offering investors the best value at current price levels. Medical Properties Trust Inc. (NYSE: MPW) is a self-advised REIT 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 hospitals with 431 facilities and roughly 43,000 licensed beds in nine countries and across four continents on a pro forma basis. Its 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.
With a growing portfolio and a versatile business model, the company continues to rank high across Wall Street. Top analysts have noted that the company’s acute care hospitals’ rent coverage has increased nicely and the company attributed the increase to better cost controls and higher patient admissions.
Shareholders receive a 9.43% distribution. Medical Properties Trust stock has a $17 price target at Barclays. The consensus target is $15.38, and Wednesday’s $13.12 closed was up almost 9% for the day on the news of a very positive leasing deal.
New Fortress Energy
While it is somewhat off the radar, top Wall Street analysts are very bullish on this company over the next few years. New Fortress Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NFE) operates as an integrated gas-to-power infrastructure company that provides energy and development services to end-users worldwide.
New Fortress operates in two segments. The Terminals and Infrastructure segment engages in natural gas procurement and liquefaction, as well as shipping, logistics, facilities and conversion or development of natural gas-fired power generation. The Ships segment offers floating storage and regasification units, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, which are leased to customers under long-term or spot arrangements.
New Fortress Energy operates LNG storage and regasification facility at the Port of Montego Bay, Jamaica; marine LNG storage and regasification facility in Old Harbour, Jamaica; landed micro-fuel handling facility in San Juan, Puerto Rico; marine LNG storage and regasification facility in Sergipe, Brazil; and LNG receiving facility in La Paz, Mexico, as well as Miami facility.
Investors receive an 8.25% dividend. BofA Securities recently upgraded the stock, and its $67 target price compares with a $60.82 consensus target. New Fortress Energy stock ended Wednesday trading at $39.99.
These six top stocks, for a variety of reasons, are trading incredibly cheaply and offering investors very timely entry points. Still, it still may be very prudent to just start with buying partial positions, as the market faces a plethora of issues, not the least of which is the ongoing inflation burden and the continued rise in interest rates.
Originally published at 24/7 Wall St.
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