Short interest in Medical Properties Trust Inc (NYSE:MPW) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 218.13M to 222.18M. This put 51.31% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Medical Properties Trust gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Medical Properties Trust's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 8.66M shares traded per day, it would take 25.65 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.