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Net Income Increases 148% Over 2012’s First Quarter

BIRMINGHAM, Ala.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr. 26, 2013-- Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) (NYSE: MPW) today announced financial and operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013.

FIRST QUARTER AND RECENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Achieved first quarter Normalized Funds from Operations (“FFO”) per diluted share of $0.25, up 39% compared with $0.18 per diluted share reported in the first quarter of 2012;
• Issued 12,650,000 shares of stock for $14.25 per share reflecting an increase of 46% in value over the prior share offering in February 2012;
• Further strengthened balance sheet with nearly $500 million in liquidity for near-term acquisitions;
• Paid 2013 first quarter cash dividend of $0.20 per share, resulting in a dividend payout ratio of a very well-covered 80% of Normalized FFO; and
• Subsequent to the first quarter, sold two long-term acute care hospitals, for an expected gain of approximately $2.1 million.

Included in the financial tables accompanying this press release is information about the Company’s assets and liabilities, net income and reconciliations of net income to FFO and AFFO, all on a comparable basis to 2012 periods.

“Medical Properties Trust remains the only healthcare REIT focused exclusively on funding hospitals and other related facilities, and our first quarter results demonstrate the power of this strategy,” said Edward K. Aldag, Jr., Chairman, President and CEO of Medical Properties Trust. “Over the past 10 years, we have invested approximately $3.0 billion in 101 transactions with an average first year cap rate of approximately 10%. Recently, we have delivered four consecutive quarters of year-over-year normalized FFO per share growth as well as a strong, stable and well-covered dividend. During the first quarter we raised $173 million through an offering of 12.65 million common shares, which, when combined with our revolving credit facility, provides us with nearly $500 million in immediately available resources to continue to acquire hospital real estate with double digit long-term returns. We are delighted with our results and look forward to continued success.”

OPERATING RESULTS

First quarter 2013 total revenues increased 42% to $58.4 million compared with $41.3 million for the first quarter of 2012. Normalized FFO for the quarter increased 55% to $34.8 million compared with $22.5 million in the first quarter of 2012. Per share Normalized FFO increased 39% to $0.25 per diluted share in the 2013 first quarter, compared with $0.18 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2012.

Net income for the first quarter of 2013 was $26.2 million (or $0.18 per diluted share) compared with net income of $10.6 million (or $0.08 per diluted share) in the first quarter of 2012.

PORTFOLIO UPDATE AND FUTURE OUTLOOK

Since January 1, 2013, the Company has agreed to fund the construction of a rehabilitation hospital in Post Falls, ID for $14.4 million. In addition, in April 2013 the Company sold two long-term acute care hospitals in Arizona and Texas where leases had expired to their operators for total proceeds of $18.5 million. The Company expects to realize a gain on these two sales of approximately $2.1 million in the second quarter of 2013 and estimates that its investment in these two properties generated an unlevered internal rate of return of 10.3%. There are no other lease expirations in 2013.

At March 31, 2013, the Company had total real estate and related investments of approximately $2.1 billion comprised of 83 healthcare properties in 25 states leased or loaned to 24 hospital operating companies. The Company continues to believe that acquisition volume and timing, along with current capital market conditions, will generate Normalized FFO per share in 2013 of $1.10.

Guidance estimates do not include the effects, if any, of real estate operating costs, litigation costs, debt refinancing costs, acquisition costs, interest rate hedging activities, write-offs of straight-line rent or other non-recurring or unplanned transactions. These estimates will change if the Company acquires assets totaling more or less than its expectations, the timing of acquisitions varies from expectations, capitalization rates vary from expectations, market interest rates change, debt is refinanced, new shares are issued, additional debt is incurred, assets are sold, other operating expenses vary, income from investments in tenant operations vary from expectations, or existing leases do not perform in accordance with their terms.

CONFERENCE CALL AND WEBCAST

The Company has scheduled a conference call and webcast for Friday, April 26, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time to present the Company’s financial and operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2013. The dial-in telephone numbers for the conference call 866-515-2910 (U.S.) and 617-399-5124 (International); using passcode 53605329. The conference call will also be available via webcast in the Investor Relations’ section of the Company’s website, www.medicalpropertiestrust.com.

A telephone and webcast replay of the call will be available from shortly after the completion of the call through May 10, 2013. Telephone numbers for the replay are 888-286-8010 and 617-801-6888 for U.S. and International callers, respectively. The replay passcode is 36151225.

The Company’s supplemental information package for the current period will also be available on the Company’s website under the “Investor Relations” section.

About Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is a Birmingham, Alabama based self-advised real estate investment trust formed to capitalize on the changing trends in healthcare delivery by acquiring and developing net-leased healthcare facilities. These facilities include inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, long-term acute care hospitals, regional acute care hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and other single-discipline healthcare facilities. For more information, please visit the Company’s website at www.medicalpropertiestrust.com.

The statements in this press release that are forward looking are based on current expectations and actual results or future events may differ materially. Words such as "expects," "believes," "anticipates," "intends," "will," "should” and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results of the Company or future events to differ materially from those expressed in or underlying such forward-looking statements, including without limitation: the capacity of the Company’s tenants to meet the terms of their agreements; Normalized FFO per share; expected payout ratio, the amount of acquisitions of healthcare real estate, if any; capital markets conditions, the repayment of debt arrangements; statements concerning the additional income to the Company as a result of ownership interests in certain hospital operations and the timing of such income; the restructuring of the Company’s investments in non-revenue producing properties; the payment of future dividends, if any; completion of additional debt arrangement, and additional investments; national and economic, business, real estate and other market conditions; the competitive environment in which the Company operates; the execution of the Company's business plan; financing risks; the Company's ability to maintain its status as a REIT for federal income tax purposes; acquisition and development risks; potential environmental and other liabilities; and other factors affecting the real estate industry generally or healthcare real estate in particular. For further discussion of the factors that could affect outcomes, please refer to the "Risk factors" section of the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012, and as updated by the Company’s subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other SEC filings. Except as otherwise required by the federal securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to update the information in this press release.

Investors and analysts following the real estate industry utilize funds from operations, or FFO, as a supplemental performance measure. FFO, reflecting the assumption that real estate asset values rise or fall with market conditions, principally adjusts for the effects of GAAP depreciation and amortization of real estate assets, which assumes that the value of real estate diminishes predictably over time. We compute FFO in accordance with the definition provided by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, or NAREIT, which represents net income (loss) (computed in accordance with GAAP), excluding gains (losses) on sales of real estate and impairment charges on real estate assets, plus real estate depreciation and amortization and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures.

In addition to presenting FFO in accordance with the NAREIT definition, we also disclose normalized FFO,which adjusts FFO for items that relate to unanticipated or non-core events or activities or accounting changes that, if not noted, would make comparison to prior period results and market expectations less meaningful to investors and analysts. We believe that the use of FFO, combined with the required GAAP presentations, improves the understanding of our operating results among investors and the use of normalized FFO makes comparisons of our operating results with prior periods and other companies more meaningful. While FFO and normalized FFO are relevant and widely used supplemental measures of operating and financial performance of REITs, they should not be viewed as a substitute measure of our operating performance since the measures do not reflect either depreciation and amortization costs or the level of capital expenditures and leasing costs necessary to maintain the operating performance of our properties, which can be significant economic costs that could materially impact our results of operations. FFO and normalized FFO should not be considered an alternative to net income (loss) (computed in accordance with GAAP) as indicators of our financial performance or to cash flow from operating activities (computed in accordance with GAAP) as an indicator of our liquidity.

We calculate adjusted funds from operations, or AFFO, by subtracting from or adding to normalized FFO (i) unbilled rent revenue, (ii) non-cash share-based compensation expense, and (iii) amortization of deferred financing costs. AFFO is an operating measurement that we use to analyze our results of operations based on the receipt, rather than the accrual, of our rental revenue and on certain other adjustments. We believe that this is an important measurement because our leases generally have significant contractual escalations of base rents and therefore result in recognition of rental income that is not collected until future periods, and costs that are deferred or are non-cash charges. Our calculation of AFFO may not be comparable to AFFO or similarly titled measures reported by other REITs. AFFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income (calculated pursuant to GAAP) as an indicator of our results of operations or to cash flow from operating activities (calculated pursuant to GAAP) as an indicator of our liquidity.

Source: Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

Medical Properties Trust, Inc.
Charles Lambert, 205-397-8897
Managing Director – Capital Markets
clambert@medicalpropertiestrust.com