Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

Rating Overview

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is Medium Risk.

Medical Properties Trust is Medium Risk. The company often yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements race and identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. The company occasionally embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues at times. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.

Rating Criteria

Corporate Weaponization Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Cancellations	Medium Risk
Discriminatory Philanthropy	Lower Risk
Employment Protection	High Risk

Corporate Weaponization ⓘ

Corporate Governance and Public Policy Risk Levels
Criteria	Risk Level
Advocacy Bias	High Risk
Funding	Lower Risk
Political Actions	No Data

Corporate Governance and Public Policy ⓘ

Rating Criteria Detail

Criteria Risk Level Rationale

Corporate Weaponization

Criteria:

Has canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.

Risk Level:

Medium

Rationale:

Medical Properties Trust, integrates ESG into its business practices. From its 2024 Corporate Responsibility Report: “The Compensation Committee oversees the Company’s annual compensation structure, including embedding ESG performance
metrics in our executive compensation program” (1). However, the company has not publicly canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors based on political views or religious beliefs (2).

Criteria:

Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Medical Properties Trust does not discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or beliefs (1)(2).

Criteria:

Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Medical Properties Trust, Inc. provides diversity and unconscious bias training to its employees (1). The company appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its hiring and leadership composition. From its 2023 Corporate Responsibilty Report: “We are committed to making MPT a diverse and inclusive workforce, steadily increasing the diversity of our workforce with a focused commitment to
support female leaders and working parents” (2). Medical Properties Trust appears to prioritize diversity over merit in its business structure through the establishment of gender targets for its leadership composition. The company is seeking to “maintain or exceed 30% women on our Board of Directors” (3). The company does not provide viewpoint protections for its employees (4).

Corporate Governance and Public Policy

Criteria:

Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

High

Rationale:

Medical Properties Trust supports DEI within its business practices. From its 2025 Corporate Responsibility Report: “We strive to create an inclusive workplace and strongly believe a diverse team is critical to understanding and meeting the needs of our tenants around the world” (1). The company supports ESG within its business practices. From its 2025 Corporate Responsibility Report: “With guidance from our Board, our cross- functional ESG Working Group plays a key role in advancing our environmental, social, and governance priorities across the organization” (2).

Criteria:

Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.

Risk Level:

Lower

Rationale:

Medical Properties Trust has not used corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies (1).

Criteria:

Uses corporate political actions and/or financial contributions for ideological, non-business purposes.

Risk Level:

N/A

Rationale:

Medical Properties Trust does not operate a PAC or engage in lobbying at this time (1)(2)(3).