The real estate investment trust offers a high payout but comes with a lot of risk. Investing in a high-yielding dividend stock can be alluring because you can accumulate a ton more dividend income than you would with a low-yielding stock. One stock that offers an extremely high dividend yield today is Medical Properties Trust (MPW -0.21%), a real estate investment trust (REIT) that invests in hospitals, giving you some good exposure to the healthcare industry. Medical Properties Trust, or MPT, yields 12.4% ...