MGF vs. NMT, SSSS, SWZ, KSM, NMI, PCM, BCV, PFO, NIM, and ECF
Should you be buying MFS Government Markets Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS Government Markets Income Trust include Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), SuRo Capital (SSSS), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), PCM Fund (PCM), Bancroft Fund (BCV), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), and Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NMT) and MFS Government Markets Income Trust (NYSE:MGF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, community ranking and valuation.
In the previous week, MFS Government Markets Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund'saverage media sentiment score.
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.39, suggesting that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS Government Markets Income Trust has a beta of 0.28, suggesting that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. MFS Government Markets Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.8%. Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund received 113 more outperform votes than MFS Government Markets Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
16.6% of Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.8% of MFS Government Markets Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund beats MFS Government Markets Income Trust on 3 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.
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