CXE vs. PCF, NIM, ECF, PFO, JHI, KF, PCM, KSM, MGF, and NAZ
Should you be buying MFS High Income Municipal Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS High Income Municipal Trust include High Income Securities Fund (PCF), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), John Hancock Investors Trust (JHI), The Korea Fund (KF), PCM Fund (PCM), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), and Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NAZ). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
High Income Securities Fund (NYSE:PCF) and MFS High Income Municipal Trust (NYSE:CXE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation, community ranking and institutional ownership.
High Income Securities Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.9%. MFS High Income Municipal Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.4%. High Income Securities Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and MFS High Income Municipal Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
In the previous week, MFS High Income Municipal Trust had 2 more articles in the media than High Income Securities Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for MFS High Income Municipal Trust and 1 mentions for High Income Securities Fund. High Income Securities Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat MFS High Income Municipal Trust's score of -1.00 indicating that MFS High Income Municipal Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
16.6% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of MFS High Income Municipal Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 15.4% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held by company insiders. 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.
High Income Securities Fund received 105 more outperform votes than MFS High Income Municipal Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
High Income Securities Fund has a beta of 0.91, suggesting that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS High Income Municipal Trust has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
High Income Securities Fund beats MFS High Income Municipal Trust on 4 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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