MFV vs. CIF, NOM, EQS, CUBA, EEA, CEE, GCV, CEV, DTF, and JEQ
Should you be buying MFS Special Value Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS Special Value Trust include MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (CIF), Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund (NOM), Equus Total Return (EQS), The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (CUBA), The European Equity Fund (EEA), The Central and Eastern Europe Fund (CEE), The Gabelli Convertible and Income Securities Fund (GCV), Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust (CEV), DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund (DTF), and Abrdn Japan Equity Fund (JEQ).
MFS Special Value Trust (NYSE:MFV) and MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (NYSE:CIF) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
MFS Special Value Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.1%. MFS Intermediate High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%.
MFS Special Value Trust has a beta of 0.8, indicating that its stock price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS Intermediate High Income Fund has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MFS Special Value Trust received 130 more outperform votes than MFS Intermediate High Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave MFS Intermediate High Income Fund an outperform vote while only 66.50% of users gave MFS Special Value Trust an outperform vote.
6.4% of MFS Special Value Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of MFS Intermediate High Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.2% of MFS Special Value Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, MFS Intermediate High Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than MFS Special Value Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for MFS Intermediate High Income Fund and 1 mentions for MFS Special Value Trust. MFS Intermediate High Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.84 beat MFS Special Value Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that MFS Intermediate High Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund beats MFS Special Value Trust on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
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