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Comparative Price Performance Over Time

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Company	Current Price	50-Day Moving Average	52-Week Range	Market Cap	Beta	Avg. Volume	Today's Volume
CEE The Central and Eastern Europe Fund	$9.45 -1.0%	$9.64	$7.81 ▼ $10.32	$59.54M	1.31	18,461 shs	4,770 shs
FT Franklin Universal Trust	$6.45 +0.2%	$6.52	$5.97 ▼ $7.06	N/A	0.74	60,943 shs	31,542 shs
FUND Sprott Focus Trust	$7.65 +0.1%	$7.79	$6.75 ▼ $8.47	$226.44M	1.08	31,904 shs	32,331 shs
MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	$12.21 -1.5%	$12.01	$9.87 ▼ $12.52	$159.46M	0.45	25,257 shs	16,496 shs
MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	$6.94	$7.18	$6.11 ▼ $7.48	N/A	0.58	71,799 shs	76,944 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CEE The Central and Eastern Europe Fund	-0.42%	-3.63%	-0.31%	-1.65%	+11.44%
FT Franklin Universal Trust	+1.10%	-1.92%	-0.46%	-0.16%	-7.74%
FUND Sprott Focus Trust	-0.39%	-3.41%	+0.39%	+2.00%	-6.37%
MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	+2.06%	+4.31%	+1.73%	+7.75%	+10.05%
MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	+0.73%	-2.66%	-4.28%	+0.73%	+7.10%

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MarketRank™

Company	Overall Score	Analyst's Opinion	Short Interest Score	Dividend Strength	ESG Score	News and Social Media Sentiment	Company Ownership	Earnings & Valuation
CEE The Central and Eastern Europe Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
FT Franklin Universal Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
FUND Sprott Focus Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Analyst Ratings

Company	Consensus Rating Score	Consensus Rating	Consensus Price Target	% Upside from Current Price
CEE The Central and Eastern Europe Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
FT Franklin Universal Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
FUND Sprott Focus Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CEE The Central and Eastern Europe Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
FT Franklin Universal Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
FUND Sprott Focus Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Profitability & Earnings

Company	Net Income	EPS	Forward P/E Ratio	P/E Growth	Net Margins	Return on Equity (ROE)	Return on Assets (ROA)	Next Earnings Date
CEE The Central and Eastern Europe Fund	N/A	N/A	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
FT Franklin Universal Trust	N/A	N/A	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
FUND Sprott Focus Trust	N/A	N/A	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	5/10/2024 (Estimated)
MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	N/A	N/A	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	N/A	N/A	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Dividends

Company	Annual Payout	Dividend Yield	3-Year Dividend Growth	Payout Ratio	Years of Consecutive Growth
CEE The Central and Eastern Europe Fund	$0.37	3.92%	-7.37%	N/A	1 Years
FT Franklin Universal Trust	$0.55	8.53%	+9.92%	N/A	N/A
FUND Sprott Focus Trust	$0.50	6.54%	-3.10%	N/A	1 Years
MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	$0.48	3.93%	N/A	N/A	N/A
MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	$0.81	11.67%	+30.33%	N/A	N/A

Latest FUND, FT, MPA, CEE, and MSD Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
4/1/2024	MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	monthly	$0.0480	4.8%	4/12/2024	4/15/2024	5/1/2024
4/5/2024	FT Franklin Universal Trust	monthly	$0.0425	7.7%	4/16/2024	4/17/2024	4/30/2024
3/18/2024	MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	quarterly	$0.21	11.5%	3/27/2024	3/28/2024	4/15/2024
3/1/2024	MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	monthly	$0.0480	4.9%	3/14/2024	3/15/2024	4/1/2024
3/7/2024	FT Franklin Universal Trust	monthly	$0.0425	7.8%	3/18/2024	3/19/2024	3/28/2024
3/4/2024	FUND Sprott Focus Trust	quarterly	$0.1286	6.4%	3/13/2024	3/14/2024	3/28/2024
2/7/2024	FT Franklin Universal Trust	monthly	$0.0425	7.9%	2/16/2024	2/20/2024	2/29/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CEE The Central and Eastern Europe Fund	34.41%
FT Franklin Universal Trust	N/A
FUND Sprott Focus Trust	12.63%
MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	24.70%
MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	N/A

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CEE The Central and Eastern Europe Fund	0.11%
FT Franklin Universal Trust	7.79%
FUND Sprott Focus Trust	48.90%
MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	1.00%
MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	N/A

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CEE The Central and Eastern Europe Fund	N/A	6.30 million	6.29 million	Not Optionable
FT Franklin Universal Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	Not Optionable
FUND Sprott Focus Trust	N/A	29.60 million	15.13 million	Not Optionable
MPA BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund	N/A	13.06 million	12.93 million	Not Optionable
MSD Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	Not Optionable

FUND, FT, MPA, CEE, and MSD Headlines

Source	Headline
	Match dips after Morgan Stanley cuts rating on limited near-term visibility msn.com - April 18 at 1:55 PM
	Morgan Stanley Earnings Rise on Higher Investment-Banking Revenue wsj.com - April 16 at 6:40 PM
	Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and other bank earnings: Live coverage of latest results marketwatch.com - April 16 at 1:39 PM
	Morgan Stanley starts Solventum with Equal-weight investing.com - April 11 at 12:20 PM
	Morgan Stanley Predicts Massive Investments in U.S. Metals and Mining oilprice.com - April 8 at 3:47 PM
	Morgan Stanley Nominates Former UK Financial Regulator to Its Board money.usnews.com - April 5 at 5:27 PM
	Morgan Stanley Capital Partners Completes Sale of World 50 to New Continuation Fund Investment Vehicle tmcnet.com - March 26 at 8:36 AM
	Mutual fund flips boost Morgan Stanley ETFs to $1B in assets investmentnews.com - March 25 at 12:13 PM
	Certain Morgan Stanley Closed-End Funds Declare Quarterly Dividends finance.yahoo.com - March 18 at 9:01 PM
	Morgan Stanley Expects Brent to Climb to $90/bbl by Summer 2024 money.usnews.com - March 18 at 10:49 AM
	Digital assets custody firm hires former Morgan Stanley exec as CFO investmentnews.com - March 5 at 8:04 AM
	Sunnova slumps as Morgan Stanley downgrades, seeing volatile short-term outlook msn.com - March 5 at 1:43 AM
	Funds Return to Chinese Stocks, Morgan Stanley Says bloomberg.com - March 5 at 1:43 AM
	Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Domestic Debt Fund, Inc. Common Stock (EDD) nasdaq.com - February 28 at 2:52 AM
	Unilever stock drops as Morgan Stanley cuts rating to equivalent of sell marketwatch.com - February 27 at 6:50 AM
	Morgan Stanley Thinks This Fintech Stock Has 95% Upside in 2024 msn.com - February 15 at 7:16 AM
	Morgan Stanley Sees Balanced Oil Market in 2024 marketwatch.com - February 12 at 3:04 PM
	Morgan Stanley Seeks to Replicate Vanguard’s ETF Share Class to Its Existing Mutual Funds coinspeaker.com - February 8 at 7:45 AM
	Morgan Stanley ordered to pay $147K to former broker running for office investmentnews.com - February 7 at 8:19 PM
	Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund, Inc. (MSD) finance.yahoo.com - January 30 at 12:00 PM
	Western Digital Shares Hit 52-Week High on Morgan Stanley Plaudit marketwatch.com - January 22 at 2:08 PM
	Morgan Stanley Q4 Earnings Preview: Diverse Revenue And Conservative Financial Approach msn.com - January 15 at 2:01 PM
	Morgan Stanley Promotes 155 Employees to Managing Director: Source money.usnews.com - January 10 at 6:14 PM
	Rate-sensitive REITs to see another leg higher amid Fed pause: Morgan Stanley msn.com - January 8 at 12:31 PM

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Company Descriptions

The Central and Eastern Europe Fund

NYSE:CEE

The Central and Eastern Europe Fund, Inc. is a closed ended equity mutual fund launched by Deutsche Investment Management Americas Inc. The fund is managed by Deutsche Asset Management International GmbH. It invests in the public equity markets across Central and Eastern Europe. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the CECE, RTX, and ISE National 30. The fund was formerly known as The Central Europe And Russia Fund, Inc. The Central and Eastern Europe Fund, Inc. was formed on March 6, 1990 and is domiciled in the United States.

Franklin Universal Trust

NYSE:FT

Franklin Universal Trust is a closed-ended balanced mutual fund launched by Franklin Resources, Inc. The fund is managed by Franklin Advisers, Inc. It invests in the public equity and fixed income markets of the United States. The fund invests in companies operating in utility sector. It employs fundamental analysis to invest in a diversified portfolio of corporate bonds and dividend paying utility stocks. The fund benchmarks the equity component of its balanced portfolio against the S&P 500 Electric Utilities Index and the fixed component against the Credit Suisse High Yield. Franklin Universal Trust was formed on September 23, 1988 and is domiciled in the United States.

Sprott Focus Trust

NASDAQ:FUND

Sprott Focus Trust, Inc. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Sprott Asset Management, LP. The fund is co-managed by Sprott Asset Management USA Inc. It invests in the public equity markets of the United States. The fund seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. It primarily invests in value stocks of companies across all market capitalizations. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Russell 3000 Index. It was formerly known as Royce Focus Trust, Inc. Sprott Focus Trust, Inc. was formed on March 2, 1988 and is domiciled in the United States.

BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund

NYSE:MPA

BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched by BlackRock, Inc. It is managed by BlackRock Advisors, LLC. The fund invests in fixed income markets. It invests primarily in long-term investment grade municipal obligations exempt from federal income taxes and Pennsylvania income taxes. The fund also invests in short-term investments and other bonds. BlackRock MuniYield Pennsylvania Quality Fund was formed in November 4, 1992 and is domiciled in United States.

Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund

NYSE:MSD

Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund, Inc. is a closed ended fixed income fund launched and managed by Morgan Stanley Investment Management Inc. The fund invests in fixed income markets of emerging market countries across the globe. It primarily invests in debt securities of government and government-related issuers, of entities organized to restructure outstanding debt of such issuers and debt securities of corporate issuers in or organized under the laws of emerging countries. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the JP Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Global Index. Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund, Inc. was formed on May 6, 1993 and is domiciled in the United States.

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