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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
CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	$3.52 +0.6%	$3.57	$2.95 ▼ $3.67	$110.83M	0.64	56,142 shs	144,832 shs
KF The Korea Fund	$23.52 +0.2%	$24.24	$18.30 ▼ $25.56	$115.72M	1.19	17,391 shs	5,409 shs
MPV Barings Participation Investors	$15.41 -0.6%	$15.77	$11.18 ▼ $16.42	$163.65M	0.57	21,998 shs	9,504 shs
PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	$8.03 -1.0%	$8.25	$6.90 ▼ $8.48	$105.03M	0.8	32,719 shs	29,893 shs

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Price Performance

Company	1-Day Performance	7-Day Performance	30-Day Performance	90-Day Performance	1-Year Performance
CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	+0.29%	+0.57%	-1.96%	-0.85%	0.00%
KF The Korea Fund	+0.04%	+2.18%	-7.01%	+9.21%	+13.59%
MPV Barings Participation Investors	+0.45%	+0.19%	-3.85%	-1.65%	+21.66%
PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	-0.37%	+1.12%	-3.57%	-3.57%	+1.76%

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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
CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
KF The Korea Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MPV Barings Participation Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity 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
CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
KF The Korea Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MPV Barings Participation Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Sales & Book Value

Company	Annual Revenue	Price/Sales	Cashflow	Price/Cash	Book Value	Price/Book
CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
KF The Korea Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MPV Barings Participation Investors	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity 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
CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	N/A	N/A	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
KF The Korea Fund	N/A	N/A	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MPV Barings Participation Investors	N/A	N/A	∞	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity 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
CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	$0.16	4.55%	N/A	N/A	N/A
KF The Korea Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
MPV Barings Participation Investors	$1.29	8.37%	+17.26%	N/A	2 Years
PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	$0.55	6.85%	-9.87%	N/A	1 Years

Latest MPV, PFO, KF, and CXE Dividends

Announcement	Company	Period	Amount	Yield	Ex-Dividend Date	Record Date	Payable Date
4/22/2024	PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	monthly	$0.0483	7.2%	7/24/2024	7/24/2024	7/31/2024
4/19/2024	PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	monthly	$0.0483	7.2%	6/21/2024	6/21/2024	6/28/2024
4/18/2024	PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	Monthly	$0.0483	7.22%	5/22/2024	5/23/2024	5/31/2024
4/1/2024	CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	Monthly	$0.0150	5.03%	4/16/2024	4/17/2024	4/30/2024
3/1/2024	CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	monthly	$0.0150	4.3%	3/12/2024	3/13/2024	3/28/2024
2/1/2024	CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	Monthly	$0.0140	4.67%	2/13/2024	2/14/2024	2/29/2024

(Data available from 1/1/2013 forward)

Ownership

Institutional Ownership

Company	Institutional Ownership
CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	34.37%
KF The Korea Fund	69.99%
MPV Barings Participation Investors	N/A
PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	12.90%

Insider Ownership

Company	Insider Ownership
CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	N/A
KF The Korea Fund	59.52%
MPV Barings Participation Investors	1.35%
PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	N/A

Miscellaneous

Company	Employees	Shares Outstanding	Free Float	Optionable
CXE MFS High Income Municipal Trust	147,000	31.53 million	N/A	Not Optionable
KF The Korea Fund	N/A	4.92 million	1.99 million	Not Optionable
MPV Barings Participation Investors	N/A	10.62 million	10.48 million	Not Optionable
PFO Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	13.08 million	N/A	Not Optionable

MPV, PFO, KF, and CXE Headlines

Source	Headline
	Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund Inc. (NYSE:PFO) Declares $0.05 Monthly Dividend marketbeat.com - April 22 at 7:39 AM
	Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund Inc. (NYSE:PFO) Announces Dividend Increase - $0.05 Per Share marketbeat.com - April 19 at 4:54 PM
	PFD, PFO, FFC, FLC and DFP Announce May, June and July Dividends finance.yahoo.com - April 18 at 1:26 PM
	Short Interest in Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund Inc. (NYSE:PFO) Expands By 1,863.6% marketbeat.com - April 10 at 10:41 PM
	Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund Inc. (NYSE:PFO) Short Interest Update marketbeat.com - March 27 at 3:43 PM
	CEF Weekly Review: Take Care With Total NAV Returns seekingalpha.com - February 3 at 7:24 PM
	Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund declares $0.045 dividend msn.com - December 11 at 10:30 PM
	PFO: Very Attractive Price, But I Am Not Impressed msn.com - August 29 at 10:33 PM
	FFC - Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Securities Income Fund Inc. uk.finance.yahoo.com - June 23 at 3:15 PM
	DFP - Flaherty & Crumrine Dynamic Preferred and Income Fund Inc. finance.yahoo.com - June 14 at 12:46 PM
	Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred and Income Opportunity Fund Incorporated thestreet.com - April 9 at 8:06 PM
	Flaherty & Crumrine Dynamic Preferred and Income Fund Inc reuters.com - September 19 at 12:44 AM
	Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred and Income Opportunity Fund Inc reuters.com - September 15 at 10:07 PM
	Flaherty&Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund cuts dividend by 10% seekingalpha.com - July 23 at 7:59 AM
	PFD, PFO, FFC, FLC and DFP Announce August and September Dividends finance.yahoo.com - July 21 at 7:21 PM
	Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred and Income Opportunity Fund Incorporated (PFO) nasdaq.com - February 13 at 12:09 AM
	Flaherty&Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund declares $0.067 dividend seekingalpha.com - January 20 at 6:33 PM
	Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Inc Oppty Fund Inc (PFO) investing.com - December 2 at 7:59 PM

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Company Descriptions

MFS High Income Municipal Trust

NYSE:CXE

MFS High Income Municipal Trust is a close ended fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by Massachusetts Financial Services Company. The fund invests in the fixed income markets. It primarily invests in municipal bonds and local general obligations of various sectors, such as multifamily, hospitals, care retirement, and investor-owned utilities. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against Barclays Municipal Bond Index. It was formerly known as Colonial High Income Municipal Trust. MFS High Income Municipal Trust was formed on February 17, 1989 and is domiciled in United States.

The Korea Fund

NYSE:KF

The Korea Fund, Inc. is a closed-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Allianz Global Investors U.S. LLC. The fund invests in the public equity markets of Korea. It seeks to invest in stocks of companies operating across diversified sectors. The fund primarily invests in growth stocks of companies. It employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up stock picking approach, focusing on such factors as price-to-earnings ratios, dividend yields, and earnings-per-share growth to create its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the MSCI Korea 25/50 Index. It uses 'Grassroots Research' to make its investments. The Korea Fund, Inc. was formed on August 29, 1984 and is domiciled in the United States.

Barings Participation Investors

NYSE:MPV

Barings Participation Investors is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched and managed by Barings LLC. The fund invests in the fixed income markets of the United States. It primarily invests in below-investment grade, long-term corporate debt obligations which are directly purchased from its issuers. The fund also seeks to invest in warrants, conversion rights, or other equity related instruments. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against Standard and Poor's Industrials Composite, Russell 2000 Index, Lehman Brothers U.S. High Yield Index, and Lehman Brothers Intermediate U.S. Credit Index. The fund was formerly known as Babson Capital Participation Investors. Barings Participation Investors was formed on April 7, 1988 and is domiciled in the United States.

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund

NYSE:PFO

Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund Inc. is a closed ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by Flaherty & Crumrine Incorporated. The fund invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It invests in stocks of companies operating in the financial services sector. The fund primarily invests in preferred securities. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against S&P 500 Index and Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Index. Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund Inc. was formed on December 10, 1991 and is domiciled in the United States.

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