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Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust (CEV) Competitors

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CEV vs. TPVG, IIF, MMT, MFM, BKT, TDF, TSI, MXF, TWN, and AEF

Should you be buying Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust include TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (TPVG), Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund (IIF), MFS Multimarket Income Trust (MMT), MFS Municipal Income Trust (MFM), BlackRock Income Trust (BKT), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), TCW Strategic Income Fund (TSI), The Mexico Fund (MXF), The Taiwan Fund (TWN), and Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund (AEF). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust vs.

TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC (NYSE:TPVG) and Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:CEV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, profitability and valuation.

TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC has a beta of 1.49, indicating that its stock price is 49% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.58, indicating that its stock price is 42% less volatile than the S&P 500.

TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC currently has a consensus price target of $6.79, indicating a potential upside of 0.69%. Given TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC is more favorable than Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC
1 Sell rating(s)
5 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.83
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

12.8% of TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.9% of Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.5% of TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 17.8%. Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC pays out 129.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

In the previous week, TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC had 3 more articles in the media than Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC and 1 mentions for Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust. Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.83 beat TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC's score of 1.53 indicating that Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC
3 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust has lower revenue, but higher earnings than TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC$50.00M5.43-$39.82M$0.937.25
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust$5.92M11.46N/AN/AN/A

TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC has a net margin of 9.01% compared to Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust's net margin of 0.00%. TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC's return on equity of 16.86% beat Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC9.01% 16.86% 7.15%
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust N/A N/A N/A

TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC received 246 more outperform votes than Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
TriplePoint Venture Growth BDCOutperform Votes
246
54.91%
Underperform Votes
202
45.09%
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income TrustN/AN/A

Summary

TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC beats Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust on 11 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CEV vs. The Competition

MetricEaton Vance California Municipal Income TrustInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$67.81M$6.91B$11.50B$19.42B
Dividend Yield4.03%6.79%5.45%3.83%
P/E RatioN/A3.5722.4834.23
Price / Sales11.4621.8427.2834.85
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6217.51
Price / BookN/A0.892.794.69
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.13%-0.75%-0.02%-1.74%
1 Month Performance0.52%3.82%6.70%7.46%
1 Year Performance-9.91%0.33%537.71%3.96%

Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CEV
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust
N/A$9.64
-0.9%
N/A-9.9%$67.81M$5.92M0.00N/APositive News
TPVG
TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC
1.186 of 5 stars
$6.51
+4.5%
$6.79
+4.3%
-28.7%$261.92M$45.53M31.00N/APositive News
IIF
Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund
N/A$26.45
+3.5%
N/A+8.8%$258.92M$63.07M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
MMT
MFS Multimarket Income Trust
N/A$4.66
+0.6%
N/A-1.2%$257.71M$45.79M0.00N/A
MFM
MFS Municipal Income Trust
N/A$5.22
+0.3%
N/A-3.2%$255.67M$46.87M0.00281Positive News
Gap Down
BKT
BlackRock Income Trust
N/A$11.65
-0.3%
N/A-3.6%$248.24M$3.59M0.00N/A
TDF
Templeton Dragon Fund
N/A$9.70
+3.3%
N/A+13.2%$245.92M$27.67M0.00147,000Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
TSI
TCW Strategic Income Fund
N/A$4.93
+0.5%
N/A+4.6%$235.34M$18.16M0.00N/APositive News
MXF
The Mexico Fund
N/A$15.85
-0.5%
N/A-11.0%$232.04M$-5,770,281.000.00N/APositive News
High Trading Volume
TWN
The Taiwan Fund
N/A$35.71
+1.6%
N/A-7.8%$224.75M$99.70M0.00N/APositive News
AEF
Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund
N/A$5.43
+2.8%
N/A+2.4%$220.46M$20.73M0.00N/APositive News

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