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MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (CIF) Competitors

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$1.68 -0.01 (-0.59%)
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CIF vs. PCF, PAI, JHI, PFO, NIM, PTMN, NMT, OCCI, KF, and MGF

Should you be buying MFS Intermediate High Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS Intermediate High Income Fund include High Income Securities Fund (PCF), Western Asset Investment Grade Income Fund (PAI), John Hancock Investors Trust (JHI), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), OFS Credit (OCCI), The Korea Fund (KF), and MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

MFS Intermediate High Income Fund vs.

High Income Securities Fund (NYSE:PCF) and MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (NYSE:CIF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, valuation and dividends.

In the previous week, High Income Securities Fund and High Income Securities Fund both had 1 articles in the media. High Income Securities Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat MFS Intermediate High Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that High Income Securities Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
High Income Securities Fund Positive
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund Neutral

High Income Securities Fund has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS Intermediate High Income Fund has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

High Income Securities Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.6%. MFS Intermediate High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.7%.

High Income Securities Fund received 104 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 62.13% of users gave High Income Securities Fund an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
High Income Securities FundOutperform Votes
105
62.13%
Underperform Votes
64
37.87%
MFS Intermediate High Income FundOutperform Votes
1
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
High Income Securities FundN/A N/A N/A
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund N/A N/A N/A

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
High Income Securities Fund$19.13M6.15N/AN/AN/A
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund$4.42M6.87N/AN/AN/A

16.6% of High Income Securities Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.8% of MFS Intermediate High Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.6% of High Income Securities Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

High Income Securities Fund beats MFS Intermediate High Income Fund on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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CIF vs. The Competition

MetricMFS Intermediate High Income FundInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$30.34M$6.95B$11.54B$19.48B
Dividend Yield10.29%6.78%5.46%3.84%
P/E RatioN/A3.5722.5734.49
Price / Sales6.8721.8827.3534.97
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6217.51
Price / BookN/A0.892.804.71
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.17%-0.15%-0.20%-0.88%
1 Month Performance4.98%5.27%7.92%10.32%
1 Year Performance-0.30%0.14%538.05%3.69%

MFS Intermediate High Income Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CIF
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund
N/A$1.69
-0.6%
N/A+0.9%$30.34M$4.42M0.00N/ANews Coverage
PCF
High Income Securities Fund
N/A$6.37
+0.9%
N/A-5.5%$119.20M$19.13M0.00N/APositive News
Dividend Announcement
PAI
Western Asset Investment Grade Income Fund
N/A$12.51
+1.1%
N/A+3.1%$118.94M$4.03M0.00204,000Dividend Announcement
JHI
John Hancock Investors Trust
N/A$13.40
+1.1%
N/A-1.2%$117.18M$21.21M0.00N/A
PFO
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund
N/A$8.93
+0.1%
N/A+7.6%$116.79M$24.27M0.00N/ADividend Increase
NIM
Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund
N/A$9.11
-0.1%
N/A+0.9%$113.39M$10.65M0.00N/A
PTMN
Portman Ridge Finance
2.5337 of 5 stars
$12.26
+1.2%
$14.00
+14.2%
-37.7%$112.83M$-98,000.0033.1425
NMT
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund
N/A$11.97
+0.1%
N/A+10.3%$111.54M$7.20M0.00N/A
OCCI
OFS Credit
1.5822 of 5 stars
$6.73
+0.6%
N/A-13.1%$105.99M$18.69M7.48N/ANews Coverage
KF
The Korea Fund
N/A$21.25
+0.7%
N/A-10.8%$102.03M$-25,989,277.000.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
MGF
MFS Government Markets Income Trust
N/A$3.07
-0.6%
N/A-1.6%$100.05M$6.74M0.00N/A

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This page (NYSE:CIF) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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