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MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE) Competitors

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$3.58 0.00 (0.00%)
Closing price 08/15/2025 03:58 PM Eastern
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CXE vs. ECC, RMT, IFN, TYG, EVN, MCI, MVF, SAR, HQL, and LEO

Should you be buying MFS High Income Municipal Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS High Income Municipal Trust include Eagle Point Credit (ECC), ROYCE OTC MICRO (RMT), India Fund (IFN), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN), Barings Corporate Investors (MCI), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), Saratoga Investment (SAR), abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL), and BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

MFS High Income Municipal Trust vs. Its Competitors

MFS High Income Municipal Trust (NYSE:CXE) and Eagle Point Credit (NYSE:ECC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, profitability and media sentiment.

34.4% of MFS High Income Municipal Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.5% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.2% of Eagle Point Credit shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Eagle Point Credit has a consensus target price of $8.67, indicating a potential upside of 29.35%. Given Eagle Point Credit's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Eagle Point Credit is more favorable than MFS High Income Municipal Trust.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
MFS High Income Municipal Trust
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
Eagle Point Credit
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Eagle Point Credit has a net margin of 6.73% compared to MFS High Income Municipal Trust's net margin of 0.00%. Eagle Point Credit's return on equity of 13.49% beat MFS High Income Municipal Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
MFS High Income Municipal TrustN/A N/A N/A
Eagle Point Credit 6.73%13.49%8.59%

Eagle Point Credit has higher revenue and earnings than MFS High Income Municipal Trust.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
MFS High Income Municipal TrustN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Eagle Point Credit$31.03M16.62$85.49M$0.1160.91

MFS High Income Municipal Trust has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eagle Point Credit has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its stock price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.

MFS High Income Municipal Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. Eagle Point Credit pays an annual dividend of $1.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 25.1%. Eagle Point Credit pays out 1,527.3% 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, Eagle Point Credit had 15 more articles in the media than MFS High Income Municipal Trust. MarketBeat recorded 15 mentions for Eagle Point Credit and 0 mentions for MFS High Income Municipal Trust. Eagle Point Credit's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat MFS High Income Municipal Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Eagle Point Credit is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
MFS High Income Municipal Trust Neutral
Eagle Point Credit Positive

Summary

Eagle Point Credit beats MFS High Income Municipal Trust on 12 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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CXE vs. The Competition

MetricMFS High Income Municipal TrustFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$133.38M$3.91B$12.44B$20.94B
Dividend Yield2.23%6.48%5.55%3.58%
P/E RatioN/AN/A19.6227.94
Price / SalesN/A56.8526.7156.00
Price / CashN/A17.9021.8523.77
Price / BookN/A1.132.285.26
Net IncomeN/A$161.89M$1.00B$994.11M
7 Day Performance-0.14%0.53%1.23%1.79%
1 Month Performance2.14%1.74%1.37%1.73%
1 Year Performance-7.01%1.71%539.15%13.35%

MFS High Income Municipal Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CXE
MFS High Income Municipal Trust
N/A$3.58
flat
N/A-6.9%$133.38MN/A0.00147,000
ECC
Eagle Point Credit
3.4562 of 5 stars
$6.26
+0.4%
$8.67
+38.6%
-31.1%$479.39M$179.77M-15.64N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Upgrade
Analyst Revision
RMT
ROYCE OTC MICRO
N/A$9.46
+0.2%
N/A+2.3%$478.44MN/A0.00N/APositive News
Short Interest ↑
IFN
India Fund
N/A$15.34
+0.4%
N/A-16.7%$474.23MN/A0.0021,000News Coverage
Dividend Increase
Short Interest ↓
TYG
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure
N/A$42.99
-1.9%
N/A+20.5%$471.72MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↓
EVN
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust
N/A$10.63
+0.1%
N/A-1.6%$420.87MN/A0.00N/ANegative News
Short Interest ↑
MCI
Barings Corporate Investors
N/A$20.63
+1.4%
N/A+12.5%$412.87MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↓
MVF
BlackRock MuniVest Fund
N/A$6.70
+0.9%
N/A-9.8%$400.48MN/A0.00147,000News Coverage
Short Interest ↑
SAR
Saratoga Investment
0.9699 of 5 stars
$25.29
+0.9%
$24.25
-4.1%
+12.2%$399.91M$148.85M10.243,211
HQL
abrdn Life Sciences Investors
N/A$13.17
-0.3%
N/A-10.5%$381.12MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Cut
Short Interest ↓
LEO
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals
N/A$5.91
+0.1%
N/A-7.6%$367.52MN/A0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NYSE:CXE) was last updated on 8/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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