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MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE) Competitors

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$3.51 -0.04 (-1.13%)
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CXE vs. PEO, CION, IFN, RMT, TYG, MVF, EVN, MCI, MYN, 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 Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO), CION Investment (CION), The India Fund (IFN), Royce Micro-Cap Trust (RMT), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN), Barings Corporate Investors (MCI), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), and BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

MFS High Income Municipal Trust vs.

Adams Natural Resources Fund (NYSE:PEO) and MFS High Income Municipal Trust (NYSE:CXE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings and community ranking.

33.5% of Adams Natural Resources Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of MFS High Income Municipal Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of Adams Natural Resources Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Adams Natural Resources Fund had 1 more articles in the media than MFS High Income Municipal Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Adams Natural Resources Fund and 1 mentions for MFS High Income Municipal Trust. MFS High Income Municipal Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.87 beat Adams Natural Resources Fund's score of 1.85 indicating that MFS High Income Municipal Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Adams Natural Resources Fund
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
MFS High Income Municipal 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

Adams Natural Resources Fund pays an annual dividend of $2.62 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.0%. MFS High Income Municipal Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%.

Adams Natural Resources Fund received 175 more outperform votes than MFS High Income Municipal Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Adams Natural Resources FundOutperform Votes
175
71.14%
Underperform Votes
71
28.86%
MFS High Income Municipal TrustN/AN/A

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Adams Natural Resources FundN/A N/A N/A
MFS High Income Municipal Trust N/A N/A N/A

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Adams Natural Resources Fund$34.82M15.22N/AN/AN/A
MFS High Income Municipal Trust$16.29M8.05N/AN/AN/A

Adams Natural Resources Fund has a beta of 0.76, meaning that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS High Income Municipal Trust has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

Adams Natural Resources Fund beats MFS High Income Municipal Trust on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CXE vs. The Competition

MetricMFS High Income Municipal TrustInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$131.19M$6.92B$11.52B$19.40B
Dividend Yield3.56%6.78%5.46%3.84%
P/E RatioN/A3.5722.5334.34
Price / Sales8.0521.8327.3534.82
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6217.51
Price / BookN/A0.892.794.70
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.12%-0.35%-0.01%-1.17%
1 Month Performance1.44%5.06%8.23%9.98%
1 Year Performance-2.49%-0.06%537.89%3.41%

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$3.51
-1.1%
N/A-1.9%$130.78M$16.29M0.00147,000Positive News
PEO
Adams Natural Resources Fund
N/A$20.69
+2.5%
N/A-13.9%$530.53M$34.82M0.0018Positive News
CION
CION Investment
2.6443 of 5 stars
$9.58
+2.1%
$11.00
+14.9%
-19.9%$507.79M$45.95M6.51N/APositive News
IFN
The India Fund
N/A$16.18
+3.5%
N/A-6.1%$502.33M$110.12M0.0021,000News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
RMT
Royce Micro-Cap Trust
N/A$8.76
+4.0%
N/A-8.4%$443.97M$66.96M0.00N/APositive News
High Trading Volume
TYG
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure
N/A$40.59
+1.2%
N/A+18.1%$436.95M$214.33M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
MVF
BlackRock MuniVest Fund
N/A$6.86
-0.5%
N/A-4.2%$413.45M$11.04M0.00147,000Positive News
EVN
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust
N/A$10.46
+0.5%
N/A+2.3%$412.54M$38.57M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
MCI
Barings Corporate Investors
N/A$19.18
-4.5%
N/A+7.9%$389.23M$37.92M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
High Trading Volume
MYN
BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund
N/A$9.72
-0.4%
N/A-7.9%$373.94M$1.69M0.00N/APositive News
LEO
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals
N/A$5.92
-0.8%
N/A-2.6%$368.76M$73.46M0.00147,000Positive News
Dividend Increase

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