CXE vs. PCF, NIM, JHI, KF, PCM, ECF, PFO, KSM, MGF, and NAZ
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 High Income Securities Fund (PCF), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), John Hancock Investors Trust (JHI), The Korea Fund (KF), PCM Fund (PCM), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), and Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NAZ). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
MFS High Income Municipal Trust (NYSE:CXE) and High Income Securities Fund (NYSE:PCF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, valuation and earnings.
MFS High Income Municipal Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.7%. High Income Securities Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.73 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.0%.
34.4% of MFS High Income Municipal Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 16.6% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 15.4% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
MFS High Income Municipal Trust has a beta of 0.64, indicating that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, High Income Securities Fund has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
High Income Securities Fund received 105 more outperform votes than MFS High Income Municipal Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, MFS High Income Municipal Trust had 1 more articles in the media than High Income Securities Fund. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for MFS High Income Municipal Trust and 1 mentions for High Income Securities Fund. MFS High Income Municipal Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.33 beat High Income Securities Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that MFS High Income Municipal Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
High Income Securities Fund beats MFS High Income Municipal Trust on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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