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Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN) Competitors

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$10.15 +0.04 (+0.35%)
Closing price 03:58 PM Eastern
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$10.16 +0.01 (+0.05%)
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EVN vs. BCAT, CET, GSBD, MFIC, NMFC, MUC, BCSF, AWF, BBDC, and PFLT

Should you be buying Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust include BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), Central Securities (CET), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), Barings BDC (BBDC), and PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust vs.

BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (NYSE:BCAT) and Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:EVN) are both small-cap manufacturing companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, earnings, valuation and profitability.

In the previous week, BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust had 3 more articles in the media than Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust and 0 mentions for Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust. Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.78 beat BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust's score of 1.70 indicating that Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust Very Positive
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust Very Positive

BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.62, indicating that its stock price is 38% less volatile than the S&P 500.

36.1% of BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust received 136 more outperform votes than BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term TrustN/AN/A
Eaton Vance Municipal Income TrustOutperform Votes
136
62.39%
Underperform Votes
82
37.61%

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust$197.67M7.92N/AN/AN/A
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust$38.57M10.44N/AN/AN/A

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term TrustN/A N/A N/A
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust N/A N/A N/A

BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust pays an annual dividend of $3.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 23.6%. Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%.

Summary

BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust beats Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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EVN vs. The Competition

MetricEaton Vance Municipal Income TrustInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$402.82M$6.91B$11.49B$19.32B
Dividend Yield4.42%6.79%5.44%3.83%
P/E RatioN/A3.5722.4534.57
Price / Sales10.4421.8627.5334.85
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6217.51
Price / BookN/A0.882.784.69
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-1.79%-0.81%-0.27%-1.73%
1 Month Performance3.36%3.75%6.08%7.51%
1 Year Performance0.84%0.28%536.47%4.13%

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EVN
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust
N/A$10.16
+0.3%
N/A-0.2%$402.82M$38.57M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
BCAT
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust
N/A$15.20
+2.5%
N/A-10.1%$1.63B$197.67M0.00147,000Positive News
CET
Central Securities
N/A$46.45
+2.4%
N/A+7.8%$1.34B$296.20M0.006High Trading Volume
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.5203 of 5 stars
$11.07
+2.3%
$12.00
+8.5%
-27.8%$1.30B$78.71M15.81N/APositive News
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.616 of 5 stars
$12.56
+3.4%
$13.80
+9.9%
-19.9%$1.17B$110.35M8.05N/A
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
2.2109 of 5 stars
$10.68
+2.6%
$10.50
-1.7%
-15.7%$1.15B$118.17M10.17N/APositive News
MUC
BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund
N/A$10.54
-0.3%
N/A-5.1%$1.01B$6.39M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
1.8652 of 5 stars
$15.36
+1.5%
$16.50
+7.4%
-5.4%$996.65M$131.73M7.721,000
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$10.76
+1.0%
N/A-1.4%$927.84M$152.17M0.00N/APositive News
Upcoming Earnings
BBDC
Barings BDC
2.3412 of 5 stars
$8.68
+1.3%
$9.00
+3.7%
-8.6%$914.42M$123.59M8.3426News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.4831 of 5 stars
$10.23
+1.4%
$11.38
+11.2%
-11.1%$899.35M$114.06M7.30658

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