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Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN) Competitors

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$10.22 +0.05 (+0.44%)
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EVN vs. RVT, OXLC, BCAT, GSBD, CET, MFIC, NMFC, BCSF, MUC, and BBDC

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 Royce Value Trust (RVT), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Central Securities (CET), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), and Barings BDC (BBDC). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust vs.

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:EVN) and Royce Value Trust (NYSE:RVT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk and earnings.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust$38.57M10.51N/AN/AN/A
Royce Value Trust$9.80M165.53N/AN/AN/A

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. Royce Value Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.2%.

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its stock price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Royce Value Trust has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Royce Value Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Royce Value Trust and 3 mentions for Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust. Royce Value Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.71 beat Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust's score of 1.16 indicating that Royce Value Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Royce Value Trust
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

25.6% of Royce Value Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Royce Value Trust 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.

Royce Value Trust received 54 more outperform votes than Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.29% of users gave Royce Value Trust an outperform vote while only 62.39% of users gave Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Eaton Vance Municipal Income TrustOutperform Votes
136
62.39%
Underperform Votes
82
37.61%
Royce Value TrustOutperform Votes
190
65.29%
Underperform Votes
101
34.71%

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Eaton Vance Municipal Income TrustN/A N/A N/A
Royce Value Trust N/A N/A N/A

Summary

Royce Value Trust beats Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust on 8 of the 10 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$405.20M$6.70B$11.10B$18.96B
Dividend Yield4.99%6.92%5.77%4.01%
P/E RatioN/A3.5222.1032.87
Price / Sales10.5121.5626.3128.03
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6017.52
Price / BookN/A0.862.674.47
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance1.54%0.88%0.72%0.59%
1 Month Performance-1.49%-2.09%-0.58%-3.54%
1 Year Performance3.50%1.62%537.58%3.80%

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$10.22
+0.4%
N/A+3.8%$405.20M$38.57M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
News Coverage
Positive News
RVT
Royce Value Trust
N/A$13.89
+0.1%
N/A-0.5%$1.60B$9.80M0.0050Positive News
OXLC
Oxford Lane Capital
1.1245 of 5 stars
$4.61
+0.9%
N/A-8.3%$1.59B$194.42M5.55601Short Interest ↑
BCAT
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust
N/A$14.38
+0.5%
N/A-6.9%$1.55B$197.67M0.00147,000Positive News
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
2.0669 of 5 stars
$10.90
-0.2%
$12.00
+10.1%
-33.2%$1.28B$78.71M15.57N/AUpcoming Earnings
CET
Central Securities
N/A$43.69
0.0%
N/A+9.1%$1.26B$296.20M0.006News Coverage
Positive News
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.7552 of 5 stars
$12.12
+0.7%
$13.80
+13.9%
-23.2%$1.14B$110.35M7.77N/AAnalyst Forecast
News Coverage
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
2.0204 of 5 stars
$10.23
+1.0%
$10.50
+2.6%
-22.8%$1.10B$123.78M9.74N/AUpcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
2.4256 of 5 stars
$15.52
-0.1%
$16.50
+6.3%
-11.1%$1.01B$138.19M7.801,000Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
MUC
BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund
N/A$10.40
-0.5%
N/A-0.8%$998.37M$6.39M0.00147,000
BBDC
Barings BDC
1.3682 of 5 stars
$8.87
+0.1%
$9.25
+4.3%
-9.4%$934.98M$123.59M8.5326Upcoming Earnings

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