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Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN) Competitors

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$10.26 +0.05 (+0.49%)
Closing price 03:59 PM Eastern
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$10.24 -0.02 (-0.19%)
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EVN vs. BCAT, OXLC, CET, GSBD, MFIC, NMFC, BCSF, PFLT, 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 BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), Central Securities (CET), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), 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. Its Competitors

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust$38.57M10.55N/AN/AN/A
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust$197.67M8.01N/AN/AN/A

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

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

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust pays an annual dividend of $3.72 per share and has a dividend yield of 25.2%.

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 endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

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

In the previous week, BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 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 1.91 beat BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust's score of 1.47 indicating that Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

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

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.6, indicating that its share price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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EVN vs. The Competition

MetricEaton Vance Municipal Income TrustInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$406.98M$7.07B$11.61B$19.65B
Dividend Yield4.45%6.77%5.65%3.82%
P/E RatioN/A3.5822.8035.03
Price / Sales10.5524.4926.7642.85
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6017.51
Price / BookN/A0.912.844.78
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance0.59%0.00%-0.32%-0.35%
1 Month Performance-1.44%0.87%0.15%1.04%
1 Year Performance0.10%2.02%539.72%9.19%

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$10.26
+0.5%
N/A+0.4%$406.98M$38.57M0.00N/APositive News
BCAT
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust
N/A$15.09
+1.3%
N/A-8.8%$1.62B$197.67M0.00147,000Positive News
Short Interest ↓
OXLC
Oxford Lane Capital
1.8934 of 5 stars
$4.50
-0.7%
N/A-22.2%$1.56B$57.31M5.42601Positive News
Short Interest ↓
CET
Central Securities
N/A$46.70
+0.5%
N/A+8.5%$1.35B$296.20M0.006Positive News
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.345 of 5 stars
$11.29
-0.4%
$12.00
+6.3%
-24.3%$1.32B$67.93M16.13N/APositive News
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.183 of 5 stars
$12.92
-1.6%
$14.00
+8.4%
-19.0%$1.21B$113.46M8.28N/ANews Coverage
Ex-Dividend
Short Interest ↑
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
2.4122 of 5 stars
$10.70
-0.6%
$10.67
-0.3%
-14.0%$1.15B$118.17M10.19N/APositive News
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
1.5815 of 5 stars
$15.57
-1.0%
$16.50
+6.0%
-5.2%$1.01B$131.73M7.821,000
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.5628 of 5 stars
$10.11
-1.9%
$11.08
+9.7%
-7.9%$1.00B$84.09M7.22658
MUC
BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund
N/A$10.32
-0.2%
N/A-5.4%$990.68M$6.39M0.00147,000
BBDC
Barings BDC
2.4618 of 5 stars
$9.25
-0.7%
$9.67
+4.6%
-7.0%$974.51M$111.33M8.8926Positive News
Short Interest ↑

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