MFM vs. THW, AWF, AFB, ASA, BHK, CII, BDJ, FRA, BYM, and BFK
Should you be buying MFS Municipal Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS Municipal Income Trust include Abrdn World Healthcare Fund (THW), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), AllianceBernstein National Municipal Income Fund (AFB), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), BlackRock Core Bond Trust (BHK), BlackRock Enhanced Capital and Income Fund (CII), BlackRock Enhanced Equity Dividend Trust (BDJ), BlackRock Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund (FRA), BlackRock Municipal Income Quality Trust (BYM), and BlackRock Municipal Income Trust (BFK). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
MFS Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:MFM) and Abrdn World Healthcare Fund (NYSE:THW) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation and community ranking.
MFS Municipal Income Trust received 79 more outperform votes than Abrdn World Healthcare Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 72.57% of users gave MFS Municipal Income Trust an outperform vote while only 63.27% of users gave Abrdn World Healthcare Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Abrdn World Healthcare Fund had 4 more articles in the media than MFS Municipal Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Abrdn World Healthcare Fund and 0 mentions for MFS Municipal Income Trust. Abrdn World Healthcare Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.21 beat MFS Municipal Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Abrdn World Healthcare Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MFS Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.23 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Abrdn World Healthcare Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.8%.
Summary
Abrdn World Healthcare Fund beats MFS Municipal Income Trust on 4 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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