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Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund (MHF) Competitors

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MHF vs. VMO, IIM, MMU, VGM, VKQ, VCV, IQI, MYD, NQP, and MUA

Should you be buying Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund include Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), Invesco Value Municipal Income Trust (IIM), Western Asset Managed Municipals Fund (MMU), Invesco Trust for Investment Grade Municipals (VGM), Invesco Municipal Trust (VKQ), Invesco California Value Municipal Income Trust (VCV), Invesco Quality Municipal Income Trust (IQI), BlackRock MuniYield Fund (MYD), Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), and BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA). These companies are all part of the "misc." industry.

Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund vs.

Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (NYSE:VMO) and Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund (NYSE:MHF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust received 96 more outperform votes than Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.42% of users gave Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust an outperform vote while only 67.59% of users gave Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Invesco Municipal Opportunity TrustOutperform Votes
169
70.42%
Underperform Votes
71
29.58%
Western Asset Municipal High Income FundOutperform Votes
73
67.59%
Underperform Votes
35
32.41%

42.6% of Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Invesco Municipal Opportunity TrustN/A N/A N/A
Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund N/A N/A N/A

Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.37 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%.

In the previous week, Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund and 2 mentions for Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust. Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.89 beat Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund's score of 1.16 indicating that Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive
Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund has a beta of 0.52, meaning that its stock price is 48% less volatile than the S&P 500.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust$24.46M25.05N/AN/AN/A
Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund$18.42M8.42N/AN/AN/A

Summary

Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust beats Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund on 9 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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MHF vs. The Competition

MetricWestern Asset Municipal High Income FundInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$155.04M$6.91B$11.50B$19.41B
Dividend Yield4.53%6.79%5.45%3.83%
P/E RatioN/A3.5722.4834.23
Price / Sales8.4221.8427.2834.85
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6217.51
Price / BookN/A0.892.794.69
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-4.93%-0.75%-0.02%-1.74%
1 Month Performance3.08%3.82%6.70%7.46%
1 Year Performance6.22%0.33%537.71%3.96%

Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MHF
Western Asset Municipal High Income Fund
N/A$7.12
+0.2%
N/A+5.6%$154.28M$18.42M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
VMO
Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust
N/A$9.39
-0.1%
N/A-5.1%$633.95M$24.46M0.00N/APositive News
IIM
Invesco Value Municipal Income Trust
N/A$12.03
-0.1%
N/A+0.4%$566.23M$22.00M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
MMU
Western Asset Managed Municipals Fund
N/A$10.06
-0.1%
N/A-4.2%$550.01M$60.65M0.00147,000Positive News
Dividend Announcement
VGM
Invesco Trust for Investment Grade Municipals
N/A$9.69
-0.1%
N/A-3.5%$525.51M$21.00M0.00147,000
VKQ
Invesco Municipal Trust
N/A$9.41
-0.3%
N/A-5.4%$520.44M$20.67M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
Upcoming Earnings
VCV
Invesco California Value Municipal Income Trust
N/A$10.62
+0.1%
N/A+4.6%$508.36M$18.10M0.00N/APositive News
IQI
Invesco Quality Municipal Income Trust
N/A$9.52
+0.1%
N/A-3.5%$502.93M$20.51M0.00147,000Positive News
MYD
BlackRock MuniYield Fund
N/A$10.33
flat
N/A-7.6%$481.98M$8.74M0.00147,000Positive News
NQP
Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund
N/A$11.28
-0.5%
N/A-7.5%$419.86M$32.93M0.00147,000
MUA
BlackRock MuniAssets Fund
N/A$10.46
+0.5%
N/A-8.7%$404.23M$35.87M0.00147,000News Coverage

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