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Mexico Equity and Income Fund (MXE) Competitors

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$11.74 +0.09 (+0.73%)
Closing price 09/16/2025 03:58 PM Eastern
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$11.78 +0.04 (+0.38%)
As of 09/16/2025 04:04 PM Eastern
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MXE vs. FT, DHF, VPV, SPE, OXSQ, PTMN, ECF, NNY, MSD, and BANX

Should you be buying Mexico Equity and Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mexico Equity and Income Fund include Franklin Universal Trust (FT), BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (DHF), Inv Vk Pa Valu (VPV), Special Opportunities Fund (SPE), Oxford Square Capital (OXSQ), Portman Ridge Finance (PTMN), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Nuveen New York Municipal Valu (NNY), Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund (MSD), and ArrowMark Financial (BANX). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Mexico Equity and Income Fund vs. Its Competitors

Mexico Equity and Income Fund (NYSE:MXE) and Franklin Universal Trust (NYSE:FT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.

Mexico Equity and Income Fund has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its share price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Franklin Universal Trust has a beta of 0.7, suggesting that its share price is 30% less volatile than the S&P 500.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Mexico Equity and Income FundN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Franklin Universal TrustN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Mexico Equity and Income FundN/A N/A N/A
Franklin Universal Trust N/A N/A N/A

In the previous week, Franklin Universal Trust had 2 more articles in the media than Mexico Equity and Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Franklin Universal Trust and 1 mentions for Mexico Equity and Income Fund. Franklin Universal Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.51 beat Mexico Equity and Income Fund's score of 0.48 indicating that Franklin Universal Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Mexico Equity and Income Fund Neutral
Franklin Universal Trust Very Positive

Mexico Equity and Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.30 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. Franklin Universal Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.51 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.4%.

Summary

Franklin Universal Trust beats Mexico Equity and Income Fund on 3 of the 4 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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MXE vs. The Competition

MetricMexico Equity and Income FundFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$51.26M$3.96B$12.71B$21.51B
Dividend Yield2.56%6.21%5.42%3.50%
P/E RatioN/AN/A246.5429.83
Price / SalesN/A21.6530.8853.44
Price / CashN/A18.6222.2224.76
Price / BookN/A1.292.314.53
Net IncomeN/A$161.89M$1.01B$998.53M
7 Day Performance2.31%0.47%0.41%1.09%
1 Month Performance7.12%3.21%3.00%4.39%
1 Year Performance28.25%3.47%541.39%13.83%

Mexico Equity and Income Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MXE
Mexico Equity and Income Fund
N/A$11.74
+0.7%
N/A+29.2%$51.26MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Short Interest ↑
FT
Franklin Universal Trust
N/A$7.88
-0.3%
N/A+6.6%$198.02MN/A0.00N/APositive News
DHF
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund
N/A$2.63
+0.2%
N/A+3.8%$190.94M$16.31M0.00N/A
VPV
Inv Vk Pa Valu
N/A$10.19
-0.2%
N/A-8.8%$182.10MN/A0.00N/APositive News
SPE
Special Opportunities Fund
N/A$15.77
+0.1%
N/A+12.0%$176.34M$31.03M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↑
OXSQ
Oxford Square Capital
1.1306 of 5 stars
$2.20
+0.5%
N/A-26.1%$171.69M$42.68M-110.00N/APositive News
PTMN
Portman Ridge Finance
1.8615 of 5 stars
$12.14
-0.1%
$14.00
+15.3%
-34.5%$160.15M-$2.85M-13.0525News Coverage
Positive News
ECF
Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund
N/A$11.31
+1.0%
N/A+30.7%$154.76M$26.44M0.00N/APositive News
NNY
Nuveen New York Municipal Valu
N/A$8.17
-0.1%
N/A-2.2%$154.32M$9.81M0.00N/APositive News
MSD
Morgan Stanley Emerging Markets Debt Fund
N/A$7.51
-0.5%
N/A-4.3%$152.30MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
BANX
ArrowMark Financial
N/A$21.33
+0.2%
N/A+9.7%$152.02M$22.70M0.0015,600News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↓

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This page (NYSE:MXE) was last updated on 9/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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