NIM vs. CXE, PCF, KF, ECF, KSM, PFO, PCM, SSSS, MGF, and NMT
Should you be buying Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund include MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), High Income Securities Fund (PCF), The Korea Fund (KF), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), PCM Fund (PCM), SuRo Capital (SSSS), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), and Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
MFS High Income Municipal Trust (NYSE:CXE) and Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NYSE:NIM) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, risk, community ranking and earnings.
MFS High Income Municipal Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.31 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%.
34.4% of MFS High Income Municipal Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.2% of Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
MFS High Income Municipal Trust has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its stock price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund has a beta of 0.25, suggesting that its stock price is 75% less volatile than the S&P 500.
MFS High Income Municipal Trust and Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund had 1 more articles in the media than MFS High Income Municipal Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund and 1 mentions for MFS High Income Municipal Trust. Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled MFS High Income Municipal Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Summary
MFS High Income Municipal Trust beats Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund on 3 of the 4 factors compared between the two stocks.
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