MMT vs. MUC, MFIC, SLRC, MQY, HQH, MYI, VMO, NXP, MUJ, and PEO
Should you be buying MFS Multimarket Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS Multimarket Income Trust include BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), SLR Investment (SLRC), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund (MQY), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund III (MYI), Invesco Municipal Opportunity Trust (VMO), Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP), BlackRock MuniHoldings New Jersey Quality Fund (MUJ), and Adams Natural Resources Fund (PEO). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (NYSE:MUC) and MFS Multimarket Income Trust (NYSE:MMT) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation and analyst recommendations.
BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund has a beta of 0.46, suggesting that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS Multimarket Income Trust has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.
31.0% of BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 19.0% of MFS Multimarket Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.49 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.6%. MFS Multimarket Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.6%.
In the previous week, BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund and BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund both had 2 articles in the media. BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.48 beat MFS Multimarket Income Trust's score of -0.63 indicating that MFS Multimarket Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MFS Multimarket Income Trust received 148 more outperform votes than BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
MFS Multimarket Income Trust beats BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund on 4 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.
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