CXE vs. MVF, BBH, NQP, MUA, HRZN, MYN, TYG, HQL, KTF, and MCI
Should you be buying MFS High Income Municipal Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS High Income Municipal Trust include BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), VanEck Biotech ETF (BBH), Nuveen Pennsylvania Quality Municipal Income Fund (NQP), BlackRock MuniAssets Fund (MUA), Horizon Technology Finance (HRZN), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), Abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL), DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), and Barings Corporate Investors (MCI). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
BlackRock MuniVest Fund (NYSE:MVF) and MFS High Income Municipal Trust (NYSE:CXE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and community ranking.
BlackRock MuniVest Fund has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its share price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS High Income Municipal Trust has a beta of 0.64, suggesting that its share price is 36% less volatile than the S&P 500.
BlackRock MuniVest Fund and MFS High Income Municipal Trust both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
48.2% of BlackRock MuniVest Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 34.4% of MFS High Income Municipal Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of BlackRock MuniVest Fund shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, BlackRock MuniVest Fund had 1 more articles in the media than MFS High Income Municipal Trust. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for BlackRock MuniVest Fund and 1 mentions for MFS High Income Municipal Trust. MFS High Income Municipal Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.40 beat BlackRock MuniVest Fund's score of -1.00 indicating that BlackRock MuniVest Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
BlackRock MuniVest Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.31 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. MFS High Income Municipal Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.16 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.5%. BlackRock MuniVest Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years and MFS High Income Municipal Trust has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Summary
BlackRock MuniVest Fund beats MFS High Income Municipal Trust on 4 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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