CIF vs. NAZ, PCF, JHI, KF, CXE, ECF, NIM, PFO, KSM, and SWZ
Should you be buying MFS Intermediate High Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS Intermediate High Income Fund include Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NAZ), High Income Securities Fund (PCF), John Hancock Investors Trust (JHI), The Korea Fund (KF), MFS High Income Municipal Trust (CXE), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), and The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (NYSE:CIF) and Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NAZ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability and dividends.
Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund received 102 more outperform votes than MFS Intermediate High Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 100.00% of users gave MFS Intermediate High Income Fund an outperform vote while only 66.88% of users gave Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund an outperform vote.
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.2%. Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%.
6.9% of MFS Intermediate High Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.3% of Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than MFS Intermediate High Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund and 2 mentions for MFS Intermediate High Income Fund. Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat MFS Intermediate High Income Fund's score of -0.01 indicating that Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund has a beta of 0.76, suggesting that its stock price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.47, suggesting that its stock price is 53% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund beats MFS Intermediate High Income Fund on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.
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