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Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust (CEV) Competitors

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$10.38 0.00 (0.00%)
(As of 11/20/2024 ET)

CEV vs. IIF, AEF, MMT, MXF, BKT, NPV, MVT, TDF, BKN, and EMF

Should you be buying Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust include Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund (IIF), Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund (AEF), MFS Multimarket Income Trust (MMT), The Mexico Fund (MXF), BlackRock Income Trust (BKT), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN), and Templeton Emerging Markets Fund (EMF). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust vs.

Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund (NYSE:IIF) and Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:CEV) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, profitability, dividends, valuation, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund has a beta of 0.84, meaning that its share price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.38, meaning that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund received 85 more outperform votes than Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Morgan Stanley India Investment FundOutperform Votes
85
64.39%
Underperform Votes
47
35.61%
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income TrustN/AN/A

Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund pays an annual dividend of $3.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.4%. Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.54 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Morgan Stanley India Investment FundN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income TrustN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Morgan Stanley India Investment FundN/A N/A N/A
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust N/A N/A N/A

In the previous week, Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

37.0% of Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 35.9% of Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund beats Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust on 4 of the 4 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CEV vs. The Competition

MetricEaton Vance California Municipal Income TrustInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$72.97M$8.31B$10.51B$19.96B
Dividend Yield5.24%6.41%10.13%3.49%
P/E RatioN/A0.4546.1836.42
Price / SalesN/A12.073,478.9217.94
Price / CashN/A7.0230.6021.28
Price / BookN/A0.944.064.59
Net IncomeN/A$73.96M$1.02B$985.93M
7 Day Performance-0.38%-0.51%-0.05%0.45%
1 Month Performance-2.95%-1.92%7.13%1.05%
1 Year Performance4.85%11.36%24.11%24.67%

Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CEV
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust
N/A$10.38
flat
N/A+5.9%$72.97MN/A0.00N/A
IIF
Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund
N/A$27.63
+0.3%
N/A+23.4%$270.50MN/A0.00N/A
AEF
Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund
N/A$5.22
-0.4%
N/A+5.0%$264.92MN/A0.00N/APositive News
MMT
MFS Multimarket Income Trust
N/A$4.66
+0.2%
N/A+7.1%$257.71M$20.10M0.00N/A
MXF
The Mexico Fund
N/A$13.50
-0.7%
N/A-21.9%$251.10MN/A0.00N/A
BKT
BlackRock Income Trust
N/A$11.65
-1.4%
N/A+1.6%$248.26MN/A0.00N/A
NPV
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund
N/A$13.13
-0.2%
N/A+26.3%$235.29MN/A0.00N/A
MVT
BlackRock MuniVest Fund II
N/A$10.89
flat
N/A+6.1%$231.30MN/A0.00N/A
TDF
Templeton Dragon Fund
N/A$8.67
+0.6%
N/A-2.6%$219.78MN/A0.00147,000
BKN
BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust
N/A$11.94
-0.3%
N/A+7.2%$210.38MN/A0.00N/A
EMF
Templeton Emerging Markets Fund
N/A$12.63
-0.7%
N/A+6.8%$198.54M$28.87M0.00N/A

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