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Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust (CEV) Competitors

$10.09 +0.03 (+0.25%)
As of 01/21/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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CEV vs. JOF, AEF, MMT, MXF, BKT, IIF, NPV, MVT, TDF, and BKN

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 Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund (JOF), Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund (AEF), MFS Multimarket Income Trust (MMT), The Mexico Fund (MXF), BlackRock Income Trust (BKT), Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund (IIF), Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV), BlackRock MuniVest Fund II (MVT), Templeton Dragon Fund (TDF), and BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust vs.

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

Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.57 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%. Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.31 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%.

Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.39, indicating that its stock price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund has a beta of 0.59, indicating that its stock price is 41% less volatile than the S&P 500.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income TrustN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
Japan Smaller Capitalization FundN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income TrustN/A N/A N/A
Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund N/A N/A N/A

35.9% of Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust and Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Eaton Vance California Municipal Income TrustN/AN/A
Japan Smaller Capitalization FundN/AN/A

In the previous week, Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund and 0 mentions for Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust. Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.59 beat Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Summary

Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund beats Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust on 4 of the 6 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$70.76M$8.35B$11.82B$20.02B
Dividend Yield5.64%6.83%5.97%3.61%
P/E RatioN/A0.4525.0341.78
Price / SalesN/A14.2927.6717.50
Price / CashN/A7.0216.9317.54
Price / BookN/A0.992.665.86
Net IncomeN/A$73.96M$1.07B$1.01B
7 Day Performance1.05%1.21%1.38%2.11%
1 Month Performance0.15%1.99%1.57%6.05%
1 Year Performance-3.03%6.56%16.01%19.05%

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$10.09
+0.2%
N/A-2.4%$70.76MN/A0.00N/A
JOF
Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund
N/A$7.51
flat
N/A-0.1%$264.53M$38.39M0.00N/A
AEF
Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund
N/A$5.09
-0.8%
N/A+10.2%$258.33M$26.30M0.00N/ANews Coverage
MMT
MFS Multimarket Income Trust
N/A$4.59
-0.4%
N/A+1.9%$253.84M$45.79M0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
MXF
The Mexico Fund
N/A$13.37
+0.1%
N/A-25.6%$248.72M$-5,770,281.000.00N/ANews Coverage
BKT
BlackRock Income Trust
N/A$11.34
-0.4%
N/A-3.5%$241.63M$8.67M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Positive News
IIF
Morgan Stanley India Investment Fund
N/A$24.44
-2.0%
N/A+9.3%$239.29M$87.14M0.00N/ANews Coverage
NPV
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund
N/A$12.68
-0.1%
N/A+18.7%$227.29M$7.23M0.00N/A
MVT
BlackRock MuniVest Fund II
N/A$10.52
-0.1%
N/A+1.9%$223.45M$11.49M0.00N/A
TDF
Templeton Dragon Fund
N/A$8.08
-0.4%
N/A+14.0%$204.85M$-43,393,964.000.00147,000
BKN
BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust
N/A$11.05
-0.2%
N/A-1.9%$194.69M$8.19M0.00N/A

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