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MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (CIF) Competitors

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$1.72 -0.01 (-0.69%)
As of 01/14/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

CIF vs. PCF, PFO, OCCI, GECC, MGF, PFX, SWZ, NMI, KF, and CMU

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 High Income Securities Fund (PCF), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), OFS Credit (OCCI), Great Elm Capital (GECC), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), PhenixFIN (PFX), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), The Korea Fund (KF), and MFS High Yield Municipal Trust (CMU). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

MFS Intermediate High Income Fund vs.

High Income Securities Fund (NYSE:PCF) and MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (NYSE:CIF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their risk, analyst recommendations, valuation, profitability, community ranking, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment and dividends.

High Income Securities Fund has a beta of 0.94, indicating that its stock price is 6% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS Intermediate High Income Fund has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its stock price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
High Income Securities Fund$19.13M6.39N/AN/AN/A
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund$3.92M7.89N/AN/AN/A

In the previous week, High Income Securities Fund had 10 more articles in the media than MFS Intermediate High Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for High Income Securities Fund and 1 mentions for MFS Intermediate High Income Fund. MFS Intermediate High Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat High Income Securities Fund's score of 0.76 indicating that MFS Intermediate High Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
High Income Securities Fund Positive
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund Positive

High Income Securities Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.74 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.3%. MFS Intermediate High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.18 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.5%.

16.6% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.8% of MFS Intermediate High Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.6% of High Income Securities Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
High Income Securities FundN/A N/A N/A
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund N/A N/A N/A

High Income Securities Fund received 104 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 62.13% of users gave High Income Securities Fund an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
High Income Securities FundOutperform Votes
105
62.13%
Underperform Votes
64
37.87%
MFS Intermediate High Income FundOutperform Votes
1
100.00%
Underperform Votes
No Votes

Summary

High Income Securities Fund beats MFS Intermediate High Income Fund on 7 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

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CIF vs. The Competition

MetricMFS Intermediate High Income FundInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$30.97M$8.31B$11.30B$19.29B
Dividend Yield10.17%6.77%5.94%3.68%
P/E RatioN/A0.4424.6238.97
Price / Sales7.8913.6926.7117.60
Price / CashN/A7.0318.5821.14
Price / BookN/A0.912.535.43
Net IncomeN/A$73.96M$1.04B$994.60M
7 Day Performance-1.15%-0.56%-0.40%-0.44%
1 Month Performance-2.27%-3.18%-3.81%-1.25%
1 Year Performance-0.58%2.82%13.07%14.09%

MFS Intermediate High Income Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
CIF
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund
N/A$1.72
-0.7%
N/A-0.6%$30.97M$3.92M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
Positive News
PCF
High Income Securities Fund
N/A$6.55
-0.6%
N/A+1.1%$122.59M$19.13M0.00N/ADividend Cut
Short Interest ↓
PFO
Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund
N/A$9.18
+0.3%
N/A+7.5%$120.05M$20.34M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Negative News
OCCI
OFS Credit
1.5546 of 5 stars
$7.23
+0.6%
N/A+5.0%$113.87M$18.69M8.03N/AShort Interest ↑
GECC
Great Elm Capital
2.2055 of 5 stars
$10.38
-2.7%
N/A-6.1%$108.47M$10.85M15.04N/AShort Interest ↑
MGF
MFS Government Markets Income Trust
N/A$3.10
flat
N/A-5.6%$101.03M$633,885.000.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Negative News
PFX
PhenixFIN
N/A$49.00
-2.2%
N/A+15.8%$98.98M$28.57M5.097Positive News
SWZ
The Swiss Helvetia Fund
2.4701 of 5 stars
$7.61
+0.5%
N/A-0.5%$98.86M$6.18M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
News Coverage
NMI
Nuveen Municipal Income Fund
N/A$9.54
flat
N/A+3.3%$95.89M$4.57M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Negative News
KF
The Korea Fund
N/A$19.60
+2.7%
N/A-10.2%$94.73M$11.97M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
Positive News
CMU
MFS High Yield Municipal Trust
N/A$3.55
-0.3%
N/A+5.6%$90.50M$4.09M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
Negative News

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