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Should you be buying MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust include 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), BlackRock Investment Quality Municipal Trust (BKN), and BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund (DHF). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust vs.
MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust (NYSE:CXH) and Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund (NYSE:AEF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, profitability, community ranking, earnings and risk.
MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust and Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund both received 0 outperform votes by MarketBeat users.
MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust has a beta of 0.6, meaning that its stock price is 40% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund has a beta of 0.93, meaning that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust and 0 mentions for Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund. MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.46 beat Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.31 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.39 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.4%.
73.9% of Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. 16.7% of Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Abrdn Emerging Markets Equity Income Fund beats MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust on 4 of the 6 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:CXH) was last updated on 1/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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