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Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN) Competitors

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$10.31 +0.03 (+0.29%)
Closing price 03/28/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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$10.32 +0.00 (+0.05%)
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EVN vs. STEW, OXLC, BCAT, GSBD, CET, MFIC, NMFC, BCSF, MUC, and BBDC

Should you be buying Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust include SRH Total Return Fund (STEW), Oxford Lane Capital (OXLC), BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust (BCAT), Goldman Sachs BDC (GSBD), Central Securities (CET), MidCap Financial Investment (MFIC), New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), and Barings BDC (BBDC). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust vs.

SRH Total Return Fund (NYSE:STEW) and Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (NYSE:EVN) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and media sentiment.

15.6% of SRH Total Return Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.1% of SRH Total Return Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust shares are held by 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.

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust received 136 more outperform votes than SRH Total Return Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
SRH Total Return FundN/AN/A
Eaton Vance Municipal Income TrustOutperform Votes
136
62.39%
Underperform Votes
82
37.61%

SRH Total Return Fund has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its stock price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
SRH Total Return Fund$550.34M3.01N/AN/AN/A
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust$38.57M10.60N/AN/AN/A

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
SRH Total Return FundN/A N/A N/A
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust N/A N/A N/A

SRH Total Return Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.58 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.59 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.7%.

In the previous week, SRH Total Return Fund had 2 more articles in the media than Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for SRH Total Return Fund and 3 mentions for Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust. Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.58 beat SRH Total Return Fund's score of 0.61 indicating that Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
SRH Total Return Fund
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Summary

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust beats SRH Total Return Fund on 5 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

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EVN vs. The Competition

MetricEaton Vance Municipal Income TrustInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$407.78M$7.83B$11.29B$19.39B
Dividend Yield5.31%6.80%5.57%3.75%
P/E RatioN/A3.6922.6533.02
Price / Sales10.6016.0425.7326.58
Price / CashN/A7.5117.6117.54
Price / BookN/A0.952.734.53
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.04B$1.02B
7 Day Performance-0.82%-0.69%0.06%-1.28%
1 Month Performance-4.32%-2.20%495.52%-4.01%
1 Year Performance0.59%1.40%536.52%2.63%

Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
EVN
Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust
N/A$10.31
+0.3%
N/A+0.6%$407.78M$38.57M0.00N/AShort Interest ↓
Positive News
STEW
SRH Total Return Fund
N/A$16.79
+0.9%
N/A+14.0%$1.62B$550.34M0.00N/AShort Interest ↑
News Coverage
OXLC
Oxford Lane Capital
1.3015 of 5 stars
$4.60
+0.7%
N/A-8.5%$1.59B$194.42M5.54601Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
BCAT
BlackRock Capital Allocation Term Trust
N/A$14.66
-0.1%
N/A-13.9%$1.58B$197.67M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
GSBD
Goldman Sachs BDC
1.7256 of 5 stars
$12.28
+0.1%
$13.00
+5.9%
-19.2%$1.44B$78.71M17.54N/APositive News
CET
Central Securities
N/A$45.64
+0.8%
N/A+7.8%$1.32B$296.20M0.006High Trading Volume
MFIC
MidCap Financial Investment
2.812 of 5 stars
$13.04
+0.5%
$14.60
+12.0%
-13.3%$1.22B$110.35M8.36N/AShort Interest ↑
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
2.2078 of 5 stars
$11.04
+0.4%
$11.00
-0.4%
-12.6%$1.19B$123.78M10.51N/APositive News
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
2.7412 of 5 stars
$16.93
+0.8%
$18.50
+9.3%
+6.4%$1.09B$138.19M8.511,000Short Interest ↓
MUC
BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund
N/A$10.75
-0.1%
N/A-3.0%$1.03B$38.10M0.00147,000Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
Positive News
BBDC
Barings BDC
1.5211 of 5 stars
$9.60
+0.1%
$10.00
+4.2%
+3.5%$1.01B$123.59M9.2326Short Interest ↑
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This page (NYSE:EVN) was last updated on 3/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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