NMT vs. MGF, SWZ, NMI, PCM, KSM, PFO, BCV, ECF, SSSS, and NIM
Should you be buying Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund include MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI), PCM Fund (PCM), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO), Bancroft Fund (BCV), Ellsworth Growth and Income Fund (ECF), SuRo Capital (SSSS), and Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NMT) and MFS Government Markets Income Trust (NYSE:MGF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, risk, valuation and dividends.
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.39, meaning that its share price is 61% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS Government Markets Income Trust has a beta of 0.28, meaning that its share price is 72% less volatile than the S&P 500.
16.5% of Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.8% of MFS Government Markets Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund received 113 more outperform votes than MFS Government Markets Income Trust when rated by MarketBeat users.
In the previous week, Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled MFS Government Markets Income Trust'saverage media sentiment score.
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.38 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. MFS Government Markets Income Trust pays an annual dividend of $0.24 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.7%.
Summary
Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund beats MFS Government Markets Income Trust on 3 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding NMT and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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