CIF vs. NOM, EQS, CUBA, EEA, CEE, GCV, CEV, DTF, JEQ, and NXC
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 Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund (NOM), Equus Total Return (EQS), The Herzfeld Caribbean Basin Fund (CUBA), The European Equity Fund (EEA), The Central and Eastern Europe Fund (CEE), The Gabelli Convertible and Income Securities Fund (GCV), Eaton Vance California Municipal Income Trust (CEV), DTF Tax-Free Income 2028 Term Fund (DTF), Abrdn Japan Equity Fund (JEQ), and Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXC). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NOM) and MFS Intermediate High Income Fund (NYSE:CIF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, risk and valuation.
14.8% of Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 6.9% of MFS Intermediate High Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. MFS Intermediate High Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.1%. Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund has increased its dividend for 1 consecutive years.
Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.36, indicating that its share price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, MFS Intermediate High Income Fund has a beta of 0.76, indicating that its share price is 24% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, MFS Intermediate High Income Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for MFS Intermediate High Income Fund and 0 mentions for Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund. MFS Intermediate High Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.00 beat Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund's score of -1.00 indicating that Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund received 1 more outperform votes than Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.
Summary
MFS Intermediate High Income Fund beats Nuveen Missouri Quality Municipal Income Fund on 4 of the 7 factors compared between the two stocks.
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