The Wall Street Journal has reported that the February dividend for MFS Government Markets Income Trust (NYSE: MGF) was paid out on February 3.
This info was obtained from the corporate. On Tuesday, February 28, dividend funds of 0.0216 USD per share will probably be made to shareholders who had been recorded as having shares as of the earlier Wednesday, February 15.
These funds will probably be made to shareholders who had shares as of Wednesday, February 15.
This leads to a dividend fee of $0.26 yearly and a yield of 7.61% on the funding.
The date that the ex-dividend will happen will probably be on Tuesday, February 14.
This elevated from the earlier monthly dividend quantity of $0.02 that MFS Government Markets Income Trust had paid out.
The MFS Government Markets Income Trust had decreased the quantity of dividends it distributed yearly by an annualized common price of 6.7% over the three years earlier than the newest 12 months. Still, it has elevated these payouts for the third 12 months.
On Friday, the worth of a person share of MFS Government Markets Income Trust fell by $0.03, bringing the entire value of the share to $3.40.
The every day common buying and selling quantity within the firm’s inventory is 60,741 shares, so the entire quantity of shares that modified palms was considerably decrease than that.
There had been 36,841 shares traded right now. Over the earlier twelve months, the worth of an funding within the MFS Government Markets Income Trust fluctuated between $3.11 and $4.14.
The firm’s transferring common value over the previous 50 days is $3.35, and the corporate’s transferring common value over the past 200 days is $3.39.
Several institutional traders and hedge funds have rebalanced the weighting of their holdings in MGF over the previous few weeks.
During the second quarter, LPL Financial LLC was ready to increase the proportion of shares in MFS Government Markets Income Trust that it owned by 13.7%. Following buying 38,144 further shares throughout the newest quarter, LPL Financial LLC now has 316,288 shares of the corporate’s inventory, that are at the moment valued at $1,113,000.
During the primary three months of 2018, NewEdge Advisors LLC elevated the entire quantity of shares it held in MFS Government Markets Income Trust by 6.9%. NewEdge Advisors LLC has 266,381 shares of the corporate’s inventory, which has a worth of $1,007,000 after buying an extra 17,200 shares throughout the newest quarter. NewEdge Advisors LLC bought these shares.
The Royal Bank of Canada elevated the quantity of cash it has invested within the MFS Government Markets Income Trust by 134.6% in the course of the first three months of this 12 months.
This is the final however not the least necessary level. Following the acquisition of a additional 15,440 shares in the course of the related interval, Royal Bank of Canada now has 26,908 shares of the corporate’s inventory, that are at the moment valued at $101,000.
These shares had been acquired in complete.
Institutional traders maintain a complete possession stake within the firm, which quantities to 49.34% of the entire excellent shares.
The Massachusetts Financial Services Company is the sponsor and supervisor of the fixed-income mutual fund referred to as the MFS Government Markets Income Trust.
This fund is closed to new traders and solely accepts current traders.
The majority of the fund’s belongings are invested within the fixed-income markets which can be discovered within the United States.
The overwhelming majority of its sources are put into extremely regarded debt devices by the corporate.
In addition, the fund makes investments in securities backed by mortgages and issued by the United States.
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