MBMSX
MFS Mississippi Municipal Bond Fund
MFS Municipal Series Trust
Expense ratio1
1.41%
Net assets2
$61.64M
Holdings2
130
Category
Muni Bond
2025 return3
3.13%

Investment objective & strategy

As of July 28, 2025 · prospectus

Objective. The funds investment objective is to seek total return with an emphasis on income exempt from U.S. federal income tax and personal income tax, if any, of Mississippi, but also considering capital appreciation.

Strategy. MFS (Massachusetts Financial Services Company, the fund's investment adviser) normally invests the funds assets primarily in municipal instruments. Municipal instruments are debt instruments issued by or for states, territories, or possessions of the United States or by their political subdivisions, agencies, authorities, or other government entities, to raise money for a variety of public and private purposes, including general financing for state and local governments, or financing for a specific project or public facility. Municipal instruments include general obligation bonds of municipalities, state or local governments, project or revenue-specific bonds, municipal lease obligations, and pre-refunded or escrowed bonds. The fund invests, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its net assets in securities and other investments, the interest on … MFS (Massachusetts Financial Services Company, the fund's investment adviser) normally invests the funds assets primarily in municipal instruments. Municipal instruments are debt instruments issued by or for states, territories, or possessions of the United States or by their political subdivisions, agencies, authorities, or other government entities, to raise money for a variety of public and private purposes, including general financing for state and local governments, or financing for a specific project or public facility. Municipal instruments include general obligation bonds of municipalities, state or local governments, project or revenue-specific bonds, municipal lease obligations, and pre-refunded or escrowed bonds. The fund invests, under normal market conditions, at least 80% of its net assets in securities and other investments, the interest on which is exempt from U.S. federal income tax and personal income tax, if any, of Mississippi. However, interest from the funds investments may be subject to the U.S. federal alternative minimum tax. MFS may also invest the fund's assets in taxable instruments, including municipal instruments of other states. MFS invests a significant percentage of the funds assets in municipal instruments of Mississippi. MFS may invest 25% or more of the funds assets in municipal instruments that finance similar types of projects, such as those relating to education, healthcare, housing, utilities, water or sewers. Municipal instruments whose interest is exempt from U.S. federal and state personal income tax include instruments issued by U.S. territories and possessions (such as Puerto Rico, Guam, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) and their political subdivisions and public corporations. MFS primarily invests the funds assets in investment grade quality debt instruments, but may also invest the funds assets in below investment grade quality debt instruments. The fund is a non-diversified fund. This means that MFS may invest a significant percentage of the funds assets in a single issuer or a small number of issuers. While MFS may use derivatives for any investment purpose, to the extent MFS uses derivatives, MFS expects to use derivatives primarily to increase or decrease exposure to a particular market, segment of the market, or security, to increase or decrease interest rate exposure, or as alternatives to direct investments. Derivatives include futures, forward contracts, options, inverse floating rate instruments, and swaps. MFS uses an active bottom-up investment approach to buying and selling investments for the fund. Investments are selected primarily based on fundamental analysis of individual instruments and their issuers. Quantitative screening tools that systematically evaluate instruments may also be considered. In structuring the fund, MFS also considers top-down factors. For purposes of the fund's 80% policy, net assets include the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes.

Top holdings

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
SecurityTickerValue% of fund
Jackson County Utility Authority $2.00M 3.25%
Mississippi Home Corp., Series 2024A $1.69M 2.74%
Mississippi Development Bank $1.33M 2.15%
MS MDCEDU 5 06/01/2042 MDCEDU $1.26M 2.05%
Medical Center Educational Building Corp. $1.25M 2.03%
MS DEV BK 5.25% 1/1/2034 $1.11M 1.80%
W RANKIN UTIL AUTH $1.04M 1.69%
Mississippi Development Bank, Series 2025 $1.04M 1.68%
Mississippi Development Bank $1.03M 1.68%
Mississippi Development Bank $1.03M 1.68%
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Allocation by sector

As of March 31, 2026 · N-PORT
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Portfolio moves

Dec 31, 2025 → Mar 31, 2026
Opened
1
Exited
2
Increased
0
Decreased
6
Unchanged
123

How many positions this fund opened, exited, grew, trimmed, or left unchanged between its two most recent N-PORT snapshots — net changes between point-in-time reports, not a trade log.

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FundOverlapNet exp.
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Advisers

As of March 31, 2025 · N-CEN
FirmRole
MASSACHUSETTS FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY Adviser

Footnotes

  1. Expense ratio as of July 28, 2025, from the fund's prospectus.
  2. Net assets and holdings count as of March 31, 2026, from the fund's N-PORT filing.
  3. Total return for calendar year 2025, before tax and after fund expenses. Computed by compounding the twelve monthly total returns the fund reported in its SEC N-PORT filings for 2025 (the latest prospectus does not yet chart this year).

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