MFS Income Fund
MFS Series Trust VIII · 5 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
MFS Income Fund is an actively managed U.S. bond fund.
- Asset class
- Bonds
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Credit quality
- Mixed credit
- Rate sensitivity
- Intermediate duration
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
The funds investment objective is to seek total return with an emphasis on high current income, but also considering capital appreciation.
The fund invests primarily in a broad range of debt instruments across corporate, government, and emerging market issuers, with up to 35% in below investment grade securities, and allocates across corporate debt, mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and government bonds with an emphasis on fundamental analysis of individual instruments. The fund may concentrate a significant portion of assets in a single issuer, sector, or country, creating concentration risk. The fund may purchase or sell securities on a when-issued or forward commitment basis, including mortgage-backed securities in the TBA market.
| Share class | Gross | Net |
|---|---|---|
| MFIOX | 0.80% | 0.73% |
| MIOBX | 1.55% | 1.48% |
| MIOCX | 1.55% | 1.48% |
| MFIIX | 0.55% | 0.48% |
| MFIWX | 0.46% | 0.40% |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 26.00% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Bonds | 70.01% |
| Securitized | 27.80% |
| Cash & short-term | 1.83% |
| Derivatives | -0.15% |
The outer band is exposure held short — written against the portfolio rather than part of it, which is why it sits outside the ring and why the two are never netted into one figure.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Government | 29.9% |
| Securitized | 27.9% |
| Other | 12.3% |
| International | 9.5% |
| 12 smaller | 20.4% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest new: New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust, PMT Loan Trust, Bain Capital Credit CLO Ltd., Venture 43 CLO Ltd., Massachusetts Development Finance Agency, Morgan Stanley Residential Mortgage Loan Trust, Salesforce, Inc., Oracle Corp.
Largest exited: United States of America ×2, Bain Capital Credit CLO Ltd., Venture 43 CLO Ltd., OZLM XXI Ltd., NCL Corp. Ltd., Rio Tinto Finance USA plc, LKQ Corp.
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +4.95% | +13.97% | +4.17% | 3.20% | -5.14% | |
| +4.15% | +11.40% | +0.37% | 3.19% | -5.54% | |
| +4.16% | +11.58% | +0.50% | 3.44% | -5.42% | |
| +5.21% | +14.81% | +5.45% | 3.42% | -5.04% | |
| +5.29% | +15.30% | +5.92% | 3.41% | -4.82% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 5.55pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.11pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-04-30
Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.
| Fixed rate | 65.7% |
| Floating rate | 34.3% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 1.8% |
| 1-3y | 6.5% |
| 3-5y | 11.0% |
| 5-10y | 35.4% |
| 10y+ | 45.2% |
These three overlap — one holding can be in arrears and paying in kind at once — so they are shown separately and never summed.
Risk profile
Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2
Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying about half as much.
Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.
| Interest rates | 66% |
| Credit spreads | 34% |
Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.
Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.
| Investment grade | +2.26 yr |
| High yield | +0.62 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 0% |
| 1 yr | 0.61 yr | 11% |
| 5 yr | 1.62 yr | 29% |
| 10 yr | 2.23 yr | 39% |
| 30 yr | 1.21 yr | 21% |
| 3 mo | 0.02 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.42 yr | 14% |
| 5 yr | 1.29 yr | 45% |
| 10 yr | 1.06 yr | 37% |
| 30 yr | 0.10 yr | 3% |
The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.
Show the numbers
| Tenor | Rate yrs | IG yrs | HY yrs | IG $/bp | HY $/bp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | +0.01 | +0.01 | +0.01 | $9.3k | $4.6k |
| 1 yr | +0.61 | +0.24 | +0.17 | $198.8k | $142.2k |
| 5 yr | +1.62 | +0.97 | +0.32 | $794.3k | $265.7k |
| 10 yr | +2.23 | +0.95 | +0.11 | $782.9k | $87.6k |
| 30 yr | +1.21 | +0.08 | +0.01 | $69.1k | $11.1k |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 5.67 yr.
This is where the fund's rate exposure sits, not its currency risk — most international bond funds hedge the currency back to dollars, and the size of those hedges is not in the filing. Tenors are also summed across curves, so a 5-year JPY point and a 5-year USD point are added together.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | United States of America4.50% · due 2044-02-15 | 2.93% | $240.57M | — |
| — | United States of America4.75% · due 2043-11-15 | 2.37% | $194.56M | — |
| — | United States of America4.63% · due 2029-04-30 | 2.19% | $179.48M | — |
| — | United States of America4.88% · due 2045-08-15 | 1.98% | $162.22M | — |
| — | United States of America4.75% · due 2045-02-15 | 1.86% | $152.86M | — |
| — | MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio | 1.83% | $150.23M | — |
| — | United States of America4.25% · due 2054-02-15 | 1.81% | $148.85M | — |
| — | United States of America4.13% · due 2028-07-31 | 1.74% | $142.80M | — |
| — | United States of America4.50% · due 2027-04-15 | 1.74% | $142.37M | — |
| — | United States of America4.50% · due 2054-11-15 | 1.71% | $140.31M | — |
Top 10 positions are 20.17% of net assets, top 25 30.73%, across 277 issuers.
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