MFS Total Return Fund
Moderate allocation fund
As of its 2026 Q2 report, MFS Total Return Fund held 972 positions with $7.37B in net assets. Its ten largest holdings made up 18.5% of the fund. The MSFRX share class costs 0.72% a year. Over the 12 months to May 2026, MSFRX returned 11.4%, with dividends reinvested. In 2026 Q2 it added 41 new positions and exited 30.
The funds investment objective is to seek total return.
The fund pursues total return by allocating approximately 60% to equity securities and 40% to debt instruments, selecting undervalued stocks primarily of large-cap companies and investment-grade debt through fundamental analysis. The fund's active bottom-up approach depends on the adviser's security selection decisions, so performance will diverge from any benchmark based on those choices.
What you own
| Company | Weight | Value | Shares | Reported price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2.51% | $184.67M | 2.0M | $92.27 | |
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio | 2.05% | $151.32M | — | — |
MSFTMicrosoft Corp. | 2.01% | $147.86M | 396.4K | $373.02 |
1.87% | $137.99M | 2.4M | $56.98 | |
PFEPfizer, Inc. | 1.76% | $129.64M | 5.4M | $24.08 |
Medtronic plc | 1.73% | $127.51M | 1.6M | $78.23 |
KVUEKenvue, Inc. | 1.66% | $122.62M | 6.4M | $19.11 |
1.65% | $121.76M | 1.7M | $72.83 | |
1.64% | $121.12M | 800.4K | $151.33 | |
1.61% | $118.28M | 680.4K | $173.84 |
Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-06-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.
The 200 largest of 972 holdings, with the share counts as filed, open with a free account.
What the fund is made of
Percentages are of fund net assets. Rounding, liabilities and short positions can make totals differ from 100%.
| Stocks | 59.03% |
| Bonds | 22.41% |
| Securitized | 17.90% |
| Cash & short-term | 2.06% |
| Derivatives | 0.03% |
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
By sector
- Securitized
- 17.7%
- Financials
- 14.5%
- International
- 11.9%
- Government
- 9.1%
- 12 other sectors
- 46.9%
- Securitized
- 17.7%
- Financials
- 14.5%
- International
- 11.9%
- Government
- 9.1%
- Health Care
- 8.3%
- Industrials
- 7.1%
- Consumer Staples
- 5.7%
- Information Technology
- 4.7%
- Energy
- 4.0%
- Communication Services
- 3.8%
- Utilities
- 3.5%
- Other
- 3.3%
- Consumer Discretionary
- 2.1%
- Cash
- 2.0%
- Materials
- 1.8%
- Real Estate
- 0.6%
How it has done
MSFRX share class · total returns with dividends reinvested
Volatility over the last 12 months: 6.60%. Past returns are a record, not a forecast.
Jun 2026 has been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so it is not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
The 9 share classes hold the same portfolio
| Share class | Expense ratio | 1 year | 3 years | 5 years | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.72% | +11.41% | +35.04% | +27.25% | -7.28% | |
| 0.47% | +11.75% | +36.16% | +28.95% | -7.26% | |
| 1.47% | +10.59% | +32.10% | +22.61% | -7.49% | |
| 1.47% | +10.60% | +32.04% | +22.55% | -7.44% | |
| 0.47% | +11.70% | +36.11% | +28.89% | -7.28% | |
| 1.47% | +10.62% | +32.18% | +22.66% | -7.46% | |
| 0.97% | +11.13% | +34.05% | +25.69% | -7.37% | |
| 0.72% | +11.45% | +35.06% | +27.33% | -7.27% | |
| 0.40% | +11.84% | +36.42% | +29.33% | -7.21% |
These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 6.78pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.36pp a year — not a difference in what they own.
Fees & fund details
MFS Total Return Fund is a moderate allocation fund.
- Asset class
- Allocation (multi-asset)
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Equity exposure
- Moderate
- Expense ratio, by class
- 0.40% – 1.47%· MSFRX 0.72%
- Portfolio turnover
- 41.00% a year · as of 2026 Q1
Turnover is how much of the portfolio was replaced in a year.
Classified from what the fund holds, not from its name · 2026 Q2. The summary is a paraphrase of the prospectus; the objective is verbatim.
What changed this quarter
Positions that entered or left the fund since its previous filing. Positions that were only resized are not listed.
41 new· the largest 8
30 exited· the largest 6
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-06-30
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 | 73.8% |
| Floating rate | 26.2% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 0.9% |
| 1-3y | 9.4% |
| 3-5y | 12.0% |
| 5-10y | 24.5% |
| 10y+ | 53.1% |
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 | 72% |
| Credit spreads | 28% |
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 | +0.84 yr |
| High yield | +0.06 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. This filer signs its rate and credit disclosures differently; the direction shown follows its interest-rate filing, and a negative reading is the least-supported figure here.
| 1 yr | 0.24 yr | 10% |
| 5 yr | 0.68 yr | 29% |
| 10 yr | 0.94 yr | 40% |
| 30 yr | 0.51 yr | 21% |
3 mo is NEGATIVE (-0.00 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so it is not part of the band above.
| 3 mo | 0.01 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.14 yr | 15% |
| 5 yr | 0.42 yr | 47% |
| 10 yr | 0.28 yr | 31% |
| 30 yr | 0.06 yr | 7% |
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 | -0.00 | +0.01 | +0.00 | $4.1k | $970 |
| 1 yr | +0.24 | +0.11 | +0.03 | $80.8k | $20.1k |
| 5 yr | +0.68 | +0.39 | +0.03 | $287.1k | $21.0k |
| 10 yr | +0.94 | +0.27 | +0.01 | $199.9k | $3.8k |
| 30 yr | +0.51 | +0.06 | +0.00 | $43.7k | $1.1k |
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 2.37 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.
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