MFS Value Series
Data updated: 2026-08-24
C000007315 — MFS Value Series. United States Large Cap Value Equity · $2.05B AUM · 0.94% expense ratio. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
C000007315 Fund Overview
MFS Value Series is a US mutual fund managed by Mfs Variable Insurance Trust, categorised as United States Large Cap Value Equity. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Mfs Variable Insurance Trust
- Category: United States Large Cap Value Equity
- Assets under management: $2.05B
- 1-year return: 13.1%
- SEC CIK: 0000918571
- SEC series ID: S000002672
- Share class ID: C000007315
C000007315 Investment Objective and Strategy
MFS Value Series describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Mfs Variable Insurance Trust.
Investment objective
The funds investment objective is to seek capital appreciation.
Principal investment strategy
Effective June 10, 2026, the following paragraph is added as the first paragraph of this sub-section: MFS (Massachusetts Financial Services Company, the fund's investment adviser) normally invests at least 80% of the funds net assets in value companies. Value companies are companies that MFS believes are undervalued compared to their perceived worth in the marketplace. MFS considers a number of factors when determining whether a company is undervalued, including whether (i) the issuer is included in an index which is representative of value companies; (ii) the issuer is classified as a value company by an independent third party financial data provider and/or (iii) the issuer exhibits the characteristics of a value company, considering metrics such as such as price-to-book ratio, price-to-earnings ratio, and dividend yield relative to the applicable equity market and/or sector of the applicable equity market.
Value companies tend to have stock prices that are low relative to their earnings, dividends, assets, or other financial measures. MFS normally invests the funds assets primarily in equity securities. Equity securities include common stocks, depositary receipts, and other securities that represent an ownership interest (or right to acquire an ownership interest) in a company or other issuer. Effective June 10, 2026, the following sentence is deleted in its entirety: MFS focuses on investing the fund's assets in the stocks of companies it believes are undervalued compared to their perceived worth (value companies). While MFS may invest the funds assets in securities of companies of any size, MFS primarily invests in securities of companies with large capitalizations. MFS may invest the funds assets in foreign securities.
MFS normally invests the fund's assets across different industries and sectors, but MFS may invest a significant percentage of the fund's assets in issuers in a single industry or sector. 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 issuers. Quantitative screening tools that systematically evaluate issuers may also be considered. Effective June 10, 2026, the following sentence is added as the last paragraph of this sub-section: For purposes of the fund's 80% policy, net assets include the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes.
C000007315 Holdings
Top 10 holdings of MFS Value Series by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Amazon.com Inc | 5.39% |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 4.03% |
| Microsoft Corp | 3.54% |
| KLA Corp | 3.24% |
| Apple Inc | 3.15% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2.66% |
| Cigna Group/The | 2.56% |
| Morgan Stanley | 2.24% |
| Analog Devices Inc | 2.24% |
| RTX Corp | 2.19% |
C000007315 Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of MFS Value Series by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 99.5% |
C000007315 Performance
Total returns for C000007315 (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| YTD | 6.9% |
| 1 year | 13.1% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 12.4% |
| 5 years (annualised) | 8.2% |
C000007315 Risk Information
Risk metrics for C000007315, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 9.6%
C000007315 Costs and Fees
C000007315 costs about $94 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 0.94%
- Gross expense ratio: 0.97%
- Portfolio turnover: 11%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.57 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
C000007315 Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, MFS Value Series had net outflows of $553.11M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$12.97M |
| 2026-05 | −$5.04M |
| 2026-04 | −$11.43M |
| 2026-03 | −$13.11M |
| 2026-02 | −$22.97M |
| 2026-01 | −$26.88M |
C000007315 Debt Constituents
No individual debt constituents are reported in MFS Value Series's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
C000007315 Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official MFS Value Series filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-04-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-04-29
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-04-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-24
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-24
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2026-03-13
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-03-14
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Data Sources
ABC INVEST compiles this page from public filings made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) through EDGAR: portfolio holdings and monthly cashflows from Form N-PORT, expenses and returns from fund prospectuses (Form 485BPOS) and the SEC DERA Risk/Return Summary data sets, annual data from Form N-CEN, and shareholder reports from Form N-CSR.