ECTRX — MFS Total Return Fund
Data updated: 2026-08-25
ECTRX — MFS Total Return Fund. Total Return Allocation · $7.37B AUM · 1.52% expense ratio · 6.8% 1-yr return. Holdings, fees, performance and SEC filings.
ECTRX Fund Overview
ECTRX — MFS Total Return Fund is a US mutual fund managed by Mfs Series Trust V, categorised as Total Return Allocation. ABC INVEST provides holdings, performance, costs, cashflows, risk data, prospectus documents and SEC filings, sourced from SEC filings.
- Type: US mutual fund
- Manager: Mfs Series Trust V
- Category: Total Return Allocation
- Assets under management: $7.37B
- 1-year return: 6.8%
- Ticker: ECTRX
- SEC CIK: 0000200489
- SEC series ID: S000002439
- Share class ID: C000006550
ECTRX Investment Objective and Strategy
MFS Total Return Fund describes its objective and strategy as follows, from its latest prospectus filed with the SEC by Mfs Series Trust V.
Investment objective
The funds investment objective is to seek total return.
Principal investment strategy
MFS (Massachusetts Financial Services Company, the funds investment adviser) invests the funds assets in equity securities and debt instruments. Equity securities include common stocks and other securities that represent an ownership interest (or right to acquire an ownership interest) in a company or other issuer. Debt instruments include corporate bonds, U.S. Government securities, asset-backed securities, foreign government securities, and other obligations to repay money borrowed. MFS generally invests approximately 60% of the funds assets in equity securities and approximately 40% of the funds assets in debt instruments. These weightings do not reflect the funds cash balance and can vary over time due to market movements and cash flows. Of the funds investments in equity securities, MFS focuses on investing the funds assets in the stocks of companies it believes are undervalued compared to their perceived worth (value companies).
While MFS may invest the equity portion of the funds assets in securities of companies of any size, MFS primarily invests in securities of companies with large capitalizations. Of the funds investments in debt instruments, MFS generally invests substantially all of these investments in investment grade quality debt instruments. MFS may invest the funds assets in foreign securities. MFS normally invests the funds assets across different industries and sectors, but MFS may invest a significant percentage of the funds 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 and instruments. Quantitative models that systematically evaluate issuers and instruments are used by certain of the funds equity securities portfolio managers and may also be considered by the funds other portfolio managers.
ECTRX Holdings
Top 10 holdings of MFS Total Return Fund by percentage of net assets, from the fund's latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| Charles Schwab Corp. (The) | 2.51% |
| MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio | 2.05% |
| Microsoft Corp. | 2.01% |
| Bank of America Corp. | 1.87% |
| Pfizer, Inc. | 1.76% |
| Medtronic plc | 1.73% |
| Kenvue, Inc. | 1.66% |
| Omnicom Group, Inc. | 1.65% |
| Becton Dickinson & Co. | 1.64% |
| Northern Trust Corp. | 1.61% |
ECTRX Portfolio Allocation
Asset-class allocation of MFS Total Return Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Asset class | Allocation |
|---|---|
| Equity | 59.0% |
| Fixed Income | 22.4% |
| Securitized | 17.9% |
| Cash & Equivalents | 2.1% |
ECTRX Performance
Total returns for ECTRX (as of 2026-10-01), from SEC filings.
| Period | Total return |
|---|---|
| 1 year | 6.8% |
| 3 years (annualised) | 8.7% |
ECTRX Risk Information
Risk metrics for ECTRX, derived from monthly returns in SEC filings.
- 1-year volatility (annualised): 8.4%
ECTRX Costs and Fees
ECTRX costs about $152 per $10,000 invested per year in fund expenses.
- Net expense ratio: 1.52%
- Gross expense ratio: 1.52%
- Portfolio turnover: 41%
- Brokerage commissions: 0.65 bps of average net assets (SEC N-CEN)
ECTRX Cashflows
Over the 12 months to 2026-06, MFS Total Return Fund had net outflows of $308.84M, from monthly SEC N-PORT filings.
| Month | Net flow |
|---|---|
| 2026-06 | −$86.77M |
| 2026-05 | −$53.91M |
| 2026-04 | −$54.66M |
| 2026-03 | −$75.77M |
| 2026-02 | −$39.39M |
| 2026-01 | −$66.68M |
ECTRX Debt Constituents
Largest debt holdings of MFS Total Return Fund by percentage of net assets, from the latest SEC N-PORT filing.
| Debt holding | % of net assets |
|---|---|
| United States of America | 1.43% |
| United States of America | 1.36% |
| United States of America | 1.36% |
| United States of America | 1.33% |
| United States of America | 0.71% |
| United States of America | 0.70% |
| United States of America | 0.36% |
| United States of America | 0.32% |
| Waste Management, Inc. | 0.27% |
| United States of America | 0.26% |
ECTRX Prospectus and SEC Filings
Official MFS Total Return Fund filings on SEC EDGAR — prospectus, portfolio holdings and annual reports.
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2026-01-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2025-01-27
- Prospectus (485BPOS) — filed 2024-01-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-08-25
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-05-26
- Portfolio holdings (N-PORT) — filed 2026-02-25
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2025-12-12
- Annual census (N-CEN) — filed 2024-12-13
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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.