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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-CSR

CERTIFIED SHAREHOLDER REPORT OF

REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number 811-04492

MFS SERIES TRUST X

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

111 Huntington Avenue, Massachusetts 02199

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

Christopher R. Bohane

Massachusetts Financial Services Company

111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, Massachusetts 02199

(Name and address of agents for service)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (617) 954-5000

Date of fiscal year end: May 31*

Date of reporting period: May 31, 2020

 

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This Form N-CSR pertains to the following series of the Registrant: MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund, MFS Blended Research Growth Equity Fund, MFS Blended Research Mid Cap Equity Fund, MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Fund, MFS Blended Research Value Equity Fund, MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund, MFS Growth Allocation Fund, MFS International Diversification Fund, MFS International Growth Fund, MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund, MFS Managed Wealth Fund, and MFS Moderate Allocation Fund. MFS International Large Cap Value Fund, a new series of the Registrant with a fiscal year end of May 31, had not commenced operations as of the reporting period end. Each remaining series of the Registrant has a fiscal year end other than May 31.


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REPORTS TO STOCKHOLDERS.

As noted above, MFS International Large Cap Value Fund, a new series of the Registrant, had not commenced operations as of May 31, 2020 and therefore there is no report to shareholders for this Fund.


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Annual Report

May 31, 2020

 

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MFS® Asset Allocation Funds

 

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MFS® Conservative Allocation Fund

MFS® Moderate Allocation Fund

MFS® Growth Allocation Fund

MFS® Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the fund’s annual and semiannual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the complete reports will be made available on the fund’s Web site (funds.mfs.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a Web site link to access the report.

If you are already signed up to receive shareholder reports by email, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may sign up to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund by email by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you hold your shares directly with the fund, by calling 1-800-225-2606 or by logging on to MFS Access at mfs.com.

Beginning on January 1, 2019, you may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. Contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the fund, you can call 1-800-225-2606 or send an email request to orderliterature@mfs.com to let the fund know that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary or all funds held with the MFS fund complex if you invest directly.

 

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MFS® Asset Allocation Funds

 

 

CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Executive Chair     1  
Portfolio composition     2  
Management review     6  
Performance summary     9  
Expense tables     18  
Portfolio of investments     23  
Statements of assets and liabilities     27  
Statements of operations     30  
Statements of changes in net assets     31  
Financial highlights     32  
Notes to financial statements     56  
Report of independent registered public accounting firm     70  
Trustees and officers     71  
Statement regarding liquidity risk management program     74  
Proxy voting policies and information     75  
Quarterly portfolio disclosure     75  
Further information     75  
Information about fund contracts and legal claims     75  
Federal tax information     75  
MFS® privacy notice     76  
Contact information     back cover  

The report is prepared for the general information of shareholders. It is authorized for distribution to prospective investors only when preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

 

NOT FDIC INSURED MAY LOSE VALUE NO BANK GUARANTEE



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LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR

 

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Dear Shareholders:

Markets experienced dramatic swings in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill for several months. Optimism over the development of vaccines and therapeutics, along with a decline in cases in countries that had been affected by the outbreak early on, brightened the economic and market outlook during the second quarter, as did the phased reopening of US states. However, a great deal of uncertainty remains, including the possibility of a second wave of cases later this year.

Global central banks have taken aggressive, coordinated steps to cushion the economic and market fallout related to the virus, and governments are deploying unprecedented levels of fiscal stimulus. As uncertainty recedes, these measures can help build a supportive environment and encourage economic recovery; however, if markets disconnect from fundamentals, they can also sow the seeds of instability. In the aftermath of the crisis, societal changes may be likely as households, businesses, and governments adjust to a new reality, and these alterations could change the investment landscape. For investors, events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrate the importance of having a deep understanding of company fundamentals, and we have built our global research platform to do just that.

Here at MFS®, we aim to help our clients navigate the growing complexity of the markets and world economies. Our long-term investment philosophy and commitment to the responsible allocation of capital allow us to tune out the noise and uncover what we believe are the best, most durable investment opportunities in the market. Through our powerful global investment platform, we combine collective expertise, thoughtful risk management, and long-term discipline to create sustainable value for investors.

Respectfully,

 

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Robert J. Manning

Executive Chair

MFS Investment Management

July 17, 2020

 

 

The opinions expressed in this letter are subject to change and may not be relied upon for investment advice. No forecasts can be guaranteed.

 

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PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION

 

MFS Conservative Allocation Fund

Portfolio target allocation

 

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Portfolio holdings  
MFS Total Return Bond Fund     14.7%  
MFS Limited Maturity Fund     9.7%  
MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund     9.7%  
MFS Government Securities Fund     9.5%  
MFS Growth Fund     6.2%  
MFS Research Fund     6.2%  
MFS Value Fund     6.1%  
MFS High Income Fund     5.0%  
MFS Global Bond Fund     4.9%  
MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund     4.3%  
MFS Mid Cap Value Fund     4.2%  
MFS Research International Fund     4.1%  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund     3.0%  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund     2.1%  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund     2.1%  
MFS International Growth Fund     2.0%  
MFS Global Real Estate Fund     2.0%  
MFS Commodity Strategy Fund     2.0%  
MFS New Discovery Fund     1.1%  
MFS New Discovery Value Fund     1.0%  
Cash & Cash Equivalents     0.1%  

Portfolio actual allocation

 

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Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. MFS endeavors to fully invest all MFS funds-of-funds in underlying funds on a daily basis. Any divergence from 0.0% in Cash & Cash Equivalents is typically due to the timing of fund subscriptions/redemptions and the settlement of subsequent investment in/divestment from the underlying funds. While the MFS funds-of-funds’ subscriptions/redemptions are processed at the same day NAV of the underlying funds, a positive/negative cash balance will be reflected on the MFS funds-of-funds’ Statements of Assets and Liabilities until the trades with the underlying funds settle, which is typically two business days. Please see the Statements of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MFS Moderate Allocation Fund

Portfolio target allocation

 

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Portfolio holdings  
MFS Government Securities Fund     9.0%  
MFS Growth Fund     8.4%  
MFS Research Fund     8.3%  
MFS Value Fund     8.1%  
MFS Total Return Bond Fund     7.6%  
MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund     7.6%  
MFS Mid Cap Value Fund     7.3%  
MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund     6.7%  
MFS Research International Fund     6.1%  
MFS High Income Fund     4.9%  
MFS Global Bond Fund     4.7%  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund     3.1%  
MFS International Growth Fund     3.0%  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund     3.0%  
MFS Global Real Estate Fund     3.0%  
MFS Commodity Strategy Fund     2.8%  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund     2.0%  
MFS New Discovery Fund     1.7%  
MFS New Discovery Value Fund     1.6%  
MFS International New Discovery Fund     1.1%  
Cash & Cash Equivalents (o)     0.0%  

Portfolio actual allocation

 

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Less than 0.1%.

Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. MFS endeavors to fully invest all MFS funds-of-funds in underlying funds on a daily basis. Any divergence from 0.0% in Cash & Cash Equivalents is typically due to the timing of fund subscriptions/redemptions and the settlement of subsequent investment in/divestment from the underlying funds. While the MFS funds-of-funds’ subscriptions/redemptions are processed at the same day NAV of the underlying funds, a positive/negative cash balance will be reflected on the MFS funds-of-funds’ Statements of Assets and Liabilities until the trades with the underlying funds settle, which is typically two business days. Please see the Statements of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MFS Growth Allocation Fund

Portfolio target allocation

 

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Portfolio holdings  
MFS Growth Fund     11.3%  
MFS Value Fund     10.9%  
MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund     9.6%  
MFS Mid Cap Value Fund     9.2%  
MFS Research Fund     8.2%  
MFS Research International Fund     6.9%  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund     5.0%  
MFS International Growth Fund     4.9%  
MFS High Income Fund     4.8%  
MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund     4.8%  
MFS Global Real Estate Fund     3.8%  
MFS Commodity Strategy Fund     3.6%  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund     2.9%  
MFS Total Return Bond Fund     2.8%  
MFS New Discovery Fund     2.2%  
MFS New Discovery Value Fund     2.1%  
MFS International New Discovery Fund     2.1%  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund     1.9%  
MFS Global Bond Fund     1.8%  
MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund     1.0%  
Cash & Cash Equivalents     0.2%  

Portfolio actual allocation

 

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Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. MFS endeavors to fully invest all MFS funds-of-funds in underlying funds on a daily basis. Any divergence from 0.0% in Cash & Cash Equivalents is typically due to the timing of fund subscriptions/redemptions and the settlement of subsequent investment in/divestment from the underlying funds. While the MFS funds-of-funds’ subscriptions/redemptions are processed at the same day NAV of the underlying funds, a positive/negative cash balance will be reflected on the MFS funds-of-funds’ Statements of Assets and Liabilities until the trades with the underlying funds settle, which is typically two business days. Please see the Statements of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund

Portfolio target allocation

 

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Portfolio holdings  
MFS Growth Fund     13.5%  
MFS Value Fund     12.7%  
MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund     10.5%  
MFS Mid Cap Value Fund     9.8%  
MFS Research Fund     9.1%  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund     8.1%  
MFS Research International Fund     7.9%  
MFS International Growth Fund     7.9%  
MFS Global Real Estate Fund     4.7%  
MFS Commodity Strategy Fund     4.6%  
MFS International New Discovery Fund     4.0%  
MFS New Discovery Fund     2.7%  
MFS New Discovery Value Fund     2.5%  
MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund     1.9%  
Cash & Cash Equivalents     0.1%  

Portfolio actual allocation

 

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Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. MFS endeavors to fully invest all MFS funds-of-funds in underlying funds on a daily basis. Any divergence from 0.0% in Cash & Cash Equivalents is typically due to the timing of fund subscriptions/redemptions and the settlement of subsequent investment in/divestment from the underlying funds. While the MFS funds-of-funds’ subscriptions/redemptions are processed at the same day NAV of the underlying funds, a positive/negative cash balance will be reflected on the MFS funds-of-funds’ Statements of Assets and Liabilities until the trades with the underlying funds settle, which is typically two business days. Please see the Statements of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Market Environment

Markets experienced an extraordinarily sharp selloff and in many cases an unusually rapid partial recovery late in the period. Central banks and fiscal authorities undertook astonishing levels of stimulus to offset the economic effects of government-imposed social-distancing measures implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19. Despite policymakers’ best efforts, a global recession has undoubtedly begun.

Compounding market uncertainty earlier in the coronavirus pandemic was a crash in the price of crude oil due to a sharp drop in global demand and a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts, which resulted in a price war. The subsequent decline in prices undercut oil exporters, many of which are in emerging markets, as well as a large segment of the high-yield credit market. OPEC+ later agreed on output cuts, which – along with the gradual reopening of some major economies and resultant boost in demand – helped stabilize the price of crude.

Around the world, central banks responded quickly and massively to the crisis with programs to improve liquidity and support markets. They proved largely successful in helping to restore market function, easing volatility and stimulating a market rebound at the end of the period. Monetary easing measures were complemented by large fiscal stimulus plans in developed countries. Even emerging market countries were able to implement countercyclical policies – a departure from the usual market-dictated response to risk-off crises – due to relatively manageable external liabilities and balances of payments in many countries, along with persistently low inflation.

As is often the case in a crisis, market vulnerabilities were revealed. For example, companies that added significant leverage to their balance sheets in recent years by borrowing to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks may find it difficult to follow that path in the future, and investors may not reward them if they do. Recapitalizations by some of these highly leveraged firms could dilute existing shareholders. Very long supply chains designed to squeeze out every bit of savings may be shifted closer to home markets if companies seek to put resiliency before cost after a series of supply disruptions. The aftereffects of the pandemic could affect consumer, business and government behavior in ways difficult to forecast. Also, while markets have regained lost ground more swiftly than expected, any economic recovery is likely to be protracted.

MFS Conservative Allocation Fund

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS Conservative Allocation Fund (fund) provided a total return of 7.07%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of 9.42% for the fund’s benchmark, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The fund’s other benchmark, the MFS Conservative Allocation Fund Blended Index (Blended Index), generated a return of 8.77%. The Blended Index reflects the blended returns of equity and fixed income market indices, with percentage allocations to each index designed to resemble the equity and fixed income allocations of the fund. The market indices and related percentage allocations used to compile the Blended Index are set forth in the Performance Summary.

Factors Affecting Performance

During the reporting period, the fund’s broad diversification across fixed income funds was a notable detractor from relative performance, as diversification away from the US rates market and into credit and global markets generally held back performance. Further, underlying funds that tend to be overweight credit versus their respective market segments, such as the MFS Limited Maturity Fund and MFS Total Return Bond Fund, were among the fund’s top relative detractors during the reporting period.

Within US stock funds, the fund’s investments in mid and small capitalization strategies lagged large capitalization strategies. Additionally, value funds, generally underperformed but were partially offset by the fund’s investments in growth strategies, which outperformed.

Within international stock funds, value funds, generally underperformed but were partially offset by the fund’s investments in growth strategies, which outperformed. Additionally, strong relative performance of both the MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund and MFS Research International Fund, supported the returns as both funds outpaced their respective benchmarks.

Within the specialty funds segment, the MFS Global Real Estate Fund supported relative performance as the fund outperformed its respective benchmark.

MFS Moderate Allocation Fund

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS Moderate Allocation Fund (fund) provided a total return of 7.35%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of 12.84% for the fund’s benchmark, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index. The fund’s other benchmark, the MFS Moderate Allocation Fund Blended Index (Blended Index), generated a return of 8.00%. The Blended Index reflects the blended returns of equity and fixed income market indices, with percentage allocations to each index designed to resemble the equity and fixed income allocations of the fund. The market indices and related percentage allocations used to compile the Blended Index are set forth in the Performance Summary.

 

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Factors Affecting Performance

During the reporting period, the fund’s broad diversification across fixed income funds was a notable detractor from relative performance, as diversification away from the US rates market and into credit and global markets generally held back performance. Further, underlying funds that tend to be overweight credit versus their respective market segments, such as the MFS Total Return Bond Fund, were among the fund’s top relative detractors during the reporting period.

Within US stock funds, the fund’s investments in mid and small capitalization strategies lagged large capitalization strategies. Additionally, value funds, generally underperformed but were partially offset by the fund’s investments in growth strategies, which outperformed.

Within international stock funds, value funds, generally underperformed but were partially offset by the fund’s investments in growth strategies, which outperformed. Additionally, strong relative performance of both the MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund and MFS Research International Fund, supported the returns as both funds outpaced their respective benchmarks.

Within the specialty funds segment, the MFS Global Real Estate Fund supported relative performance as the fund outperformed its respective benchmark.

MFS Growth Allocation Fund

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS Growth Allocation Fund (fund) provided a total return of 6.41%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of 12.84% for the fund’s benchmark, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index. The fund’s other benchmark, the MFS Growth Allocation Fund Blended Index (Blended Index), generated a return of 6.73%. The Blended Index reflects the blended returns of equity market indices, with percentage allocations to each index designed to resemble the equity allocations of the fund. The market indices and related percentage allocations used to compile the Blended Index are set forth in the Performance Summary.

Factors Affecting Performance

During the reporting period, the fund’s broad diversification across fixed income funds was a notable detractor from relative performance, as diversification away from the US rates market and into credit and global markets generally held back performance. Further, underlying funds that tend to be overweight credit versus their respective market segments were among the fund’s top relative detractors during the reporting period.

Within US stock funds, the fund’s investments in mid and small capitalization strategies lagged large capitalization strategies. Additionally, value funds, generally underperformed but were partially offset by the fund’s investments in growth strategies, which outperformed.

Within international stock funds, value funds, generally underperformed but were partially offset by the fund’s investments in growth strategies, which outperformed. Additionally, strong relative performance of both the MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund and MFS Research International Fund, supported the returns as both funds outpaced their respective benchmarks.

Within the specialty funds segment, the MFS Global Real Estate Fund supported relative performance as the fund outperformed its respective benchmark.

MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund (fund) provided a total return of 5.97%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of 12.84% for the fund’s benchmark, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index. The fund’s other benchmark, the MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund Blended Index (Blended Index), generated a return of 4.80%. The Blended Index reflects the blended returns of equity and fixed income market indices, with percentage allocations to each index designed to resemble the equity and fixed income allocations of the fund. The market indices and related percentage allocations used to compile the Blended Index are set forth in the Performance Summary.

Factors Affecting Performance

Within US stock funds, the fund’s investments in mid and small capitalization strategies lagged large capitalization strategies. Additionally, value funds, generally underperformed but were partially offset by the fund’s investments in growth strategies, which outperformed.

Within international stock funds, value funds, generally underperformed but were partially offset by the fund’s investments in growth strategies, which outperformed. Additionally, strong relative performance of both the MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund and MFS Research International Fund, supported the returns as both funds outpaced their respective benchmarks.

 

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Within the specialty funds segment, the MFS Global Real Estate Fund supported relative performance as the fund outperformed its respective benchmark.

Respectfully,

Portfolio Manager(s)

Joseph Flaherty and Natalie Shapiro

The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover and do not necessarily reflect the views of MFS or any other person in the MFS organization. These views are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions, and MFS disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice or an indication of trading intent on behalf of any MFS portfolio. References to specific securities are not recommendations of such securities, and may not be representative of any MFS portfolio’s current or future investments.

 

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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY THROUGH 5/31/20

The following charts illustrate a representative class of each fund’s historical performance in comparison to its benchmark(s). Performance results include the deduction of the maximum applicable sales charge and reflect the percentage change in net asset value, including reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. The performance of other share classes will be greater than or less than that of the class depicted below. Benchmarks are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. Benchmark returns do not reflect sales charges, commissions or expenses. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value fluctuate so your shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost; current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. The performance shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes, if any, that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

MFS Conservative Allocation Fund

Growth of a hypothetical $10,000 investment

 

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Average annual total returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class      Class Inception Date      1-yr      5-yr      10-yr     
   
    A      6/28/02      7.07%      4.88%      6.26%    
   
    B      6/28/02      6.31%      4.10%      5.47%    
   
    C      6/28/02      6.24%      4.09%      5.47%    
   
    I      6/28/02      7.34%      5.15%      6.53%    
   
    R1      4/01/05      6.27%      4.11%      5.47%    
   
    R2      10/31/03      6.81%      4.62%      5.99%    
   
    R3      4/01/05      7.14%      4.89%      6.27%    
   
    R4      4/01/05      7.34%      5.14%      6.53%    
   
    529A      7/31/02      7.08%      4.86%      6.21%    
   
    529B      7/31/02      6.46%      4.10%      5.44%    
    529C      7/31/02      6.20%      4.05%      5.41%    
Comparative benchmark(s)                 
     Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (f)      9.42%      3.94%      3.92%     
     MFS Conservative Allocation Fund Blended Index (f)(w)      8.77%      5.31%      6.69%     
     Bloomberg Commodity Index (f)      (17.06)%      (7.79)%      (6.00)%     
     FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Real Estate Index (net div) (f)      (17.08)%      (0.06)%      5.81%     
     MSCI EAFE Index (net div) (f)      (2.81)%      0.79%      5.27%     
     Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index (f)      12.84%      9.86%      13.15%     

 

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Average annual with sales charge                 
     Share Class              1-yr      5-yr      10-yr     
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
     0.92%      3.65%      5.64%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
     2.31%      3.76%      5.47%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
     5.24%      4.09%      5.47%    
    529A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
     0.92%      3.62%      5.58%    
    529B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
     2.46%      3.76%      5.44%    
    529C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
     5.20%      4.05%      5.41%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, and R4 shares do not have a sales charge.

 

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

(w)

As of May 31, 2020, the MFS Conservative Allocation Fund Blended Index (a custom index) was comprised of 60% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, 28% Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index, 8% MSCI EAFE Index (net div), 2% Bloomberg Commodity Index, and 2% FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Real Estate Index (net div). The components and weightings of the Blended Index may have differed during the period, and may differ in the future.

 

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MFS Moderate Allocation Fund

Growth of a hypothetical $10,000 investment

 

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Average annual total returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class      Class Inception Date      1-yr      5-yr      10-yr     
   
    A      6/28/02      7.35%      5.77%      7.77%    
   
    B      6/28/02      6.57%      4.97%      6.96%    
   
    C      6/28/02      6.55%      4.97%      6.97%    
   
    I      6/28/02      7.62%      6.02%      8.04%    
   
    R1      4/01/05      6.49%      4.96%      6.96%    
   
    R2      10/31/03      7.06%      5.49%      7.50%    
   
    R3      4/01/05      7.35%      5.75%      7.77%    
   
    R4      4/01/05      7.62%      6.01%      8.04%    
   
    529A      7/31/02      7.34%      5.72%      7.72%    
   
    529B      7/31/02      6.63%      4.94%      6.92%    
    529C      7/31/02      6.52%      4.92%      6.91%    
Comparative benchmark(s)                 
     Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index (f)      12.84%      9.86%      13.15%     
     MFS Moderate Allocation Fund Blended Index (f)(w)      8.00%      5.73%      7.81%     
     Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (f)      9.42%      3.94%      3.92%     
     Bloomberg Commodity Index (f)      (17.06)%      (7.79)%      (6.00)%     
     FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Real Estate Index (net div) (f)      (17.08)%      (0.06)%      5.81%     
     MSCI EAFE Index (net div) (f)      (2.81)%      0.79%      5.27%     

 

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Average annual with sales charge                 
     Share Class              1-yr      5-yr      10-yr     
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
     1.17%      4.52%      7.14%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
     2.57%      4.63%      6.96%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
     5.55%      4.97%      6.97%    
    529A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
     1.17%      4.47%      7.09%    
    529B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
     2.63%      4.61%      6.92%    
    529C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
     5.52%      4.92%      6.91%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, and R4 shares do not have a sales charge.

 

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

(w)

As of May 31, 2020, the MFS Moderate Allocation Fund Blended Index (a custom index) was comprised of 40% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, 41% Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index, 13% MSCI EAFE Index (net div), 3% Bloomberg Commodity Index, and 3% FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Real Estate Index (net div). The components and weightings of the Blended Index may have differed during the period, and may differ in the future.

 

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MFS Growth Allocation Fund

Growth of a hypothetical $10,000 investment

 

LOGO

Average annual total returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class      Class Inception Date      1-yr      5-yr      10-yr     
   
    A      6/28/02      6.41%      6.36%      8.99%    
   
    B      6/28/02      5.56%      5.56%      8.18%    
   
    C      6/28/02      5.56%      5.56%      8.18%    
   
    I      6/28/02      6.69%      6.62%      9.26%    
   
    R1      4/01/05      5.59%      5.56%      8.18%    
   
    R2      10/31/03      6.12%      6.09%      8.72%    
   
    R3      4/01/05      6.35%      6.35%      8.99%    
   
    R4      4/01/05      6.66%      6.62%      9.26%    
   
    529A      7/31/02      6.33%      6.31%      8.94%    
   
    529B      7/31/02      5.52%      5.51%      8.12%    
    529C      7/31/02      5.57%      5.51%      8.12%    
Comparative benchmark(s)                 
     Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index (f)      12.84%      9.86%      13.15%     
     MFS Growth Allocation Fund Blended Index (f)(w)      6.73%      5.92%      8.78%     
     Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (f)      9.42%      3.94%      3.92%     
     Bloomberg Commodity Index (f)      (17.06)%      (7.79)%      (6.00)%     
     FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Real Estate Index (net div) (f)      (17.08)%      (0.06)%      5.81%     
     MSCI EAFE Index (net div) (f)      (2.81)%      0.79%      5.27%     

 

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Average annual with sales charge                 
     Share Class              1-yr      5-yr      10-yr     
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
     0.29%      5.11%      8.35%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
     1.56%      5.24%      8.18%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
     4.56%      5.56%      8.18%    
    529A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
     0.21%      5.06%      8.30%    
    529B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
     1.52%      5.19%      8.12%    
    529C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
     4.57%      5.51%      8.12%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, and R4 shares do not have a sales charge.

 

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

(w)

As of May 31, 2020, the MFS Growth Allocation Fund Blended Index (a custom index) was comprised of 52% Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index, 20% Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, 20% MSCI EAFE Index (net div), 4% Bloomberg Commodity Index, and 4% FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Real Estate Index (net div). The components and weightings of the Blended Index may have differed during the period, and may differ in the future.

 

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MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund

Growth of a hypothetical $10,000 investment

 

LOGO

Average annual total returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class      Class Inception Date      1-yr      5-yr      10-yr     
   
    A      6/28/02      5.97%      6.90%      10.02%    
   
    B      6/28/02      5.18%      6.09%      9.20%    
   
    C      6/28/02      5.20%      6.10%      9.20%    
   
    I      6/28/02      6.28%      7.16%      10.30%    
   
    R1      4/01/05      5.21%      6.10%      9.20%    
   
    R2      10/31/03      5.73%      6.64%      9.75%    
   
    R3      4/01/05      6.00%      6.90%      10.02%    
   
    R4      4/01/05      6.29%      7.16%      10.30%    
   
    529A      7/31/02      5.93%      6.85%      9.96%    
   
    529B      7/31/02      5.15%      6.05%      9.14%    
    529C      7/31/02      5.17%      6.05%      9.15%    
Comparative benchmark(s)                 
     Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index (f)      12.84%      9.86%      13.15%     
     MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund Blended Index (f)(w)      4.80%      5.76%      9.48%     
     Bloomberg Commodity Index (f)      (17.06)%      (7.79)%      (6.00)%     
     FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Real Estate Index (net div) (f)      (17.08)%      (0.06)%      5.81%     
     MSCI EAFE Index (net div) (f)      (2.81)%      0.79%      5.27%     

 

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Average annual with sales charge                 
     Share Class              1-yr      5-yr      10-yr     
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
     (0.12)%      5.64%      9.37%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
     1.18%      5.77%      9.20%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
     4.20%      6.10%      9.20%    
    529A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
     (0.16)%      5.59%      9.31%    
    529B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
     1.15%      5.73%      9.14%    
    529C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
     4.17%      6.05%      9.15%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, and R4 shares do not have a sales charge.

 

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

(w)

As of May 31, 2020, the MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund Blended Index (a custom index) was comprised of 60% Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index, 30% MSCI EAFE Index (net div), 5% Bloomberg Commodity Index, and 5% FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Real Estate Index (net div). The components and weightings of the Blended Index may have differed during the period, and may differ in the future.

Benchmark Definition(s)

Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index – a market capitalization-weighted index that measures the performance of the U.S. investment-grade, fixed rate bond market, with index components for government and corporate securities, mortgage pass-through securities, and asset-backed securities with at least one year to final maturity. BLOOMBERG® is a trademark and service mark of Bloomberg Finance L.P. and its affiliates (collectively “Bloomberg”). BARCLAYS® is a trademark and service mark of Barclays Bank Plc (collectively with its affiliates, “Barclays”), used under license. Bloomberg or Bloomberg’s licensors, including Barclays, own all proprietary rights in the Bloomberg Barclays Indices. Neither Bloomberg nor Barclays approves or endorses this material, or guarantees the accuracy or completeness of any information herein, or makes any warranty, express or implied, as to the results to be obtained therefrom, and, to the maximum extent allowed by law, neither shall have any liability or responsibility for injury or damages arising in connection therewith.

Bloomberg Commodity Index – a highly liquid and diversified benchmark for the commodity futures market. The index tracks trades on futures contracts for physical commodities, such as energy (petroleum, gas), precious metals (gold, silver), industrial metals (zinc, copper), grains (corn, wheat), livestock (pork bellies), among others, and are traded in a variety of currencies.

FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Real Estate Index (net div) – measures the performance of eligible real estate equities worldwide that generate a majority of their revenue and income through the ownership, disposure and development of income-producing real estate. FTSE International Limited (“FTSE”)© FTSE 2019. “FTSE®” is a trademark of the London Stock Exchange Group companies and is used by FTSE International Limited under license. “FT-SE®”, “FOOTSIE®” and “FTSE4GOOD®” are trademarks of the London Stock Exchange Group companies. “Nareit®” is a trademark of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“Nareit”) and “EPRA®” is a trademark of the European Public Real Estate Association (“EPRA”) and all are used by FTSE under license. The FTSE EPRA Nareit Developed Real Estate Index is calculated by FTSE. Neither FTSE, Euronext N.V., Nareit, nor EPRA sponsor, endorse, or promote this product and are not in any way connected to it and do not accept any liability. All intellectual property rights in the index values and constituent list vests in FTSE, Euronext N.V., Nareit, and EPRA. Neither FTSE nor its licensors accept any liability for any errors or omissions in the FTSE indices and/or FTSE ratings or underlying data. No further distribution of FTSE Data is permitted without FTSE’s express written consent.

MSCI EAFE (Europe, Australasia, Far East) Index (net div) – a market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure equity market performance in the developed markets, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) makes no express or implied warranties or representations and shall have no liability whatsoever with respect to any MSCI data contained herein. The MSCI data may not be further redistributed or used as a basis for other indices or any securities or financial products. This report is not approved, reviewed, or produced by MSCI.

Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index – a market capitalization-weighted index of 500 widely held equity securities, designed to measure broad U.S. equity performance. “Standard & Poor’s®” and “S&P®” are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (“S&P”) and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC (“Dow Jones”) and have been licensed for use by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and sublicensed for certain purposes by MFS. The S&P 500® is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, and has been licensed for use by MFS. MFS’s product(s) is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by S&P

 

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Dow Jones Indices LLC, Dow Jones, S&P, or their respective affiliates, and neither S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, Dow Jones, S&P, nor their respective affiliates make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in such product(s).

It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

Notes to Performance Summary

Class 529 shares are only available in conjunction with qualified tuition programs, such as the MFS 529 Savings Plan. There also is an additional fee, which is detailed in the program description, on qualified tuition programs. If this fee was reflected, the performance for Class 529 shares would have been lower. This annual fee is waived for Oregon residents and for those accounts with assets of $25,000 or more.

Average annual total return represents the average annual change in value for each share class for the periods presented.

Performance results reflect any applicable expense subsidies and waivers in effect during the periods shown. Without such subsidies and waivers each fund’s performance results would be less favorable. Please see the prospectus and financial statements for complete details.

Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and may differ from amounts reported in the financial highlights.

From time to time the funds may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

 

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EXPENSE TABLES

Fund expenses borne by the shareholders during the period, December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020

As a shareholder of the funds, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on certain purchase or redemption payments, and (2) ongoing costs, including distribution and service (12b-1) fees; and other fund expenses. These examples are intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the funds and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

In addition to the fees and expenses which each fund bears directly, each fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which each fund invests. Because the underlying funds have varied expenses and fee levels and each fund may own different proportions of the underlying funds at different times, the amount of fees and expenses incurred indirectly by each fund will vary. If these transactional and indirect costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

These examples are based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the following tables provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the following tables provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on each fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not each fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in each fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the tables are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the tables is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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MFS CONSERVATIVE ALLOCATION FUND

 

Share
Class
       Annualized
Expense
Ratio
    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During

Period (p)

12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     0.33%       $1,000.00       $1,003.70       $1.65  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.33%       $1,000.00       $1,023.35       $1.67  
B   Actual     1.08%       $1,000.00       $1,000.04       $5.40  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.08%       $1,000.00       $1,019.60       $5.45  
C   Actual     1.08%       $1,000.00       $999.84       $5.40  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.08%       $1,000.00       $1,019.60       $5.45  
I   Actual     0.08%       $1,000.00       $1,004.95       $0.40  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.08%       $1,000.00       $1,024.60       $0.40  
R1   Actual     1.08%       $1,000.00       $999.70       $5.40  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.08%       $1,000.00       $1,019.60       $5.45  
R2   Actual     0.58%       $1,000.00       $1,001.83       $2.90  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.58%       $1,000.00       $1,022.10       $2.93  
R3   Actual     0.33%       $1,000.00       $1,003.71       $1.65  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.33%       $1,000.00       $1,023.35       $1.67  
R4   Actual     0.08%       $1,000.00       $1,004.37       $0.40  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.08%       $1,000.00       $1,024.60       $0.40  
529A   Actual     0.37%       $1,000.00       $1,003.56       $1.85  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.37%       $1,000.00       $1,023.15       $1.87  
529B   Actual     0.78%       $1,000.00       $1,001.90       $3.90  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.78%       $1,000.00       $1,021.10       $3.94  
529C   Actual     1.12%       $1,000.00       $998.89       $5.60  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.12%       $1,000.00       $1,019.40       $5.65  

 

  (h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

  (p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher. In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. If these indirect costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

Notes to Expense Table

For the MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, for the period from March 1, 2020 through May 31, 2020, the distribution fee for Class 529B was not imposed. Had the distribution fee been imposed throughout the entire six month period, the annualized expense ratio, the actual expenses paid during the period, and the hypothetical expenses paid during the period would have been approximately 1.12%, $5.61, and $5.65 for Class 529B. See Note 3 in the Notes to Financial Statements for additional information.

For the MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, each class with a Rule 12b-1 service fee is subject to a rebate of a portion of such fee. Such rebates are included in the expense ratios above and are outside of the expense limitation arrangement. For Class 529A, Class 529B, and Class 529C shares, this rebate reduced the expense ratios above by 0.01%. See Note 3 in the Notes to Financial Statements for additional information.

 

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MFS MODERATE ALLOCATION FUND

 

Share
Class
       Annualized
Expense
Ratio
    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During

Period (p)

12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     0.34%       $1,000.00       $989.30       $1.69  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.34%       $1,000.00       $1,023.30       $1.72  
B   Actual     1.09%       $1,000.00       $985.50       $5.41  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.09%       $1,000.00       $1,019.55       $5.50  
C   Actual     1.09%       $1,000.00       $986.20       $5.41  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.09%       $1,000.00       $1,019.55       $5.50  
I   Actual     0.09%       $1,000.00       $990.70       $0.45  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.09%       $1,000.00       $1,024.55       $0.46  
R1   Actual     1.09%       $1,000.00       $985.43       $5.41  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.09%       $1,000.00       $1,019.55       $5.50  
R2   Actual     0.59%       $1,000.00       $988.24       $2.93  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.59%       $1,000.00       $1,022.05       $2.98  
R3   Actual     0.34%       $1,000.00       $989.19       $1.69  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.34%       $1,000.00       $1,023.30       $1.72  
R4   Actual     0.09%       $1,000.00       $990.56       $0.45  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.09%       $1,000.00       $1,024.55       $0.46  
529A   Actual     0.39%       $1,000.00       $989.56       $1.94  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.39%       $1,000.00       $1,023.05       $1.97  
529B   Actual     0.90%       $1,000.00       $986.99       $4.47  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.90%       $1,000.00       $1,020.50       $4.55  
529C   Actual     1.14%       $1,000.00       $985.75       $5.66  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.14%       $1,000.00       $1,019.30       $5.76  

 

  (h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

  (p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher. In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. If these indirect costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

Notes to Expense Table

For the MFS Moderate Allocation Fund, for the period from April 1, 2020 through May 31, 2020, the distribution fee for Class 529B was not imposed. Had the distribution fee been imposed throughout the entire six month period, the annualized expense ratio, the actual expenses paid during the period, and the hypothetical expenses paid during the period would have been approximately 1.14%, $5.66, and $5.76 for Class 529B. See Note 3 in the Notes to Financial Statements for additional information.

For the MFS Moderate Allocation Fund, each class with a Rule 12b-1 service fee is subject to a rebate of a portion of such fee. Such rebates are included in the expense ratios above and are outside of the expense limitation arrangement. For Class 529A and Class 529B shares, this rebate reduced the expense ratios above by 0.01%. See Note 3 in the Notes to Financial Statements for additional information.

 

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MFS GROWTH ALLOCATION FUND

 

Share
Class
       Annualized
Expense
Ratio
    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During

Period (p)

12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     0.35%       $1,000.00       $966.30       $1.72  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.35%       $1,000.00       $1,023.25       $1.77  
B   Actual     1.10%       $1,000.00       $962.57       $5.40  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.10%       $1,000.00       $1,019.50       $5.55  
C   Actual     1.10%       $1,000.00       $962.47       $5.40  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.10%       $1,000.00       $1,019.50       $5.55  
I   Actual     0.10%       $1,000.00       $967.57       $0.49  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.10%       $1,000.00       $1,024.50       $0.51  
R1   Actual     1.10%       $1,000.00       $962.71       $5.40  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.10%       $1,000.00       $1,019.50       $5.55  
R2   Actual     0.60%       $1,000.00       $964.66       $2.95  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.60%       $1,000.00       $1,022.00       $3.03  
R3   Actual     0.35%       $1,000.00       $965.83       $1.72  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.35%       $1,000.00       $1,023.25       $1.77  
R4   Actual     0.10%       $1,000.00       $967.23       $0.49  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.10%       $1,000.00       $1,024.50       $0.51  
529A   Actual     0.39%       $1,000.00       $965.67       $1.92  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.39%       $1,000.00       $1,023.05       $1.97  
529B   Actual     1.14%       $1,000.00       $962.22       $5.59  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.14%       $1,000.00       $1,019.30       $5.76  
529C   Actual     1.14%       $1,000.00       $962.20       $5.59  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.14%       $1,000.00       $1,019.30       $5.76  

 

  (h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

  (p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher. In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. If these indirect costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

Notes to Expense Table

For the MFS Growth Allocation Fund, each class with a Rule 12b-1 service fee is subject to a rebate of a portion of such fee. Such rebates are included in the expense ratios above and are outside of the expense limitation arrangement. For Class 529A, Class 529B, and Class 529C shares, this rebate reduced the expense ratios above by 0.01%. See Note 3 in the Notes to Financial Statements for additional information.

 

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MFS AGGRESSIVE GROWTH ALLOCATION FUND

 

Share
Class
       Annualized
Expense
Ratio
    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During

Period (p)

12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     0.38%       $1,000.00       $951.12       $1.85  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.38%       $1,000.00       $1,023.10       $1.92  
B   Actual     1.13%       $1,000.00       $947.77       $5.50  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.13%       $1,000.00       $1,019.35       $5.70  
C   Actual     1.13%       $1,000.00       $947.70       $5.50  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.13%       $1,000.00       $1,019.35       $5.70  
I   Actual     0.13%       $1,000.00       $952.60       $0.63  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.13%       $1,000.00       $1,024.35       $0.66  
R1   Actual     1.13%       $1,000.00       $947.82       $5.50  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.13%       $1,000.00       $1,019.35       $5.70  
R2   Actual     0.63%       $1,000.00       $950.22       $3.07  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.63%       $1,000.00       $1,021.85       $3.18  
R3   Actual     0.38%       $1,000.00       $951.69       $1.85  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.38%       $1,000.00       $1,023.10       $1.92  
R4   Actual     0.13%       $1,000.00       $952.73       $0.63  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.13%       $1,000.00       $1,024.35       $0.66  
529A   Actual     0.42%       $1,000.00       $951.13       $2.05  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.42%       $1,000.00       $1,022.90       $2.12  
529B   Actual     1.18%       $1,000.00       $947.80       $5.75  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.18%       $1,000.00       $1,019.10       $5.96  
529C   Actual     1.17%       $1,000.00       $947.49       $5.70  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.17%       $1,000.00       $1,019.15       $5.91  

 

  (h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

  (p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher. In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. If these indirect costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

Notes to Expense Table

For the MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund, each class with a Rule 12b-1 service fee is subject to a rebate of a portion of such fee. Such rebates are included in the expense ratios above and are outside of the expense limitation arrangement. For Class 529A and Class 529C shares, this rebate reduced the expense ratios above by 0.01%. See Note 3 in the Notes to Financial Statements for additional information.

 

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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

5/31/20

 

The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.

MFS CONSERVATIVE ALLOCATION FUND

 

Investment Companies (h) - 99.9%                  
Issuer    Shares/Par      Value ($)  
Bond Funds - 58.6%                  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund - Class R6      6,516,340      $ 91,489,415  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund - Class R6      9,920,960        62,105,211  
MFS Global Bond Fund - Class R6      16,321,991        148,203,673  
MFS Government Securities Fund - Class R6      27,441,890        286,218,916  
MFS High Income Fund - Class R6      46,436,440        150,918,431  
MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund - Class R6      26,916,650        292,583,981  
MFS Limited Maturity Fund - Class R6      49,045,595        294,273,570  
MFS Total Return Bond Fund - Class R6      39,532,670        444,742,536  
              $ 1,770,535,733  
International Stock Funds - 8.2%                  
MFS International Growth Fund - Class R6      1,818,831      $ 61,476,483  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund - Class R6      1,396,929        62,344,955  
MFS Research International Fund - Class R6      7,044,632        124,549,084  
              $ 248,370,522  
Specialty Funds - 4.0%                  
MFS Commodity Strategy Fund - Class R6      14,106,630      $ 59,529,980  
MFS Global Real Estate Fund - Class R6      4,107,262        61,198,206  
              $ 120,728,186  
U.S. Stock Funds - 29.1%                  
MFS Growth Fund - Class R6      1,377,927      $ 187,108,696  
MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund - Class R6      5,465,780        128,445,824  
MFS Mid Cap Value Fund - Class R6      6,054,627        126,723,349  
MFS New Discovery Fund - Class R6      997,537        32,669,315  
MFS New Discovery Value Fund - Class R6      2,418,052        31,869,927  
MFS Research Fund - Class R6      4,209,919        186,667,819  
MFS Value Fund - Class R6      4,797,704        185,767,111  
              $ 879,252,041  
Money Market Funds - 0.0%                  
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)      305      $ 305  
Total Investment Companies (Identified Cost, $2,327,607,272)             $ 3,018,886,787  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - 0.1%               1,601,024  
Net Assets - 100.0%             $ 3,020,487,811  

See Portfolio Footnotes and Notes to Financial Statements

 

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MFS MODERATE ALLOCATION FUND

 

Investment Companies (h) - 100.0%                  
Issuer    Shares/Par      Value ($)  
Bond Funds - 38.0%                  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund - Class R6      11,514,604      $ 161,665,039  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund - Class R6      17,518,052        109,663,005  
MFS Global Bond Fund - Class R6      28,426,298        258,110,788  
MFS Government Securities Fund - Class R6      47,117,383        491,434,310  
MFS High Income Fund - Class R6      82,685,038        268,726,372  
MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund - Class R6      33,508,714        364,239,717  
MFS Total Return Bond Fund - Class R6      37,040,445        416,705,010  
              $ 2,070,544,241  
International Stock Funds - 13.3%                  
MFS International Growth Fund - Class R6      4,903,461      $ 165,736,994  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund - Class R6      3,756,799        167,665,930  
MFS International New Discovery Fund - Class R6      1,816,746        57,391,015  
MFS Research International Fund - Class R6      18,843,397        333,151,254  
              $ 723,945,193  
Specialty Funds - 5.8%                  
MFS Commodity Strategy Fund - Class R6      36,265,865      $ 153,041,949  
MFS Global Real Estate Fund - Class R6      10,823,110        161,264,343  
              $ 314,306,292  
U.S. Stock Funds - 42.9%                  
MFS Growth Fund - Class R6      3,373,833      $ 458,132,759  
MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund - Class R6      17,601,720        413,640,415  
MFS Mid Cap Value Fund - Class R6      18,946,696        396,554,349  
MFS New Discovery Fund - Class R6      2,810,457        92,042,491  
MFS New Discovery Value Fund - Class R6      6,545,902        86,274,988  
MFS Research Fund - Class R6      10,189,656        451,809,353  
MFS Value Fund - Class R6      11,374,369        440,415,562  
              $ 2,338,869,917  
Money Market Funds - 0.0%                  
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)      3,118,448      $ 3,118,760  
Total Investment Companies (Identified Cost, $3,844,893,237)             $ 5,450,784,403  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - (0.0)%               (678,314)  
Net Assets - 100.0%             $ 5,450,106,089  

See Portfolio Footnotes and Notes to Financial Statements

 

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MFS GROWTH ALLOCATION FUND

 

Investment Companies (h) - 100.0%                  
Issuer    Shares/Par      Value ($)  
Bond Funds - 19.0%                  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund - Class R6      10,083,202      $ 141,568,155  
MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund - Class R6      15,324,456        95,931,094  
MFS Global Bond Fund - Class R6      9,941,118        90,265,356  
MFS High Income Fund - Class R6      73,263,366        238,105,939  
MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund - Class R6      21,810,257        237,077,495  
MFS Total Return Bond Fund - Class R6      12,145,298        136,634,599  
              $ 939,582,638  
International Stock Funds - 19.9%                  
MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund - Class R6      1,583,604      $ 46,969,701  
MFS International Growth Fund - Class R6      7,217,443        243,949,580  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund - Class R6      5,526,058        246,627,979  
MFS International New Discovery Fund - Class R6      3,232,586        102,117,400  
MFS Research International Fund - Class R6      19,360,036        342,285,426  
              $ 981,950,086  
Specialty Funds - 7.4%                  
MFS Commodity Strategy Fund - Class R6      41,690,352      $ 175,933,286  
MFS Global Real Estate Fund - Class R6      12,715,634        189,462,950  
              $ 365,396,236  
U.S. Stock Funds - 53.5%                  
MFS Growth Fund - Class R6      4,125,983      $ 560,267,252  
MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund - Class R6      20,242,097        475,689,267  
MFS Mid Cap Value Fund - Class R6      21,664,826        453,444,816  
MFS New Discovery Fund - Class R6      3,340,361        109,396,810  
MFS New Discovery Value Fund - Class R6      7,783,693        102,589,068  
MFS Research Fund - Class R6      9,116,172        404,211,077  
MFS Value Fund - Class R6      13,906,946        538,476,956  
              $ 2,644,075,246  
Money Market Funds - 0.2%                  
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)      10,709,672      $ 10,710,743  
Total Investment Companies (Identified Cost, $3,151,381,313)             $ 4,941,714,949  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - 0.0%               313,640  
Net Assets - 100.0%             $ 4,942,028,589  

See Portfolio Footnotes and Notes to Financial Statements

 

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MFS AGGRESSIVE GROWTH ALLOCATION FUND

 

Investment Companies (h) - 100.0%                  
Issuer    Shares/Par      Value ($)  
International Stock Funds - 29.8%                  
MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund - Class R6      1,159,334      $ 34,385,841  
MFS International Growth Fund - Class R6      4,340,178        146,698,029  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund - Class R6      3,383,587        151,009,489  
MFS International New Discovery Fund - Class R6      2,357,415        74,470,724  
MFS Research International Fund - Class R6      8,310,672        146,932,679  
              $ 553,496,762  
Specialty Funds - 9.3%                  
MFS Commodity Strategy Fund - Class R6      20,139,508      $ 84,988,725  
MFS Global Real Estate Fund - Class R6      5,907,570        88,022,789  
              $ 173,011,514  
U.S. Stock Funds - 60.8%                  
MFS Growth Fund - Class R6      1,842,808      $ 250,234,867  
MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund - Class R6      8,328,980        195,731,038  
MFS Mid Cap Value Fund - Class R6      8,738,527        182,897,369  
MFS New Discovery Fund - Class R6      1,523,594        49,897,687  
MFS New Discovery Value Fund - Class R6      3,477,030        45,827,260  
MFS Research Fund - Class R6      3,796,834        168,351,627  
MFS Value Fund - Class R6      6,085,042        235,612,831  
              $ 1,128,552,679  
Money Market Funds - 0.1%                  
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)      2,388,351      $ 2,388,590  
Total Investment Companies (Identified Cost, $1,076,169,872)             $ 1,857,449,545  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - (0.0)%               (810,901)  
Net Assets - 100.0%             $ 1,856,638,644  

Portfolio Footnotes:

 

(h)

An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate values of each fund’s investments in affiliated issuers were as follows:

 

     Affiliated Issuers  
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund   $ 3,018,886,787  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund     5,450,784,403  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund     4,941,714,949  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund     1,857,449,545  

 

(v)

Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

STATEMENTS OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

At 5/31/20

These statements represent each fund’s balance sheet, which details the assets and liabilities comprising the total value of each fund.

 

     MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
     MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
     MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
     MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Assets                                    

Investments in affiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $2,327,607,272, $3,844,893,237, $3,151,381,313, and $1,076,169,872, respectively)

     $3,018,886,787        $5,450,784,403        $4,941,714,949        $1,857,449,545  

Receivables for

           

Investments sold

     1,867,125        2,287,032        2,353,162        1,049,970  

Fund shares sold

     5,004,494        6,285,097        4,840,673        2,623,750  

Receivable from investment adviser

                   136,791        61,079  

Other assets

     5,454        9,769        9,020        3,637  

Total assets

     $3,025,763,860        $5,459,366,301        $4,949,054,595        $1,861,187,981  
Liabilities                                    

Payable to custodian

     $1,197,314        $—        $—        $—  

Payables for

           

Investments purchased

     637,841        344,878               1,032,938  

Fund shares reacquired

     2,456,289        6,765,167        4,701,828        2,409,570  

Payable to affiliates

           

Administrative services fee

     193        193        193        193  

Shareholder servicing costs

     718,856        1,700,071        1,902,938        918,459  

Distribution and service fees

     114,824        218,398        186,311        63,562  

Program manager fee

     1,085        1,744        1,780        977  

Payable for independent Trustees’ compensation

     14        11        26        22  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     149,633        229,750        232,930        123,616  

Total liabilities

     $5,276,049        $9,260,212        $7,026,006        $4,549,337  

Net assets

     $3,020,487,811        $5,450,106,089        $4,942,028,589        $1,856,638,644  
Net assets consist of                                    

Paid-in capital

     $2,367,450,130        $3,849,872,362        $3,153,320,760        $1,075,499,165  

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     653,037,681        1,600,233,727        1,788,707,829        781,139,479  

Net assets

     $3,020,487,811        $5,450,106,089        $4,942,028,589        $1,856,638,644  

 

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    MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
    MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
    MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
    MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 

Net assets

       

Class A

    $1,417,121,034       $3,173,202,348       $2,944,438,897       $928,554,778  

Class B

    63,964,930       149,969,150       126,961,621       41,015,574  

Class C

    542,273,790       874,126,833       694,541,183       234,144,153  

Class I

    400,868,912       310,815,164       294,213,363       178,490,836  

Class R1

    11,468,251       24,119,561       19,543,472       14,484,230  

Class R2

    56,260,164       124,724,623       123,458,677       55,452,894  

Class R3

    95,119,316       219,996,234       147,887,594       87,314,990  

Class R4

    234,300,738       252,825,400       264,075,532       137,679,849  

Class 529A

    153,384,498       248,005,778       261,098,767       154,653,624  

Class 529B

    4,301,082       7,258,184       8,702,257       2,924,457  

Class 529C

    41,425,096       65,062,814       57,107,226       21,923,259  

Total net assets

    $3,020,487,811       $5,450,106,089       $4,942,028,589       $1,856,638,644  

Shares of beneficial interest outstanding

       

Class A

    88,676,420       176,095,021       143,160,695       39,967,820  

Class B

    4,026,208       8,429,671       6,225,373       1,792,412  

Class C

    34,510,590       49,537,196       34,514,066       10,356,045  

Class I

    24,836,721       16,990,036       14,160,337       7,545,603  

Class R1

    745,592       1,399,481       992,758       650,956  

Class R2

    3,631,225       7,089,707       6,153,763       2,442,249  

Class R3

    6,005,947       12,314,676       7,258,635       3,790,374  

Class R4

    14,649,849       14,044,020       12,848,811       5,905,199  

Class 529A

    9,654,591       13,842,309       12,810,147       6,708,359  

Class 529B

    275,054       412,406       431,836       129,460  

Class 529C

    2,664,930       3,730,632       2,881,073       985,753  

Total shares of beneficial interest outstanding

    189,677,127       303,885,155       241,437,494       80,274,230  

Class A shares

       

Net asset value per share

       

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $15.98       $18.02       $20.57       $23.23  

Offering price per share (100 / 94.25 × net asset value per share)

    $16.95       $19.12       $21.82       $24.65  

Class B shares

       

Net asset value and offering price per share

       

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $15.89       $17.79       $20.39       $22.88  

Class C shares

       

Net asset value and offering price per share

       

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $15.71       $17.65       $20.12       $22.61  

Class I shares

       

Net asset value, offering price, and redemption price per share

       

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $16.14       $18.29       $20.78       $23.65  

Class R1 shares

       

Net asset value, offering price, and redemption price per share

       

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $15.38       $17.23       $19.69       $22.25  

Class R2 shares

       

Net asset value, offering price, and redemption price per share

       

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $15.49       $17.59       $20.06       $22.71  

 

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Statements of Assets and Liabilities – continued

 

    MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
    MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
     MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
    MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 

Class R3 shares

        

Net asset value, offering price, and redemption price per share

        

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $15.84       $17.86        $20.37       $23.04  

Class R4 shares

        

Net asset value, offering price, and redemption price per share

        

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $15.99       $18.00        $20.55       $23.32  

Class 529A shares

        

Net asset value and redemption price per share

        

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $15.89       $17.92        $20.38       $23.05  

Offering price per share (100 / 94.25 × net asset value per share)

    $16.86       $19.01        $21.62       $24.46  

Class 529B shares

        

Net asset value and offering price per share

        

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $15.64       $17.60        $20.15       $22.59  

Class 529C shares

        

Net asset value and offering price per share

        

(net assets / shares of beneficial interest outstanding)

    $15.54       $17.44        $19.82       $22.24  

On sales of $50,000 or more, the maximum offering price of Class A and Class 529A shares is reduced. A contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on redemptions of Class A, Class B, Class C, Class 529B, and Class 529C shares.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

Year ended 5/31/20

These statements describe how much each fund earned in investment income and accrued in expenses. They also describe any gains or losses generated by each fund’s operations.

 

    MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
    MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
    MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
    MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Net investment income (loss)                                

Dividends from affiliated issuers

    $70,904,597       $118,181,022       $96,252,309       $29,185,416  

Expenses

       

Distribution and service fees

    $11,225,716       $21,900,140       $18,888,686       $6,490,027  

Shareholder servicing costs

    1,721,858       4,119,439       4,792,050       2,450,414  

Program manager fees

    99,858       160,316       164,285       91,153  

Administrative services fee

    17,500       17,500       17,500       17,500  

Independent Trustees’ compensation

    43,660       91,680       63,900       37,001  

Custodian fee

    63,382       106,135       88,550       37,066  

Shareholder communications

    133,374       275,621       312,002       124,618  

Audit and tax fees

    37,632       38,312       38,165       37,350  

Legal fees

    25,662       49,332       45,558       16,564  

Miscellaneous

    296,173       346,017       312,036       236,810  

Total expenses

    $13,664,815       $27,104,492       $24,722,732       $9,538,503  

Reduction of expenses by investment adviser and distributor

    (43,597     (115,268     (738,455     (564,690

Net expenses

    $13,621,218       $26,989,224       $23,984,277       $8,973,813  

Net investment income (loss)

    $57,283,379       $91,191,798       $72,268,032       $20,211,603  
Realized and unrealized gain (loss)                                

Realized gain (loss) (identified cost basis)

       

Investments in affiliated issuers

    $20,624,261       $84,168,121       $85,677,807       $25,936,693  

Capital gain distributions from affiliated issuers

    16,528,669       45,015,323       53,190,023       25,038,280  

Net realized gain (loss)

    $37,152,930       $129,183,444       $138,867,830       $50,974,973  

Change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation

       

Affiliated issuers

    $101,115,745       $153,967,564       $83,019,624       $35,666,386  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    $138,268,675       $283,151,008       $221,887,454       $86,641,359  

Change in net assets from operations

    $195,552,054       $374,342,806       $294,155,486       $106,852,962  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

These statements describe the increases and/or decreases in net assets resulting from operations, any distributions, and any shareholder transactions.

 

Year ended 5/31/20    MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
     MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
     MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
     MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Change in net assets            
From operations                                    

Net investment income (loss)

     $57,283,379        $91,191,798        $72,268,032        $20,211,603  

Net realized gain (loss)

     37,152,930        129,183,444        138,867,830        50,974,973  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     101,115,745        153,967,564        83,019,624        35,666,386  

Change in net assets from operations

     $195,552,054        $374,342,806        $294,155,486        $106,852,962  

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(100,086,864      $(247,398,416      $(238,946,554      $(88,421,193

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $83,099,843        $(76,719,905      $23,596,701        $62,233,205  

Total change in net assets

     $178,565,033        $50,224,485        $78,805,633        $80,664,974  
Net assets                                    

At beginning of period

     2,841,922,778        5,399,881,604        4,863,222,956        1,775,973,670  

At end of period

     $3,020,487,811        $5,450,106,089        $4,942,028,589        $1,856,638,644  
Year ended 5/31/19    MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
     MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
     MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
     MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Change in net assets            
From operations                                    

Net investment income (loss)

     $62,086,293        $106,914,290        $84,482,097        $23,833,805  

Net realized gain (loss)

     54,046,556        172,824,450        171,324,021        69,105,651  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     2,181,106        (69,817,389      (96,003,027      (46,506,757

Change in net assets from operations

     $118,313,955        $209,921,351        $159,803,091        $46,432,699  

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(128,695,165      $(296,357,134      $(273,128,441      $(85,858,612

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $(91,192,337      $(203,578,431      $6,168,293        $24,723,734  

Total change in net assets

     $(101,573,547      $(290,014,214      $(107,157,057      $(14,702,179
Net assets                                    

At beginning of period

     2,943,496,325        5,689,895,818        4,970,380,013        1,790,675,849  

At end of period

     $2,841,922,778        $5,399,881,604        $4,863,222,956        $1,775,973,670  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

MFS CONSERVATIVE ALLOCATION FUND

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

     Year ended  
Class A    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $15.45        $15.50        $15.43        $14.69       $15.05  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.33        $0.35        $0.32        $0.26 (c)      $0.21  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.75        0.31        0.43        0.85       (0.18

Total from investment operations

     $1.08        $0.66        $0.75        $1.11       $0.03  
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.34      $(0.35      $(0.33      $(0.26     $(0.23

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.55      $(0.71      $(0.68      $(0.37     $(0.39

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.98        $15.45        $15.50        $15.43       $14.69  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.07        4.60        4.91        7.71 (c)      0.27  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.33        0.33        0.32        0.33 (c)      0.33  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.33        0.33        0.32        0.33 (c)      0.33  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     2.05        2.30        2.05        1.72 (c)      1.45  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $1,417,121        $1,294,553        $1,321,127        $1,330,751       $1,435,774  
     Year ended  
Class B    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $15.35        $15.40        $15.33        $14.60       $14.95  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.21        $0.24        $0.20        $0.14 (c)      $0.10  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.76        0.30        0.43        0.85       (0.17

Total from investment operations

     $0.97        $0.54        $0.63        $0.99       $(0.07
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.22      $(0.23      $(0.21      $(0.15     $(0.12

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.43      $(0.59      $(0.56      $(0.26     $(0.28

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.89        $15.35        $15.40        $15.33       $14.60  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.31        3.81        4.13        6.87 (c)      (0.43
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.08        1.08        1.07        1.08 (c)      1.08  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.08        1.08        1.07        1.08 (c)      1.08  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.32        1.56        1.31        0.97 (c)      0.71  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $63,965        $93,839        $116,669        $137,431       $150,726  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Highlights – continued

 

MFS CONSERVATIVE ALLOCATION FUND – continued

 

     Year ended  
Class C    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $15.20        $15.25        $15.20        $14.47       $14.83  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.20        $0.23        $0.20        $0.14 (c)      $0.10  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.75        0.32        0.41        0.85       (0.18

Total from investment operations

     $0.95        $0.55        $0.61        $0.99       $(0.08
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.23      $(0.24      $(0.21      $(0.15     $(0.12

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.44      $(0.60      $(0.56      $(0.26     $(0.28

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.71        $15.20        $15.25        $15.20       $14.47  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.24        3.88        4.05        6.94 (c)      (0.48
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.08        1.08        1.07        1.08 (c)      1.08  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.08        1.08        1.07        1.08 (c)      1.08  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.30        1.55        1.31        0.97 (c)      0.71  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $542,274        $535,354        $571,300        $670,914       $727,084  
     Year ended  
Class I    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $15.60        $15.64        $15.57        $14.82       $15.17  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.37        $0.40        $0.36        $0.29 (c)      $0.24  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.76        0.31        0.43        0.87       (0.17

Total from investment operations

     $1.13        $0.71        $0.79        $1.16       $0.07  
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.38      $(0.39      $(0.37      $(0.30     $(0.26

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.59      $(0.75      $(0.72      $(0.41     $(0.42

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $16.14        $15.60        $15.64        $15.57       $14.82  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.34        4.89        5.13        7.99 (c)      0.58  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.08        0.08        0.07        0.08 (c)      0.08  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     N/A        N/A        N/A        N/A       N/A  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     2.30        2.58        2.32        1.92 (c)      1.66  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $400,869        $367,586        $358,866        $271,960       $203,031  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Highlights – continued

 

MFS CONSERVATIVE ALLOCATION FUND – continued

 

     Year ended  
Class R1    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $14.89        $14.96        $14.92        $14.21       $14.56  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.20        $0.23        $0.20        $0.14 (c)      $0.10  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.73        0.30        0.41        0.83       (0.17

Total from investment operations

     $0.93        $0.53        $0.61        $0.97       $(0.07
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.23      $(0.24      $(0.22      $(0.15     $(0.12

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.44      $(0.60      $(0.57      $(0.26     $(0.28

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.38        $14.89        $14.96        $14.92       $14.21  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.27        3.83        4.08        6.93 (c)      (0.42
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.08        1.08        1.07        1.08 (c)      1.08  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     N/A        N/A        N/A        N/A       N/A  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.31        1.53        1.31        0.97 (c)      0.71  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $11,468        $11,465        $12,794        $14,641       $18,875  
     Year ended  
Class R2    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $14.99        $15.06        $15.02        $14.31       $14.66  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.28        $0.31        $0.28        $0.22 (c)      $0.17  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.74        0.30        0.40        0.82       (0.17

Total from investment operations

     $1.02        $0.61        $0.68        $1.04       $0.00(w
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.31      $(0.32      $(0.29      $(0.22     $(0.19

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.52      $(0.68      $(0.64      $(0.33     $(0.35

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.49        $14.99        $15.06        $15.02       $14.31  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.81        4.34        4.58        7.44 (c)      0.09  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.58        0.58        0.57        0.58 (c)      0.58  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.58        0.58        0.57        0.58 (c)      0.58  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.81        2.06        1.81        1.48 (c)      1.23  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $56,260        $64,220        $72,083        $85,187       $97,053  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Highlights – continued

 

MFS CONSERVATIVE ALLOCATION FUND – continued

 

     Year ended  
Class R3    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $15.31        $15.37        $15.31        $14.58       $14.93  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.32        $0.35        $0.32        $0.25 (c)      $0.21  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.76        0.30        0.42        0.85       (0.17

Total from investment operations

     $1.08        $0.65        $0.74        $1.10       $0.04  
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.34      $(0.35      $(0.33      $(0.26     $(0.23

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.55      $(0.71      $(0.68      $(0.37     $(0.39

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.84        $15.31        $15.37        $15.31       $14.58  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.14        4.57        4.88        7.70 (c)      0.34  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.33        0.33        0.32        0.33 (c)      0.33  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     N/A        N/A        N/A        0.33 (c)      0.33  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     2.06        2.33        2.05        1.71 (c)      1.46  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $95,119        $101,884        $112,696        $146,688       $172,074  
     Year ended  
Class R4    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $15.46        $15.51        $15.44        $14.70       $15.06  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.36        $0.41        $0.37        $0.29 (c)      $0.25  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.76        0.29        0.42        0.86       (0.19

Total from investment operations

     $1.12        $0.70        $0.79        $1.15       $0.06  
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.38      $(0.39      $(0.37      $(0.30     $(0.26

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.59      $(0.75      $(0.72      $(0.41     $(0.42

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.99        $15.46        $15.51        $15.44       $14.70  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.34        4.86        5.17        7.98 (c)      0.52  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.08        0.08        0.07        0.08 (c)      0.08  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     N/A        N/A        N/A        N/A       N/A  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     2.29        2.65        2.36        1.95 (c)      1.73  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $234,301        $179,833        $196,658        $135,695       $109,923  

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     Year ended  
Class 529A    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $15.36        $15.41        $15.35        $14.62       $14.97  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.32        $0.34        $0.31        $0.25 (c)      $0.20  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.76        0.32        0.43        0.84       (0.17

Total from investment operations

     $1.08        $0.66        $0.74        $1.09       $0.03  
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.34      $(0.35      $(0.33      $(0.25     $(0.22

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.55      $(0.71      $(0.68      $(0.36     $(0.38

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.89        $15.36        $15.41        $15.35       $14.62  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.08        4.60        4.83        7.65 (c)      0.30  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.38        0.38        0.40        0.43 (c)      0.43  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.36        0.37        0.36        0.37 (c)      0.37  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     2.02        2.26        2.03        1.66 (c)      1.41  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $153,384        $143,581        $132,290        $109,297       $89,761  
     Year ended  
Class 529B    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $15.10        $15.16        $15.11        $14.39       $14.74  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.22        $0.22        $0.19        $0.13 (c)      $0.10  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.75        0.31        0.42        0.84       (0.18

Total from investment operations

     $0.97        $0.53        $0.61        $0.97       $(0.08
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.22      $(0.23      $(0.21      $(0.14     $(0.11

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.43      $(0.59      $(0.56      $(0.25     $(0.27

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.64        $15.10        $15.16        $15.11       $14.39  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.46        3.79        4.04        6.87 (c)      (0.48
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.97        1.13        1.15        1.18 (c)      1.18  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.97        1.12        1.11        1.12 (c)      1.13  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.43        1.49        1.27        0.90 (c)      0.68  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $4,301        $6,256        $7,414        $6,852       $6,349  

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     Year ended  
Class 529C    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $15.04        $15.10        $15.06        $14.35       $14.70  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.20        $0.23        $0.19        $0.13 (c)      $0.09  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.73        0.30        0.41        0.84       (0.17

Total from investment operations

     $0.93        $0.53        $0.60        $0.97       $(0.08
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.22      $(0.23      $(0.21      $(0.15     $(0.11

From net realized gain

     (0.21      (0.36      (0.35      (0.11     (0.16

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.43      $(0.59      $(0.56      $(0.26     $(0.27

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.54        $15.04        $15.10        $15.06       $14.35  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.20        3.82        4.00        6.84 (c)      (0.45
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.13        1.13        1.15        1.18 (c)      1.18  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.12        1.12        1.12        1.13 (c)      1.13  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.27        1.51        1.27        0.90 (c)      0.65  

Portfolio turnover

     12        4        6        3       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $41,425        $43,352        $41,601        $47,113       $42,328  
(c)

Amount reflects a one-time reimbursement of expenses by the custodian (or former custodian) without which net investment income and performance would be lower and expenses would be higher.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(h)

In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests. Accordingly, the expense ratio for the fund reflects only those fees and expenses borne directly by the fund. Because the underlying affiliated funds have varied expense and fee levels and the fund may own different proportions of the underlying affiliated funds at different times, the amount of fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the fund will vary.

(l)

The ratios and per share amounts do not include net investment income of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(w)

Per share amount was less than $0.01.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

     Year ended  
Class A    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $17.56        $17.88        $17.37        $16.19       $17.17  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.33        $0.37        $0.34        $0.26 (c)      $0.20  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.97        0.30        0.96        1.37       (0.28

Total from investment operations

     $1.30        $0.67        $1.30        $1.63       $(0.08
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.34      $(0.37      $(0.38      $(0.24     $(0.24

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.84      $(0.99      $(0.79      $(0.45     $(0.90

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $18.02        $17.56        $17.88        $17.37       $16.19  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.35        4.25        7.56        10.30 (c)      (0.31
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.34        0.34        0.33        0.34 (c)      0.34  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.34        0.34        0.33        0.34 (c)      0.33  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.79        2.09        1.93        1.55 (c)      1.23  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $3,173,202        $3,038,919        $3,071,863        $3,077,471       $3,338,645  
     Year ended  
Class B    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $17.33        $17.65        $17.16        $16.01       $17.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.19        $0.24        $0.21        $0.13 (c)      $0.08  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.97        0.30        0.94        1.35       (0.29

Total from investment operations

     $1.16        $0.54        $1.15        $1.48       $(0.21
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.20      $(0.24      $(0.25      $(0.12     $(0.12

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.70      $(0.86      $(0.66      $(0.33     $(0.78

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $17.79        $17.33        $17.65        $17.16       $16.01  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.57        3.49        6.75        9.43 (c)      (1.09
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.09        1.09        1.08        1.09 (c)      1.09  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.09        1.09        1.08        1.09 (c)      1.09  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.05        1.36        1.19        0.80 (c)      0.50  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $149,969        $210,011        $256,958        $293,064       $320,406  

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     Year ended  
Class C    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $17.21        $17.53        $17.05        $15.91       $16.90  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.18        $0.23        $0.21        $0.13 (c)      $0.08  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.97        0.31        0.93        1.34       (0.29

Total from investment operations

     $1.15        $0.54        $1.14        $1.47       $(0.21
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.21      $(0.24      $(0.25      $(0.12     $(0.12

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.71      $(0.86      $(0.66      $(0.33     $(0.78

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $17.65        $17.21        $17.53        $17.05       $15.91  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.55        3.53        6.74        9.43 (c)      (1.09
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.09        1.09        1.08        1.09 (c)      1.09  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.09        1.09        1.08        1.09 (c)      1.09  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.04        1.34        1.20        0.80 (c)      0.49  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $874,127        $917,199        $990,317        $1,181,728       $1,324,402  
     Year ended  
Class I    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $17.81        $18.12        $17.60        $16.40       $17.38  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.37        $0.42        $0.40        $0.29 (c)      $0.24  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.00        0.31        0.95        1.40       (0.28

Total from investment operations

     $1.37        $0.73        $1.35        $1.69       $(0.04
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.39      $(0.42      $(0.42      $(0.28     $(0.28

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.89      $(1.04      $(0.83      $(0.49     $(0.94

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $18.29        $17.81        $18.12        $17.60       $16.40  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.62        4.51        7.78        10.56 (c)      (0.06
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.09        0.09        0.08        0.09 (c)      0.09  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     N/A        N/A        N/A        N/A       N/A  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     2.04        2.35        2.21        1.74 (c)      1.49  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $310,815        $275,276        $266,965        $206,826       $139,038  

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     Year ended  
Class R1    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $16.83        $17.17        $16.72        $15.60       $16.59  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.18        $0.23        $0.21        $0.13 (c)      $0.08  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.93        0.30        0.90        1.32       (0.29

Total from investment operations

     $1.11        $0.53        $1.11        $1.45       $(0.21
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.21      $(0.25      $(0.25      $(0.12     $(0.12

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.71      $(0.87      $(0.66      $(0.33     $(0.78

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $17.23        $16.83        $17.17        $16.72       $15.60  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.49        3.53        6.71        9.50 (c)      (1.10
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.09        1.09        1.08        1.09 (c)      1.09  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.09        1.09        N/A        N/A       N/A  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.03        1.37        1.21        0.81 (c)      0.51  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $24,120        $26,171        $27,412        $31,037       $36,124  
     Year ended  
Class R2    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $17.16        $17.49        $17.01        $15.86       $16.85  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.27        $0.32        $0.30        $0.21 (c)      $0.16  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.96        0.30        0.92        1.35       (0.29

Total from investment operations

     $1.23        $0.62        $1.22        $1.56       $(0.13
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.30      $(0.33      $(0.33      $(0.20     $(0.20

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.80      $(0.95      $(0.74      $(0.41     $(0.86

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $17.59        $17.16        $17.49        $17.01       $15.86  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.06        4.02        7.27        10.04 (c)      (0.63
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.59        0.59        0.58        0.59 (c)      0.59  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.59        0.59        0.58        0.59 (c)      0.59  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.53        1.84        1.69        1.31 (c)      1.00  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $124,725        $136,699        $166,412        $191,974       $220,409  

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     Year ended  
Class R3    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $17.41        $17.74        $17.24        $16.07       $17.06  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.33        $0.37        $0.35        $0.25 (c)      $0.20  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.96        0.29        0.94        1.37       (0.29

Total from investment operations

     $1.29        $0.66        $1.29        $1.62       $(0.09
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.34      $(0.37      $(0.38      $(0.24     $(0.24

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.84      $(0.99      $(0.79      $(0.45     $(0.90

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $17.86        $17.41        $17.74        $17.24       $16.07  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.35        4.22        7.56        10.31 (c)      (0.37
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.34        0.34        0.33        0.34 (c)      0.34  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     N/A        0.34        0.33        0.34 (c)      N/A  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.83        2.09        1.95        1.53 (c)      1.23  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $219,996        $270,597        $312,677        $344,821       $364,025  
     Year ended  
Class R4    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $17.54        $17.86        $17.36        $16.18       $17.17  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.37        $0.44        $0.39        $0.30 (c)      $0.25  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.98        0.28        0.94        1.37       (0.30

Total from investment operations

     $1.35        $0.72        $1.33        $1.67       $(0.05
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.39      $(0.42      $(0.42      $(0.28     $(0.28

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.89      $(1.04      $(0.83      $(0.49     $(0.94

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $18.00        $17.54        $17.86        $17.36       $16.18  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.62        4.52        7.78        10.58 (c)      (0.12
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.09        0.09        0.08        0.09 (c)      0.08  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     N/A        N/A        N/A        N/A       N/A  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     2.04        2.50        2.21        1.80 (c)      1.51  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $252,825        $210,597        $280,436        $264,589       $249,128  

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     Year ended  
Class 529A    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $17.46        $17.79        $17.29        $16.11       $17.10  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.31        $0.36        $0.34        $0.25 (c)      $0.19  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.99        0.29        0.94        1.37       (0.29

Total from investment operations

     $1.30        $0.65        $1.28        $1.62       $(0.10
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.34      $(0.36      $(0.37      $(0.23     $(0.23

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.84      $(0.98      $(0.78      $(0.44     $(0.89

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $17.92        $17.46        $17.79        $17.29       $16.11  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     7.34        4.18        7.50        10.31 (c)      (0.41
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.39        0.39        0.41        0.44 (c)      0.44  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.38        0.38        0.37        0.38 (c)      0.38  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.74        2.05        1.89        1.50 (c)      1.18  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $248,006        $233,915        $230,464        $210,075       $198,159  
     Year ended  
Class 529B    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $17.14        $17.47        $16.99        $15.86       $16.85  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.19        $0.23        $0.20        $0.12 (c)      $0.07  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.97        0.29        0.93        1.34       (0.28

Total from investment operations

     $1.16        $0.52        $1.13        $1.46       $(0.21
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.20      $(0.23      $(0.24      $(0.12     $(0.12

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.70      $(0.85      $(0.65      $(0.33     $(0.78

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $17.60        $17.14        $17.47        $16.99       $15.86  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.63        3.44        6.73        9.37 (c)      (1.13
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.03        1.14        1.16        1.19 (c)      1.19  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.02        1.13        1.12        1.13 (c)      1.13  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.09        1.33        1.15        0.76 (c)      0.43  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $7,258        $8,882        $11,056        $14,214       $16,727  

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     Year ended  
Class 529C    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $17.01        $17.35        $16.89        $15.76       $16.76  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.17        $0.22        $0.20        $0.12 (c)      $0.07  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.96        0.29        0.92        1.34       (0.29

Total from investment operations

     $1.13        $0.51        $1.12        $1.46       $(0.22
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.20      $(0.23      $(0.25      $(0.12     $(0.12

From net realized gain

     (0.50      (0.62      (0.41      (0.21     (0.66

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.70      $(0.85      $(0.66      $(0.33     $(0.78

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $17.44        $17.01        $17.35        $16.89       $15.76  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.52        3.43        6.67        9.48 (c)      (1.18
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.14        1.14        1.16        1.19 (c)      1.19  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.14        1.13        1.13        1.13 (c)      1.13  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.99        1.32        1.15        0.74 (c)      0.42  

Portfolio turnover

     8        2        2        1       2  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $65,063        $71,615        $75,337        $79,047       $81,302  
(c)

Amount reflects a one-time reimbursement of expenses by the custodian (or former custodian) without which net investment income and performance would be lower and expenses would be higher.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(h)

In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests. Accordingly, the expense ratio for the fund reflects only those fees and expenses borne directly by the fund. Because the underlying affiliated funds have varied expense and fee levels and the fund may own different proportions of the underlying affiliated funds at different times, the amount of fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the fund will vary.

(l)

The ratios and per share amounts do not include net investment income of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

     Year ended  
Class A    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $20.26        $20.87        $19.84        $18.02       $19.10  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.33        $0.38        $0.36        $0.25 (c)      $0.18  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.03        0.21        1.66        2.09       (0.42

Total from investment operations

     $1.36        $0.59        $2.02        $2.34       $(0.24
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.34      $(0.39      $(0.40      $(0.22     $(0.28

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.05      $(1.20      $(0.99      $(0.52     $(0.84

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $20.57        $20.26        $20.87        $19.84       $18.02  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.41        3.58        10.27        13.26 (c)      (1.13
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.36        0.36        0.35        0.36 (c)      0.36  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.35        0.35        0.35        0.35 (c)      0.35  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.57        1.87        1.72        1.34 (c)      1.00  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $2,944,439        $2,852,131        $2,852,681        $2,758,650       $2,915,599  
     Year ended  
Class B    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $20.08        $20.65        $19.64        $17.83       $18.89  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.17        $0.23        $0.20        $0.11 (c)      $0.05  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.00        0.23        1.64        2.08       (0.42

Total from investment operations

     $1.17        $0.46        $1.84        $2.19       $(0.37
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.15      $(0.22      $(0.24      $(0.08     $(0.13

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.86      $(1.03      $(0.83      $(0.38     $(0.69

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $20.39        $20.08        $20.65        $19.64       $17.83  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.56        2.85        9.42        12.43 (c)      (1.85
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.11        1.11        1.10        1.11 (c)      1.11  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.10        1.10        1.10        1.10 (c)      1.10  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.83        1.13        0.98        0.58 (c)      0.26  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $126,962        $177,893        $214,832        $237,525       $258,674  

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     Year ended  
Class C    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $19.85        $20.43        $19.44        $17.66       $18.73  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.17        $0.23        $0.20        $0.11 (c)      $0.04  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.99        0.22        1.62        2.05       (0.40

Total from investment operations

     $1.16        $0.45        $1.82        $2.16       $(0.36
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.18      $(0.22      $(0.24      $(0.08     $(0.15

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.89      $(1.03      $(0.83      $(0.38     $(0.71

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $20.12        $19.85        $20.43        $19.44       $17.66  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.56        2.84        9.43        12.44 (c)      (1.85
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.11        1.11        1.10        1.11 (c)      1.11  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.10        1.10        1.10        1.10 (c)      1.10  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.82        1.13        1.00        0.59 (c)      0.25  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $694,541        $714,230        $764,750        $934,658       $1,001,877  
     Year ended  
Class I    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $20.45        $21.06        $20.02        $18.17       $19.26  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.38        $0.44        $0.42        $0.29 (c)      $0.22  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.05        0.21        1.66        2.13       (0.42

Total from investment operations

     $1.43        $0.65        $2.08        $2.42       $(0.20
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.39      $(0.45      $(0.45      $(0.27     $(0.33

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.10      $(1.26      $(1.04      $(0.57     $(0.89

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $20.78        $20.45        $21.06        $20.02       $18.17  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.69        3.84        10.50        13.61 (c)      (0.93
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.11        0.11        0.10        0.11 (c)      0.11  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.10        0.10        N/A        0.10 (c)      0.10  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.80        2.13        1.99        1.53 (c)      1.24  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $294,213        $237,232        $195,227        $151,865       $101,044  

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     Year ended  
Class R1    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $19.42        $20.02        $19.07        $17.32       $18.38  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.16        $0.23        $0.19        $0.11 (c)      $0.04  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.98        0.21        1.59        2.02       (0.41

Total from investment operations

     $1.14        $0.44        $1.78        $2.13       $(0.37
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.16      $(0.23      $(0.24      $(0.08     $(0.13

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.87      $(1.04      $(0.83      $(0.38     $(0.69

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $19.69        $19.42        $20.02        $19.07       $17.32  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.59        2.85        9.40        12.48 (c)      (1.91
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.11        1.11        1.10        1.11 (c)      1.11  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.10        1.10        N/A        1.10 (c)      1.10  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.82        1.18        0.96        0.60 (c)      0.25  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $19,543        $23,326        $30,764        $33,854       $38,652  
     Year ended  
Class R2    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $19.78        $20.39        $19.41        $17.63       $18.70  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.27        $0.33        $0.30        $0.20 (c)      $0.13  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.00        0.21        1.61        2.06       (0.41

Total from investment operations

     $1.27        $0.54        $1.91        $2.26       $(0.28
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.28      $(0.34      $(0.34      $(0.18     $(0.23

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.99      $(1.15      $(0.93      $(0.48     $(0.79

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $20.06        $19.78        $20.39        $19.41       $17.63  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.12        3.34        9.94        13.03 (c)      (1.40
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.61        0.61        0.60        0.61 (c)      0.61  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.60        0.60        0.60        0.60 (c)      0.60  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.30        1.64        1.46        1.10 (c)      0.76  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $123,459        $138,541        $160,632        $182,744       $196,320  

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     Year ended  
Class R3    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $20.08        $20.69        $19.68        $17.87       $18.95  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.33        $0.39        $0.36        $0.25 (c)      $0.18  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.01        0.20        1.64        2.08       (0.42

Total from investment operations

     $1.34        $0.59        $2.00        $2.33       $(0.24
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.34      $(0.39      $(0.40      $(0.22     $(0.28

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.05      $(1.20      $(0.99      $(0.52     $(0.84

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $20.37        $20.08        $20.69        $19.68       $17.87  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.35        3.59        10.25        13.32 (c)      (1.16
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.36        0.36        0.35        0.36 (c)      0.36  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.35        0.35        0.35        0.35 (c)      0.35  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.59        1.90        1.75        1.34 (c)      1.02  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $147,888        $170,299        $202,407        $235,279       $242,669  
     Year ended  
Class R4    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $20.24        $20.86        $19.84        $18.01       $19.09  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.38        $0.44        $0.39        $0.29 (c)      $0.23  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.03        0.20        1.67        2.11       (0.42

Total from investment operations

     $1.41        $0.64        $2.06        $2.40       $(0.19
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.39      $(0.45      $(0.45      $(0.27     $(0.33

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.10      $(1.26      $(1.04      $(0.57     $(0.89

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $20.55        $20.24        $20.86        $19.84       $18.01  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.66        3.83        10.50        13.62 (c)      (0.88
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.11        0.11        0.10        0.11 (c)      0.10  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.10        0.10        N/A        0.10 (c)      0.10  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.81        2.16        1.90        1.55 (c)      1.27  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $264,076        $232,530        $230,032        $243,760       $210,248  

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     Year ended  
Class 529A    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $20.09        $20.70        $19.70        $17.89       $18.97  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.32        $0.37        $0.34        $0.24 (c)      $0.17  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.01        0.22        1.65        2.09       (0.42

Total from investment operations

     $1.33        $0.59        $1.99        $2.33       $(0.25
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.33      $(0.39      $(0.40      $(0.22     $(0.27

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.04      $(1.20      $(0.99      $(0.52     $(0.83

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $20.38        $20.09        $20.70        $19.70       $17.89  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.33        3.57        10.17        13.27 (c)      (1.19
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.41        0.41        0.42        0.46 (c)      0.46  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.39        0.39        0.39        0.39 (c)      0.39  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.53        1.83        1.68        1.28 (c)      0.96  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $261,099        $244,869        $236,768        $211,825       $195,856  
     Year ended  
Class 529B    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $19.86        $20.45        $19.46        $17.67       $18.72  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.16        $0.21        $0.19        $0.10 (c)      $0.04  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.99        0.23        1.63        2.05       (0.41

Total from investment operations

     $1.15        $0.44        $1.82        $2.15       $(0.37
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.15      $(0.22      $(0.24      $(0.06     $(0.12

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.86      $(1.03      $(0.83      $(0.36     $(0.68

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $20.15        $19.86        $20.45        $19.46       $17.67  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.52        2.77        9.40        12.36 (c)      (1.91
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.16        1.16        1.18        1.21 (c)      1.21  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.15        1.15        1.15        1.15 (c)      1.14  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.78        1.07        0.93        0.53 (c)      0.24  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $8,702        $10,820        $11,943        $12,439       $13,405  

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     Year ended  
Class 529C    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $19.56        $20.16        $19.21        $17.46       $18.53  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.16        $0.21        $0.19        $0.10 (c)      $0.04  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.98        0.21        1.60        2.03       (0.41

Total from investment operations

     $1.14        $0.42        $1.79        $2.13       $(0.37
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.17      $(0.21      $(0.25      $(0.08     $(0.14

From net realized gain

     (0.71      (0.81      (0.59      (0.30     (0.56

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.88      $(1.02      $(0.84      $(0.38     $(0.70

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $19.82        $19.56        $20.16        $19.21       $17.46  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.57        2.74        9.37        12.38 (c)      (1.92
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.16        1.16        1.17        1.21 (c)      1.21  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.14        1.14        1.14        1.15 (c)      1.15  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.79        1.08        0.94        0.53 (c)      0.21  

Portfolio turnover

     4        3        2        1       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $57,107        $61,352        $70,345        $74,292       $71,170  
(c)

Amount reflects a one-time reimbursement of expenses by the custodian (or former custodian) without which net investment income and performance would be lower and expenses would be higher.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(h)

In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests. Accordingly, the expense ratio for the fund reflects only those fees and expenses borne directly by the fund. Because the underlying affiliated funds have varied expense and fee levels and the fund may own different proportions of the underlying affiliated funds at different times, the amount of fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the fund will vary.

(l)

The ratios and per share amounts do not include net investment income of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

     Year ended  
Class A    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $22.94        $23.63        $21.80        $19.47       $20.78  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.28        $0.34        $0.30        $0.20 (c)      $0.12  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.18        0.16        2.47        2.70       (0.44

Total from investment operations

     $1.46        $0.50        $2.77        $2.90       $(0.32
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.29      $(0.34      $(0.32      $(0.20     $(0.31

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.17      $(1.19      $(0.94      $(0.57     $(0.99

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $23.23        $22.94        $23.63        $21.80       $19.47  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.97        2.82        12.82        15.22 (c)      (1.45
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.41        0.40        0.39        0.40 (c)      0.40  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.38        0.38        0.38        0.38 (c)      0.38  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.18        1.47        1.30        0.99 (c)      0.63  

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $928,555        $869,146        $859,070        $778,995       $785,986  
     Year ended  
Class B    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $22.60        $23.26        $21.46        $19.16       $20.46  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.10        $0.17        $0.13        $0.05 (c)      $(0.02

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.15        0.17        2.43        2.66       (0.46

Total from investment operations

     $1.25        $0.34        $2.56        $2.71       $(0.48
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.09      $(0.15      $(0.14      $(0.04     $(0.14

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.97      $(1.00      $(0.76      $(0.41     $(0.82

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $22.88        $22.60        $23.26        $21.46       $19.16  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.18        2.03        12.02        14.39 (c)      (2.26
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.16        1.15        1.14        1.15 (c)      1.15  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.13        1.13        1.13        1.13 (c)      1.13  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.44        0.73        0.57        0.23 (c)      (0.11

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $41,016        $52,512        $61,264        $65,287       $71,184  

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     Year ended  
Class C    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $22.36        $23.02        $21.26        $18.99       $20.30  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.09        $0.16        $0.13        $0.05 (c)      $(0.02

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.15        0.18        2.40        2.64       (0.45

Total from investment operations

     $1.24        $0.34        $2.53        $2.69       $(0.47
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.11      $(0.15      $(0.15      $(0.05     $(0.16

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.99      $(1.00      $(0.77      $(0.42     $(0.84

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $22.61        $22.36        $23.02        $21.26       $18.99  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.20        2.04        11.97        14.42 (c)      (2.24
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.16        1.15        1.14        1.15 (c)      1.15  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.13        1.13        1.13        1.13 (c)      1.13  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.41        0.72        0.58        0.24 (c)      (0.12

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $234,144        $221,719        $227,357        $274,450       $282,953  
     Year ended  
Class I    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $23.33        $24.02        $22.14        $19.77       $21.09  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.35        $0.39        $0.37        $0.25 (c)      $0.18  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.20        0.17        2.51        2.74       (0.46

Total from investment operations

     $1.55        $0.56        $2.88        $2.99       $(0.28
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.35      $(0.40      $(0.38      $(0.25     $(0.36

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.23      $(1.25      $(1.00      $(0.62     $(1.04

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $23.65        $23.33        $24.02        $22.14       $19.77  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.24        3.05        13.11        15.49 (c)      (1.23
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.16        0.15        0.14        0.15 (c)      0.15  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.13        0.13        0.13        0.13 (c)      0.13  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.46        1.67        1.58        1.19 (c)      0.89  

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $178,491        $167,527        $142,897        $112,479       $62,542  

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     Year ended  
Class R1    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $22.00        $22.69        $20.97        $18.74       $20.03  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.09        $0.15        $0.12        $0.05 (c)      $(0.02

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.13        0.18        2.37        2.60       (0.44

Total from investment operations

     $1.22        $0.33        $2.49        $2.65       $(0.46
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.09      $(0.17      $(0.15      $(0.05     $(0.15

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.97      $(1.02      $(0.77      $(0.42     $(0.83

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $22.25        $22.00        $22.69        $20.97       $18.74  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.21        2.03        11.94        14.42 (c)      (2.21
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.16        1.15        1.14        1.15 (c)      1.15  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.13        1.13        1.13        1.13 (c)      1.13  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.40        0.69        0.53        0.27 (c)      (0.12

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $14,484        $17,093        $17,228        $16,835       $17,908  
     Year ended  
Class R2    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $22.44        $23.13        $21.36        $19.08       $20.38  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.21        $0.28        $0.25        $0.15 (c)      $0.08  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.16        0.16        2.40        2.64       (0.45

Total from investment operations

     $1.37        $0.44        $2.65        $2.79       $(0.37
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.22      $(0.28      $(0.26      $(0.14     $(0.25

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.10      $(1.13      $(0.88      $(0.51     $(0.93

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $22.71        $22.44        $23.13        $21.36       $19.08  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.73        2.56        12.50        14.96 (c)      (1.69
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.66        0.65        0.64        0.65 (c)      0.65  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.63        0.63        0.63        0.63 (c)      0.63  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.91        1.23        1.09        0.76 (c)      0.40  

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $55,453        $63,038        $70,426        $77,558       $82,546  

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     Year ended  
Class R3    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $22.75        $23.44        $21.63        $19.31       $20.62  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.29        $0.34        $0.30        $0.19 (c)      $0.12  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.17        0.15        2.45        2.69       (0.45

Total from investment operations

     $1.46        $0.49        $2.75        $2.88       $(0.33
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.29      $(0.33      $(0.32      $(0.19     $(0.30

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.17      $(1.18      $(0.94      $(0.56     $(0.98

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $23.04        $22.75        $23.44        $21.63       $19.31  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.00        2.78        12.82        15.28 (c)      (1.47
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.41        0.40        0.39        0.40 (c)      0.40  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.38        0.38        0.38        0.38 (c)      0.38  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.20        1.48        1.33        0.94 (c)      0.65  

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $87,315        $97,866        $137,905        $142,459       $158,309  
     Year ended  
Class R4    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $23.01        $23.71        $21.87        $19.53       $20.85  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.34        $0.39        $0.35        $0.25 (c)      $0.16  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.20        0.16        2.49        2.71       (0.44

Total from investment operations

     $1.54        $0.55        $2.84        $2.96       $(0.28
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.35      $(0.40      $(0.38      $(0.25     $(0.36

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.23      $(1.25      $(1.00      $(0.62     $(1.04

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $23.32        $23.01        $23.71        $21.87       $19.53  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     6.29        3.05        13.09        15.53 (c)      (1.24
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.16        0.15        0.14        0.15 (c)      0.14  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.13        0.13        0.13        0.13 (c)      0.13  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.44        1.69        1.53        1.23 (c)      0.80  

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $137,680        $109,384        $91,311        $72,011       $60,355  

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     Year ended  
Class 529A    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $22.77        $23.47        $21.66        $19.34       $20.66  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.27        $0.33        $0.29        $0.19 (c)      $0.11  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.17        0.15        2.45        2.69       (0.45

Total from investment operations

     $1.44        $0.48        $2.74        $2.88       $(0.34
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.28      $(0.33      $(0.31      $(0.19     $(0.30

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.16      $(1.18      $(0.93      $(0.56     $(0.98

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $23.05        $22.77        $23.47        $21.66       $19.34  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.93        2.75        12.78        15.23 (c)      (1.54
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.46        0.45        0.46        0.50 (c)      0.50  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     0.42        0.42        0.42        0.42 (c)      0.42  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     1.14        1.44        1.26        0.93 (c)      0.59  

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $154,654        $145,819        $146,874        $129,294       $128,357  
     Year ended  
Class 529B    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $22.31        $22.98        $21.22        $18.94       $20.23  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.09        $0.16        $0.11        $0.04 (c)      $(0.03

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.13        0.17        2.40        2.62       (0.44

Total from investment operations

     $1.22        $0.33        $2.51        $2.66       $(0.47
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.06      $(0.15      $(0.13      $(0.01     $(0.14

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.94      $(1.00      $(0.75      $(0.38     $(0.82

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $22.59        $22.31        $22.98        $21.22       $18.94  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.15        2.00        11.92        14.29 (c)      (2.23
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.21        1.20        1.21        1.25 (c)      1.25  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.18        1.18        1.18        1.18 (c)      1.18  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.40        0.72        0.49        0.18 (c)      (0.15

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $2,924        $4,253        $5,021        $5,357       $6,868  

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     Year ended  
Class 529C    5/31/20      5/31/19      5/31/18      5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $22.00        $22.68        $20.97        $18.73       $20.04  
Income (loss) from investment operations                                            

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.09        $0.16        $0.12        $0.04 (c)      $(0.03

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.13        0.16        2.36        2.60       (0.44

Total from investment operations

     $1.22        $0.32        $2.48        $2.64       $(0.47
Less distributions declared to shareholders                                            

From net investment income

     $(0.10      $(0.15      $(0.15      $(0.03     $(0.16

From net realized gain

     (0.88      (0.85      (0.62      (0.37     (0.68

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.98      $(1.00      $(0.77      $(0.40     $(0.84

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $22.24        $22.00        $22.68        $20.97       $18.73  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.17        1.99        11.90        14.37 (c)      (2.27
Ratios (%) (to average net assets) and Supplemental data:                                            

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.21        1.20        1.21        1.25 (c)      1.25  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.17        1.17        1.17        1.17 (c)      1.17  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.40        0.72        0.55        0.19 (c)      (0.15

Portfolio turnover

     6        5        2        2       5  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $21,923        $27,617        $31,322        $34,237       $37,772  
(c)

Amount reflects a one-time reimbursement of expenses by the custodian (or former custodian) without which net investment income and performance would be lower and expenses would be higher.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(h)

In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests. Accordingly, the expense ratio for the fund reflects only those fees and expenses borne directly by the fund. Because the underlying affiliated funds have varied expense and fee levels and the fund may own different proportions of the underlying affiliated funds at different times, the amount of fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the fund will vary.

(l)

The ratios and per share amounts do not include net investment income of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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(1)   Business and Organization

MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, MFS Moderate Allocation Fund, MFS Growth Allocation Fund, and MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund (the funds) are each a diversified series of MFS Series Trust X (the trust). The trust is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company.

Each fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies.

 

(2)   Significant Accounting Policies

General – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the preparation of these financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events occurring after the date of each fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities through the date that the financial statements were issued.

Each fund is a “fund of funds”, which invests the majority of its assets in other MFS mutual funds (hereafter referred to as “underlying affiliated funds” or “underlying funds”), which may have different fiscal year ends than the funds. The underlying funds, in turn, may engage in a number of investment techniques and practices, which involve certain risks. Certain underlying funds invest their portfolio in high-yield securities rated below investment grade. Investments in below investment grade quality securities can involve a substantially greater risk of default or can already be in default, and their values can decline significantly. Below investment grade quality securities tend to be more sensitive to adverse news about the issuer, or the market or economy in general, than higher quality debt instruments. Certain underlying funds invest a significant portion of their assets in asset-backed and/or mortgage-backed securities. For these securities, the value of the debt instrument also depends on the credit quality and adequacy of the underlying assets or collateral as well as whether there is a security interest in the underlying assets or collateral. Enforcing rights, if any, against the underlying assets or collateral may be difficult. U.S. Government securities not supported as to the payment of principal or interest by the U.S. Treasury, such as those issued by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, are subject to greater credit risk than are U.S. Government securities supported by the U.S. Treasury, such as those issued by Ginnie Mae. Certain underlying funds invest in foreign securities, including securities of emerging market issuers. Investments in foreign securities are vulnerable to the effects of changes in the relative values of the local currency and the U.S. dollar and to the effects of changes in each country’s market, economic, industrial, political, regulatory, geopolitical, and other conditions. Investments in emerging markets can involve additional and greater risks than the risks associated with investments in developed foreign markets. Emerging markets can have less developed markets, greater custody and operational risk, less developed legal, regulatory, and accounting systems, and greater political, social, and economic instability than developed markets.

The accounting policies of the underlying funds in which each fund invests are outlined in the underlying funds’ shareholder reports, which are available without charge by calling 1-800-225-2606, at mfs.com and on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) web site at http://www.sec.gov. The underlying funds’ shareholder reports are not covered by this report.

In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) – Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”), which provides optional, temporary relief with respect to the financial reporting of contracts subject to certain types of modifications due to the planned discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR-based reference rates as of the end of 2021. The temporary relief provided by ASU 2020-04 is effective for certain reference rate-related contract modifications that occur during the period from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-04 on each fund’s investments, derivatives, debt and other contracts that will undergo reference rate-related modifications as a result of the reference rate reform.

Investment Valuations Open-end investment companies (underlying funds) are generally valued at their net asset value per share. The investments of underlying funds managed by the adviser are valued as described below. For purposes of this policy disclosure, “fund” also refers to the underlying funds in which the fund-of-funds invests.

Equity securities, including restricted equity securities and equity securities sold short, are generally valued at the last sale or official closing price on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities sold short, for which there were no sales reported for that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily ask quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Debt instruments and floating rate loans, including restricted debt instruments, are generally valued at an evaluated or composite bid as provided by a third-party pricing service. Debt instruments sold short are generally valued at an evaluated or composite mean as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less

 

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may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Exchange-traded options are generally valued at the last sale or official closing price on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Exchange-traded options for which there were no sales reported that day are generally valued at the last daily bid quotation on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. For put options, the position may be valued at the last daily ask quotation if there are no trades reported during the day. Options not traded on an exchange are generally valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. Foreign currency options are generally valued at valuations provided by a third-party pricing service. Futures contracts are generally valued at last posted settlement price on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Futures contracts for which there were no trades that day for a particular position are generally valued at the closing bid quotation on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Forward foreign currency exchange contracts are generally valued at the mean of bid and asked prices for the time period interpolated from rates provided by a third-party pricing service for proximate time periods. Swap agreements are generally valued using valuations provided by a third-party pricing service, which for cleared swaps includes an evaluation of any trading activity at the clearinghouses. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per share. Securities and other assets, including commodity-linked structured notes, generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, and other market data. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.

The Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments (including any fair valuation) to the adviser pursuant to valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. If the adviser determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available, investments are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with such procedures under the oversight of the Board of Trustees. Under the fund’s valuation policies and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for most types of debt instruments and floating rate loans and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services. In addition, investments may be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that an investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.

Various inputs are used in determining the value of each fund’s assets or liabilities. These inputs are categorized into three broad levels. In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. Each fund’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. The following is a summary of the levels used as of May 31, 2020 in valuing each fund’s assets or liabilities:

 

     Level 1      Level 2      Level 3      Total  

MFS Conservative Allocation Fund

                           
Financial Instruments                            
Mutual Funds      $3,018,886,787        $—        $—        $3,018,886,787  

MFS Moderate Allocation Fund

                           
Financial Instruments                            
Mutual Funds      $5,450,784,403        $—        $—        $5,450,784,403  

 

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     Level 1      Level 2      Level 3      Total  

MFS Growth Allocation Fund

                           
Financial Instruments                            
Mutual Funds      $4,941,714,949        $—        $—        $4,941,714,949  

MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund

                           
Financial Instruments                            
Mutual Funds      $1,857,449,545        $—        $—        $1,857,449,545  

For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments. Please refer to the underlying funds’ shareholder reports for further information regarding the levels used in valuing the underlying funds’ assets or liabilities.

Derivatives – Each fund does not invest in derivatives directly. Each fund does invest in underlying funds that may use derivatives primarily to increase or decrease exposure to a particular market or segment of the market, or security, to increase or decrease interest rate or currency exposure, or as alternatives to direct investments. Derivatives are used for hedging or non-hedging purposes. While hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains. When the underlying funds use derivatives as an investment to increase market exposure, or for hedging purposes, gains and losses from derivative instruments may be substantially greater than the derivative’s original cost.

Indemnifications – Under each fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to each fund. Additionally, in the normal course of business, each fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. Each fund’s maximum exposure under these agreements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against each fund that have not yet occurred.

Investment Transactions and Income – Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Interest income is recorded on the accrual basis. All premium and discount is amortized or accreted for financial statement purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Distributions of income and capital gains from the underlying funds are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Recognition of net investment income by each fund is affected by the timing of the declaration of distributions by the underlying funds in which each fund invests. In determining the net gain or loss on securities sold, the cost of securities is determined on the identified cost basis.

Each fund and/or the underlying funds may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received from litigation involving portfolio holdings are reflected in the Statements of Operations in realized gain/loss if the security has been disposed of by the fund or in unrealized gain/loss if the security is still held by the fund. Any other proceeds from litigation not related to portfolio holdings are reflected as other income in the Statements of Operations.

Tax Matters and Distributions – Each fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company, as defined under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and to distribute all of its taxable income, including realized capital gains. As a result, no provision for federal income tax is required. Each fund’s federal tax returns, when filed, will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a three year period. Management has analyzed each fund’s tax positions taken on federal and state tax returns for all open tax years and does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability.

Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Certain capital accounts in the financial statements are periodically adjusted for permanent differences in order to reflect their tax character. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or net asset value per share. Temporary differences which arise from recognizing certain items of income, expense, gain or loss in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes will reverse at some time in the future.

Book/tax differences primarily relate to wash sale loss deferrals and treating a portion of the proceeds from redemptions as a distribution for tax purposes.

The tax character of distributions declared to shareholders for the last two fiscal years is as follows:

 

Year ended 5/31/20    MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
     MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
     MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
     MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Ordinary income (including any short-term capital gains)      $66,046,949        $113,934,440        $88,944,802        $24,821,522  
Long-term capital gains      34,039,915        133,463,976        150,001,752        63,599,671  
Total distributions      $100,086,864        $247,398,416        $238,946,554        $88,421,193  
Year ended 5/31/19    MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
     MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
    

MFS Growth

Allocation Fund

     MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Ordinary income (including any short-term capital gains)      $65,209,159        $113,455,904        $90,340,261        $26,158,756  
Long-term capital gains      63,486,006        182,901,230        182,788,180        59,699,856  
Total distributions      $128,695,165        $296,357,134        $273,128,441        $85,858,612  

 

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The federal tax cost and the tax basis components of distributable earnings were as follows:

 

As of 5/31/20    MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
     MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
     MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
     MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Cost of investments      $2,402,004,856        $3,944,965,834        $3,247,751,755        $1,113,676,144  
Gross appreciation      642,515,365        1,616,511,591        1,830,826,225        787,443,464  
Gross depreciation      (25,633,434      (110,693,022      (136,863,031      (43,670,063
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      $616,881,931        $1,505,818,569        $1,693,963,194        $743,773,401  
Undistributed ordinary income      7,767,941        11,460,096        5,134,268        438,266  
Undistributed long-term capital gain      28,387,809        82,955,062        89,610,367        38,877,034  
Late year ordinary loss deferral                           (1,949,222

Multiple Classes of Shares of Beneficial Interest – Each fund offers multiple classes of shares, which differ in their respective distribution, service, and program manager fees. Each fund’s income, realized and unrealized gain (loss), and common expenses are allocated to shareholders based on the daily net assets of each class. Dividends are declared separately for each class. Differences in per share dividend rates are generally due to differences in separate class expenses. Class B and Class 529B shares will convert to Class A and Class 529A shares, respectively, approximately eight years after purchase. Class C and Class 529C shares will convert to Class A and Class 529A shares, respectively, approximately ten years after purchase. Each fund’s distributions declared to shareholders as reported in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets are presented by class as follows:

 

   

MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund

 

MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund

 

MFS Growth
Allocation Fund

 

MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund

   

Year Ended
5/31/20

 

Year Ended
5/31/19

 

Year Ended
5/31/20

 

Year Ended
5/31/19

 

Year Ended
5/31/20

 

Year Ended
5/31/19

 

Year Ended
5/31/20

 

Year Ended
5/31/19

Class A   $47,576,968   $58,993,685   $145,270,997   $165,852,535   $145,230,645   $161,119,061   $44,373,842   $42,288,127
Class B   2,168,533   4,031,465   7,035,610   11,157,562   6,304,726   9,708,383   1,963,075   2,406,474
Class C   15,108,015   21,270,652   35,745,540   45,458,183   30,264,583   36,652,049   9,500,453   9,476,967
Class I   14,978,296   17,543,530   14,370,339   15,686,356   13,363,611   13,353,618   9,520,553   7,903,032
Class R1   358,308   454,348   1,027,258   1,359,461   883,981   1,472,799   625,251   729,171
Class R2   2,102,707   2,994,891   5,813,812   7,906,835   6,163,426   8,250,941   2,801,149   3,261,485
Class R3   3,623,914   5,002,912   12,752,047   15,475,717   8,199,347   10,834,512   4,665,815   5,674,293
Class R4   7,544,576   10,298,525   11,296,581   16,766,582   12,830,557   14,251,187   6,394,276   5,212,860
Class 529A   5,240,037   6,233,349   11,039,208   12,612,161   12,655,147   13,675,147   7,307,911   7,369,808
Class 529B   149,646   252,344   298,340   489,830   403,450   556,293   145,860   204,523
Class 529C   1,235,864   1,619,464   2,748,684   3,591,912   2,647,081   3,254,451   1,123,008   1,331,872
Total   $100,086,864   $128,695,165   $247,398,416   $296,357,134   $238,946,554   $273,128,441   $88,421,193   $85,858,612

 

(3)   Transactions with Affiliates

Investment Adviser – Each fund has an investment advisory agreement with MFS to provide overall investment management and related administrative services and facilities to the funds. MFS receives no compensation under this agreement; however MFS receives management fees from the underlying MFS funds.

For MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, MFS Moderate Allocation Fund, and MFS Growth Allocation Fund, the investment adviser has agreed in writing to pay a portion of each fund’s operating expenses, excluding distribution and service fees, program manager fees, interest, taxes, extraordinary expenses, brokerage and transaction costs, and investment-related expenses including fees and expenses associated with investments in investment companies and other similar investment vehicles, such that operating expenses do not exceed 0.10% annually of each fund’s average daily net assets. These written agreements will continue until modified by the funds’ Board of Trustees, but such agreements will continue at least until September 30, 2021. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reduction amounted to $625,578 for the MFS Growth Allocation Fund, and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statements of Operations. For the year ended May 31, 2020, actual operating expenses for the MFS Conservative Allocation Fund and for the MFS Moderate Allocation Fund did not exceed the limit and therefore, the investment adviser did not pay any portion of the funds’ expenses related to these agreements.

The investment adviser has agreed in writing to pay a portion of the MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund’s operating expenses, excluding distribution and service fees, program manager fees, interest, taxes, extraordinary expenses, brokerage and transaction costs, and investment-related expenses including fees and expenses associated with investments in investment companies and other similar investment vehicles, such that operating expenses do not exceed 0.13% annually of the fund’s average daily net assets. This written agreement will continue until modified by the fund’s Board of Trustees, but such agreement will continue at least until September 30, 2021. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reduction amounted to $507,106 and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statements of Operations.

 

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In addition to the fees and expenses which each fund bears directly, each fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which each fund invests. Accordingly, the expense ratio for each fund reflects only those fees and expenses borne directly by each fund.

Distributor – MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (MFD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, as distributor, received the following amounts for the year ended May 31, 2020, as its portion of the initial sales charge on sales of Class A and Class 529A shares of each fund:

 

     Class A      Class 529A  
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund      $519,562        $46,201  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund      1,045,220        119,839  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund      1,180,186        183,752  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund      454,503        157,597  

The Board of Trustees has adopted a distribution plan for certain share classes pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

Each fund’s distribution plan provides that each fund will pay MFD for services provided by MFD and financial intermediaries in connection with the distribution and servicing of certain share classes. One component of the plan is a distribution fee paid to MFD and another component of the plan is a service fee paid to MFD. MFD may subsequently pay all, or a portion, of the distribution and/or service fees to financial intermediaries.

Distribution Plan Fee Table:

 

     Class A  
     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        $3,416,447  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        7,900,548  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        7,423,078  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        2,302,553  
     Class B  
     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        $816,485  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        1,866,839  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        1,596,241  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        491,318  
     Class C  
     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        $5,439,833  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        9,159,239  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        7,217,274  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        2,312,216  
     Class R1  
     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        $124,287  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        257,756  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        213,396  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        154,905  
     Class R2  
     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        $311,182  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        665,228  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        667,213  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        306,418  

 

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     Class R3  
     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        $256,234  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        667,396  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        414,557  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        240,863  
     Class 529A  
     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.24%        $375,867  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.24%        604,830  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.24%        642,951  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund             0.25%        0.25%        0.24%        380,446  
     Class 529B  
     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        0.84%        $45,638  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        0.88%        71,292  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        100,295  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        36,816  
     Class 529C  
     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        0.99%        $439,743  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        707,012  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        0.99%        613,681  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        0.99%        264,492  

 

        MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
       MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
       MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
       MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Total Distribution and Service Fees        $11,225,716          $21,900,140          $18,888,686          $6,490,027  

 

(d)

In accordance with the distribution plan for certain classes, each fund pays distribution and/or service fees equal to these annual percentage rates of each class’s average daily net assets. The distribution and service fee rates disclosed by class represent the current rates in effect at the end of the reporting period. Any rate changes, if applicable, are detailed below.

(e)

The annual effective rates represent actual fees incurred under the distribution plan for the year ended May 31, 2020 based on each class’s average daily net assets. MFD has voluntarily agreed to rebate a portion of each class’s 0.25% service fee attributable to accounts for which there is no financial intermediary specified on the account except for accounts attributable to MFS or its affiliates’ seed money. For the year ended May 31, 2020, these rebates amounted to the following and are included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statements of Operations:

 

        MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
       MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
       MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
       MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Class A        $16,248          $85,575          $70,874          $35,018  
Class B        791          2,856          3,001          1,506  
Class C        1,617          4,840          7,512          2,306  
Class R1                 1          11           
Class R2        49          306          470          3  
Class 529A        20,541          18,058          26,426          15,704  
Class 529B        365          496          460          125  
Class 529C        3,986          3,136          4,123          2,922  

 

 

For the MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, for the period from March 1, 2020 through May 31, 2020, and for the MFS Moderate Allocation Fund, for the period from April 1, 2020 through May 31, 2020, the 0.75% distribution fee was not imposed for Class 529B shares of each fund due to the sales charge limitations contained in Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) Rule 2341.

 

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Certain Class A shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) in the event of a shareholder redemption within 18 months of purchase. Class B and Class 529B shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within six years of purchase. Class C and Class 529C shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within 12 months of purchase. All contingent deferred sales charges are paid to MFD and during the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

CDSC Imposed      MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
       MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
       MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
       MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Class A        $14,065          $12,586          $12,906          $4,407  
Class B        51,941          136,770          116,526          38,033  
Class C        44,607          69,876          66,923          31,614  
Class 529B        858          2,404          7,467          2,260  
Class 529C        618          593          1,093          329  

Each fund has entered into and may from time to time enter into contracts with program managers and other parties which administer the tuition programs through which an investment in each fund’s 529 share classes is made. Each fund has entered into an agreement with MFD pursuant to which MFD receives an annual fee of up to 0.05% of the average daily net assets attributable to each 529 share class. The services provided by MFD, or a third party with which MFD contracts, include recordkeeping and tax reporting and account services, as well as services designed to maintain the program’s compliance with the Internal Revenue Code and other regulatory requirements. Program manager fees for the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

        MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
       MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
       MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
       MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Class 529A        $75,174          $120,966          $128,590          $76,089  
Class 529B        2,697          4,002          5,014          1,841  
Class 529C        21,987          35,348          30,681          13,223  
Total Program Manager Fees        $99,858          $160,316          $164,285          $91,153  

Shareholder Servicing Agent – MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, provides shareholder services and transfer agent services to the funds. Under a Special Servicing Agreement among MFS, certain MFS funds which invest in other MFS funds (“MFS fund-of-funds”) and certain underlying funds in which a MFS fund-of-funds invests (“underlying funds”), each underlying fund may pay a portion of each MFS fund-of-funds’ transfer agent-related expenses, including out-of-pocket and sub-accounting fees, to the extent such payments do not exceed the benefits realized or expected to be realized by the underlying fund from the investment in the underlying fund by the MFS fund-of-funds. For the year ended May 31, 2020, shareholder servicing expenses incurred by the funds, including out-of-pocket expenses, are disclosed in the Statements of Operations.

Administrator – MFS provides certain financial, legal, shareholder communications, compliance, and other administrative services to each fund. Under an administrative services agreement, each fund reimburses MFS the costs incurred to provide these services. Each fund pays an annual fixed amount of $17,500. The administrative services fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to the following annual effective rates of each fund’s average daily net assets:

 

        MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
       MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
       MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
       MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Percentage of average daily net assets        0.0006%          0.0003%          0.0003%          0.0009%  

Trustees’ and Officers’ Compensation – Each fund pays compensation to independent Trustees in the form of a retainer, attendance fees, and additional compensation to Board and Committee chairpersons. Each fund does not pay compensation directly to Trustees or officers of each fund who are also officers of the investment adviser, all of whom receive remuneration from MFS for their services to each fund. Certain officers and Trustees of each fund are officers or directors of MFS, MFD, and MFSC.

Other – These funds and certain other funds managed by MFS (the funds) had entered into a service agreement (the ISO Agreement) which provided for payment of fees solely by the funds to Tarantino LLC in return for the provision of services of an Independent Senior Officer (ISO) for the funds. Frank L. Tarantino served as the ISO and was an officer of the funds and the sole member of Tarantino LLC. Effective June 30, 2019, Mr. Tarantino retired from his position as ISO for the funds, and the ISO Agreement was terminated. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee paid by each fund under this agreement amounted to the following and is included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statements of Operations:

 

MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
  MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
  MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
  MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
$1,241   $2,748   $2,570   $955

MFS had agreed to bear all expenses associated with office space, other administrative support, and supplies provided to the ISO.

Each fund invests in the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio which is managed by MFS and seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity. This money market fund does not pay a management fee to MFS but does incur investment and operating costs.

 

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(4)   Portfolio Securities

For the year ended May 31, 2020, purchases and sales of shares of underlying funds, excluding the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, aggregated to the following:

 

        MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
       MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
       MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
       MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 
Purchases        $366,180,481          $417,941,119          $196,486,679          $105,108,655  
Sales        $396,533,270          $768,256,766          $435,318,752          $141,508,219  

 

(5)   Shares of Beneficial Interest

Each fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest. Transactions in fund shares were as follows:

 

    MFS Conservative Allocation Fund     MFS Moderate Allocation Fund  
    Year ended
5/31/20
    Year ended
5/31/19
    Year ended
5/31/20
    Year ended
5/31/19
 
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  
Shares sold                

Class A

    17,767,890       $280,516,970       11,247,794       $172,189,047       22,364,662       $401,359,896       18,848,647       $330,523,324  

Class B

    184,283       2,860,968       395,766       6,016,417       169,946       3,018,628       652,022       11,292,165  

Class C

    6,015,830       93,916,198       4,708,589       70,936,299       6,356,099       112,813,206       6,222,515       107,163,097  

Class I

    10,661,179       166,144,995       7,415,078       114,320,938       6,132,421       112,261,977       6,002,432       106,920,584  

Class R1

    246,476       3,765,576       171,334       2,505,961       185,486       3,177,286       232,137       3,923,567  

Class R2

    880,783       13,535,427       1,379,185       20,426,894       868,578       15,458,949       1,104,945       18,945,640  

Class R3

    1,809,702       28,586,321       1,909,472       29,062,232       3,304,080       59,266,545       2,928,153       51,205,205  

Class R4

    6,993,607       110,692,186       5,317,873       81,052,760       5,251,520       93,745,729       4,402,483       77,022,038  

Class 529A

    4,610,433       72,422,152       4,615,377       70,059,530       3,784,521       67,559,275       3,705,337       64,367,007  

Class 529B

    136,723       2,126,717       198,508       2,947,631       103,613       1,819,476       140,598       2,415,694  

Class 529C

    1,240,039       19,194,642       1,546,627       23,037,095       918,874       16,208,077       1,238,526       21,100,878  
    50,546,945       $793,762,152       38,905,603       $592,554,804       49,439,800       $886,689,044       45,477,795       $794,879,199  
Shares issued to shareholders in
reinvestment of distributions

 

       

Class A

    2,861,638       $45,731,722       3,891,697       $56,643,994       7,607,124       $140,320,952       9,879,928       $159,659,934  

Class B

    129,578       2,074,171       268,940       3,867,917       374,146       6,872,822       690,219       10,917,735  

Class C

    904,422       14,308,836       1,416,730       20,173,157       1,860,008       33,869,829       2,746,313       43,112,755  

Class I

    717,871       11,557,477       918,936       13,521,940       595,405       11,125,090       742,462       12,192,865  

Class R1

    23,125       358,308       32,550       454,348       57,763       1,027,258       88,469       1,359,390  

Class R2

    128,515       1,996,686       197,386       2,783,697       307,835       5,557,880       469,505       7,398,652  

Class R3

    228,714       3,623,914       346,841       5,002,621       697,097       12,752,047       965,003       15,474,867  

Class R4

    429,329       6,851,960       673,693       9,806,915       530,307       9,754,679       978,106       15,809,460  

Class 529A

    329,809       5,239,784       430,870       6,233,278       601,671       11,038,896       785,284       12,612,161  

Class 529B

    9,525       149,646       17,834       252,330       16,440       298,340       31,291       489,074  

Class 529C

    78,863       1,235,764       114,998       1,619,464       152,735       2,748,684       231,431       3,591,912  
    5,841,389       $93,128,268       8,310,475       $120,359,661       12,800,531       $235,366,477       17,608,011       $282,618,805  
Shares reacquired

 

       

Class A

    (15,749,875     $(246,623,081     (16,591,042     $(253,913,400     (26,943,541     $(480,475,483     (27,494,240     $(482,087,445

Class B

    (2,400,946     (37,660,195     (2,128,596     (32,364,567     (4,230,041     (74,944,401     (3,781,568     (65,517,519

Class C

    (7,638,573     (118,346,006     (8,351,356     (125,895,999     (11,983,835     (210,596,363     (12,143,145     (209,220,461

Class I

    (10,109,138     (158,281,667     (7,712,592     (116,995,712     (5,189,826     (93,325,251     (6,023,912     (106,293,449

Class R1

    (294,042     (4,506,213     (289,104     (4,290,783     (399,257     (6,916,905     (361,451     (6,049,047

Class R2

    (1,661,641     (25,587,773     (2,079,281     (30,638,610     (2,053,177     (36,419,402     (3,121,308     (53,641,154

Class R3

    (2,685,221     (41,925,662     (2,936,062     (44,365,863     (7,224,797     (127,825,506     (5,982,734     (104,185,445

Class R4

    (4,405,117     (70,081,741     (7,040,601     (103,512,993     (3,741,694     (67,001,944     (9,074,999     (151,477,708

Class 529A

    (4,632,383     (72,966,813     (4,281,443     (65,014,017     (3,938,669     (70,784,473     (4,053,477     (70,574,642

Class 529B

    (285,507     (4,426,814     (291,080     (4,350,142     (225,835     (4,009,780     (286,577     (4,866,705

Class 529C

    (1,536,617     (23,384,612     (1,533,390     (22,764,716     (1,550,616     (26,475,918     (1,602,483     (27,162,860
    (51,399,060     $(803,790,577     (53,234,547     $(804,106,802     (67,481,288     $(1,198,775,426     (73,925,894     $(1,281,076,435

 

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    MFS Conservative Allocation Fund – continued     MFS Moderate Allocation Fund – continued  
    Year ended
5/31/20
    Year ended
5/31/19
    Year ended
5/31/20
    Year ended
5/31/19
 
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  
Net change                

Class A

    4,879,653       $79,625,611       (1,451,551     $(25,080,359     3,028,245       $61,205,365       1,234,335       $8,095,813  

Class B

    (2,087,085     (32,725,056     (1,463,890     (22,480,233     (3,685,949     (65,052,951     (2,439,327     (43,307,619

Class C

    (718,321     (10,120,972     (2,226,037     (34,786,543     (3,767,728     (63,913,328     (3,174,317     (58,944,609

Class I

    1,269,912       19,420,805       621,422       10,847,166       1,538,000       30,061,816       720,982       12,820,000  

Class R1

    (24,441     (382,329     (85,220     (1,330,474     (156,008     (2,712,361     (40,845     (766,090

Class R2

    (652,343     (10,055,660     (502,710     (7,428,019     (876,764     (15,402,573     (1,546,858     (27,296,862

Class R3

    (646,805     (9,715,427     (679,749     (10,301,010     (3,223,620     (55,806,914     (2,089,578     (37,505,373

Class R4

    3,017,819       47,462,405       (1,049,035     (12,653,318     2,040,133       36,498,464       (3,694,410     (58,646,210

Class 529A

    307,859       4,695,123       764,804       11,278,791       447,523       7,813,698       437,144       6,404,526  

Class 529B

    (139,259     (2,150,451     (74,738     (1,150,181     (105,782     (1,891,964     (114,688     (1,961,937

Class 529C

    (217,715     (2,954,206     128,235       1,891,843       (479,007     (7,519,157     (132,526     (2,470,070
    4,989,274       $83,099,843       (6,018,469     $(91,192,337     (5,240,957     $(76,719,905     (10,840,088     $(203,578,431
    MFS Growth Allocation Fund     MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund  
    Year ended
5/31/20
    Year ended
5/31/19
    Year ended
5/31/20
    Year ended
5/31/19
 
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  
Shares sold                

Class A

    16,964,557       $351,755,022       15,138,890       $308,220,750       6,359,443       $148,247,342       5,236,894       $120,732,984  

Class B

    44,425       941,621       546,224       11,057,805       17,042       395,307       250,463       5,718,259  

Class C

    5,543,612       112,797,221       4,655,082       93,234,038       2,494,103       56,373,562       1,839,580       41,356,466  

Class I

    6,498,049       137,930,128       4,950,255       101,749,384       2,896,996       69,705,103       2,854,662       65,654,604  

Class R1

    142,203       2,848,859       168,467       3,301,527       65,885       1,483,465       101,533       2,231,527  

Class R2

    734,076       14,782,580       797,491       15,921,895       475,221       10,970,235       523,200       11,789,625  

Class R3

    1,343,534       28,086,686       1,321,370       27,062,233       933,537       21,625,472       876,922       20,068,918  

Class R4

    3,818,312       79,388,651       3,287,873       66,759,955       2,266,309       53,105,070       1,957,167       44,474,804  

Class 529A

    2,766,213       57,070,560       2,611,977       52,684,155       1,377,747       31,542,770       1,179,498       27,041,771  

Class 529B

    45,724       934,652       92,376       1,843,144       1,982       47,983       34,984       788,670  

Class 529C

    470,627       9,556,769       564,730       11,116,841       211,713       4,895,956       207,708       4,678,943  
    38,371,332       $796,092,749       34,134,735       $692,951,727       17,099,978       $398,392,265       15,062,611       $344,536,571  
Shares issued to shareholders in
reinvestment of distributions

 

       

Class A

    6,473,770       $141,322,366       8,691,032       $156,525,537       1,713,317       $43,089,927       2,030,603       $40,896,352  

Class B

    284,043       6,169,440       531,584       9,515,307       78,166       1,942,426       119,912       2,386,256  

Class C

    1,366,359       29,281,075       2,001,210       35,401,415       374,645       9,197,543       465,821       9,172,009  

Class I

    459,961       10,132,946       530,549       9,634,775       255,451       6,534,435       255,411       5,225,703  

Class R1

    42,155       883,981       85,084       1,472,799       25,880       625,251       37,625       729,171  

Class R2

    282,283       6,018,278       454,029       7,990,914       109,794       2,702,021       158,540       3,126,405  

Class R3

    379,073       8,199,347       607,316       10,834,512       187,082       4,665,815       284,141       5,674,293  

Class R4

    526,301       11,468,094       737,115       13,245,955       224,951       5,671,012       237,679       4,796,364  

Class 529A

    584,853       12,655,147       765,560       13,672,902       292,752       7,307,079       368,663       7,369,594  

Class 529B

    18,791       403,450       31,411       556,293       5,944       145,860       10,408       204,523  

Class 529C

    125,394       2,647,073       186,450       3,253,558       46,481       1,122,978       68,728       1,331,872  
    10,542,983       $229,181,197       14,621,340       $262,103,967       3,314,463       $83,004,347       4,037,531       $80,912,542  

 

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    MFS Growth Allocation Fund – continued     MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund – continued  
    Year ended
5/31/20
    Year ended
5/31/19
    Year ended
5/31/20
    Year ended
5/31/19
 
    Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount     Shares     Amount  
Shares reacquired

 

       

Class A

    (21,047,313     $(435,278,547     (19,755,492     $(403,638,669     (5,991,736     $(140,943,679     (5,733,226     $(133,460,526

Class B

    (2,963,735     (60,988,307     (2,619,298     (52,969,870     (626,418     (14,493,165     (681,094     (15,532,783

Class C

    (8,383,637     (170,228,420     (8,101,489     (162,296,957     (2,428,148     (56,018,476     (2,266,280     (51,175,676

Class I

    (4,395,486     (89,290,841     (3,151,975     (63,884,929     (2,786,497     (65,202,379     (1,879,208     (43,765,380

Class R1

    (392,938     (7,863,082     (588,674     (11,471,258     (217,609     (5,018,561     (121,519     (2,733,676

Class R2

    (1,865,799     (37,982,178     (2,124,667     (41,906,817     (951,975     (21,901,836     (917,049     (20,707,314

Class R3

    (2,946,435     (61,490,784     (3,230,880     (64,338,526     (1,631,807     (38,755,584     (2,743,982     (61,512,686

Class R4

    (2,981,918     (61,286,577     (3,566,526     (70,288,876     (1,338,976     (31,849,451     (1,292,895     (29,269,235

Class 529A

    (2,730,280     (56,954,215     (2,624,563     (53,057,990     (1,365,549     (32,414,064     (1,403,103     (32,033,223

Class 529B

    (177,510     (3,654,445     (163,032     (3,271,853     (69,119     (1,601,953     (73,213     (1,631,168

Class 529C

    (850,876     (16,659,849     (1,104,664     (21,761,656     (527,485     (10,964,259     (402,262     (8,903,712
    (48,735,927     $(1,001,677,245     (47,031,260     $(948,887,401     (17,935,319     $(419,163,407     (17,513,831     $(400,725,379
Net change

 

       

Class A

    2,391,014       $57,798,841       4,074,430       $61,107,618       2,081,024       $50,393,590       1,534,271       $28,168,810  

Class B

    (2,635,267     (53,877,246     (1,541,490     (32,396,758     (531,210     (12,155,432     (310,719     (7,428,268

Class C

    (1,473,666     (28,150,124     (1,445,197     (33,661,504     440,600       9,552,629       39,121       (647,201

Class I

    2,562,524       58,772,233       2,328,829       47,499,230       365,950       11,037,159       1,230,865       27,114,927  

Class R1

    (208,580     (4,130,242     (335,123     (6,696,932     (125,844     (2,909,845     17,639       227,022  

Class R2

    (849,440     (17,181,320     (873,147     (17,994,008     (366,960     (8,229,580     (235,309     (5,791,284

Class R3

    (1,223,828     (25,204,751     (1,302,194     (26,441,781     (511,188     (12,464,297     (1,582,919     (35,769,475

Class R4

    1,362,695       29,570,168       458,462       9,717,034       1,152,284       26,926,631       901,951       20,001,933  

Class 529A

    620,786       12,771,492       752,974       13,299,067       304,950       6,435,785       145,058       2,378,142  

Class 529B

    (112,995     (2,316,343     (39,245     (872,416     (61,193     (1,408,110     (27,821     (637,975

Class 529C

    (254,855     (4,456,007     (353,484     (7,391,257     (269,291     (4,945,325     (125,826     (2,892,897
    178,388       $23,596,701       1,724,815       $6,168,293       2,479,122       $62,233,205       1,586,311       $24,723,734  

Class T shares were not publicly available for sale during the period. Please see each fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective June 1, 2019, purchases of each fund’s Class B and Class 529B shares are closed to new and existing investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see each fund’s prospectus for details.

 

(6)   Line of Credit

Each fund and certain other funds managed by MFS participate in a $1.25 billion unsecured committed line of credit, subject to a $1 billion sublimit, provided by a syndicate of banks under a credit agreement. Borrowings may be made for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, generally at a rate equal to the highest of one month LIBOR, the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus an agreed upon spread. A commitment fee, based on the average daily, unused portion of the committed line of credit, is allocated among the participating funds. In addition, each fund and other funds managed by MFS have established unsecured uncommitted borrowing arrangements with certain banks for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, at rates equal to customary reference rates plus an agreed upon spread. For the year ended May 31, 2020, each fund’s commitment fee and interest expense were as follows and are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statements of Operations:

 

     MFS Conservative
Allocation Fund
     MFS Moderate
Allocation Fund
     MFS Growth
Allocation Fund
     MFS Aggressive Growth
Allocation Fund
 

Commitment Fee

     $16,036        $29,539        $26,091        $9,999  

Interest Expense

     1,355                       

 

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(7)   Investments in Affiliated Issuers

An affiliated issuer may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:

 

     MFS Conservative Allocation Fund  

Affiliated Issuers

   Beginning
Value
     Purchases      Sales
Proceeds
     Realized
Gain
(Loss)
     Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
     Ending
Value
 

MFS Commodity Strategy Fund

     $54,594,424        $17,936,407        $1,339,778        $(879,370)        $(10,781,703)        $59,529,980  

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund

     85,815,845        10,398,277        3,336,145        (133,025)        (1,255,537)        91,489,415  

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund (a)

     56,833,136        9,938,621        3,690,741        (608,131)        (367,674)        62,105,211  

MFS Global Bond Fund

     143,594,334        15,026,522        13,677,720        (1,939,005)        5,199,542        148,203,673  

MFS Global Real Estate Fund

     56,789,322        15,209,591        4,957,981        202,427        (6,045,153)        61,198,206  

MFS Government Securities Fund

     287,644,533        40,008,659        58,707,470        74,226        17,198,968        286,218,916  

MFS Growth Fund

     168,855,811        19,177,373        38,469,233        13,820,944        23,723,801        187,108,696  

MFS High Income Fund

     142,294,143        18,688,992        6,676,742        (655,287)        (2,732,675)        150,918,431  

MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund

     288,807,931        32,226,264        43,013,458        4,131        14,559,113        292,583,981  

MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

     1,939,958        117,311,350        119,250,541        (462)               305  

MFS International Growth Fund

     55,941,628        11,696,858        8,428,088        418,831        1,847,254        61,476,483  

MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

     56,317,093        11,613,582        9,116,594        (41,498)        3,572,372        62,344,955  

MFS Limited Maturity Fund

     285,635,602        36,867,248        29,814,724        (798,677)        2,384,121        294,273,570  

MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund

     113,733,540        16,616,274        23,032,296        6,150,756        14,977,550        128,445,824  

MFS Mid Cap Value Fund

     110,272,593        38,108,165        18,753,346        (292,475)        (2,611,588)        126,723,349  

MFS New Discovery Fund

     27,804,055        9,179,586        8,580,031        524,838        3,740,867        32,669,315  

MFS New Discovery Value Fund

     27,236,038        12,366,467        6,423,828        (355,958)        (952,792)        31,869,927  

MFS Research Fund

     167,550,031        33,485,433        31,304,202        1,586,145        15,350,412        186,667,819  

MFS Research International Fund

     111,973,507        22,048,495        13,813,571        728,032        3,612,621        124,549,084  

MFS Total Return Bond Fund

     431,573,001        40,616,605        47,740,475        174,543        20,118,862        444,742,536  

MFS Value Fund

     166,824,657        42,378,637        25,656,843        2,643,276        (422,616)        185,767,111  
     $2,842,031,182        $570,899,406        $515,783,807        $20,624,261        $101,115,745        $3,018,886,787  

 

Affiliated Issuers

                               Dividend
Income
     Capital Gain
Distributions
 

MFS Commodity Strategy Fund

                 $1,134,537        $—  

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund

                 4,173,814         

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund (a)

                 1,780,717         

MFS Global Bond Fund

                 3,481,121         

MFS Global Real Estate Fund

                 3,362,933         

MFS Government Securities Fund

                 7,261,165         

MFS Growth Fund

                        2,986,917  

MFS High Income Fund

                 7,466,371         

MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund

                 6,765,470         

MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

                 25,686         

MFS International Growth Fund

                 709,371        241,185  

MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

                 753,613        1,816,159  

MFS Limited Maturity Fund

                 8,067,352         

MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund

                        1,008,913  

MFS Mid Cap Value Fund

                 1,865,465        1,032,077  

MFS New Discovery Fund

                 713,489        1,401,751  

MFS New Discovery Value Fund

                 746,222        774,957  

MFS Research Fund

                 2,408,611        4,926,417  

MFS Research International Fund

                 2,503,411         

MFS Total Return Bond Fund

                 13,510,656         

MFS Value Fund

                                         4,174,593        2,340,293  
                 $70,904,597        $16,528,669  

 

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     MFS Moderate Allocation Fund  

Affiliated Issuers

   Beginning
Value
     Purchases      Sales
Proceeds
     Realized
Gain
(Loss)
     Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
     Ending
Value
 

MFS Commodity Strategy Fund

     $154,088,353        $34,583,920        $4,200,288        $(4,362,776)        $(27,067,260)        $153,041,949  

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund

     163,273,168        14,803,460        13,527,867        (697,742)        (2,185,980)        161,665,039  

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund (a)

     106,124,816        9,641,996        4,140,809        (558,753)        (1,404,245)        109,663,005  

MFS Global Bond Fund

     270,899,820        22,710,601        41,134,642        (6,104,514)        11,739,523        258,110,788  

MFS Global Real Estate Fund

     164,393,483        32,354,974        18,198,220        1,020,900        (18,306,794)        161,264,343  

MFS Government Securities Fund

     541,667,330        56,019,039        138,028,727        (116,201)        31,892,869        491,434,310  

MFS Growth Fund

     434,157,611        15,697,895        82,900,848        44,890,574        46,287,527        458,132,759  

MFS High Income Fund

     271,388,203        23,810,345        19,681,186        (2,327,903)        (4,463,087)        268,726,372  

MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund

     382,147,360        30,847,320        67,017,297        117,242        18,145,092        364,239,717  

MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

     1,744,726        128,304,428        126,929,573        (700)        (121)        3,118,760  

MFS International Growth Fund

     161,243,895        15,219,797        16,681,989        2,208,862        3,746,429        165,736,994  

MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

     162,750,224        15,956,239        19,770,123        1,304,477        7,425,113        167,665,930  

MFS International New Discovery Fund

     53,801,749        9,318,434        4,806,446        79,385        (1,002,107)        57,391,015  

MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund

     384,959,391        20,838,709        59,715,905        25,628,373        41,929,847        413,640,415  

MFS Mid Cap Value Fund

     369,807,629        77,857,648        40,210,474        3,534,756        (14,435,210)        396,554,349  

MFS New Discovery Fund

     80,515,743        15,624,846        15,267,782        1,315,456        9,854,228        92,042,491  

MFS New Discovery Value Fund

     77,930,749        23,941,325        11,525,055        147,583        (4,219,614)        86,274,988  

MFS Research Fund

     430,136,229        41,487,588        59,815,044        5,578,304        34,422,276        451,809,353  

MFS Research International Fund

     322,451,325        28,670,888        29,469,278        2,976,265        8,522,054        333,151,254  

MFS Total Return Bond Fund

     437,415,509        34,949,907        74,974,023        (531,900)        19,845,517        416,705,010  

MFS Value Fund

     427,540,047        56,959,446        47,391,871        10,066,433        (6,758,493)        440,415,562  
     $5,398,437,360        $709,598,805        $895,387,447        $84,168,121        $153,967,564        $5,450,784,403  

 

Affiliated Issuers

                               Dividend
Income
     Capital Gain
Distributions
 

MFS Commodity Strategy Fund

                 $3,155,755        $—  

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund

                 7,767,112         

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund (a)

                 3,255,094         

MFS Global Bond Fund

                 6,470,573         

MFS Global Real Estate Fund

                 9,471,641         

MFS Government Securities Fund

                 13,456,057         

MFS Growth Fund

                        7,505,700  

MFS High Income Fund

                 13,867,026         

MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund

                 8,838,576         

MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

                 44,196         

MFS International Growth Fund

                 1,989,320        676,367  

MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

                 2,117,249        5,102,433  

MFS International New Discovery Fund

                 770,231        847,266  

MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund

                        3,300,173  

MFS Mid Cap Value Fund

                 6,094,580        3,371,855  

MFS New Discovery Fund

                 1,988,848        3,907,375  

MFS New Discovery Value Fund

                 2,090,170        2,187,998  

MFS Research Fund

                 6,005,136        12,282,509  

MFS Research International Fund

                 7,015,099         

MFS Total Return Bond Fund

                 13,406,850         

MFS Value Fund

                                         10,377,509        5,833,647  
                 $118,181,022        $45,015,323  

 

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     MFS Growth Allocation Fund  

Affiliated Issuers

   Beginning
Value
     Purchases      Sales
Proceeds
     Realized
Gain
(Loss)
     Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
     Ending
Value
 

MFS Commodity Strategy Fund

     $182,325,116        $32,011,421        $480,649        $(288,022)        $(37,634,580)        $175,933,286  

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund

     145,076,152        14,902,393        14,626,938        (1,358,266)        (2,425,186)        141,568,155  

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund (a)

     94,081,740        9,281,529        4,761,998        (650,798)        (2,019,379)        95,931,094  

MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund

     45,887,632        6,763,519        572,392        17,888        (5,126,946)        46,969,701  

MFS Global Bond Fund

     96,308,089        9,250,187        16,636,665        (3,380,566)        4,724,311        90,265,356  

MFS Global Real Estate Fund

     198,065,141        24,630,703        12,075,159        1,693,268        (22,851,003)        189,462,950  

MFS Growth Fund

     542,711,851        10,329,471        99,275,847        58,008,270        48,493,507        560,267,252  

MFS High Income Fund

     240,878,355        25,936,464        20,773,967        (3,110,512)        (4,824,401)        238,105,939  

MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund

     242,758,781        20,920,685        38,294,353        (735,973)        12,428,355        237,077,495  

MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

     11,732,270        121,754,174        122,775,507        121        (315)        10,710,743  

MFS International Growth Fund

     243,046,863        6,761,693        12,737,279        324,368        6,553,935        243,949,580  

MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

     245,634,900        12,444,776        22,472,288        538,700        10,481,891        246,627,979  

MFS International New Discovery Fund

     96,443,387        14,229,728        6,178,364        (246,905)        (2,130,446)        102,117,400  

MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund

     450,678,683        4,955,331        53,583,820        27,947,740        45,691,333        475,689,267  

MFS Mid Cap Value Fund

     429,761,038        59,680,492        22,258,118        681,577        (14,420,173)        453,444,816  

MFS New Discovery Fund

     97,596,153        18,673,420        19,004,337        872,119        11,259,455        109,396,810  

MFS New Discovery Value Fund

     93,565,264        21,687,321        7,187,623        (469,671)        (5,006,223)        102,589,068  

MFS Research Fund

     389,967,978        17,564,549        35,547,912        2,516,529        29,709,933        404,211,077  

MFS Research International Fund

     339,364,007        18,501,373        24,171,171        763,775        7,827,442        342,285,426  

MFS Total Return Bond Fund

     145,903,471        13,650,735        28,130,723        (1,163,223)        6,374,339        136,634,599  

MFS Value Fund

     531,827,882        40,097,390        33,079,479        3,717,388        (4,086,225)        538,476,956  
     $4,863,614,753        $504,027,354        $594,624,589        $85,677,807        $83,019,624        $4,941,714,949  

 

Affiliated Issuers

                               Dividend
Income
     Capital Gain
Distributions
 

MFS Commodity Strategy Fund

                 $3,683,005        $—  

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Fund

                 6,928,389         

MFS Emerging Markets Debt Local Currency Fund (a)

                 4,924,955         

MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund

                 989,877         

MFS Global Bond Fund

                 2,158,152        137,401  

MFS Global Real Estate Fund

                 11,425,998         

MFS Growth Fund

                        9,358,531  

MFS High Income Fund

                 10,372,304         

MFS Inflation-Adjusted Bond Fund

                 5,611,918         

MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

                 186,162         

MFS International Growth Fund

                 2,755,891        1,274,659  

MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

                 3,030,369        7,882,857  

MFS International New Discovery Fund

                 2,925,891         

MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund

                        3,841,706  

MFS Mid Cap Value Fund

                 5,863,596        5,197,384  

MFS New Discovery Fund

                        7,113,418  

MFS New Discovery Value Fund

                 948,016        4,220,803  

MFS Research Fund

                 9,713,524        6,875,033  

MFS Research International Fund

                 7,432,847         

MFS Total Return Bond Fund

                 4,473,327         

MFS Value Fund

                                         12,828,088        7,288,231  
                 $96,252,309        $53,190,023  

 

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     MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund  

Affiliated Issuers

   Beginning
Value
     Purchases      Sales
Proceeds
     Realized
Gain
(Loss)
     Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
     Ending
Value
 

MFS Commodity Strategy Fund

     $87,849,521        $19,794,668        $4,260,410        $(3,574,545)        $(14,820,509)        $84,988,725  

MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund

     35,362,834        6,093,668        3,227,558        71,514        (3,914,617)        34,385,841  

MFS Global Real Estate Fund

     90,684,955        16,846,321        8,505,617        367,887        (11,370,757)        88,022,789  

MFS Growth Fund

     231,392,414        8,878,770        38,910,177        20,528,578        28,345,282        250,234,867  

MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

     255,445        49,856,441        47,722,654        (642)               2,388,590  

MFS International Growth Fund

     142,264,568        6,789,224        6,441,648        (98,326)        4,184,211        146,698,029  

MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

     143,047,824        11,389,008        10,833,473        (670,425)        8,076,555        151,009,489  

MFS International New Discovery Fund

     71,668,941        8,020,161        2,703,616        34,689        (2,549,451)        74,470,724  

MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund

     179,761,816        8,231,165        22,506,387        7,826,054        22,418,390        195,731,038  

MFS Mid Cap Value Fund

     174,800,608        24,431,286        7,006,483        300,518        (9,628,560)        182,897,369  

MFS New Discovery Fund

     43,984,656        6,095,427        5,459,868        290,130        4,987,342        49,897,687  

MFS New Discovery Value Fund

     43,221,367        9,525,827        3,192,031        126,295        (3,854,198)        45,827,260  

MFS Research Fund

     159,379,697        8,470,112        12,614,950        521,025        12,595,743        168,351,627  

MFS Research International Fund

     142,689,177        8,225,216        7,488,169        43,071        3,463,384        146,932,679  

MFS Value Fund

     229,535,507        16,530,715        8,357,832        170,870        (2,266,429)        235,612,831  
     $1,775,899,330        $209,178,009        $189,230,873        $25,936,693        $35,666,386        $1,857,449,545  

 

Affiliated Issuers

                               Dividend
Income
     Capital Gain
Distributions
 

MFS Commodity Strategy Fund

                 $1,862,095        $—  

MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund

                 764,490         

MFS Global Real Estate Fund

                 5,498,955         

MFS Growth Fund

                        4,102,942  

MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

                 10,783         

MFS International Growth Fund

                 1,797,356        611,099  

MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

                 1,917,676        4,621,480  

MFS International New Discovery Fund

                 1,042,554        1,146,819  

MFS Mid Cap Growth Fund

                        1,599,121  

MFS Mid Cap Value Fund

                 2,963,192        1,639,400  

MFS New Discovery Fund

                 1,113,800        2,188,219  

MFS New Discovery Value Fund

                 1,175,012        1,228,598  

MFS Research Fund

                 2,289,868        4,683,547  

MFS Research International Fund

                 3,166,669         

MFS Value Fund

                                         5,582,966        3,217,055  
                 $29,185,416        $25,038,280  

 

(a)

Amounts reflect the impact of a return of capital distribution adjustment which has the effect of reducing dividend income and increasing realized gain (loss) and/or change in unrealized appreciation (depreciation).

 

(8)   Impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic related to the global spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in December 2019, has resulted in significant disruptions to global business activity and the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the securities and commodities markets in general. This pandemic, the full effects of which are still unknown, has resulted in substantial market volatility and may have adversely impacted the prices and liquidity of each fund’s investments and each fund’s performance.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Shareholders of MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, MFS Moderate Allocation Fund, MFS Growth Allocation Fund and MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund and the Board of Trustees of MFS Series Trust X

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statements of assets and liabilities of MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, MFS Moderate Allocation Fund, MFS Growth Allocation Fund and MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund (collectively referred to as the “MFS Asset Allocation Funds”) (four of the funds constituting MFS Series Trust X (the “Trust”)), including the portfolios of investments, as of May 31, 2020, and the related statements of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of each of the MFS Asset Allocation Funds (four of the funds constituting MFS Series Trust X) at May 31, 2020, the results of their operations for the year then ended, the changes in their net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and their financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on each of the MFS Asset Allocation Funds’ financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2020, by correspondence with the transfer agent. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

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We have served as the auditor of one or more MFS investment companies since 1993.

Boston, Massachusetts

July 17, 2020

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS — IDENTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND

The Trustees and Officers of the Trust, as of July 1, 2020, are listed below, together with their principal occupations during the past five years. (Their titles may have varied during that period.) The address of each Trustee and Officer is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of MFS
Funds overseen
by the Trustee

 

Principal Occupations
During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships During
the Past Five Years (j)

INTERESTED TRUSTEES
Robert J. Manning (k)
(age 56)
  Trustee    February 2004   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Chairman (since January 2017); Director; Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (until 2015); Co-Chief Executive Officer (2015-2016)   N/A

Robin A. Stelmach (k)

(age 58)

  Trustee    January 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice Chair (since January 2017); Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (until January 2017)   N/A
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES

John P. Kavanaugh

(age 65)

  Trustee and Chair of Trustees    January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A

Steven E. Buller

(age 68)

  Trustee    February 2014   134   Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman (2014-2015); Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Standing Advisory Group, Member (until 2014); BlackRock, Inc. (investment management), Managing Director (until 2014), BlackRock Finco UK (investment management), Director (until 2014)   N/A

John A. Caroselli

(age 66)

  Trustee    March 2017   134   JC Global Advisors, LLC (management consulting), President (since 2015); First Capital Corporation (commercial finance), Executive Vice President (until 2015)   N/A

Maureen R. Goldfarb

(age 65)

  Trustee    January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A
Peter D. Jones
(age 64)
  Trustee    January 2019   134   Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (investment management), President (until 2015); Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (investment management), Chairman (until 2015)   N/A
James W. Kilman, Jr.
(age 59)
  Trustee    January 2019   134   Burford Capital Limited (finance and investment management), Chief Financial Officer (since 2019); KielStrand Capital LLC (family office), Chief Executive Officer (since 2016); Morgan Stanley & Co. (financial services), Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Co-Head of Diversified Financials Coverage – Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group (until 2016)   Alpha-En Corporation, Director (2016-2019)

Clarence Otis, Jr.

(age 64)

  Trustee    March 2017   134   Darden Restaurants, Inc., Chief Executive Officer (until 2014)   VF Corporation, Director; Verizon Communications, Inc., Director; The Travelers Companies, Director; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Director (until 2015)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of MFS
Funds overseen
by the Trustee

 

Principal Occupations
During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships During
the Past Five Years (j)

Maryanne L. Roepke

(age 64)

  Trustee    May 2014   134   American Century Investments (investment management), Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (until 2014)   N/A
Laurie J. Thomsen
(age 62)
  Trustee    March 2005   134   Private investor   The Travelers Companies, Director; Dycom Industries, Inc., Director (since 2015)

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

  

Number of MFS

Funds for which the
Person is an Officer

  

Principal Occupations
During

the Past Five Years

OFFICERS           
Christopher R. Bohane (k)
(age 46)
  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk    July 2005    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Kino Clark (k)

(age 52)

  Assistant Treasurer    January 2012    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

John W. Clark, Jr. (k)

(age 53)

  Assistant Treasurer    April 2017    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President (since March 2017); Deutsche Bank (financial services), Department Head – Treasurer’s Office (until February 2017)

Thomas H. Connors (k)

(age 60)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk    September 2012    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel
David L. DiLorenzo (k)
(age 51)
  President    July 2005    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

Heidi W. Hardin (k)

(age 52)

  Secretary and Clerk    April 2017    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Vice President and General Counsel (since March 2017); Harris Associates (investment management), General Counsel (from September 2015 to January 2017); Janus Capital Management LLC (investment management), Senior Vice President and General Counsel (until September 2015)

Brian E. Langenfeld (k)

(age 47)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk    June 2006    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel

Amanda S. Mooradian (k)

(age 41)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk    September 2018    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel
Susan A. Pereira (k)
(age 49)
  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk    July 2005    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Kasey L. Phillips (k)

(age 49)

  Assistant Treasurer    September 2012    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

Matthew A. Stowe (k)

(age 45)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk    October 2014    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Martin J. Wolin (k)

(age 52)

  Chief Compliance Officer    July 2015    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (since July 2015); Mercer (financial service provider), Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, North America and Latin America (until June 2015)
James O. Yost (k)
(age 60)
  Treasurer    September 1990    134    Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

 

(h)

Date first appointed to serve as Trustee/officer of an MFS Fund. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. For the period from December 15, 2004 until February 22, 2005, Mr. Manning served as Advisory Trustee. From January 2012 through December 2016, Messrs. DiLorenzo and Yost served as Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer of the Funds, respectively.

(j)

Directorships or trusteeships of companies required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., “public companies”).

(k)

“Interested person” of the Trust within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (referred to as the 1940 Act), which is the principal federal law governing investment companies like the fund, as a result of a position with MFS. The address of MFS is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Each Trustee (other than Messrs. Jones and Kilman) has been elected by shareholders and each Trustee and Officer holds office until his or her successor is chosen and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal. Messrs. Jones and Kilman became Trustees of the Funds on January 1, 2019. The Trust does not hold annual meetings for the purpose of electing Trustees, and Trustees are not elected for fixed terms. Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of any Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20 years of service on the Board).

Messrs. Buller, Kilman and Otis and Ms. Roepke are members of the Trust’s Audit Committee.

Each of the Interested Trustees and certain Officers hold comparable officer positions with certain affiliates of MFS.

The Statement of Additional Information for a Fund includes further information about the Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

 

Investment Adviser

Massachusetts Financial Services Company

111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

Distributor

MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.

111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

Portfolio Manager(s)

Joseph Flaherty

Natalie Shapiro

 

Custodian

State Street Bank and Trust Company

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111-2900

 

Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

Ernst & Young LLP

200 Clarendon Street

Boston, MA 02116

 

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STATEMENT REGARDING LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

Each fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) as required by Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Each fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated MFS as the administrator of the Program. The Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage the liquidity risk of each fund. Liquidity risk is the risk that each fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by each fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interests.

MFS provided a written report to the Board for consideration at its April 2020 meeting that addressed the operation of the Program and provided an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of the Program during the period from the adoption of the Program on December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (the “Covered Period”). The report concluded that during the Covered Period the Program had operated effectively and had adequately and effectively been implemented to assess and manage each fund’s liquidity risk. MFS also reported that there were no liquidity events that impacted each fund or its ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders during the Covered Period.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Further information on liquidity risk, and other principal risks to which an investment in each fund may be subject, can be found in each fund’s prospectus.

 

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND INFORMATION

MFS votes proxies on behalf of the funds pursuant to proxy voting policies and procedures that are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-225-2606, by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how each fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available by August 31 of each year without charge by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO DISCLOSURE

Each fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. Each fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A shareholder can obtain the portfolio holdings report for the first and third quarters of each fund’s fiscal year at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name and then selecting the “Resources” tab and clicking on “Prospectus and Reports”.

FURTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, MFS may post important information about each fund or the MFS funds on the MFS web site (mfs.com). This information is available at https://www.mfs.com/en-us/what-we-do/announcements.html or at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name.

INFORMATION ABOUT FUND CONTRACTS AND LEGAL CLAIMS

Each fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, 529 program manager (if applicable), and custodian who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the Trust’s By-Laws and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the MFS Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (unaudited)

The funds will notify shareholders of amounts for use in preparing 2020 income tax forms in January 2021. The following information is provided pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The funds designate the maximum amount allowable as qualified dividend income eligible to be taxed at the same rate as long-term capital gain.

The funds below designated the following amounts as capital gain dividends paid during the fiscal year:

 

     Capital
Gains
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund      $41,722,000  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund      157,434,000  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund      174,863,000  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund      73,432,000  

For corporate shareholders, the percentages of the ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year that qualify for the corporate dividends received deduction are as follows:

 

     Dividends Received
Deductions
 
MFS Conservative Allocation Fund      12.59%  
MFS Moderate Allocation Fund      19.55%  
MFS Growth Allocation Fund      29.45%  
MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund      44.54%  

 

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FACTS

 

 

WHAT DOES MFS DO WITH YOUR
PERSONAL INFORMATION?

 

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Why?   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

 

What?  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

•  Social Security number and account balances

•  Account transactions and transaction history

•  Checking account information and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

How?   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons MFS chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your
personal information
  Does MFS share?   Can you limit this
sharing?

For our everyday business purposes –

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

  Yes   No

For our marketing purposes –

to offer our products and services to you

  No   We don’t share
For joint marketing with other financial companies   No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your transactions and experiences

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your creditworthiness

  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

   
Questions?   Call 800-225-2606 or go to mfs.com.

 

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   MFS Funds, MFS Investment Management, MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., and MFS Heritage Trust Company.

 

What we do
How does MFS protect my personal information?   To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include procedural, electronic, and physical safeguards for the protection of the personal information we collect about you.
How does MFS
collect my personal information?
 

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

•  open an account or provide account information

•  direct us to buy securities or direct us to sell your securities

•  make a wire transfer

 

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

•  sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness

•  affiliates from using your information to market to you

•  sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 

Definitions
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

•  MFS does not share personal information with affiliates, except for everyday business purposes as described on page one of this notice.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

•  MFS does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

•  MFS doesnt jointly market.

 

 

Other important information
If you own an MFS product or receive an MFS service in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, their privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.

 

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MFS® will send you prospectuses,

reports, and proxies directly via e-mail so you will get information faster with less mailbox clutter.

To sign up:

1. Go to mfs.com.

2. Log in via MFS® Access.

3. Select eDelivery.

If you own your MFS fund shares through a financial institution or a retirement plan, MFS® TALK, MFS® Access, or eDelivery may not be available to you.

 

 

CONTACT US

WEB SITE

mfs.com

MFS TALK

1-800-637-8255

24 hours a day

ACCOUNT SERVICE AND LITERATURE

Shareholders

1-800-225-2606

Financial advisors

1-800-343-2829

Retirement plan services

1-800-637-1255

MAILING ADDRESS

MFS Service Center, Inc.

P.O. Box 219341

Kansas City, MO 64121-9341

OVERNIGHT MAIL

MFS Service Center, Inc.

Suite 219341

430 W 7th Street

Kansas City, MO 64105-1407

 


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Annual Report

May 31, 2020

 

LOGO

 

MFS® Blended Research®

Growth Equity Fund

 

LOGO

 

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the fund’s annual and semiannual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the complete reports will be made available on the fund’s Web site (funds.mfs.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a Web site link to access the report.

If you are already signed up to receive shareholder reports by email, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may sign up to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund by email by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you hold your shares directly with the fund, by calling 1-800-225-2606 or by logging on to MFS Access at mfs.com.

Beginning on January 1, 2019, you may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. Contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the fund, you can call 1-800-225-2606 or send an email request to orderliterature@mfs.com to let the fund know that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary or all funds held with the MFS fund complex if you invest directly.

 

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MFS® Blended Research® Growth Equity Fund

 

CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Executive Chair     1  
Portfolio composition     2  
Management review     3  
Performance summary     6  
Expense table     9  
Portfolio of investments     11  
Statement of assets and liabilities     16  
Statement of operations     18  
Statements of changes in net assets     19  
Financial highlights     20  
Notes to financial statements     26  
Report of independent registered public accounting firm     36  
Trustees and officers     38  
Statement regarding liquidity risk management program     43  
Proxy voting policies and information     44  
Quarterly portfolio disclosure     44  
Further information     44  
Information about fund contracts and legal claims     44  
Federal tax information     44  
MFS® privacy notice     45  
Contact information     back cover  

 

The report is prepared for the general information of shareholders. It is authorized for distribution to prospective investors only when preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

 

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LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR

 

Dear Shareholders:

Markets experienced dramatic swings in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill for several months. Optimism over the

development of vaccines and therapeutics, along with a decline in cases in countries that had been affected by the outbreak early on, brightened the economic and market outlook during the second quarter, as did the phased reopening of US states. However, a great deal of uncertainty remains, including the possibility of a second wave of cases later this year.

Global central banks have taken aggressive, coordinated steps to cushion the economic and market fallout related to the virus, and governments are deploying unprecedented levels of fiscal stimulus. As uncertainty recedes, these measures can help build a supportive environment and encourage economic recovery;

however, if markets disconnect from fundamentals, they can also sow the seeds of instability. In the aftermath of the crisis, societal changes may be likely as households, businesses, and governments adjust to a new reality, and these alterations could change the investment landscape. For investors, events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrate the importance of having a deep understanding of company fundamentals, and we have built our global research platform to do just that.

Here at MFS®, we aim to help our clients navigate the growing complexity of the markets and world economies. Our long-term investment philosophy and commitment to the responsible allocation of capital allow us to tune out the noise and uncover what we believe are the best, most durable investment opportunities in the market. Through our powerful global investment platform, we combine collective expertise, thoughtful risk management, and long-term discipline to create sustainable value for investors.

Respectfully,

 

LOGO

Robert J. Manning

Executive Chair

MFS Investment Management

July 17, 2020

The opinions expressed in this letter are subject to change and may not be relied upon for investment advice. No forecasts can be guaranteed.

 

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PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION

 

Portfolio structure

 

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Top ten holdings

 

Microsoft Corp.     9.6%  
Apple, Inc.     8.2%  
Amazon.com, Inc.     6.2%  
Facebook, Inc., “A”     4.5%  
Mastercard, Inc., “A”     2.5%  
Adobe Systems, Inc.     2.4%  
Alphabet, Inc., “C”     2.3%  
Alphabet, Inc., “A”     2.2%  
Eli Lilly & Co.     2.0%  
NVIDIA Corp.     1.8%  
GICS sectors (g)

 

Information Technology     40.0%  
Consumer Discretionary     15.1%  
Health Care     15.0%  
Communication Services     13.4%  
Industrials     7.4%  
Consumer Staples     3.8%  
Financials     1.8%  
Utilities     1.2%  
Real Estate     1.0%  
Materials     0.9%  
 

 

(g)

The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and/or is the exclusive property of MSCI, Inc. and S&P Global Market Intelligence Inc. (“S&P Global Market Intelligence”). GICS is a service mark of MSCI and S&P Global Market Intelligence and has been licensed for use by MFS.

Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. Please see the Statement of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS Blended Research Growth Equity Fund (fund) provided a total return of 24.34%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of 26.25% for the fund’s benchmark, the Russell 1000® Growth Index.

Market Environment

Markets experienced an extraordinarily sharp selloff and in many cases an unusually rapid partial recovery late in the period. Central banks and fiscal authorities undertook astonishing levels of stimulus to offset the economic effects of government-imposed social-distancing measures implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19. Despite policymakers’ best efforts, a global recession has undoubtedly begun.

Compounding market uncertainty earlier in the coronavirus pandemic was a crash in the price of crude oil due to a sharp drop in global demand and a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts, which resulted in a price war. The subsequent decline in prices undercut oil exporters, many of which are in emerging markets, as well as a large segment of the high-yield credit market. OPEC+ later agreed on output cuts, which – along with the gradual reopening of some major economies and resultant boost in demand – helped stabilize the price of crude.

Around the world, central banks responded quickly and massively to the crisis with programs to improve liquidity and support markets. They proved largely successful in helping to restore market function, easing volatility and stimulating a market rebound at the end of the period. Monetary easing measures were complemented by large fiscal stimulus plans in developed countries. Even emerging market countries were able to implement countercyclical policies – a departure from the usual market-dictated response to risk-off crises – due to relatively manageable external liabilities and balances of payments in many countries, along with persistently low inflation.

As is often the case in a crisis, market vulnerabilities were revealed. For example, companies that added significant leverage to their balance sheets in recent years by borrowing to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks may find it difficult to follow that path in the future, and investors may not reward them if they do. Recapitalizations by some of these highly leveraged firms could dilute existing shareholders. Very long supply chains designed to squeeze out every bit of savings may be shifted closer to home markets if companies seek to put resiliency before cost after a series of supply disruptions. The aftereffects of the pandemic could affect consumer, business and government behavior in ways difficult to forecast. Also, while markets have regained lost ground more swiftly than expected, any economic recovery is likely to be protracted.

Detractors from Performance

Stock selection within the consumer discretionary, real estate and financials sectors detracted from performance relative to the Russell® 1000 Growth Index. Within the consumer discretionary sector, not owning shares of electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla weakened relative performance as the company reported solid earnings results that met expectations, and free cash flow that was larger than estimated. The fund’s

 

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overweight holdings of fitness centers operator Planet Fitness (h), and an underweight position in internet retailer Amazon.com, further held back relative results. The share price of Amazon appreciated after the company reported revenue results that were above consensus estimates, driven by strong performance in its Amazon web services segment. Additionally, the company benefited as millions of customers turned to online deliveries as a way of limiting the spread of the new coronavirus. Although the real estate sector was a top-detracting sector, there were no individual stocks within this sector that were among the fund’s top relative detractors during the reporting period. Within the financials sector, holdings of insurance company MetLife (b) held back relative performance. Despite reporting better-than-expected financial results, MetLife’s share price suffered due to the impact that the current low-interest-rate environment may have on its investment income.

Elsewhere, the fund’s holdings of agricultural equipment and related replacement parts distributor AGCO (b) hurt relative performance. The fund’s underweight positions in strong-performing computer graphics processors maker NVIDIA, network equipment company Cisco Systems and computer and personal electronics maker Apple weighed on relative performance, as all three companies outperformed the benchmark during the reporting period. The fund’s overweight holdings of hospital operator HCA Healthcare and US natural gas transmission company Equitrans Midstream (h) further weakened relative results.

Contributors to Performance

A combination of security selection and an underweight position in the industrials sector benefited relative performance. Here, an underweight position in aerospace company Boeing (h) aided relative performance. The stock price of Boeing declined as the travel and airline industries came under intense pressure amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, which resulted in widespread travel restrictions across the globe and ultimately led the company to suspend production.

Security selection within the information technology sector also contributed to relative returns. Stocks that led the way in this sector included the fund’s overweight positions in global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions provider RingCentral, enterprise cloud computing solutions provider ServiceNow, software company Adobe Systems, identity management services provider Okta, software giant Microsoft and semiconductor chips and electronics engineering solutions provider Applied Materials. Not owning shares of underperforming cloud-based human capital management services provider Automatic Data Processing further supported relative returns.

Within other sectors, not owning shares of beverage maker Coca-Cola, and the timing of the fund’s ownership in shares of hotel operator Marriott International (h), bolstered relative performance.

Respectfully,

Portfolio Manager(s)

Jim Fallon, Matt Krummell, Jonathan Sage, and Jed Stocks

 

(b)

Security is not a benchmark constituent.

(h)

Security was not held in the portfolio at period end.

 

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The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover and do not necessarily reflect the views of MFS or any other person in the MFS organization. These views are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions, and MFS disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice or an indication of trading intent on behalf of any MFS portfolio. References to specific securities are not recommendations of such securities, and may not be representative of any MFS portfolio’s current or future investments.

 

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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY THROUGH 5/31/20

The following chart illustrates a representative class of the fund’s historical performance in comparison to its benchmark(s). Performance results include the deduction of the maximum applicable sales charge and reflect the percentage change in net asset value, including reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. The performance of other share classes will be greater than or less than that of the class depicted below. Benchmarks are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. Benchmark returns do not reflect sales charges, commissions or expenses. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value fluctuate so your shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost; current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. The performance shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes, if any, that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

Growth of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment (t)

 

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Total Returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class    Class Inception Date   1-yr   Life (t)     
    A    9/15/15   24.34%   13.31%    
    B    9/15/15   23.42%   12.47%    
    C    9/15/15   23.44%   12.46%    
    I    9/15/15   24.71%   13.60%    
    R1    9/15/15   23.34%   12.46%    
    R2    9/15/15   24.10%   13.03%    
    R3    9/15/15   24.35%   13.32%    
    R4    9/15/15   24.60%   13.59%    
    R6    9/15/15   24.78%   13.68%    
Comparative benchmark(s)            
     Russell 1000® Growth Index (f)   26.25%   16.56%     
Average annual with sales charge            
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
  17.19%   11.90%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
  19.42%   12.20%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
  22.44%   12.46%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 shares do not have a sales charge.

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(t)

For the period from the class inception date through the stated period end. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

Benchmark Definition(s)

Russell 1000® Growth Index – constructed to provide a comprehensive barometer for growth securities in the large-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe. Companies in this index generally have higher price-to-book ratios and higher forecasted growth values. Frank Russell Company (“Russell”) is the source and owner of the trademarks, service marks, and copyrights related to the Russell Indexes. Russell® is a trademark of Frank Russell Company. Neither Russell nor its licensors accept any liability for any errors or omissions in the Russell Indexes and/or Russell ratings or underlying data and no party may rely on any Russell Indexes and/or Russell ratings and/or underlying data contained in this document. No further distribution of Russell Data is permitted without Russell’s express written consent. Russell does not promote, sponsor, or endorse the content of this document.

It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

 

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Notes to Performance Summary

Average annual total return represents the average annual change in value for each share class for the periods presented. Life returns are presented where the share class has less than 10 years of performance history and represent the average annual total return from the class inception date to the stated period end date.

Performance results reflect any applicable expense subsidies and waivers in effect during the periods shown. Without such subsidies and waivers the fund’s performance results would be less favorable. Please see the prospectus and financial statements for complete details.

Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and may differ from amounts reported in the financial highlights.

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

 

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EXPENSE TABLE

Fund expenses borne by the shareholders during the period,

December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on certain purchase or redemption payments, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and service (12b-1) fees; and other fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the following table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the following table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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Share
Class
       Annualized
Expense
Ratio
    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During

Period (p)

12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     0.74%       $1,000.00       $1,082.49       $3.85  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.74%       $1,000.00       $1,021.30       $3.74  
B   Actual     1.49%       $1,000.00       $1,077.64       $7.74  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.49%       $1,000.00       $1,017.55       $7.52  
C   Actual     1.49%       $1,000.00       $1,077.69       $7.74  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.49%       $1,000.00       $1,017.55       $7.52  
I   Actual     0.49%       $1,000.00       $1,083.48       $2.55  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.49%       $1,000.00       $1,022.55       $2.48  
R1   Actual     1.49%       $1,000.00       $1,077.67       $7.74  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.49%       $1,000.00       $1,017.55       $7.52  
R2   Actual     0.99%       $1,000.00       $1,080.77       $5.15  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.99%       $1,000.00       $1,020.05       $5.00  
R3   Actual     0.74%       $1,000.00       $1,082.39       $3.85  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.74%       $1,000.00       $1,021.30       $3.74  
R4   Actual     0.49%       $1,000.00       $1,083.34       $2.55  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.49%       $1,000.00       $1,022.55       $2.48  
R6   Actual     0.38%       $1,000.00       $1,083.50       $1.98  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.38%       $1,000.00       $1,023.10       $1.92  

 

(h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

(p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

5/31/20

The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - 99.6%               
Aerospace - 3.0%               
Honeywell International, Inc.      12,376     $ 1,805,040  
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.      2,695       538,703  
Leidos Holdings, Inc.      21,442       2,257,628  
Lockheed Martin Corp.      1,246       483,996  
Northrop Grumman Corp.      3,693       1,237,894  
    

 

 

 
             $ 6,323,261  
Apparel Manufacturers - 0.1%               
Skechers USA, Inc., “A” (a)      5,535     $ 173,356  
Automotive - 0.9%               
Copart, Inc. (a)      7,569     $ 676,593  
Lear Corp.      11,127       1,180,018  
    

 

 

 
             $ 1,856,611  
Biotechnology - 3.5%               
Biogen, Inc. (a)      8,543     $ 2,623,470  
Illumina, Inc. (a)      7,197       2,612,871  
Incyte Corp. (a)      15,648       1,594,688  
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)      697       427,128  
    

 

 

 
             $ 7,258,157  
Broadcasting - 0.3%               
Netflix, Inc. (a)      1,604     $ 673,247  
Business Services - 4.3%               
Accenture PLC, “A”      9,181     $ 1,851,073  
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.      18,964       2,632,772  
Fiserv, Inc. (a)      25,207       2,691,351  
Global Payments, Inc.      8,085       1,451,177  
Verisk Analytics, Inc., “A”      2,089       360,729  
    

 

 

 
             $ 8,987,102  
Cable TV - 1.4%               
Charter Communications, Inc., “A” (a)      5,216     $ 2,837,504  
Chemicals - 0.6%               
Eastman Chemical Co.      17,326     $ 1,179,554  
Computer Software - 14.8%               
Adobe Systems, Inc. (a)      12,722     $ 4,918,325  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Computer Software - continued               
Akamai Technologies, Inc. (a)      2,329     $ 246,408  
Atlassian Corp. PLC, “A” (a)      791       146,572  
DocuSign, Inc. (a)      2,847       397,840  
Microsoft Corp.      108,101       19,809,508  
Okta, Inc. (a)      8,241       1,611,775  
Oracle Corp.      4,840       260,247  
RingCentral, Inc. (a)      7,532       2,065,651  
VeriSign, Inc. (a)      5,380       1,178,274  
    

 

 

 
             $ 30,634,600  
Computer Software - Systems - 10.2%               
Apple, Inc.      53,446     $ 16,992,621  
Cisco Systems, Inc.      11,981       572,932  
ServiceNow, Inc. (a)      9,196       3,567,404  
    

 

 

 
             $ 21,132,957  
Construction - 0.5%               
American Homes 4 Rent, “A”, REIT      10,733     $ 270,901  
Eagle Materials, Inc.      4,004       267,307  
Masco Corp.      8,821       411,500  
    

 

 

 
             $ 949,708  
Consumer Products - 1.3%               
Kimberly-Clark Corp.      18,763     $ 2,653,839  
Containers - 0.2%               
Graphic Packaging Holding Co.      29,331     $ 424,420  
Electrical Equipment - 1.0%               
AMETEK, Inc.      22,050     $ 2,022,205  
Electronics - 5.2%               
Applied Materials, Inc.      48,209     $ 2,708,382  
Intel Corp.      31,466       1,980,155  
NVIDIA Corp.      10,799       3,833,861  
Texas Instruments, Inc.      18,293       2,172,111  
    

 

 

 
             $ 10,694,509  
Food & Beverages - 1.2%               
General Mills, Inc.      10,590     $ 667,593  
PepsiCo, Inc.      14,234       1,872,483  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,540,076  
Food & Drug Stores - 0.4%               
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.      6,443     $ 799,319  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
General Merchandise - 1.3%               
Dollar General Corp.      14,430     $ 2,763,489  
Health Maintenance Organizations - 2.7%               
Cigna Corp.      5,608     $ 1,106,571  
Humana, Inc.      7,594       3,118,476  
UnitedHealth Group, Inc.      4,420       1,347,437  
    

 

 

 
             $ 5,572,484  
Insurance - 0.9%               
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.      13,346     $ 511,018  
MetLife, Inc.      38,111       1,372,377  
    

 

 

 
             $ 1,883,395  
Internet - 9.2%               
Alphabet, Inc., “A” (a)      3,183     $ 4,562,894  
Alphabet, Inc., “C” (a)      3,317       4,739,728  
eBay, Inc.      13,699       623,852  
Facebook, Inc., “A” (a)      41,029       9,235,218  
    

 

 

 
             $ 19,161,692  
Leisure & Toys - 2.8%               
Activision Blizzard, Inc.      9,314     $ 670,422  
Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)      20,375       2,503,680  
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (a)      19,398       2,641,425  
    

 

 

 
             $ 5,815,527  
Machinery & Tools - 2.5%               
AGCO Corp.      31,007     $ 1,712,517  
Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc.      15,953       601,747  
Cummins, Inc.      4,761       807,466  
Eaton Corp. PLC      15,690       1,332,081  
Illinois Tool Works, Inc.      4,292       740,198  
    

 

 

 
             $ 5,194,009  
Medical & Health Technology & Services - 2.3%               
AmerisourceBergen Corp.      2,607     $ 248,551  
HCA Healthcare, Inc.      11,873       1,269,224  
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (a)      1,043       322,162  
McKesson Corp.      14,250       2,261,047  
PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (a)      6,582       681,237  
    

 

 

 
             $ 4,782,221  

 

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Portfolio of Investments – continued

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Medical Equipment - 1.5%               
Boston Scientific Corp. (a)      36,477     $ 1,385,761  
Danaher Corp.      7,334       1,221,918  
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.      2,029       438,345  
    

 

 

 
             $ 3,046,024  
Network & Telecom - 0.5%               
Motorola Solutions, Inc.      7,204     $ 974,917  
Other Banks & Diversified Financials - 5.0%               
Citigroup, Inc.      4,866     $ 233,130  
Mastercard, Inc., “A”      17,072       5,136,794  
S&P Global, Inc.      3,596       1,168,772  
Synchrony Financial      22,240       453,029  
Visa, Inc., “A”      17,395       3,396,200  
    

 

 

 
             $ 10,387,925  
Pharmaceuticals - 5.0%               
Eli Lilly & Co.      27,198     $ 4,159,934  
Johnson & Johnson      17,396       2,587,655  
Merck & Co., Inc.      28,019       2,261,694  
Zoetis, Inc.      10,542       1,469,449  
    

 

 

 
             $ 10,478,732  
Pollution Control - 0.3%               
Waste Management, Inc.      5,686     $ 606,980  
Railroad & Shipping - 1.0%               
CSX Corp.      10,448     $ 747,868  
Kansas City Southern Co.      8,495       1,278,667  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,026,535  
Real Estate - 0.6%               
Sun Communities, Inc., REIT      9,124     $ 1,251,722  
Restaurants - 2.8%               
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., “A” (a)      889     $ 892,476  
Domino’s Pizza, Inc.      4,560       1,759,431  
Starbucks Corp.      41,586       3,243,292  
    

 

 

 
             $ 5,895,199  
Specialty Stores - 9.9%               
Amazon.com, Inc. (a)      5,299     $ 12,942,119  
AutoZone, Inc. (a)      1,615       1,853,794  
Burlington Stores, Inc. (a)      7,845       1,644,861  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Specialty Stores - continued               
Home Depot, Inc.      6,018     $ 1,495,353  
Ross Stores, Inc.      8,227       797,690  
Target Corp.      14,926       1,825,897  
    

 

 

 
             $ 20,559,714  
Telecommunications - Wireless - 0.3%               
SBA Communications Corp., REIT      2,058     $ 646,480  
Tobacco - 0.9%               
Altria Group, Inc.      21,929     $ 856,328  
Philip Morris International, Inc.      13,662       1,002,244  
    

 

 

 
             $ 1,858,572  
Utilities - Electric Power - 1.2%               
AES Corp.      15,672     $ 195,743  
NRG Energy, Inc.      46,369       1,671,603  
Vistra Energy Corp.      30,371       620,783  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,488,129  
Total Common Stocks (Identified Cost, $145,014,393)            $ 206,534,171  
Investment Companies (h) - 0.4%               
Money Market Funds - 0.4%               
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)
(Identified Cost, $837,501)
     837,417     $ 837,500  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - (0.0)%           (86,542)  
Net Assets - 100.0%            $ 207,285,129  

 

(a)

Non-income producing security.

(h)

An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate values of the fund’s investments in affiliated issuers and in unaffiliated issuers were $837,500 and $206,534,171, respectively.

(v)

Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

The following abbreviations are used in this report and are defined:

 

REIT   Real Estate Investment Trust

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

 

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

At 5/31/20

This statement represents your fund’s balance sheet, which details the assets and liabilities comprising the total value of the fund.

 

Assets         

Investments in unaffiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $145,014,393)

     $206,534,171  

Investments in affiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $837,501)

     837,500  

Cash

     11,504  

Receivables for

  

Fund shares sold

     98,164  

Dividends

     206,204  

Receivable from investment adviser

     32,424  

Other assets

     568  

Total assets

     $207,720,535  
Liabilities         

Payables for

  

Fund shares reacquired

     $333,903  

Payable to affiliates

  

Administrative services fee

     428  

Shareholder servicing costs

     24,760  

Distribution and service fees

     1,690  

Payable for independent Trustees’ compensation

     14  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     74,611  

Total liabilities

     $435,406  

Net assets

     $207,285,129  
Net assets consist of         

Paid-in capital

     $141,311,268  

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     65,973,861  

Net assets

     $207,285,129  

Shares of beneficial interest outstanding

     13,072,859  

 

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     Net assets      Shares
outstanding
     Net asset value
per share (a)
 

Class A

     $57,530,544        3,643,863        $15.79  

Class B

     408,413        26,262        15.55  

Class C

     612,586        39,410        15.54  

Class I

     2,366,017        149,076        15.87  

Class R1

     87,169        5,608        15.54  

Class R2

     266,388        16,816        15.84  

Class R3

     90,122        5,686        15.85  

Class R4

     91,186        5,744        15.87  

Class R6

     145,832,704        9,180,394        15.89  

 

(a)

Maximum offering price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for all share classes, except for Class A, for which the maximum offering price per share was $16.75 [100 /94.25 x $15.79]. On sales of $50,000 or more, the maximum offering price of Class A shares is reduced. A contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on redemptions of Class A, Class B, and Class C shares. Redemption price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for Classes I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

 

STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

Year ended 5/31/20

This statement describes how much your fund earned in investment income and accrued in expenses. It also describes any gains and/or losses generated by fund operations.

 

Net investment income (loss)         

Income

  

Dividends

     $2,259,385  

Dividends from affiliated issuers

     33,102  

Other

     7,404  

Total investment income

     $2,299,891  

Expenses

  

Management fee

     $793,426  

Distribution and service fees

     148,875  

Shareholder servicing costs

     63,282  

Administrative services fee

     37,061  

Independent Trustees’ compensation

     6,504  

Custodian fee

     14,766  

Shareholder communications

     11,661  

Audit and tax fees

     55,892  

Legal fees

     1,984  

Registration fees

     134,176  

Miscellaneous

     31,472  

Total expenses

     $1,299,099  

Reduction of expenses by investment adviser and distributor

     (316,491

Net expenses

     $982,608  

Net investment income (loss)

     $1,317,283  
Realized and unrealized gain (loss)         

Realized gain (loss) (identified cost basis)

  

Unaffiliated issuers

     $12,147,156  

Affiliated issuers

     (201

Net realized gain (loss)

     $12,146,955  

Change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation

  

Unaffiliated issuers

     $30,271,729  

Affiliated issuers

     (169

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     $30,271,560  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     $42,418,515  

Change in net assets from operations

     $43,735,798  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

 

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

These statements describe the increases and/or decreases in net assets resulting from operations, any distributions, and any shareholder transactions.

 

     Year ended  
     5/31/20      5/31/19  
Change in net assets              
From operations                  

Net investment income (loss)

     $1,317,283        $1,547,845  

Net realized gain (loss)

     12,146,955        4,339,707  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     30,271,560        (1,582,741

Change in net assets from operations

     $43,735,798        $4,304,811  

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(9,123,061      $(11,974,130

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $(10,019,311      $5,352,651  

Total change in net assets

     $24,593,426        $(2,316,668
Net assets                  

At beginning of period

     182,691,703        185,008,371  

At end of period

     $207,285,129        $182,691,703  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

 

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years (or life of a particular share class, if shorter). Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

Class A   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $13.25       $14.09       $12.07       $10.25       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.06       $0.08       $0.08       $0.08       $0.06  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    3.12       (0.03 )(g)      2.12       1.77       0.22  

Total from investment operations

    $3.18       $0.05       $2.20       $1.85       $0.28  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.08     $(0.07     $(0.07     $(0.03     $(0.03

From net realized gain

    (0.56     (0.82     (0.11           (0.00 )(w) 

Total distributions declared to
shareholders

    $(0.64     $(0.89     $(0.18     $(0.03     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $15.79       $13.25       $14.09       $12.07       $10.25  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    24.34       0.95       18.28       18.05       2.81 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.90       0.89       0.90       1.47       5.24 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.74       0.74       0.74       0.74       0.69 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    0.42       0.59       0.61       0.68       0.82 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    61       60       73       57       28 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $57,531       $52,918       $55,474       $1,318       $352  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Class B    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $13.08       $13.95       $11.98       $10.22       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.05     $(0.02     $(0.03     $(0.01     $(0.00 )(w) 

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     3.08       (0.03 )(g)      2.11       1.77       0.22  

Total from investment operations

     $3.03       $(0.05     $2.08       $1.76       $0.22  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $—       $—       $—       $—       $(0.00 )(w) 

From net realized gain

     (0.56     (0.82     (0.11           (0.00 )(w) 

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.56     $(0.82     $(0.11     $—       $(0.00 )(w) 

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.55       $13.08       $13.95       $11.98       $10.22  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     23.42       0.17       17.40       17.22       2.27 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.65       1.64       1.65       2.42       6.82 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.49       1.49       1.49       1.49       1.46 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.33     (0.14     (0.25     (0.08     0.01 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     61       60       73       57       28 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $408       $428       $333       $249       $113  
Class C    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $13.07       $13.95       $11.97       $10.22       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.05     $(0.01     $(0.03     $(0.01     $(0.00 )(w) 

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     3.08       (0.05 )(g)      2.12       1.76       0.22  

Total from investment operations

     $3.03       $(0.06     $2.09       $1.75       $0.22  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $—       $(0.00 )(w)      $—       $—       $(0.00 )(w) 

From net realized gain

     (0.56     (0.82     (0.11           (0.00 )(w) 

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.56     $(0.82     $(0.11     $—       $(0.00 )(w) 

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.54       $13.07       $13.95       $11.97       $10.22  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     23.44       0.13       17.50       17.12       2.26 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.65       1.65       1.65       2.41       6.92 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.49       1.49       1.49       1.49       1.46 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.33     (0.11     (0.26     (0.05     0.02 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     61       60       73       57       28 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $613       $525       $338       $159       $62  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Class I    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $13.31       $14.17       $12.10       $10.26       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.10       $0.13       $0.10       $0.10       $0.08  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     3.14       (0.05 )(g)      2.14       1.78       0.21  

Total from investment operations

     $3.24       $0.08       $2.24       $1.88       $0.29  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.12     $(0.12     $(0.06     $(0.04     $(0.03

From net realized gain

     (0.56     (0.82     (0.11           (0.00 )(w) 

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.68     $(0.94     $(0.17     $(0.04     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.87       $13.31       $14.17       $12.10       $10.26  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     24.71       1.18       18.57       18.38       2.97(n
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     0.65       0.64       0.65       1.32       4.67 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     0.49       0.49       0.49       0.49       0.46 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.68       0.98       0.75       0.91       1.06 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     61       60       73       57       28 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $2,366       $1,560       $195       $673       $286  
Class R1    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $13.08       $13.95       $11.98       $10.22       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.05     $(0.02     $(0.04     $(0.01     $(0.00 )(w) 

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     3.07       (0.03 )(g)      2.12       1.77       0.22  

Total from investment operations

     $3.02       $(0.05     $2.08       $1.76       $0.22  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $—       $—       $—       $—       $(0.00 )(w) 

From net realized gain

     (0.56     (0.82     (0.11           (0.00 )(w) 

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.56     $(0.82     $(0.11     $—       $(0.00 )(w) 

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.54       $13.08       $13.95       $11.98       $10.22  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     23.34       0.18       17.40       17.22       2.26 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.64       1.64       1.65       2.49       7.04 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.49       1.49       1.49       1.49       1.46 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.33     (0.16     (0.27     (0.05     0.01 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     61       60       73       57       28 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $87       $170       $166       $175       $51  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Class R2    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $13.29       $14.10       $12.06       $10.24       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.03       $0.04       $0.03       $0.05       $0.04  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     3.13       (0.03 )(g)      2.14       1.77       0.22  

Total from investment operations

     $3.16       $0.01       $2.17       $1.82       $0.26  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.05     $—       $(0.02     $—       $(0.02

From net realized gain

     (0.56     (0.82     (0.11           (0.00 )(w) 

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.61     $(0.82     $(0.13     $—       $(0.02

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.84       $13.29       $14.10       $12.06       $10.24  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     24.10       0.61       18.04       17.77       2.61 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.16       1.14       1.15       2.02       6.54 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     0.99       0.99       0.99       0.99       0.96 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.17       0.29       0.25       0.44       0.51 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     61       60       73       57       28 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $266       $106       $175       $130       $51  
Class R3    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $13.30       $14.14       $12.09       $10.25       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.06       $0.08       $0.07       $0.07       $0.05  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     3.14       (0.03 )(g)      2.13       1.79       0.23  

Total from investment operations

     $3.20       $0.05       $2.20       $1.86       $0.28  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.09     $(0.07     $(0.04     $(0.02     $(0.03

From net realized gain

     (0.56     (0.82     (0.11           (0.00 )(w) 

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.65     $(0.89     $(0.15     $(0.02     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.85       $13.30       $14.14       $12.09       $10.25  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     24.35       0.98       18.23       18.11       2.79 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     0.90       0.89       0.90       1.84       6.29 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     0.74       0.74       0.74       0.74       0.71 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.42       0.59       0.49       0.67       0.76 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     61       60       73       57       28 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $90       $72       $72       $61       $51  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Class R4    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $13.32       $14.17       $12.10       $10.26       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.10       $0.12       $0.10       $0.10       $0.07  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     3.13       (0.04 )(g)      2.15       1.78       0.22  

Total from investment operations

     $3.23       $0.08       $2.25       $1.88       $0.29  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.12     $(0.11     $(0.07     $(0.04     $(0.03

From net realized gain

     (0.56     (0.82     (0.11           (0.00 )(w) 

Total distributions declared to
shareholders

     $(0.68     $(0.93     $(0.18     $(0.04     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.87       $13.32       $14.17       $12.10       $10.26  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     24.60       1.18       18.65       18.37       2.97 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     0.65       0.64       0.65       1.58       6.04 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     0.49       0.49       0.49       0.49       0.46 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.67       0.84       0.74       0.93       1.01 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     61       60       73       57       28 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $91       $73       $72       $61       $51  
Class R6    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $13.32       $14.18       $12.11       $10.26       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.11       $0.13       $0.11       $0.11       $0.07  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     3.16       (0.05 )(g)      2.15       1.78       0.22  

Total from investment operations

     $3.27       $0.08       $2.26       $1.89       $0.29  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.14     $(0.12     $(0.08     $(0.04     $(0.03

From net realized gain

     (0.56     (0.82     (0.11           (0.00 )(w) 

Total distributions declared to
shareholders

     $(0.70     $(0.94     $(0.19     $(0.04     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $15.89       $13.32       $14.18       $12.11       $10.26  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     24.86       1.22       18.71       18.51       2.97 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     0.55       0.55       0.57       0.65       5.80 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     0.39       0.40       0.39       0.43       0.45 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.77       0.93       0.83       0.97       1.01 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     61       60       73       57       28 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $145,833       $126,840       $128,183       $122,177       $2,853  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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(a)

Annualized.

(c)

For the period from the commencement of the fund’s investment operations, September 15, 2015, through the stated period end.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(g)

The per share amount varies from the net realized and unrealized gain/loss for the period because of the timing of sales of fund shares and the per share amount of realized and unrealized gains and losses at such time.

(n)

Not annualized.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(w)

Per share amount was less than $0.01.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(1) Business and Organization

MFS Blended Research Growth Equity Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of MFS Series Trust X (the trust). The trust is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company.

The fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies.

(2) Significant Accounting Policies

General – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the preparation of these financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events occurring after the date of the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities through the date that the financial statements were issued.

In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) – Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”), which provides optional, temporary relief with respect to the financial reporting of contracts subject to certain types of modifications due to the planned discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR-based reference rates as of the end of 2021. The temporary relief provided by ASU 2020-04 is effective for certain reference rate-related contract modifications that occur during the period from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-04 on the fund’s investments, derivatives, debt and other contracts that will undergo reference rate-related modifications as a result of the reference rate reform.

Balance Sheet Offsetting – The fund’s accounting policy with respect to balance sheet offsetting is that, absent an event of default by the counterparty or a termination of the agreement, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreement, or similar agreement, does not result in an offset of reported amounts of financial assets and financial liabilities in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities across transactions between the fund and the applicable counterparty. The fund’s right to setoff may be restricted or prohibited by the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the particular jurisdiction to which a specific master netting agreement counterparty is subject. Balance sheet offsetting disclosures, to the extent applicable to the fund, have been included in the fund’s Significant Accounting Policies note under the captions for each of the fund’s in-scope financial instruments and transactions.

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exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per share. Securities and other assets generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, and other market data. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.

The Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments (including any fair valuation) to the adviser pursuant to valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. If the adviser determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available, investments are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with such procedures under the oversight of the Board of Trustees. Under the fund’s valuation policies and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for most types of debt instruments and floating rate loans and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services. In addition, investments may be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that an investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.

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measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The fund’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. The following is a summary of the levels used as of May 31, 2020 in valuing the fund’s assets or liabilities:

 

Financial Instruments   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  
Equity Securities     $206,534,171       $—       $—       $206,534,171  
Mutual Funds     837,500                   837,500  
Total     $207,371,671       $—       $—       $207,371,671  

For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments.

Indemnifications – Under the fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the fund. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The fund’s maximum exposure under these agreements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the fund that have not yet occurred.

Investment Transactions and Income – Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Dividends received in cash are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain dividends from foreign securities will be recorded when the fund is informed of the dividend if such information is obtained subsequent to the ex-dividend date. Dividend payments received in additional securities are recorded on the ex-dividend date in an amount equal to the value of the security on such date.

The fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received from litigation involving portfolio holdings are reflected in the Statement of Operations in realized gain/loss if the security has been disposed of by the fund or in unrealized gain/loss if the security is still held by the fund. Any other proceeds from litigation not related to portfolio holdings are reflected as other income in the Statement of Operations.

Tax Matters and Distributions – The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company, as defined under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and to distribute all of its taxable income, including realized capital gains. As a result, no provision for federal income tax is required. The fund’s federal tax returns, when filed, will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a three year period. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal and state tax returns for all open tax years and does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability. Foreign taxes, if any, have been accrued by the fund in the accompanying financial statements in accordance with the applicable foreign tax law. Foreign income taxes may be withheld by certain countries in which the fund invests. Additionally, capital gains realized by the fund on securities issued in or by certain foreign countries may be subject to capital gains tax imposed by those countries.

 

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Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Certain capital accounts in the financial statements are periodically adjusted for permanent differences in order to reflect their tax character. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or net asset value per share. Temporary differences which arise from recognizing certain items of income, expense, gain or loss in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes will reverse at some time in the future.

Book/tax differences primarily relate to wash sale loss deferrals and treating a portion of the proceeds from redemptions as a distribution for tax purposes.

The tax character of distributions declared to shareholders for the last two fiscal years is as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
Ordinary income (including any
short-term capital gains)
     $1,625,026        $4,464,080  
Long-term capital gains      7,498,035        7,510,050  
Total distributions      $9,123,061        $11,974,130  

The federal tax cost and the tax basis components of distributable earnings were as follows:

 

As of 5/31/20       
Cost of investments      $146,202,993  
Gross appreciation      65,286,915  
Gross depreciation      (4,118,237
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      $61,168,678  
Undistributed ordinary income      473,102  
Undistributed long-term capital gain      4,332,081  

Multiple Classes of Shares of Beneficial Interest – The fund offers multiple classes of shares, which differ in their respective distribution and service fees. The fund’s income, realized and unrealized gain (loss), and common expenses are allocated to shareholders based on the daily net assets of each class. Dividends are declared separately for each class. Differences in per share dividend rates are generally due to differences in separate class expenses. Class B shares will convert to Class A shares approximately eight years after purchase. Class C shares will convert to Class A shares

 

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approximately ten years after purchase. The fund’s distributions declared to shareholders as reported in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets are presented by class as follows:

 

     Year
ended
5/31/20
     Year
ended
5/31/19
 
Class A      $2,343,673        $3,176,012  
Class B      14,943        25,794  
Class C      22,006        35,659  
Class I      84,493        59,291  
Class R1      7,293        9,822  
Class R2      5,012        5,719  
Class R3      3,519        4,508  
Class R4      3,741        4,714  
Class R6      6,638,381        8,652,611  
Total      $9,123,061        $11,974,130  

(3) Transactions with Affiliates

Investment Adviser – The fund has an investment advisory agreement with MFS to provide overall investment management and related administrative services and facilities to the fund. The management fee is computed daily and paid monthly at the following annual rates based on the fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Up to $1 billion      0.40
In excess of $1 billion and up to $2.5 billion      0.375
In excess of $2.5 billion      0.35

MFS has agreed in writing to reduce its management fee by a specified amount if certain MFS mutual fund assets exceed thresholds agreed to by MFS and the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this management fee reduction amounted to $20,165, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations. The management fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.39% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

The investment adviser has agreed in writing to pay a portion of the fund’s total annual operating expenses, excluding interest, taxes, extraordinary expenses, brokerage and transaction costs, and investment-related expenses, such that total fund operating expenses do not exceed the following rates annually of each class’s average daily net assets:

 

Classes  
A   B     C     I     R1     R2     R3     R4     R6  
0.74%     1.49%       1.49%       0.49%       1.49%       0.99%       0.74%       0.49%       0.45%  

This written agreement will continue until modified by the fund’s Board of Trustees, but such agreement will continue at least until September 30, 2021. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reduction amounted to $296,250, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

 

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Distributor – MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (MFD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, as distributor, received $2,509 for the year ended May 31, 2020, as its portion of the initial sales charge on sales of Class A shares of the fund.

The Board of Trustees has adopted a distribution plan for certain share classes pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

The fund’s distribution plan provides that the fund will pay MFD for services provided by MFD and financial intermediaries in connection with the distribution and servicing of certain share classes. One component of the plan is a distribution fee paid to MFD and another component of the plan is a service fee paid to MFD. MFD may subsequently pay all, or a portion, of the distribution and/or service fees to financial intermediaries.

Distribution Plan Fee Table:

 

     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
Class A             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        $136,639  
Class B      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        4,035  
Class C      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        5,709  
Class R1      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        1,441  
Class R2      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        848  
Class R3             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        203  
Total Distribution and Service Fees

 

           $148,875  

 

(d)

In accordance with the distribution plan for certain classes, the fund pays distribution and/or service fees equal to these annual percentage rates of each class’s average daily net assets. The distribution and service fee rates disclosed by class represent the current rates in effect at the end of the reporting period. Any rate changes, if applicable, are detailed below.

(e)

The annual effective rates represent actual fees incurred under the distribution plan for the year ended May 31, 2020 based on each class’s average daily net assets. MFD has voluntarily agreed to rebate a portion of each class’s 0.25% service fee attributable to accounts for which there is no financial intermediary specified on the account except for accounts attributable to MFS or its affiliates’ seed money. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this rebate amounted to $76 for Class A and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Certain Class A shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) in the event of a shareholder redemption within 18 months of purchase. Class B shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within six years of purchase. Class C shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within 12 months of purchase. All contingent deferred sales charges are paid to MFD and during the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

     Amount  
Class A      $4  
Class B      660  
Class C      10  

Shareholder Servicing Agent – MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, receives a fee from the fund for its services as shareholder servicing agent calculated as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the fund as determined periodically under the supervision of the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the

 

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year ended May 31, 2020, the fee was $3,011, which equated to 0.0015% annually of the fund’s average daily net assets. MFSC also receives payment from the fund for out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs which may be paid to affiliated and unaffiliated service providers. Class R6 shares do not incur sub-accounting fees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, these out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs amounted to $60,271.

Administrator – MFS provides certain financial, legal, shareholder communications, compliance, and other administrative services to the fund. Under an administrative services agreement, the fund reimburses MFS the costs incurred to provide these services. The fund is charged an annual fixed amount of $17,500 plus a fee based on average daily net assets. The administrative services fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.0187% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Trustees’ and Officers’ Compensation – The fund pays compensation to independent Trustees in the form of a retainer, attendance fees, and additional compensation to Board and Committee chairpersons. The fund does not pay compensation directly to Trustees or officers of the fund who are also officers of the investment adviser, all of whom receive remuneration from MFS for their services to the fund. Certain officers and Trustees of the fund are officers or directors of MFS, MFD, and MFSC.

Other – This fund and certain other funds managed by MFS (the funds) had entered into a service agreement (the ISO Agreement) which provided for payment of fees solely by the funds to Tarantino LLC in return for the provision of services of an Independent Senior Officer (ISO) for the funds. Frank L. Tarantino served as the ISO and was an officer of the funds and the sole member of Tarantino LLC. Effective June 30, 2019, Mr. Tarantino retired from his position as ISO for the funds, and the ISO Agreement was terminated. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee paid by the fund under this agreement was $90 and is included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations. MFS had agreed to bear all expenses associated with office space, other administrative support, and supplies provided to the ISO.

The fund invests in the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio which is managed by MFS and seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity. This money market fund does not pay a management fee to MFS but does incur investment and operating costs.

At May 31, 2020, MFS held approximately 100% of the outstanding shares of Class R1, Class R3, and Class R4.

The fund is permitted to engage in purchase and sale transactions with funds and accounts for which MFS serves as investment adviser or sub-adviser (“cross-trades”) pursuant to a policy adopted by the Board of Trustees. This policy has been designed to ensure that cross-trades conducted by the fund comply with Rule 17a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. During the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund engaged in sale transactions pursuant to this policy, which amounted to $640,450. The sales transactions resulted in net realized gains (losses) of $(95,961).

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securities trades. This agreement may be rescinded at any time. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reimbursement amounted to $7,404, which is included in “Other” income in the Statement of Operations.

(4) Portfolio Securities

For the year ended May 31, 2020, purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $120,238,828 and $135,501,962, respectively.

(5) Shares of Beneficial Interest

The fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest. Transactions in fund shares were as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares sold            

Class A

     1,821,174        $26,290,288        1,307,296        $17,067,035  

Class B

     145        2,200        11,110        157,558  

Class C

     8,800        124,505        25,707        373,532  

Class I

     85,947        1,232,685        116,377        1,629,607  

Class R1

     104        2,216        252        3,413  

Class R2

     9,332        141,727        798        10,669  

Class R6

     1,212,208        17,325,820        1,867,515        25,164,014  
     3,137,710        $45,119,441        3,329,055        $44,405,828  
Shares issued to shareholders in
reinvestment of distributions

 

        

Class A

     10,332        $152,909        17,048        $205,255  

Class B

     1,021        14,943        2,162        25,794  

Class C

     1,505        22,006        2,992        35,659  

Class I

     5,686        84,493        4,908        59,291  

Class R1

     499        7,293        824        9,822  

Class R2

     337        5,012        473        5,719  

Class R3

     237        3,519        373        4,508  

Class R4

     251        3,741        390        4,714  

Class R6

     446,428        6,638,381        715,683        8,652,611  
     466,296        $6,932,297        744,853        $9,003,373  
Shares reacquired            

Class A

     (2,182,341      $(31,479,205      (1,266,884      $(17,869,262

Class B

     (7,591      (105,958      (4,490      (59,994

Class C

     (11,025      (158,336      (12,769      (169,925

Class I

     (59,776      (885,829      (17,856      (244,042

Class R1

     (7,986      (119,952      (8      (103

Class R2

     (828      (12,719      (5,702      (77,245

Class R6

     (1,998,491      (29,309,050      (2,105,733      (29,635,979
     (4,268,038      $(62,071,049      (3,413,442      $(48,056,550

 

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       Year ended
5/31/20
       Year ended
5/31/19
 
       Shares      Amount        Shares      Amount  
               
Net change                

Class A

       (350,835      $(5,036,008        57,460        $(596,972

Class B

       (6,425      (88,815        8,782        123,358  

Class C

       (720      (11,825        15,930        239,266  

Class I

       31,857        431,349          103,429        1,444,856  

Class R1

       (7,383      (110,443        1,068        13,132  

Class R2

       8,841        134,020          (4,431      (60,857

Class R3

       237        3,519          373        4,508  

Class R4

       251        3,741          390        4,714  

Class R6

       (339,855      (5,344,849        477,465        4,180,646  
       (664,032      $(10,019,311        660,466        $5,352,651  

Class T shares were not publicly available for sale during the period. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective June 1, 2019, purchases of the fund’s Class B shares are closed to new and existing investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

The fund is one of several mutual funds in which certain MFS funds may invest. The MFS funds do not invest in the underlying funds for the purpose of exercising management or control. At the end of the period, the MFS Lifetime 2030 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2040 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2035 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2045 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2050 Fund, the MFS Lifetime Income Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2025 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2055 Fund, and the MFS Lifetime 2020 Fund were the owners of record of approximately 12%, 12%, 9%, 7%, 7%, 6%, 5%, 4%, and 3%, respectively, of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund. In addition, the MFS Lifetime 2060 Fund, was the owner of record of less than 1% of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund.

(6) Line of Credit

The fund and certain other funds managed by MFS participate in a $1.25 billion unsecured committed line of credit, subject to a $1 billion sublimit, provided by a syndicate of banks under a credit agreement. Borrowings may be made for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, generally at a rate equal to the highest of one month LIBOR, the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus an agreed upon spread. A commitment fee, based on the average daily, unused portion of the committed line of credit, is allocated among the participating funds. In addition, the fund and other funds managed by MFS have established unsecured uncommitted borrowing arrangements with certain banks for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, at rates equal to customary reference rates plus an agreed upon spread. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund’s commitment fee and interest expense were $1,010 and $79, respectively, and are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

 

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(7) Investments in Affiliated Issuers

An affiliated issuer may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:

 

Affiliated Issuers   Beginning
Value
    Purchases     Sales
Proceeds
    Realized
Gain
(Loss)
    Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
    Ending
Value
 
MFS Institutional Money
Market Portfolio
    $2,759,962       $33,428,486       $35,350,578       $(201     $(169     $837,500  
Affiliated Issuers                               Dividend
Income
    Capital Gain
Distributions
 
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

 

          $33,102       $—  

(8) Impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic related to the global spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in December 2019, has resulted in significant disruptions to global business activity and the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the securities and commodities markets in general. This pandemic, the full effects of which are still unknown, has resulted in substantial market volatility and may have adversely impacted the prices and liquidity of the fund’s investments and the fund’s performance.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Trustees of MFS Series Trust X and the Shareholders of MFS Blended Research Growth Equity Fund:

Opinion on the Financial Statements and Financial Highlights

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of MFS Blended Research Growth Equity Fund (the “Fund”), including the portfolio of investments, as of May 31, 2020, the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from September 15, 2015 (the commencement of the Fund’s investment operations) through May 31, 2016, and the related notes. In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of May 31, 2020, and the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from September 15, 2015 (the commencement of the Fund’s investment operations) through May 31, 2016, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements and financial highlights, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and financial highlights. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements and financial highlights.

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm – continued

 

Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2020, by correspondence with the custodian. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

July 17, 2020

We have served as the auditor of one or more of the MFS investment companies since 1924.

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS — IDENTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND

The Trustees and Officers of the Trust, as of July 1, 2020, are listed below, together with their principal occupations during the past five years. (Their titles may have varied during that period.) The address of each Trustee and Officer is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

INTERESTED TRUSTEES
Robert J. Manning (k) (age 56)   Trustee   February 2004   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Chairman (since January 2017); Director; Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (until 2015); Co-Chief Executive Officer (2015-2016)   N/A

Robin A. Stelmach (k)

(age 58)

  Trustee   January 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice Chair (since January 2017); Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (until January 2017)   N/A
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES    

John P. Kavanaugh

(age 65)

  Trustee and Chair of Trustees   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A

Steven E. Buller

(age 68)

  Trustee   February 2014   134   Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman (2014-2015); Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Standing Advisory Group, Member (until 2014); BlackRock, Inc. (investment management), Managing Director (until 2014), BlackRock Finco UK (investment management), Director (until 2014)   N/A

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

John A. Caroselli

(age 66)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   JC Global Advisors, LLC (management consulting), President (since 2015); First Capital Corporation (commercial finance), Executive Vice President (until 2015)   N/A

Maureen R. Goldfarb

(age 65)

  Trustee   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A
Peter D. Jones
(age 64)
  Trustee   January 2019   134   Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (investment management), President (until 2015); Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (investment management), Chairman (until 2015)   N/A
James W. Kilman, Jr. (age 59)   Trustee   January 2019   134   Burford Capital Limited (finance and investment management), Chief Financial Officer (since 2019); KielStrand Capital LLC (family office), Chief Executive Officer (since 2016); Morgan Stanley & Co. (financial services), Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Co-Head of Diversified Financials Coverage – Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group (until 2016)   Alpha-En Corporation, Director (2016-2019)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

Clarence Otis, Jr.

(age 64)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   Darden Restaurants, Inc., Chief Executive Officer (until 2014)   VF Corporation, Director; Verizon Communications, Inc., Director; The Travelers Companies, Director; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Director (until 2015)

Maryanne L. Roepke

(age 64)

  Trustee   May 2014   134   American Century Investments (investment management), Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (until 2014)   N/A
Laurie J. Thomsen
(age 62)
  Trustee   March 2005   134   Private investor   The Travelers Companies, Director; Dycom Industries, Inc., Director (since 2015)

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

OFFICERS      
Christopher R. Bohane (k) (age 46)   Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Kino Clark (k)

(age 52)

 

Assistant

Treasurer

  January 2012   134  

Massachusetts Financial

Services Company, Vice President

John W. Clark, Jr. (k)

(age 53)

  Assistant Treasurer   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President (since March 2017); Deutsche Bank (financial services), Department Head – Treasurer’s Office (until February 2017)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

Thomas H. Connors (k)

(age 60)

 

Assistant

Secretary and Assistant Clerk

  September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel
David L. DiLorenzo (k)
(age 51)
  President   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

Heidi W. Hardin (k)

(age 52)

  Secretary and Clerk   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Vice President and General Counsel (since March 2017); Harris Associates (investment management), General Counsel (from September 2015 to January 2017); Janus Capital Management LLC (investment management), Senior Vice President and General Counsel (until September 2015)

Brian E. Langenfeld (k)

(age 47)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  June 2006   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel

Amanda S. Mooradian (k)

(age 41)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  September 2018   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel
Susan A. Pereira (k)
(age 49)
  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Kasey L. Phillips (k)

(age 49)

  Assistant Treasurer   September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

Matthew A. Stowe (k)

(age 45)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   October 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Martin J. Wolin (k)

(age 52)

  Chief Compliance Officer   July 2015   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (since July 2015); Mercer (financial service provider), Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, North America and Latin America (until June 2015)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

James O. Yost (k)
(age 60)
  Treasurer   September 1990   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

 

(h)

Date first appointed to serve as Trustee/officer of an MFS Fund. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. For the period from December 15, 2004 until February 22, 2005, Mr. Manning served as Advisory Trustee. From January 2012 through December 2016, Messrs. DiLorenzo and Yost served as Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer of the Funds, respectively.

(j)

Directorships or trusteeships of companies required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., “public companies”).

(k)

“Interested person” of the Trust within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (referred to as the 1940 Act), which is the principal federal law governing investment companies like the fund, as a result of a position with MFS. The address of MFS is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

Each Trustee (other than Messrs. Jones and Kilman) has been elected by shareholders and each Trustee and Officer holds office until his or her successor is chosen and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal. Messrs. Jones and Kilman became Trustees of the Funds on January 1, 2019. The Trust does not hold annual meetings for the purpose of electing Trustees, and Trustees are not elected for fixed terms. Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of any Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20 years of service on the Board).

Messrs. Buller, Kilman and Otis and Ms. Roepke are members of the Trust’s Audit Committee.

Each of the Interested Trustees and certain Officers hold comparable officer positions with certain affiliates of MFS.

The Statement of Additional Information for a Fund includes further information about the Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

 

Investment Adviser   Custodian

Massachusetts Financial Services Company
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

State Street Bank and Trust Company

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111-2900

Distributor   Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

200 Berkeley Street

Boston, MA 02116

Portfolio Manager(s)  

Jim Fallon

Matt Krummell

Jonathan Sage

Jed Stocks

 

 

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STATEMENT REGARDING LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) as required by Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated MFS as the administrator of the Program. The Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage the liquidity risk of the fund. Liquidity risk is the risk that the fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by the fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interests.

MFS provided a written report to the Board for consideration at its April 2020 meeting that addressed the operation of the Program and provided an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of the Program during the period from the adoption of the Program on December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (the “Covered Period”). The report concluded that during the Covered Period the Program had operated effectively and had adequately and effectively been implemented to assess and manage the fund’s liquidity risk. MFS also reported that there were no liquidity events that impacted the fund or its ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders during the Covered Period.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Further information on liquidity risk, and other principal risks to which an investment in the fund may be subject, can be found in the prospectus.

 

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND INFORMATION

MFS votes proxies on behalf of the fund pursuant to proxy voting policies and procedures that are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-225-2606, by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available by August 31 of each year without charge by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO DISCLOSURE

The fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A shareholder can obtain the portfolio holdings report for the first and third quarters of the fund’s fiscal year at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name and then selecting the “Resources” tab and clicking on “Prospectus and Reports”.

FURTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, MFS may post important information about the fund or the MFS funds on the MFS web site (mfs.com). This information is available at https://www.mfs.com/en-us/what-we-do/announcements.html or at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name.

INFORMATION ABOUT FUND CONTRACTS AND LEGAL CLAIMS

The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, 529 program manager (if applicable), and custodian who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the Trust’s By-Laws and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the MFS Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (unaudited)

The fund will notify shareholders of amounts for use in preparing 2020 income tax forms in January 2021. The following information is provided pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as qualified dividend income eligible to be taxed at the same rate as long-term capital gain.

The fund designates $9,385,000 as capital gain dividends paid during the fiscal year.

For corporate shareholders, 100% of the ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year qualify for the corporate dividends received deduction.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as Section 199A dividends as defined in Proposed Treasury Regulation §1.199A-3(d).

 

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FACTS

 

  WHAT DOES MFS DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?   LOGO

 

Why?   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

 

What?  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

 Social Security number and account balances

 Account transactions and transaction history

 Checking account information and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

How?   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons MFS chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your
personal information
  Does MFS
share?
  Can you limit
this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes –

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

  Yes   No

For our marketing purposes –

to offer our products and services to you

  No   We don’t share

For joint marketing with other

financial companies

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your transactions and experiences

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your creditworthiness

  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

   
Questions?   Call 800-225-2606 or go to mfs.com.

 

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   MFS Funds, MFS Investment Management, MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., and MFS Heritage Trust Company.

 

What we do
How does MFS protect my personal information?   To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include procedural, electronic, and physical safeguards for the protection of the personal information we collect about you.
How does MFS collect my personal information?  

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

 open an account or provide account information

 direct us to buy securities or direct us to sell your securities

 make a wire transfer

 

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

 sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness

 affiliates from using your information to market to you

 sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 

Definitions
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share personal information with affiliates, except for everyday business purposes as described on page one of this notice.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

 MFS doesnt jointly market.

 

 

Other important information
If you own an MFS product or receive an MFS service in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, their privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.

 

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LOGO

 

Save paper with eDelivery.

 

LOGO

MFS® will send you prospectuses,

reports, and proxies directly via e-mail so you will get information faster with less mailbox clutter.

To sign up:

1. Go to mfs.com.

2. Log in via MFS® Access.

3. Select eDelivery.

If you own your MFS fund shares through a financial institution or a retirement plan, MFS® TALK, MFS® Access, or eDelivery may not be available to you.

 

CONTACT

WEB SITE

mfs.com

MFS TALK

1-800-637-8255

24 hours a day

ACCOUNT SERVICE AND LITERATURE

Shareholders

1-800-225-2606

Financial advisors

1-800-343-2829

Retirement plan services

1-800-637-1255

MAILING ADDRESS

MFS Service Center, Inc.

P.O. Box 219341

Kansas City, MO 64121-9341

OVERNIGHT MAIL

MFS Service Center, Inc.

Suite 219341

430 W 7th Street

Kansas City, MO 64105-1407

 


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Annual Report

May 31, 2020

 

LOGO

 

MFS® Blended Research®

Mid Cap Equity Fund

 

LOGO

 

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the fund’s annual and semiannual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the complete reports will be made available on the fund’s Web site (funds.mfs.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a Web site link to access the report.

If you are already signed up to receive shareholder reports by email, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may sign up to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund by email by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you hold your shares directly with the fund, by calling 1-800-225-2606 or by logging on to MFS Access at mfs.com.

Beginning on January 1, 2019, you may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. Contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the fund, you can call 1-800-225-2606 or send an email request to orderliterature@mfs.com to let the fund know that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary or all funds held with the MFS fund complex if you invest directly.

 

BMS-ANN

 


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MFS® Blended Research® Mid Cap Equity Fund

 

CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Executive Chair     1  
Portfolio composition     2  
Management review     3  
Performance summary     6  
Expense table     9  
Portfolio of investments     11  
Statement of assets and liabilities     17  
Statement of operations     19  
Statements of changes in net assets     20  
Financial highlights     21  
Notes to financial statements     27  
Report of independent registered public accounting firm     38  
Trustees and officers     40  
Statement regarding liquidity risk management program     45  
Proxy voting policies and information     46  
Quarterly portfolio disclosure     46  
Further information     46  
Information about fund contracts and legal claims     46  
Federal tax information     46  
MFS® privacy notice     47  
Contact information     back cover  

 

The report is prepared for the general information of shareholders. It is authorized for distribution to prospective investors only when preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

 

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LOGO

 

LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR

 

Dear Shareholders:

Markets experienced dramatic swings in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill for several months. Optimism over the

development of vaccines and therapeutics, along with a decline in cases in countries that had been affected by the outbreak early on, brightened the economic and market outlook during the second quarter, as did the phased reopening of US states. However, a great deal of uncertainty remains, including the possibility of a second wave of cases later this year.

Global central banks have taken aggressive, coordinated steps to cushion the economic and market fallout related to the virus, and governments are deploying unprecedented levels of fiscal stimulus. As uncertainty recedes, these measures can help build a supportive environment and encourage economic recovery;

however, if markets disconnect from fundamentals, they can also sow the seeds of instability. In the aftermath of the crisis, societal changes may be likely as households, businesses, and governments adjust to a new reality, and these alterations could change the investment landscape. For investors, events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrate the importance of having a deep understanding of company fundamentals, and we have built our global research platform to do just that.

Here at MFS®, we aim to help our clients navigate the growing complexity of the markets and world economies. Our long-term investment philosophy and commitment to the responsible allocation of capital allow us to tune out the noise and uncover what we believe are the best, most durable investment opportunities in the market. Through our powerful global investment platform, we combine collective expertise, thoughtful risk management, and long-term discipline to create sustainable value for investors.

Respectfully,

 

LOGO

Robert J. Manning

Executive Chair

MFS Investment Management

July 17, 2020

The opinions expressed in this letter are subject to change and may not be relied upon for investment advice. No forecasts can be guaranteed.

 

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PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION

 

Portfolio structure

 

LOGO

 

Top ten holdings

 

Fiserv, Inc.     2.3%  
McKesson Corp.     1.9%  
Incyte Corp.     1.8%  
DocuSign, Inc.     1.8%  
Copart, Inc.     1.8%  
Sempra Energy     1.7%  
CACI International, Inc., “A”     1.7%  
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., “A”     1.6%  
Electronic Arts, Inc.     1.6%  
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.     1.6%  
GICS sectors (g)

 

Information Technology     19.4%  
Industrials     14.6%  
Health Care     14.5%  
Consumer Discretionary     11.0%  
Financials     9.1%  
Utilities     8.2%  
Real Estate     8.1%  
Materials     4.5%  
Communication Services     4.5%  
Consumer Staples     3.6%  
Energy     1.9%  
 

 

(g)

The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and/or is the exclusive property of MSCI, Inc. and S&P Global Market Intelligence Inc. (“S&P Global Market Intelligence”). GICS is a service mark of MSCI and S&P Global Market Intelligence and has been licensed for use by MFS.

Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. Please see the Statement of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS Blended Research Mid Cap Equity Fund (fund) provided a total return of 0.51%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of 2.63% for the fund’s benchmark, the Russell Midcap® Index.

Market Environment

Markets experienced an extraordinarily sharp selloff and in many cases an unusually rapid partial recovery late in the period. Central banks and fiscal authorities undertook astonishing levels of stimulus to offset the economic effects of government-imposed social-distancing measures implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19. Despite policymakers’ best efforts, a global recession has undoubtedly begun.

Compounding market uncertainty earlier in the coronavirus pandemic was a crash in the price of crude oil due to a sharp drop in global demand and a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts, which resulted in a price war. The subsequent decline in prices undercut oil exporters, many of which are in emerging markets, as well as a large segment of the high-yield credit market. OPEC+ later agreed on output cuts, which – along with the gradual reopening of some major economies and resultant boost in demand – helped stabilize the price of crude.

Around the world, central banks responded quickly and massively to the crisis with programs to improve liquidity and support markets. They proved largely successful in helping to restore market function, easing volatility and stimulating a market rebound at the end of the period. Monetary easing measures were complemented by large fiscal stimulus plans in developed countries. Even emerging market countries were able to implement countercyclical policies – a departure from the usual market-dictated response to risk-off crises – due to relatively manageable external liabilities and balances of payments in many countries, along with persistently low inflation.

As is often the case in a crisis, market vulnerabilities were revealed. For example, companies that added significant leverage to their balance sheets in recent years by borrowing to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks may find it difficult to follow that path in the future, and investors may not reward them if they do. Recapitalizations by some of these highly leveraged firms could dilute existing shareholders. Very long supply chains designed to squeeze out every bit of savings may be shifted closer to home markets if companies seek to put resiliency before cost after a series of supply disruptions. The aftereffects of the pandemic could affect consumer, business and government behavior in ways difficult to forecast. Also, while markets have regained lost ground more swiftly than expected, any economic recovery is likely to be protracted.

Detractors from Performance

Stock selection in the financials sector was a primary factor of the fund’s underperformance relative to the Russell Midcap® Index. Within this sector, the fund’s overweight positions in life and health reinsurance products company Reinsurance

 

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Group of America, financial services company Synchrony Financial, insurance company Lincoln National and financial services provider East West Bancorp (h) detracted from relative results.

Stock selection in the consumer staples sector also held back relative performance, led by the fund’s overweight position in foodservice distributor US Foods Holding (h).

Elsewhere, the fund’s holdings of hotel operator Marriott International (b) weakened relative results. The share price of Marriott International declined over the reporting period as the ongoing situation with the COVID-19 virus unfolded. The US and state stay-at-home orders were particularly impactful to lodging companies, such as Marriott, which were generating close to zero revenue in this environment. In addition, overweight positions in onshore contract drilling services provider Patterson-UTI Energy (h) and real estate investment trusts Spirit Realty Capital, STORE Capital (h) and Brixmor Property Group hindered relative returns. The share price of Patterson-UTI Energy fell due to decreased demand for oil and energy-related services, amid the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus, and as Saudi Arabia and Russia failed to reach an agreement on oil production, which resulted in each country flooding the market with oil, driving down prices globally and pressuring the financial results of US energy companies.

Contributors to Performance

Stock selection in the communication services sector contributed to relative results. Within this sector, the fund’s holdings of video game maker Electronic Arts (b), and overweight positions in Internet and cable service provider Cable One and video game developer Take-Two Interactive Software, benefited relative performance.

Stock selection in the information technology sector also bolstered relative returns. Within this sector, overweight positions in information technology services provider Leidos Holdings, business analytics and software products provider Tableau Software (h) and semiconductor company Lam Research aided relative results. In addition, the timing of the fund’s ownership in shares of software company ServiceNow, and holdings of strong-performing semiconductor manufacturer Cirrus Logic (b), helped relative results. The share price of ServiceNow appreciated after its management reported earnings per share results ahead of market estimates, driven by a larger-than-anticipated increase in subscription billings and revenues.

Stocks in other sectors that supported relative performance included the fund’s overweight positions in quick service Mexican restaurant Chipotle Mexican Grill and railroad company Kansas City Southern. The share price of Chipotle Mexican Grill advanced as the company reported solid financial results, driven by stronger-than-expected same-store sales and margins. Management also raised its 2019 revenue guidance, which further supported the stock.

Respectfully,

Portfolio Manager(s)

Jim Fallon, Matt Krummell, Jonathan Sage, and Jed Stocks

 

(b)

Security is not a benchmark constituent.

(h)

Security was not held in the portfolio at period end.

 

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The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover and do not necessarily reflect the views of MFS or any other person in the MFS organization. These views are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions, and MFS disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice or an indication of trading intent on behalf of any MFS portfolio. References to specific securities are not recommendations of such securities, and may not be representative of any MFS portfolio’s current or future investments.

 

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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY THROUGH 5/31/20

The following chart illustrates a representative class of the fund’s historical performance in comparison to its benchmark(s). Performance results include the deduction of the maximum applicable sales charge and reflect the percentage change in net asset value, including reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. The performance of other share classes will be greater than or less than that of the class depicted below. Benchmarks are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. Benchmark returns do not reflect sales charges, commissions or expenses. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value fluctuate so your shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost; current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. The performance shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes, if any, that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

Growth of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment (t)

 

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Total Returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class    Class Inception Date   1-yr   Life (t)     
    A    8/19/16   0.51%   6.15%    
    B    8/19/16   (0.23)%   5.34%    
    C    8/19/16   (0.28)%   5.34%    
    I    8/19/16   0.71%   6.39%    
    R1    8/19/16   (0.16)%   5.35%    
    R2    8/19/16   0.21%   5.86%    
    R3    8/19/16   0.51%   6.14%    
    R4    8/19/16   0.73%   6.39%    
    R6    8/19/16   0.87%   6.47%    
Comparative benchmark(s)            
    Russell Midcap® Index (f)   2.63%   6.99%    
Average annual with sales charge            
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
  (5.27)%   4.50%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
  (4.07)%   4.65%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
  (1.24)%   5.34%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 shares do not have a sales charge.

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(t)

For the period from the class inception date through the stated period end. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

Benchmark Definition(s)

Russell Midcap® Index – a market capitalization weighted index representing the smallest 800 companies in the Russell 1000 Index. The range of market caps covered in this 800-member index goes from about $1 billion to roughly $20 billion, with an average market cap of $8 billion to $10 billion, and a median value of $4 billion to $5 billion. The index is reconstituted annually so that stocks that have outgrown the index can be removed and new entries can be added. Frank Russell Company (“Russell”) is the source and owner of the trademarks, service marks, and copyrights related to the Russell Indexes. Russell® is a trademark of Frank Russell Company. Neither Russell nor its licensors accept any liability for any errors or omissions in the Russell Indexes and/or Russell ratings or underlying data and no party may rely on any Russell Indexes and/or Russell ratings and/or underlying data contained in this document. No further distribution of Russell Data is permitted without Russell’s express written consent. Russell does not promote, sponsor, or endorse the content of this document.

 

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It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

Notes to Performance Summary

Average annual total return represents the average annual change in value for each share class for the periods presented. Life returns are presented where the share class has less than 10 years of performance history and represent the average annual total return from the class inception date to the stated period end date.

Performance results reflect any applicable expense subsidies and waivers in effect during the periods shown. Without such subsidies and waivers the fund’s performance results would be less favorable. Please see the prospectus and financial statements for complete details.

Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and may differ from amounts reported in the financial highlights.

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

 

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EXPENSE TABLE

Fund expenses borne by the shareholders during the period, December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on certain purchase or redemption payments, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and service (12b-1) fees; and other fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the following table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the following table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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Share
Class
       Annualized
Expense
Ratio
    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During
Period (p)
12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     0.84%       $1,000.00       $893.59       $3.98  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.84%       $1,000.00       $1,020.80       $4.24  
B   Actual     1.59%       $1,000.00       $890.05       $7.51  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.59%       $1,000.00       $1,017.05       $8.02  
C   Actual     1.59%       $1,000.00       $889.80       $7.51  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.59%       $1,000.00       $1,017.05       $8.02  
I   Actual     0.59%       $1,000.00       $894.16       $2.79  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.59%       $1,000.00       $1,022.05       $2.98  
R1   Actual     1.59%       $1,000.00       $890.08       $7.51  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.59%       $1,000.00       $1,017.05       $8.02  
R2   Actual     1.09%       $1,000.00       $891.74       $5.15  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.09%       $1,000.00       $1,019.55       $5.50  
R3   Actual     0.84%       $1,000.00       $893.75       $3.98  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.84%       $1,000.00       $1,020.80       $4.24  
R4   Actual     0.59%       $1,000.00       $894.38       $2.79  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.59%       $1,000.00       $1,022.05       $2.98  
R6   Actual     0.48%       $1,000.00       $894.90       $2.27  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.48%       $1,000.00       $1,022.60       $2.43  

 

(h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

(p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

5/31/20

The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - 99.4%               
Aerospace - 4.7%               
CACI International, Inc., “A” (a)      20,924     $ 5,247,321  
Curtiss-Wright Corp.      2,784       279,235  
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.      20,548       4,107,340  
Leidos Holdings, Inc.      48,302       5,085,717  
    

 

 

 
             $ 14,719,613  
Alcoholic Beverages - 0.9%               
Molson Coors Beverage Co.      71,743     $ 2,723,364  
Apparel Manufacturers - 0.6%               
Skechers USA, Inc., “A” (a)      64,525     $ 2,020,923  
Automotive - 2.9%               
Copart, Inc. (a)      61,779     $ 5,522,425  
Lear Corp.      32,596       3,456,806  
    

 

 

 
             $ 8,979,231  
Biotechnology - 1.8%               
Incyte Corp. (a)      55,579     $ 5,664,056  
Business Services - 3.9%               
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.      32,491     $ 4,510,725  
Fiserv, Inc. (a)      66,457       7,095,614  
Verisk Analytics, Inc., “A”      4,250       733,890  
    

 

 

 
             $ 12,340,229  
Cable TV - 1.6%               
Cable One, Inc.      2,589     $ 4,885,158  
Chemicals - 2.1%               
CF Industries Holdings, Inc.      34,631     $ 1,017,113  
Eastman Chemical Co.      65,893       4,485,995  
Huntsman Corp.      62,673       1,137,515  
    

 

 

 
             $ 6,640,623  
Computer Software - 6.7%               
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (a)      55,958     $ 5,108,406  
Citrix Systems, Inc.      15,526       2,299,711  
DocuSign, Inc. (a)      40,445       5,651,784  
Paylocity Holding Corp. (a)      17,136       2,227,766  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Computer Software - continued               
RingCentral, Inc. (a)      6,188     $ 1,697,059  
VeriSign, Inc. (a)      18,218       3,989,924  
    

 

 

 
             $ 20,974,650  
Computer Software - Systems - 4.4%               
Hewlett Packard Enterprise      210,013     $ 2,039,226  
Juniper Networks, Inc.      124,678       3,024,688  
ServiceNow, Inc. (a)      9,481       3,677,965  
TransUnion      45,914       3,961,919  
Western Digital Corp.      28,419       1,260,951  
    

 

 

 
             $ 13,964,749  
Construction - 3.2%               
Eagle Materials, Inc.      36,555     $ 2,440,412  
Masco Corp.      58,426       2,725,573  
Pulte Homes, Inc.      8,211       278,927  
Taylor Morrison Home Corp. (a)      75,393       1,457,347  
Toll Brothers, Inc.      94,345       3,048,287  
    

 

 

 
             $ 9,950,546  
Containers - 1.5%               
Graphic Packaging Holding Co.      173,166     $ 2,505,712  
Sealed Air Corp.      71,507       2,295,375  
    

 

 

 
             $ 4,801,087  
Electrical Equipment - 1.8%               
AMETEK, Inc.      17,916     $ 1,643,076  
HD Supply Holdings, Inc. (a)      66,933       2,122,445  
Hubbell, Inc.      14,975       1,833,240  
    

 

 

 
             $ 5,598,761  
Electronics - 2.6%               
Analog Devices, Inc.      3,843     $ 434,067  
Cirrus Logic, Inc. (a)      33,990       2,463,595  
Lam Research Corp.      17,474       4,782,109  
Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (a)      4,033       377,731  
    

 

 

 
             $ 8,057,502  
Energy - Independent - 1.4%               
EQT Corp.      96,258     $ 1,284,082  
Marathon Petroleum Corp.      78,014       2,741,412  
WPX Energy, Inc. (a)      95,926       543,900  
    

 

 

 
             $ 4,569,394  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Engineering - Construction - 1.1%               
Quanta Services, Inc.      93,439     $ 3,450,702  
Food & Beverages - 2.2%               
Ingredion, Inc.      10,852     $ 914,064  
J.M. Smucker Co.      32,956       3,754,677  
Tyson Foods, Inc., “A”      37,076       2,277,949  
    

 

 

 
             $ 6,946,690  
Food & Drug Stores - 0.5%               
Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. (a)      18,008     $ 662,875  
Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (a)      35,042       880,605  
    

 

 

 
             $ 1,543,480  
Gaming & Lodging - 0.2%               
Marriott International, Inc., “A”      8,716     $ 771,366  
General Merchandise - 1.0%               
Dollar General Corp.      15,805     $ 3,026,816  
Insurance - 4.6%               
Ameriprise Financial, Inc.      7,064     $ 989,454  
Everest Re Group Ltd.      19,777       3,923,955  
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.      98,844       3,784,737  
Lincoln National Corp.      66,955       2,539,603  
Reinsurance Group of America, Inc.      34,207       3,104,285  
    

 

 

 
             $ 14,342,034  
Leisure & Toys - 4.2%               
Brunswick Corp.      71,175     $ 3,915,337  
Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)      41,620       5,114,265  
Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. (a)      31,441       4,281,321  
    

 

 

 
             $ 13,310,923  
Machinery & Tools - 4.7%               
AGCO Corp.      71,335     $ 3,939,832  
Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc.      49,525       1,868,083  
Cummins, Inc.      3,770       639,392  
ITT, Inc.      11,344       654,549  
Regal Beloit Corp.      60,592       4,819,488  
Roper Technologies, Inc.      2,364       930,943  
Timken Co.      28,475       1,211,326  
United Rentals, Inc. (a)      4,711       654,311  
    

 

 

 
             $ 14,717,924  

 

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Portfolio of Investments – continued

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Major Banks - 1.5%               
State Street Corp.      75,961     $ 4,630,583  
Medical & Health Technology & Services - 8.2%               
AmerisourceBergen Corp.      11,363     $ 1,083,348  
Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. (a)      19,648       3,529,960  
Chemed Corp.      5,297       2,534,667  
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (a)      8,675       2,679,534  
McKesson Corp.      37,705       5,982,652  
PRA Health Sciences, Inc. (a)      32,337       3,346,880  
Premier, Inc., “A” (a)      95,845       3,334,448  
Universal Health Services, Inc.      31,888       3,362,590  
    

 

 

 
             $ 25,854,079  
Medical Equipment - 3.0%               
Align Technology, Inc. (a)      5,218     $ 1,281,645  
Avantor, Inc. (a)      20,646       391,655  
Envista Holdings Corp. (a)      71,750       1,516,795  
PerkinElmer, Inc.      16,998       1,707,789  
STERIS PLC      5,083       843,219  
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc.      17,853       3,856,962  
    

 

 

 
             $ 9,598,065  
Natural Gas - Distribution - 1.7%               
Sempra Energy      42,309     $ 5,344,050  
Network & Telecom - 1.0%               
QTS Realty Trust, Inc., REIT, “A”      45,251     $ 3,104,219  
Oil Services - 0.4%               
Halliburton Co.      115,726     $ 1,359,781  
Other Banks & Diversified Financials - 3.1%               
Bank OZK      52,072     $ 1,171,099  
Navient Corp.      153,059       1,138,759  
Northern Trust Corp.      47,671       3,766,486  
OneMain Holdings, Inc.      46,628       1,087,831  
Synchrony Financial      130,090       2,649,933  
    

 

 

 
             $ 9,814,108  
Pharmaceuticals - 1.4%               
United Therapeutics Corp. (a)      8,473     $ 999,390  
Zoetis, Inc.      25,004       3,485,308  
    

 

 

 
             $ 4,484,698  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Railroad & Shipping - 1.6%               
Kansas City Southern Co.      33,443     $ 5,033,840  
Real Estate - 7.1%               
Brixmor Property Group, Inc., REIT      242,007     $ 2,700,798  
Lexington Realty Trust, REIT      353,867       3,439,587  
Life Storage, Inc., REIT      44,079       4,296,821  
Medical Properties Trust, Inc., REIT      142,468       2,575,821  
Spirit Realty Capital, Inc., REIT      138,764       3,945,061  
STAG Industrial, Inc., REIT      89,110       2,397,059  
Sun Communities, Inc., REIT      13,311       1,826,136  
VICI Properties, Inc., REIT      63,538       1,246,616  
    

 

 

 
             $ 22,427,899  
Restaurants - 2.6%               
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., “A” (a)      5,161     $ 5,181,179  
Domino’s Pizza, Inc.      5,825       2,247,518  
Texas Roadhouse, Inc.      17,414       902,916  
    

 

 

 
             $ 8,331,613  
Specialty Chemicals - 0.1%               
Corteva, Inc.      16,306     $ 445,317  
Specialty Stores - 2.6%               
AutoZone, Inc. (a)      1,630     $ 1,871,012  
Best Buy Co., Inc.      12,053       941,219  
Burlington Stores, Inc. (a)      5,388       1,129,702  
Ross Stores, Inc.      45,212       4,383,755  
    

 

 

 
             $ 8,325,688  
Utilities - Electric Power - 6.5%               
AES Corp.      272,942     $ 3,409,045  
DTE Energy Co.      16,956       1,823,957  
FirstEnergy Corp.      103,234       4,362,669  
NRG Energy, Inc.      101,615       3,663,221  
Vistra Energy Corp.      148,902       3,043,557  
Xcel Energy, Inc.      62,422       4,059,303  
    

 

 

 
             $ 20,361,752  
Total Common Stocks (Identified Cost, $293,135,449)            $ 313,115,513  

 

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Portfolio of Investments – continued

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Investment Companies (h) - 0.7%               
Money Market Funds - 0.7%               
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)
(Identified Cost, $2,229,472)
     2,229,249     $ 2,229,472  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - (0.1)%           (357,028)  
Net Assets - 100.0%            $ 314,987,957  

 

(a)

Non-income producing security.

(h)

An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate values of the fund’s investments in affiliated issuers and in unaffiliated issuers were $2,229,472 and $313,115,513, respectively.

(v)

Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

The following abbreviations are used in this report and are defined:

 

REIT   Real Estate Investment Trust

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

At 5/31/20

This statement represents your fund’s balance sheet, which details the assets and liabilities comprising the total value of the fund.

 

Assets         

Investments in unaffiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $293,135,449)

     $313,115,513  

Investments in affiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $2,229,472)

     2,229,472  

Receivables for

  

Fund shares sold

     77,183  

Dividends

     384,820  

Receivable from investment adviser

     29,488  

Other assets

     786  

Total assets

     $315,837,262  
Liabilities         

Payables for

  

Fund shares reacquired

     $735,629  

Payable to affiliates

  

Administrative services fee

     595  

Shareholder servicing costs

     32,019  

Distribution and service fees

     2,102  

Payable for independent Trustees’ compensation

     14  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     78,946  

Total liabilities

     $849,305  

Net assets

     $314,987,957  
Net assets consist of         

Paid-in capital

     $302,059,665  

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     12,928,292  

Net assets

     $314,987,957  

Shares of beneficial interest outstanding

     29,377,768  

 

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     Net assets      Shares
outstanding
     Net asset value
per share (a)
 
Class A      $74,842,759        6,995,094        $10.70  
Class B      92,074        8,652        10.64  
Class C      138,469        13,012        10.64  
Class I      4,367,675        407,640        10.71  
Class R1      97,772        9,184        10.65  
Class R2      62,039        5,797        10.70  
Class R3      1,015,198        94,773        10.71  
Class R4      684,942        63,872        10.72  
Class R6      233,687,029        21,779,744        10.73  

 

(a)

Maximum offering price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for all share classes, except for Class A, for which the maximum offering price per share was $11.35 [100 / 94.25 x $10.70]. On sales of $50,000 or more, the maximum offering price of Class A shares is reduced. A contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on redemptions of Class A, Class B, and Class C shares. Redemption price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for Classes I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

Year ended 5/31/20

This statement describes how much your fund earned in investment income and accrued in expenses. It also describes any gains and/or losses generated by fund operations.

 

Net investment income (loss)         

Income

  

Dividends

     $5,024,096  

Dividends from affiliated issuers

     60,149  

Income on securities loaned

     54,701  

Other

     17,189  

Total investment income

     $5,156,135  

Expenses

  

Management fee

     $1,482,272  

Distribution and service fees

     186,847  

Shareholder servicing costs

     81,681  

Administrative services fee

     50,002  

Independent Trustees’ compensation

     9,427  

Custodian fee

     22,771  

Shareholder communications

     9,516  

Audit and tax fees

     54,898  

Legal fees

     2,998  

Registration fees

     142,831  

Miscellaneous

     31,146  

Total expenses

     $2,074,389  

Fees paid indirectly

     (23

Reduction of expenses by investment adviser and distributor

     (358,324

Net expenses

     $1,716,042  

Net investment income (loss)

     $3,440,093  
Realized and unrealized gain (loss)         

Realized gain (loss) (identified cost basis)

  

Unaffiliated issuers

     $4,683,280  

Affiliated issuers

     1,228  

Net realized gain (loss)

     $4,684,508  

Change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation

  

Unaffiliated issuers

     $77,859  

Affiliated issuers

     (206

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     $77,653  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     $4,762,161  

Change in net assets from operations

     $8,202,254  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

These statements describe the increases and/or decreases in net assets resulting from operations, any distributions, and any shareholder transactions.

 

     Year ended  
     5/31/20      5/31/19  
Change in net assets              
From operations                  

Net investment income (loss)

     $3,440,093        $3,419,878  

Net realized gain (loss)

     4,684,508        6,569,369  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     77,653        (8,518,969

Change in net assets from operations

     $8,202,254        $1,470,278  

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(14,604,385      $(18,971,268

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $45,074,144        $18,874,626  

Total change in net assets

     $38,672,013        $1,373,636  
Net assets                  

At beginning of period

     276,315,944        274,942,308  

At end of period

     $314,987,957        $276,315,944  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years (or life of a particular share class, if shorter). Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

Class A   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $11.14       $12.07       $11.03       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.10       $0.11       $0.09       $0.06  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.02       (0.27     1.36       1.01  

Total from investment operations

    $0.12       $(0.16     $1.45       $1.07  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

    $(0.10     $(0.09     $(0.10     $(0.04

From net realized gain

    (0.46     (0.68     (0.31      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.56     $(0.77     $(0.41     $(0.04

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $10.70       $11.14       $12.07       $11.03  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    0.51       (0.52     13.20       10.72 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.96       0.97       0.94       0.96 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.84       0.84       0.84       0.81 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    0.89       0.96       0.71       0.76 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    81       80       84       68 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $74,843       $74,051       $77,738       $73  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Class B    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.08       $12.03       $10.99       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.02       $0.02       $(0.00 )(w)      $0.00 (w) 

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.01       (0.26     1.35       1.00  

Total from investment operations

     $0.03       $(0.24     $1.35       $1.00  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $(0.01     $(0.03     $—       $(0.01

From net realized gain

     (0.46     (0.68     (0.31      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.47     $(0.71     $(0.31     $(0.01

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $10.64       $11.08       $12.03       $10.99  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (0.23     (1.27     12.35       10.02 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.71       1.72       1.67       1.73 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.59       1.59       1.59       1.56 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.15       0.21       (0.04     0.02 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     81       80       84       68 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $92       $99       $66       $57  
Class C    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.10       $12.03       $10.99       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.02       $0.02       $(0.00 )(w)      $0.00 (w) 

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.01       (0.25     1.35       1.00  

Total from investment operations

     $0.03       $(0.23     $1.35       $1.00  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $(0.03     $(0.02     $(0.00 )(w)      $(0.01

From net realized gain

     (0.46     (0.68     (0.31      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.49     $(0.70     $(0.31     $(0.01

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $10.64       $11.10       $12.03       $10.99  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (0.28     (1.27     12.40       10.02 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.71       1.72       1.67       1.73 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.59       1.59       1.59       1.56 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.16       0.21       (0.04     0.01 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     81       80       84       68 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $138       $109       $98       $64  

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Class I    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.16       $12.11       $11.04       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.13       $0.14       $0.11       $0.08  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.02       (0.28     1.37       1.01  

Total from investment operations

     $0.15       $(0.14     $1.48       $1.09  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $(0.14     $(0.13     $(0.10     $(0.05

From net realized gain

     (0.46     (0.68     (0.31      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.60     $(0.81     $(0.41     $(0.05

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $10.71       $11.16       $12.11       $11.04  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     0.71       (0.30     13.51       10.91 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     0.71       0.71       0.67       0.74 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     0.59       0.59       0.59       0.56 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     1.18       1.26       0.95       1.02 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     81       80       84       68 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $4,368       $2,336       $69       $55  
Class R1    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.09       $12.03       $10.99       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.02       $0.02       $(0.01     $0.00 (w) 

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.02       (0.26     1.36       1.00  

Total from investment operations

     $0.04       $(0.24     $1.35       $1.00  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $(0.02     $(0.02     $—       $(0.01

From net realized gain

     (0.46     (0.68     (0.31      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.48     $(0.70     $(0.31     $(0.01

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $10.65       $11.09       $12.03       $10.99  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (0.16     (1.31     12.35       10.02 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.71       1.72       1.67       1.73 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.59       1.59       1.59       1.56 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.15       0.22       (0.05     0.02 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     81       80       84       68 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $98       $97       $62       $55  

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Class R2    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.15       $12.07       $11.02       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.07       $0.08       $0.05       $0.04  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.02       (0.25     1.35       1.01  

Total from investment operations

     $0.09       $(0.17     $1.40       $1.05  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $(0.08     $(0.07     $(0.04     $(0.03

From net realized gain

     (0.46     (0.68     (0.31      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.54     $(0.75     $(0.35     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $10.70       $11.15       $12.07       $11.02  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     0.21       (0.71     12.82       10.51 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.21       1.22       1.17       1.23 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.09       1.09       1.09       1.06 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.65       0.70       0.45       0.52 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     81       80       84       68 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $62       $62       $62       $55  
Class R3    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.16       $12.09       $11.03       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.07       $0.11       $0.08       $0.06  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.05       (0.26     1.36       1.01  

Total from investment operations

     $0.12       $(0.15     $1.44       $1.07  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $(0.11     $(0.10     $(0.07     $(0.04

From net realized gain

     (0.46     (0.68     (0.31      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.57     $(0.78     $(0.38     $(0.04

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $10.71       $11.16       $12.09       $11.03  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     0.51       (0.50     13.17       10.71 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.00       0.97       0.92       0.98 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     0.84       0.84       0.84       0.81 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.72       0.95       0.71       0.77 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     81       80       84       68 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $1,015       $62       $63       $55  

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Class R4    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.17       $12.11       $11.04       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.13       $0.14       $0.11       $0.08  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.02       (0.27     1.37       1.01  

Total from investment operations

     $0.15       $(0.13     $1.48       $1.09  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $(0.14     $(0.13     $(0.10     $(0.05

From net realized gain

     (0.46     (0.68     (0.31      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.60     $(0.81     $(0.41     $(0.05

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $10.72       $11.17       $12.11       $11.04  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     0.73       (0.30     13.51       10.91 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     0.71       0.72       0.67       0.74 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     0.59       0.59       0.59       0.56 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     1.18       1.21       0.96       1.02 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     81       80       84       68 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $685       $63       $63       $55  
Class R6    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $11.17       $12.11       $11.04       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.14       $0.15       $0.12       $0.09  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.02       (0.27     1.36       1.00  

Total from investment operations

     $0.16       $(0.12     $1.48       $1.09  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $(0.14     $(0.14     $(0.10     $(0.05

From net realized gain

     (0.46     (0.68     (0.31      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.60     $(0.82     $(0.41     $(0.05

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $10.73       $11.17       $12.11       $11.04  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     0.87       (0.17     13.52       10.91 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     0.61       0.61       0.62       0.60 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     0.49       0.48       0.52       0.55 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     1.25       1.32       1.03       1.05 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     81       80       84       68 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $233,687       $199,437       $196,721       $187,594  

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(a)

Annualized.

(c)

For the period from the commencement of the fund’s investment operations, August 19, 2016, through the stated period end.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(n)

Not annualized.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(w)

Per share amount was less than $0.01.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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(1) Business and Organization

MFS Blended Research Mid Cap Equity Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of MFS Series Trust X (the trust). The trust is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company.

The fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies.

(2) Significant Accounting Policies

General – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the preparation of these financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events occurring after the date of the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities through the date that the financial statements were issued.

In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) – Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”), which provides optional, temporary relief with respect to the financial reporting of contracts subject to certain types of modifications due to the planned discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR-based reference rates as of the end of 2021. The temporary relief provided by ASU 2020-04 is effective for certain reference rate-related contract modifications that occur during the period from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-04 on the fund’s investments, derivatives, debt and other contracts that will undergo reference rate-related modifications as a result of the reference rate reform.

Balance Sheet Offsetting – The fund’s accounting policy with respect to balance sheet offsetting is that, absent an event of default by the counterparty or a termination of the agreement, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreement, or similar agreement, does not result in an offset of reported amounts of financial assets and financial liabilities in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities across transactions between the fund and the applicable counterparty. The fund’s right to setoff may be restricted or prohibited by the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the particular jurisdiction to which a specific master netting agreement counterparty is subject. Balance sheet offsetting disclosures, to the extent applicable to the fund, have been included in the fund’s Significant Accounting Policies note under the captions for each of the fund’s in-scope financial instruments and transactions.

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exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per share. Securities and other assets generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, and other market data. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.

The Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments (including any fair valuation) to the adviser pursuant to valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. If the adviser determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available, investments are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with such procedures under the oversight of the Board of Trustees. Under the fund’s valuation policies and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for most types of debt instruments and floating rate loans and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services. In addition, investments may be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that an investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.

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measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The fund’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. The following is a summary of the levels used as of May 31, 2020 in valuing the fund’s assets or liabilities:

 

Financial Instruments    Level 1      Level 2      Level 3      Total  
Equity Securities      $313,115,513        $—        $—        $313,115,513  
Mutual Funds      2,229,472                      2,229,472  
Total      $315,344,985        $—        $—        $315,344,985  

For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments.

Security Loans – Under its Securities Lending Agency Agreement with the fund, JPMorgan Chase and Co., as lending agent, loans the securities of the fund to certain qualified institutions (the “Borrowers”) approved by the fund. Security loans can be terminated at the discretion of either the lending agent or the fund and the related securities must be returned within the earlier of the standard trade settlement period for such securities or within three business days. The loans are collateralized by cash and/or U.S. Treasury and federal agency obligations in an amount typically at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned. On loans collateralized by cash, the cash collateral is invested in a money market fund. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the fund on the next business day. The lending agent provides the fund with indemnification against Borrower default. In the event of Borrower default, the lending agent will, for the benefit of the fund, either purchase securities identical to those loaned or, when such purchase is commercially impracticable, pay the fund the market value of the loaned securities. In return, the lending agent assumes the fund’s rights to the related collateral. If the collateral value is less than the cost to purchase identical securities, the lending agent is responsible for the shortfall, but only to the extent that such shortfall is not due to a decline in collateral value resulting from collateral reinvestment for which the fund bears the risk of loss. A portion of the income generated upon investment of the collateral is remitted to the Borrowers, and the remainder is allocated between the fund and the lending agent. On loans collateralized by U.S. Treasury and/or federal agency obligations, a fee is received from the Borrower, and is allocated between the fund and the lending agent. Income from securities lending is separately reported in the Statement of Operations. The dividend and interest income earned on the securities loaned is accounted for in the same manner as other dividend and interest income. At May 31, 2020, there were no securities on loan or collateral outstanding.

 

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Indemnifications – Under the fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the fund. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The fund’s maximum exposure under these agreements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the fund that have not yet occurred.

Investment Transactions and Income – Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Dividends received in cash are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain dividends from foreign securities will be recorded when the fund is informed of the dividend if such information is obtained subsequent to the ex-dividend date. Dividend payments received in additional securities are recorded on the ex-dividend date in an amount equal to the value of the security on such date.

The fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received from litigation involving portfolio holdings are reflected in the Statement of Operations in realized gain/loss if the security has been disposed of by the fund or in unrealized gain/loss if the security is still held by the fund. Any other proceeds from litigation not related to portfolio holdings are reflected as other income in the Statement of Operations.

Fees Paid Indirectly – The fund’s custody fee may be reduced by a credit earned under an arrangement that measures the value of U.S. dollars deposited with the custodian by the fund. The amount of the credit, for the year ended May 31, 2020, is shown as a reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Tax Matters and Distributions – The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company, as defined under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and to distribute all of its taxable income, including realized capital gains. As a result, no provision for federal income tax is required. The fund’s federal tax returns, when filed, will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a three year period. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal and state tax returns for all open tax years and does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability. Foreign taxes, if any, have been accrued by the fund in the accompanying financial statements in accordance with the applicable foreign tax law. Foreign income taxes may be withheld by certain countries in which the fund invests. Additionally, capital gains realized by the fund on securities issued in or by certain foreign countries may be subject to capital gains tax imposed by those countries.

Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Certain capital accounts in the financial statements are periodically adjusted for permanent differences in order to reflect their tax character. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or net asset value per share. Temporary differences which arise from recognizing certain items of income, expense, gain or loss in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes will reverse at some time in the future.

 

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Book/tax differences primarily relate to wash sale loss deferrals and treating a portion of the proceeds from redemptions as a distribution for tax purposes.

The tax character of distributions declared to shareholders for the last two fiscal years is as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
Ordinary income (including any short-term capital gains)      $4,617,234        $6,171,178  
Long-term capital gains      9,987,151        12,800,090  
Total distributions      $14,604,385        $18,971,268  

The federal tax cost and the tax basis components of distributable earnings were as follows:

 

As of 5/31/20       
Cost of investments      $296,637,422  
Gross appreciation      42,880,093  
Gross depreciation      (24,172,530
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      $18,707,563  
Undistributed ordinary income      1,085,937  
Undistributed long-term capital gain      8,469  
Post-October capital loss deferral      (6,873,677

Multiple Classes of Shares of Beneficial Interest – The fund offers multiple classes of shares, which differ in their respective distribution and service fees. The fund’s income, realized and unrealized gain (loss), and common expenses are allocated to shareholders based on the daily net assets of each class. Dividends are declared separately for each class. Differences in per share dividend rates are generally due to differences in separate class expenses. Class B shares will convert to Class A shares approximately eight years after purchase. Class C shares will convert to Class A shares approximately ten years after purchase. The fund’s distributions declared to shareholders as reported in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets are presented by class as follows:

 

     Year
ended
5/31/20
     Year
ended
5/31/19
 
Class A      $3,300,966        $4,733,960  
Class B      3,896        5,973  
Class C      5,124        6,091  
Class I      182,704        45,595  
Class R1      4,201        5,665  
Class R2      2,965        3,828  
Class R3      4,017        3,994  
Class R4      34,334        4,163  
Class R6      11,066,178        14,161,999  
Total      $14,604,385        $18,971,268  

 

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(3) Transactions with Affiliates

Investment Adviser – The fund has an investment advisory agreement with MFS to provide overall investment management and related administrative services and facilities to the fund. The management fee is computed daily and paid monthly at the following annual rates based on the fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Up to $1 billion      0.50
In excess of $1 billion and up to $2.5 billion      0.475
In excess of $2.5 billion      0.45

MFS has agreed in writing to reduce its management fee by a specified amount if certain MFS mutual fund assets exceed thresholds agreed to by MFS and the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this management fee reduction amounted to $30,165, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations. The management fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.49% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

The investment adviser has agreed in writing to pay a portion of the fund’s total annual operating expenses, excluding interest, taxes, extraordinary expenses, brokerage and transaction costs, and investment-related expenses, such that total fund operating expenses do not exceed the following rates annually of each class’s average daily net assets:

 

Classes  
A   B     C     I     R1     R2     R3     R4     R6  
0.84%     1.59%       1.59%       0.59%       1.59%       1.09%       0.84%       0.59%       0.55%  

This written agreement will continue until modified by the fund’s Board of Trustees, but such agreement will continue at least until September 30, 2021. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reduction amounted to $328,049, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Distributor – MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (MFD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, as distributor, received $2,155 for the year ended May 31, 2020, as its portion of the initial sales charge on sales of Class A shares of the fund.

The Board of Trustees has adopted a distribution plan for certain share classes pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

The fund’s distribution plan provides that the fund will pay MFD for services provided by MFD and financial intermediaries in connection with the distribution and servicing of certain share classes. One component of the plan is a distribution fee paid to MFD and another component of the plan is a service fee paid to MFD. MFD may subsequently pay all, or a portion, of the distribution and/or service fees to financial intermediaries.

 

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Distribution Plan Fee Table:

 

     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
Class A             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        $182,738  
Class B      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        1,008  
Class C      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        1,230  
Class R1      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        1,020  
Class R2      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        324  
Class R3             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        527  
Total Distribution and Service Fees

 

           $186,847  

 

(d)

In accordance with the distribution plan for certain classes, the fund pays distribution and/or service fees equal to these annual percentage rates of each class’s average daily net assets. The distribution and service fee rates disclosed by class represent the current rates in effect at the end of the reporting period. Any rate changes, if applicable, are detailed below.

(e)

The annual effective rates represent actual fees incurred under the distribution plan for the year ended May 31, 2020 based on each class’s average daily net assets. MFD has voluntarily agreed to rebate a portion of each class’s 0.25% service fee attributable to accounts for which there is no financial intermediary specified on the account except for accounts attributable to MFS or its affiliates’ seed money. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this rebate amounted to $109 and $1 for Class A and Class B, respectively, and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Certain Class A shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) in the event of a shareholder redemption within 18 months of purchase. Class B shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within six years of purchase. Class C shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within 12 months of purchase. All contingent deferred sales charges are paid to MFD and during the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

     Amount  
Class A      $—  
Class B      421  
Class C       

Shareholder Servicing Agent – MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, receives a fee from the fund for its services as shareholder servicing agent calculated as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the fund as determined periodically under the supervision of the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee was $1,890, which equated to 0.0006% annually of the fund’s average daily net assets. MFSC also receives payment from the fund for out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs which may be paid to affiliated and unaffiliated service providers. Class R6 shares do not incur sub-accounting fees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, these out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs amounted to $79,791.

Administrator – MFS provides certain financial, legal, shareholder communications, compliance, and other administrative services to the fund. Under an administrative services agreement, the fund reimburses MFS the costs incurred to provide these services. The fund is charged an annual fixed amount of $17,500 plus a fee based on

 

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average daily net assets. The administrative services fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.0169% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Trustees’ and Officers’ Compensation – The fund pays compensation to independent Trustees in the form of a retainer, attendance fees, and additional compensation to Board and Committee chairpersons. The fund does not pay compensation directly to Trustees or officers of the fund who are also officers of the investment adviser, all of whom receive remuneration from MFS for their services to the fund. Certain officers and Trustees of the fund are officers or directors of MFS, MFD, and MFSC.

Other – This fund and certain other funds managed by MFS (the funds) had entered into a service agreement (the ISO Agreement) which provided for payment of fees solely by the funds to Tarantino LLC in return for the provision of services of an Independent Senior Officer (ISO) for the funds. Frank L. Tarantino served as the ISO and was an officer of the funds and the sole member of Tarantino LLC. Effective June 30, 2019, Mr. Tarantino retired from his position as ISO for the funds, and the ISO Agreement was terminated. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee paid by the fund under this agreement was $138 and is included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations. MFS had agreed to bear all expenses associated with office space, other administrative support, and supplies provided to the ISO.

The fund invests in the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio which is managed by MFS and seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity. This money market fund does not pay a management fee to MFS but does incur investment and operating costs.

On December 14, 2018, MFS redeemed 5,190 shares of Class A for an aggregate amount of $56,521.

At May 31, 2020, MFS held approximately 66% and 62% of the outstanding shares of Class B and Class R1, respectively. MFS held 100% of the outstanding shares of Class R2.

The fund is permitted to engage in purchase and sale transactions with funds and accounts for which MFS serves as investment adviser or sub-adviser (“cross-trades”) pursuant to a policy adopted by the Board of Trustees. This policy has been designed to ensure that cross-trades conducted by the fund comply with Rule 17a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. During the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund engaged in purchase transactions pursuant to this policy, which amounted to $1,554,502.

The adviser has voluntarily undertaken to reimburse the fund from its own resources on a quarterly basis for the cost of investment research embedded in the cost of the fund’s securities trades. This agreement may be rescinded at any time. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reimbursement amounted to $17,189, which is included in “Other” income in the Statement of Operations.

(4) Portfolio Securities

For the year ended May 31, 2020, purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $276,234,273 and $237,768,219, respectively.

 

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(5) Shares of Beneficial Interest

The fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest. Transactions in fund shares were as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares sold            

Class A

     3,823,986        $42,204,128        1,894,039        $20,414,404  

Class B

     710        8,449        3,333        40,402  

Class C

     3,318        36,721        1,481        17,235  

Class I

     264,349        3,025,189        205,398        2,310,343  

Class R1

     183        2,105        5,088        61,913  

Class R3

     89,966        808,205                

Class R4

     59,833        707,821                

Class R6

     5,594,966        57,701,440        3,560,977        40,106,903  
     9,837,311        $104,494,058        5,670,316        $62,951,200  
Shares issued to shareholders in
reinvestment of distributions

 

        

Class A

     2,782        $33,521        3,229        $31,931  

Class B

     324        3,896        605        5,973  

Class C

     426        5,124        616        6,091  

Class I

     15,150        182,704        4,605        45,595  

Class R1

     349        4,201        573        5,665  

Class R2

     246        2,965        386        3,828  

Class R3

     333        4,017        404        3,994  

Class R4

     2,844        34,334        420        4,163  

Class R6

     916,833        11,066,178        1,430,505        14,161,999  
     939,287        $11,336,940        1,441,343        $14,269,239  
Shares reacquired            

Class A

     (3,480,093      $(41,089,073      (1,689,231      $(19,521,039

Class B

     (1,322      (15,577      (488      (5,239

Class C

     (517      (6,282      (479      (5,048

Class I

     (81,218      (812,162      (6,380      (72,726

Class R1

     (87      (1,015      (2,059      (24,172

Class R3

     (1,111      (11,154              

Class R4

     (4,423      (51,279              

Class R6

     (2,588,276      (28,770,312      (3,379,118      (38,717,589
     (6,157,047      $(70,756,854      (5,077,755      $(58,345,813

 

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     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Net change            

Class A

     346,675        $1,148,576        208,037        $925,296  

Class B

     (288      (3,232      3,450        41,136  

Class C

     3,227        35,563        1,618        18,278  

Class I

     198,281        2,395,731        203,623        2,283,212  

Class R1

     445        5,291        3,602        43,406  

Class R2

     246        2,965        386        3,828  

Class R3

     89,188        801,068        404        3,994  

Class R4

     58,254        690,876        420        4,163  

Class R6

     3,923,523        39,997,306        1,612,364        15,551,313  
     4,619,551        $45,074,144        2,033,904        $18,874,626  

Class T shares were not publicly available for sale during the period. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective June 1, 2019, purchases of the fund’s Class B shares are closed to new and existing investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

The fund is one of several mutual funds in which certain MFS funds may invest. The MFS funds do not invest in the underlying funds for the purpose of exercising management or control. At the end of the period, the MFS Lifetime 2030 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2040 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2035 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2050 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2045 Fund, the MFS Lifetime Income Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2025 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2055 Fund, and the MFS Lifetime 2020 Fund were the owners of record of approximately 15%, 14%, 10%, 8%, 8%, 6%, 5%, 4%, and 3%, respectively, of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund. In addition, the MFS Lifetime 2060 Fund was the owner of record of less than 1% of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund.

(6) Line of Credit

The fund and certain other funds managed by MFS participate in a $1.25 billion unsecured committed line of credit, subject to a $1 billion sublimit, provided by a syndicate of banks under a credit agreement. Borrowings may be made for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, generally at a rate equal to the highest of one month LIBOR, the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus an agreed upon spread. A commitment fee, based on the average daily, unused portion of the committed line of credit, is allocated among the participating funds. In addition, the fund and other funds managed by MFS have established unsecured uncommitted borrowing arrangements with certain banks for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, at rates equal to customary reference rates plus an agreed upon spread. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund’s commitment fee and interest expense were $1,529 and $0, respectively, and are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

 

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(7) Investments in Affiliated Issuers

An affiliated issuer may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:

 

Affiliated Issuers   Beginning
Value
    Purchases     Sales
Proceeds
    Realized
Gain
(Loss)
    Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
    Ending
Value
 
MFS Institutional Money
Market Portfolio
    $5,166,093       $81,840,212       $84,777,855       $1,228       $(206     $2,229,472  
Affiliated Issuers                               Dividend
Income
    Capital Gain
Distributions
 
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

 

          $60,149       $—  

(8) Impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic related to the global spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in December 2019, has resulted in significant disruptions to global business activity and the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the securities and commodities markets in general. This pandemic, the full effects of which are still unknown, has resulted in substantial market volatility and may have adversely impacted the prices and liquidity of the fund’s investments and the fund’s performance.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Trustees of MFS Series Trust X and the Shareholders of MFS Blended Research Mid Cap Equity Fund:

Opinion on the Financial Statements and Financial Highlights

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of MFS Blended Research Mid Cap Equity Fund (the “Fund”), including the portfolio of investments, as of May 31, 2020, the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the three years in the period then ended and for the period from August 19, 2016 (the commencement of the Fund’s investment operations) through May 31, 2017, and the related notes. In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of May 31, 2020, and the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the three years in the period then ended and for the period from August 19, 2016 (the commencement of the Fund’s investment operations) through May 31, 2017, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements and financial highlights, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and financial highlights. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements and financial highlights.

 

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm – continued

 

Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2020, by correspondence with the custodian. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

July 17, 2020

We have served as the auditor of one or more of the MFS investment companies since 1924.

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS — IDENTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND

The Trustees and Officers of the Trust, as of July 1, 2020, are listed below, together with their principal occupations during the past five years. (Their titles may have varied during that period.) The address of each Trustee and Officer is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

INTERESTED TRUSTEES
Robert J. Manning (k) (age 56)   Trustee   February 2004   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Chairman (since January 2017); Director; Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (until 2015); Co-Chief Executive Officer (2015-2016)   N/A

Robin A. Stelmach (k)

(age 58)

  Trustee   January 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice Chair (since January 2017); Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (until January 2017)   N/A
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES    

John P. Kavanaugh

(age 65)

  Trustee and Chair of Trustees   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A

Steven E. Buller

(age 68)

  Trustee   February 2014   134   Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman (2014-2015); Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Standing Advisory Group, Member (until 2014); BlackRock, Inc. (investment management), Managing Director (until 2014), BlackRock Finco UK (investment management), Director (until 2014)   N/A

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

John A. Caroselli

(age 66)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   JC Global Advisors, LLC (management consulting), President (since 2015); First Capital Corporation (commercial finance), Executive Vice President (until 2015)   N/A

Maureen R. Goldfarb

(age 65)

  Trustee   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A
Peter D. Jones
(age 64)
  Trustee   January 2019   134   Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (investment management), President (until 2015); Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (investment management), Chairman (until 2015)   N/A
James W. Kilman, Jr. (age 59)   Trustee   January 2019   134   Burford Capital Limited (finance and investment management), Chief Financial Officer (since 2019); KielStrand Capital LLC (family office), Chief Executive Officer (since 2016); Morgan Stanley & Co. (financial services), Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Co-Head of Diversified Financials Coverage – Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group (until 2016)   Alpha-En Corporation, Director (2016-2019)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

Clarence Otis, Jr.

(age 64)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   Darden Restaurants, Inc., Chief Executive Officer (until 2014)   VF Corporation, Director; Verizon Communications, Inc., Director; The Travelers Companies, Director; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Director (until 2015)

Maryanne L. Roepke

(age 64)

  Trustee   May 2014   134   American Century Investments (investment management), Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (until 2014)   N/A
Laurie J. Thomsen
(age 62)
  Trustee   March 2005   134   Private investor   The Travelers Companies, Director; Dycom Industries, Inc., Director (since 2015)

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

OFFICERS      
Christopher R. Bohane (k) (age 46)   Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Kino Clark (k)

(age 52)

 

Assistant

Treasurer

  January 2012   134  

Massachusetts Financial

Services Company, Vice President

John W. Clark, Jr. (k)

(age 53)

  Assistant Treasurer   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President (since March 2017); Deutsche Bank (financial services), Department Head – Treasurer’s Office (until February 2017)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

Thomas H. Connors (k)

(age 60)

 

Assistant

Secretary and Assistant Clerk

  September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel
David L. DiLorenzo (k)
(age 51)
  President   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

Heidi W. Hardin (k)

(age 52)

  Secretary and Clerk   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Vice President and General Counsel (since March 2017); Harris Associates (investment management), General Counsel (from September 2015 to January 2017); Janus Capital Management LLC (investment management), Senior Vice President and General Counsel (until September 2015)

Brian E. Langenfeld (k)

(age 47)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  June 2006   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel

Amanda S. Mooradian (k)

(age 41)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  September 2018   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel
Susan A. Pereira (k)
(age 49)
  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Kasey L. Phillips (k)

(age 49)

  Assistant Treasurer   September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

Matthew A. Stowe (k)

(age 45)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   October 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Martin J. Wolin (k)

(age 52)

  Chief Compliance Officer   July 2015   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (since July 2015); Mercer (financial service provider), Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, North America and Latin America (until June 2015)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

James O. Yost (k)
(age 60)
  Treasurer   September 1990   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

 

(h)

Date first appointed to serve as Trustee/officer of an MFS Fund. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. For the period from December 15, 2004 until February 22, 2005, Mr. Manning served as Advisory Trustee. From January 2012 through December 2016, Messrs. DiLorenzo and Yost served as Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer of the Funds, respectively.

(j)

Directorships or trusteeships of companies required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., “public companies”).

(k)

“Interested person” of the Trust within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (referred to as the 1940 Act), which is the principal federal law governing investment companies like the fund, as a result of a position with MFS. The address of MFS is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

Each Trustee (other than Messrs. Jones and Kilman) has been elected by shareholders and each Trustee and Officer holds office until his or her successor is chosen and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal. Messrs. Jones and Kilman became Trustees of the Funds on January 1, 2019. The Trust does not hold annual meetings for the purpose of electing Trustees, and Trustees are not elected for fixed terms. Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of any Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20 years of service on the Board).

Messrs. Buller, Kilman and Otis and Ms. Roepke are members of the Trust’s Audit Committee.

Each of the Interested Trustees and certain Officers hold comparable officer positions with certain affiliates of MFS.

The Statement of Additional Information for a Fund includes further information about the Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

 

Investment Adviser   Custodian

Massachusetts Financial Services Company
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

State Street Bank and Trust Company

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111-2900

Distributor   Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

200 Berkeley Street

Boston, MA 02116

Portfolio Manager(s)  

Jim Fallon

Matt Krummell

Jonathan Sage

Jed Stocks

 

 

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STATEMENT REGARDING LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) as required by Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated MFS as the administrator of the Program. The Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage the liquidity risk of the fund. Liquidity risk is the risk that the fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by the fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interests.

MFS provided a written report to the Board for consideration at its April 2020 meeting that addressed the operation of the Program and provided an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of the Program during the period from the adoption of the Program on December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (the “Covered Period”). The report concluded that during the Covered Period the Program had operated effectively and had adequately and effectively been implemented to assess and manage the fund’s liquidity risk. MFS also reported that there were no liquidity events that impacted the fund or its ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders during the Covered Period.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Further information on liquidity risk, and other principal risks to which an investment in the fund may be subject, can be found in the prospectus.

 

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND INFORMATION

MFS votes proxies on behalf of the fund pursuant to proxy voting policies and procedures that are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-225-2606, by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available by August 31 of each year without charge by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO DISCLOSURE

The fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A shareholder can obtain the portfolio holdings report for the first and third quarters of the fund’s fiscal year at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name and then selecting the “Resources” tab and clicking on “Prospectus and Reports”.

FURTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, MFS may post important information about the fund or the MFS funds on the MFS web site (mfs.com). This information is available at https://www.mfs.com/en-us/what-we-do/announcements.html or at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name.

INFORMATION ABOUT FUND CONTRACTS AND LEGAL CLAIMS

The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, 529 program manager (if applicable), and custodian who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the Trust’s By-Laws and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the MFS Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (unaudited)

The fund will notify shareholders of amounts for use in preparing 2020 income tax forms in January 2021. The following information is provided pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as qualified dividend income eligible to be taxed at the same rate as long-term capital gain.

The fund designates $12,260,000 as capital gain dividends paid during the fiscal year.

For corporate shareholders, 80.28% of the ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year qualify for the corporate dividends received deduction.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as Section 199A dividends as defined in Proposed Treasury Regulation §1.199A-3(d).

 

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FACTS

 

  WHAT DOES MFS DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?   LOGO

 

Why?   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

 

What?  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

 Social Security number and account balances

 Account transactions and transaction history

 Checking account information and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

How?   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons MFS chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your
personal information
  Does MFS
share?
  Can you limit
this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes –

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

  Yes   No

For our marketing purposes –

to offer our products and services to you

  No   We don’t share

For joint marketing with other

financial companies

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your transactions and experiences

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your creditworthiness

  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

   
Questions?   Call 800-225-2606 or go to mfs.com.

 

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   MFS Funds, MFS Investment Management, MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., and MFS Heritage Trust Company.

 

What we do
How does MFS protect my personal information?   To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include procedural, electronic, and physical safeguards for the protection of the personal information we collect about you.
How does MFS collect my personal information?  

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

 open an account or provide account information

 direct us to buy securities or direct us to sell your securities

 make a wire transfer

 

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

 sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness

 affiliates from using your information to market to you

 sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 

Definitions
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share personal information with affiliates, except for everyday business purposes as described on page one of this notice.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

 MFS doesnt jointly market.

 

 

Other important information
If you own an MFS product or receive an MFS service in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, their privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.

 

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LOGO

 

Save paper with eDelivery.

 

LOGO

MFS® will send you prospectuses,

reports, and proxies directly via e-mail so you will get information faster with less mailbox clutter.

To sign up:

1. Go to mfs.com.

2. Log in via MFS® Access.

3. Select eDelivery.

If you own your MFS fund shares through a financial institution or a retirement plan, MFS® TALK, MFS® Access, or eDelivery may not be available to you.

 

CONTACT

WEB SITE

mfs.com

MFS TALK

1-800-637-8255

24 hours a day

ACCOUNT SERVICE AND LITERATURE

Shareholders

1-800-225-2606

Financial advisors

1-800-343-2829

Retirement plan services

1-800-637-1255

MAILING ADDRESS

MFS Service Center, Inc.

P.O. Box 219341

Kansas City, MO 64121-9341

OVERNIGHT MAIL

MFS Service Center, Inc.

Suite 219341

430 W 7th Street

Kansas City, MO 64105-1407

 


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Annual Report

May 31, 2020

 

LOGO

 

MFS® Blended Research®

Small Cap Equity Fund

 

LOGO

 

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the fund’s annual and semiannual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the complete reports will be made available on the fund’s Web site (funds.mfs.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a Web site link to access the report.

If you are already signed up to receive shareholder reports by email, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may sign up to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund by email by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you hold your shares directly with the fund, by calling 1-800-225-2606 or by logging on to MFS Access at mfs.com.

Beginning on January 1, 2019, you may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. Contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the fund, you can call 1-800-225-2606 or send an email request to orderliterature@mfs.com to let the fund know that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary or all funds held with the MFS fund complex if you invest directly.

 

BRS-ANN

 


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MFS® Blended Research® Small Cap Equity Fund

 

CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Executive Chair     1  
Portfolio composition     2  
Management review     3  
Performance summary     5  
Expense table     8  
Portfolio of investments     11  
Statement of assets and liabilities     18  
Statement of operations     20  
Statements of changes in net assets     21  
Financial highlights     22  
Notes to financial statements     29  
Report of independent registered public accounting firm     41  
Trustees and officers     43  
Statement regarding liquidity risk management program     48  
Proxy voting policies and information     49  
Quarterly portfolio disclosure     49  
Further information     49  
Information about fund contracts and legal claims     49  
Federal tax information     49  
MFS® privacy notice     50  
Contact information     back cover  

 

The report is prepared for the general information of shareholders. It is authorized for distribution to prospective investors only when preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

 

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LOGO

 

LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR

 

Dear Shareholders:

Markets experienced dramatic swings in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill for several months. Optimism over the

development of vaccines and therapeutics, along with a decline in cases in countries that had been affected by the outbreak early on, brightened the economic and market outlook during the second quarter, as did the phased reopening of US states. However, a great deal of uncertainty remains, including the possibility of a second wave of cases later this year.

Global central banks have taken aggressive, coordinated steps to cushion the economic and market fallout related to the virus, and governments are deploying unprecedented levels of fiscal stimulus. As uncertainty recedes, these measures can help build a supportive environment and encourage economic recovery;

however, if markets disconnect from fundamentals, they can also sow the seeds of instability. In the aftermath of the crisis, societal changes may be likely as households, businesses, and governments adjust to a new reality, and these alterations could change the investment landscape. For investors, events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrate the importance of having a deep understanding of company fundamentals, and we have built our global research platform to do just that.

Here at MFS®, we aim to help our clients navigate the growing complexity of the markets and world economies. Our long-term investment philosophy and commitment to the responsible allocation of capital allow us to tune out the noise and uncover what we believe are the best, most durable investment opportunities in the market. Through our powerful global investment platform, we combine collective expertise, thoughtful risk management, and long-term discipline to create sustainable value for investors.

Respectfully,

 

LOGO

Robert J. Manning

Executive Chair

MFS Investment Management

July 17, 2020

The opinions expressed in this letter are subject to change and may not be relied upon for investment advice. No forecasts can be guaranteed.

 

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PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION

 

Portfolio structure

 

LOGO

 

Top ten holdings

 

Five9, Inc.     1.7%  
Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc.     1.7%  
Cable One, Inc.     1.6%  
CACI International, Inc., “A”     1.6%  
Brunswick Corp.     1.5%  
Easterly Government Properties, REIT     1.5%  
Premier, Inc., “A”     1.5%  
Skechers USA, Inc., “A”     1.4%  
Lexington Realty Trust, REIT     1.4%  
Life Storage, Inc., REIT     1.4%  
GICS sectors (g)

 

Health Care     23.1%  
Industrials     15.4%  
Information Technology     14.6%  
Financials     13.2%  
Consumer Discretionary     9.9%  
Real Estate     8.1%  
Materials     3.6%  
Consumer Staples     3.6%  
Communication Services     2.9%  
Energy     2.4%  
Utilities     2.1%  
 
(g)

The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and/or is the exclusive property of MSCI, Inc. and S&P Global Market Intelligence Inc. (“S&P Global Market Intelligence”). GICS is a service mark of MSCI and S&P Global Market Intelligence and has been licensed for use by MFS.

Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. Please see the Statement of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Fund (fund) provided a total return of –9.87%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of –3.44% for the fund’s benchmark, the Russell 2000® Index.

Market Environment

Markets experienced an extraordinarily sharp selloff and in many cases an unusually rapid partial recovery late in the period. Central banks and fiscal authorities undertook astonishing levels of stimulus to offset the economic effects of government-imposed social-distancing measures implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19. Despite policymakers’ best efforts, a global recession has undoubtedly begun.

Compounding market uncertainty earlier in the coronavirus pandemic was a crash in the price of crude oil due to a sharp drop in global demand and a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts, which resulted in a price war. The subsequent decline in prices undercut oil exporters, many of which are in emerging markets, as well as a large segment of the high-yield credit market. OPEC+ later agreed on output cuts, which – along with the gradual reopening of some major economies and resultant boost in demand – helped stabilize the price of crude.

Around the world, central banks responded quickly and massively to the crisis with programs to improve liquidity and support markets. They proved largely successful in helping to restore market function, easing volatility and stimulating a market rebound at the end of the period. Monetary easing measures were complemented by large fiscal stimulus plans in developed countries. Even emerging market countries were able to implement countercyclical policies –a departure from the usual market-dictated response to risk-off crises – due to relatively manageable external liabilities and balances of payments in many countries, along with persistently low inflation.

As is often the case in a crisis, market vulnerabilities were revealed. For example, companies that added significant leverage to their balance sheets in recent years by borrowing to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks may find it difficult to follow that path in the future, and investors may not reward them if they do. Recapitalizations by some of these highly leveraged firms could dilute existing shareholders. Very long supply chains designed to squeeze out every bit of savings may be shifted closer to home markets if companies seek to put resiliency before cost after a series of supply disruptions. The aftereffects of the pandemic could affect consumer, business and government behavior in ways difficult to forecast. Also, while markets have regained lost ground more swiftly than expected, any economic recovery is likely to be protracted.

Detractors from Performance

Stock selection within the health care, industrials and financials sectors was a primary factor in the fund’s underperformance relative to the Russell 2000® Index. Within the health care sector, the fund’s overweight holdings of biopharmaceutical company Acorda Therapeutics (h), and not owning shares of strong-performing telehealthcare services provider Teladoc Health, held back relative results. Within the industrials sector,

 

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the fund’s overweight position in infrastructure products distributor MRC Global (h) detracted from relative performance. Within the financials sector, the fund’s overweight holdings of commercial and banking and financial services provider Hanmi Financial, and the fund’s holdings of banking and financial services provider Wintrust Financial (b), were among the fund’s top relative detractors.

Elsewhere, the fund’s overweight holdings of hydraulic fracturing services provider Liberty Oilfield Services (h), wellhead and pressure control equipment manufacturer Cactus and licensed pop culture products distributor Funko (h) hurt relative performance. The fund’s holdings of real estate investment trust STORE Capital (b) and independent natural gas and oil company WPX Energy (b) further held back relative returns. The share price of STORE Capital declined, despite reporting strong quarterly financial results, on concerns that its retail tenants may not be able to make their lease payments due to COVID-19 related store closures.

Contributors to Performance

Stock selection within the information technology, communication services and utilities sectors contributed to relative performance. Within the information technology sector, the fund’s overweight positions in cloud software provider Five9 and cloud-based software company Paylocity led the way with strong results during the reporting year. The fund’s holding of global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions provider RingCentral (b)(h) further aided relative performance. The share price of RingCentral appreciated during the reporting period, after the company delivered revenue results that grew well ahead of expectations, driven primarily by better-than-expected growth in subscription revenues. Within the communication services sector, the fund’s holding of cable and broadband communications provider Cable One (b) contributed to relative returns. Within the utilities sector, an overweight position in renewable energy services provider Clearway Energy positively affected relative returns.

Within other sectors, the fund’s overweight positions in shares of biotechnology company Akebia Therapeutics, real estate investment trust Easterly Government Properties and pharmaceutical drugs and consumer products company Prestige Consumer Healthcare bolstered relative returns. Holdings of biotechnology reagents and instruments manufacturer Bio-Techne (b) and recreation products manufacturer Brunswick (b) further boosted relative performance.

Respectfully,

Portfolio Manager(s)

Jim Fallon, Matt Krummell, Jonathan Sage, and Jed Stocks

 

(b)

Security is not a benchmark constituent.

(h)

Security was not held in the portfolio at period end.

The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover and do not necessarily reflect the views of MFS or any other person in the MFS organization. These views are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions, and MFS disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice or an indication of trading intent on behalf of any MFS portfolio. References to specific securities are not recommendations of such securities, and may not be representative of any MFS portfolio’s current or future investments.

 

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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY THROUGH 5/31/20

The following chart illustrates a representative class of the fund’s historical performance in comparison to its benchmark(s). Performance results include the deduction of the maximum applicable sales charge and reflect the percentage change in net asset value, including reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. The performance of other share classes will be greater than or less than that of the class depicted below. Benchmarks are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. Benchmark returns do not reflect sales charges, commissions or expenses. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value fluctuate so your shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost; current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. The performance shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes, if any, that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

Growth of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment (t)

 

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Total Returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class    Class Inception Date   1-yr   Life (t)     
    A    9/15/15   (9.87)%   5.23%    
    B    9/15/15   (10.53)%   4.44%    
    C    9/15/15   (10.53)%   4.44%    
    I    9/15/15   (9.65)%   5.49%    
    R1    9/15/15   (10.59)%   4.43%    
    R2    9/15/15   (10.07)%   4.95%    
    R3    9/15/15   (9.92)%   5.21%    
    R4    9/15/15   (9.68)%   5.47%    
    R6    9/15/15   (9.59)%   5.55%    
    529A    7/14/16   (9.88)%   4.32%    
    529B    7/14/16   (10.31)%   3.61%    
    529C    7/14/16   (10.56)%   3.54%    
Comparative benchmark(s)            
     Russell 2000® Index (f)   (3.44)%   5.58%     
Average annual with sales charge            
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
  (15.05)%   3.91%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
  (14.07)%   4.08%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
  (11.42)%   4.44%    
    529A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
  (15.07)%   2.74%    
    529B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
  (13.85)%   2.91%    
    529C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
  (11.44)%   3.54%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 shares do not have a sales charge.

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(t)

For the period from the class inception date through the stated period end. The comparative benchmark performance information provided for the “life” period is from the inception date of the Class A shares. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

Benchmark Definition(s)

Russell 2000® Index – constructed to provide a comprehensive barometer for securities in the small-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe. The index includes 2,000 of the

 

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smallest U.S. companies based on total market capitalization, representing approximately 10% of the investable U.S. equity market. Frank Russell Company (“Russell”) is the source and owner of the trademarks, service marks, and copyrights related to the Russell Indexes. Russell® is a trademark of Frank Russell Company. Neither Russell nor its licensors accept any liability for any errors or omissions in the Russell Indexes and/or Russell ratings or underlying data and no party may rely on any Russell Indexes and/or Russell ratings and/or underlying data contained in this document. No further distribution of Russell Data is permitted without Russell’s express written consent. Russell does not promote, sponsor, or endorse the content of this document.

It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

Notes to Performance Summary

Class 529 shares are only available in conjunction with qualified tuition programs, such as the MFS 529 Savings Plan. There also is an additional fee, which is detailed in the program description, on qualified tuition programs. If this fee was reflected, the performance for Class 529 shares would have been lower. This annual fee is waived for Oregon residents and for those accounts with assets of $25,000 or more.

Average annual total return represents the average annual change in value for each share class for the periods presented. Life returns are presented where the share class has less than 10 years of performance history and represent the average annual total return from the class inception date to the stated period end date. As the fund’s share classes may have different inception dates, the life returns may represent different time periods and may not be comparable.

Performance results reflect any applicable expense subsidies and waivers in effect during the periods shown. Without such subsidies and waivers the fund’s performance results would be less favorable. Please see the prospectus and financial statements for complete details.

Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and may differ from amounts reported in the financial highlights.

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

 

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EXPENSE TABLE

Fund expenses borne by the shareholders during the period, December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on certain purchase or redemption payments, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and service (12b-1) fees; and other fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the following table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the following table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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Share
Class
      

Annualized
Expense

Ratio

    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
    Ending
Account Value
5/31/20
   

Expenses

Paid During
Period (p)
12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     0.99%       $1,000.00       $820.98       $4.51  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.99%       $1,000.00       $1,020.05       $5.00  
B   Actual     1.74%       $1,000.00       $818.42       $7.91  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.74%       $1,000.00       $1,016.30       $8.77  
C   Actual     1.74%       $1,000.00       $818.39       $7.91  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.74%       $1,000.00       $1,016.30       $8.77  
I   Actual     0.74%       $1,000.00       $822.14       $3.37  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.74%       $1,000.00       $1,021.30       $3.74  
R1   Actual     1.74%       $1,000.00       $817.93       $7.91  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.74%       $1,000.00       $1,016.30       $8.77  
R2   Actual     1.24%       $1,000.00       $820.37       $5.64  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.24%       $1,000.00       $1,018.80       $6.26  
R3   Actual     0.99%       $1,000.00       $820.84       $4.51  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.99%       $1,000.00       $1,020.05       $5.00  
R4   Actual     0.74%       $1,000.00       $821.94       $3.37  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.74%       $1,000.00       $1,021.30       $3.74  
R6   Actual     0.65%       $1,000.00       $822.17       $2.96  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.65%       $1,000.00       $1,021.75       $3.29  
529A   Actual     1.02%       $1,000.00       $821.46       $4.64  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.02%       $1,000.00       $1,019.90       $5.15  
529B   Actual     1.35%       $1,000.00       $820.37       $6.14  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.35%       $1,000.00       $1,018.25       $6.81  
529C   Actual     1.79%       $1,000.00       $818.02       $8.14  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.79%       $1,000.00       $1,016.05       $9.02  

 

(h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

(p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher.

Notes to Expense Table

For the period from February 1, 2020 through May 31, 2020, the distribution fee for Class 529B was not imposed. Had the distribution fee been imposed throughout the entire six month period, the annualized expense ratio, the actual expenses paid during the period,

 

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and the hypothetical expenses paid during the period would have been approximately 1.79%, $8.15, and $9.02 for Class 529B. See Note 3 in the Notes to Financial Statements for additional information.

Each class with a Rule 12b-1 service fee is subject to a rebate of a portion of such fee. Such rebates are included in the expense ratios above and are outside of the expense limitation arrangement. For Class 529A shares, this rebate reduced the expense ratio above by 0.02%. See Note 3 in the Notes to Financial Statements for additional information.

 

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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

5/31/20

The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - 98.9%               
Aerospace - 2.6%               
CACI International, Inc., “A” (a)      16,476     $ 4,131,851  
Curtiss-Wright Corp.      24,637       2,471,091  
    

 

 

 
             $ 6,602,942  
Apparel Manufacturers - 1.8%               
Levi Strauss & Co., “A”      66,474     $ 896,734  
Skechers USA, Inc., “A” (a)      119,900       3,755,268  
    

 

 

 
             $ 4,652,002  
Automotive - 0.9%               
Stoneridge, Inc. (a)      116,874     $ 2,405,267  
Biotechnology - 7.4%               
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corp. (a)      17,687     $ 684,487  
Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (a)      177,587       2,067,113  
Coherus BioSciences, Inc. (a)      97,748       1,822,023  
Concert Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)      61,619       654,394  
CytomX Therapeutics, Inc. (a)      153,578       1,360,701  
Emergent BioSolutions, Inc. (a)      18,013       1,503,905  
Enanta Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)      27,676       1,425,037  
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. (a)(l)      41,951       1,777,464  
Exelixis, Inc. (a)      38,720       956,771  
Jounce Therapeutics, Inc. (a)      134,311       723,936  
Macrogenics, Inc. (a)      113,201       2,177,987  
Radius Health, Inc. (a)      43,673       552,900  
Retrophin, Inc. (a)      87,477       1,372,077  
Varex Imaging Corp. (a)      58,680       1,100,837  
Voyager Therapeutics, Inc. (a)      89,044       1,077,433  
    

 

 

 
             $ 19,257,065  
Brokerage & Asset Managers - 0.1%               
Virtu Financial, Inc., “A”      9,911     $ 236,377  
Business Services - 2.6%               
BrightView Holdings, Inc. (a)      146,232     $ 2,001,916  
Forrester Research, Inc. (a)      71,745       2,252,793  
Stamps.com, Inc. (a)      13,036       2,583,083  
    

 

 

 
             $ 6,837,792  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Cable TV - 1.6%               
Cable One, Inc.      2,215     $ 4,179,461  
Chemicals - 0.9%               
Element Solutions, Inc. (a)      221,182     $ 2,408,672  
Computer Software - 3.4%               
Cornerstone OnDemand, Inc. (a)      73,539     $ 2,842,282  
Everbridge, Inc. (a)      1,761       257,564  
Pagerduty, Inc. (a)      90,651       2,406,784  
Paylocity Holding Corp. (a)      25,911       3,368,560  
    

 

 

 
             $ 8,875,190  
Computer Software - Systems - 4.1%               
Box, Inc., “A” (a)      161,898     $ 3,234,722  
Five9, Inc. (a)      42,043       4,380,881  
Verint Systems, Inc. (a)      62,371       2,892,143  
    

 

 

 
             $ 10,507,746  
Construction - 2.0%               
Eagle Materials, Inc.      47,625     $ 3,179,445  
Toll Brothers, Inc.      3,663       118,352  
Trex Co., Inc. (a)      14,875       1,786,785  
    

 

 

 
             $ 5,084,582  
Consumer Products - 1.8%               
Edgewell Personal Care Co. (a)      11,035     $ 335,685  
Prestige Brands Holdings, Inc. (a)      102,633       4,331,112  
    

 

 

 
             $ 4,666,797  
Consumer Services - 1.2%               
Grand Canyon Education, Inc. (a)      32,991     $ 3,219,592  
Electrical Equipment - 1.3%               
TriMas Corp. (a)      144,783     $ 3,424,118  
Electronics - 4.2%               
Amkor Technology, Inc. (a)      214,692     $ 2,271,441  
Jabil Circuit, Inc.      67,767       2,027,589  
Plexus Corp. (a)      45,208       2,903,258  
Sanmina Corp. (a)      46,478       1,236,779  
Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (a)      26,589       2,490,326  
    

 

 

 
             $ 10,929,393  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Energy - Independent - 0.1%               
WPX Energy, Inc. (a)      53,661     $ 304,258  
Engineering - Construction - 3.3%               
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp. (a)      135,467     $ 1,255,779  
KBR, Inc.      150,206       3,522,331  
Quanta Services, Inc.      92,754       3,425,405  
Tutor Perini Corp. (a)      25,964       272,622  
    

 

 

 
             $ 8,476,137  
Food & Beverages - 3.0%               
Hostess Brands, Inc. (a)      300,174     $ 3,624,601  
Ingredion, Inc.      32,301       2,720,713  
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. (a)      69,459       1,435,718  
    

 

 

 
             $ 7,781,032  
Food & Drug Stores - 0.5%               
Grocery Outlet Holding Corp. (a)      32,156     $ 1,183,662  
Forest & Paper Products - 0.4%               
Verso Corp., “A”      70,452     $ 1,013,100  
Gaming & Lodging - 1.0%               
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Inc.      55,776     $ 2,561,792  
Insurance - 5.4%               
American Equity Investment Life Holding Co.      87,405     $ 1,895,814  
Brighthouse Financial, Inc. (a)      38,947       1,157,115  
CNO Financial Group, Inc.      250,711       3,597,703  
Essent Group Ltd.      52,645       1,739,917  
HCI Group, Inc.      27,943       1,253,244  
Heritage Insurance Holdings, Inc.      45,942       576,113  
MGIC Investment Corp.      50,658       415,902  
National General Holdings Corp.      17,626       357,808  
Radian Group, Inc.      113,695       1,805,477  
Third Point Reinsurance Ltd. (a)      41,769       308,255  
Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc.      42,658       761,872  
    

 

 

 
             $ 13,869,220  
Leisure & Toys - 2.4%               
Brunswick Corp.      71,765     $ 3,947,793  
Malibu Boats, Inc., “A” (a)      47,464       2,236,978  
    

 

 

 
             $ 6,184,771  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Machinery & Tools - 4.4%               
ACCO Brands Corp.      81,158     $ 502,368  
AGCO Corp.      52,195       2,882,730  
Allison Transmission Holdings, Inc.      22,662       854,811  
Enerpac Tool Group Corp.      111,448       1,994,919  
ITT, Inc.      22,455       1,295,653  
Park-Ohio Holdings Corp.      21,403       312,270  
Regal Beloit Corp.      43,999       3,499,680  
    

 

 

 
             $ 11,342,431  
Medical & Health Technology & Services - 6.3%               
Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (a)      27,958     $ 176,694  
HealthEquity, Inc. (a)      29,233       1,811,569  
HMS Holdings Corp. (a)      98,441       3,075,297  
Medpace Holdings, Inc. (a)      8,051       747,294  
Owens & Minor, Inc.      179,345       1,422,206  
Premier, Inc., “A” (a)      109,514       3,809,992  
Syneos Health, Inc. (a)      46,988       2,865,798  
Tenet Healthcare Corp. (a)      114,897       2,500,159  
    

 

 

 
             $ 16,409,009  
Medical Equipment - 4.3%               
AngioDynamics, Inc. (a)      83,334     $ 850,840  
Avanos Medical, Inc. (a)      45,090       1,310,315  
Bio-Techne Corp.      12,773       3,382,290  
CONMED Corp.      28,122       2,064,436  
Integer Holdings Corp. (a)      33,658       2,665,041  
LivaNova PLC (a)      5,372       287,348  
Orthofix Medical, Inc. (a)      18,244       621,756  
    

 

 

 
             $ 11,182,026  
Network & Telecom - 0.2%               
QTS Realty Trust, Inc., REIT, “A”      8,538     $ 585,707  
Oil Services - 1.3%               
Cactus, Inc., “A”      177,433     $ 3,385,422  
Other Banks & Diversified Financials - 8.4%               
Bank OZK      143,917     $ 3,236,693  
Cathay General Bancorp, Inc.      124,770       3,392,496  
East West Bancorp, Inc.      47,195       1,649,465  
Enova International, Inc. (a)      71,303       1,008,938  
First Hawaiian, Inc.      147,548       2,545,203  
Hanmi Financial Corp.      189,189       1,708,377  
OneMain Holdings, Inc.      38,839       906,114  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Other Banks & Diversified Financials - continued               
Popular, Inc.      36,418     $ 1,438,147  
Regional Management Corp. (a)      6,205       98,411  
SLM Corp.      246,699       1,869,978  
Triton International Ltd. of Bermuda      56,231       1,715,046  
Wintrust Financial Corp.      50,164       2,124,947  
    

 

 

 
             $ 21,693,815  
Pharmaceuticals - 3.3%               
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc. (a)      53,365     $ 795,139  
Catalent, Inc. (a)      17,543       1,363,617  
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. (a)      62,250       1,372,613  
Lannett Co., Inc. (a)      130,400       997,560  
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)      13,126       554,967  
Phibro Animal Health Corp., “A”      54,316       1,423,079  
United Therapeutics Corp. (a)      17,743       2,092,787  
    

 

 

 
             $ 8,599,762  
Pollution Control - 0.3%               
Casella Waste Systems, Inc., “A” (a)      17,642     $ 898,860  
Railroad & Shipping - 1.0%               
Diamond S Shipping, Inc. (a)      115,539     $ 1,265,152  
Dorian LPG Ltd. (a)      9,302       76,462  
Teekay Tankers LTD., “A” (a)      65,644       1,140,893  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,482,507  
Real Estate - 7.9%               
Brixmor Property Group, Inc., REIT      29,965     $ 334,409  
Easterly Government Properties, REIT      155,673       3,902,722  
Industrial Logistics Properties Trust, REIT      181,993       3,412,369  
Lexington Realty Trust, REIT      375,583       3,650,667  
Life Storage, Inc., REIT      37,197       3,625,964  
Spirit Realty Capital, Inc., REIT      79,282       2,253,987  
STAG Industrial, Inc., REIT      34,067       916,402  
STORE Capital Corp., REIT      123,699       2,392,339  
    

 

 

 
             $ 20,488,859  
Restaurants - 1.2%               
Texas Roadhouse, Inc.      61,418     $ 3,184,523  
Specialty Chemicals - 2.3%               
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd. (a)      117,165     $ 2,707,683  
Univar Solutions, Inc. (a)      216,322       3,344,338  
    

 

 

 
             $ 6,052,021  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Specialty Stores - 0.3%               
Hudson Ltd., “A” (a)      101,937     $ 513,763  
Murphy USA, Inc. (a)      1,522       176,704  
    

 

 

 
             $ 690,467  
Telecommunications - Wireless - 0.4%               
Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.      51,929     $ 1,064,025  
Telephone Services - 0.9%               
ATN International, Inc.      29,677     $ 1,762,814  
Cogent Communications Holdings, Inc.      6,872       525,845  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,288,659  
Trucking - 2.2%               
Forward Air Corp.      50,808     $ 2,524,141  
Schneider National, Inc.      132,553       3,203,806  
    

 

 

 
             $ 5,727,947  
Utilities - Electric Power - 2.2%               
Clearway Energy, Inc., “A”      135,732     $ 2,754,002  
NRG Energy, Inc.      47,094       1,697,739  
Spark Energy, Inc., “A”      135,726       1,115,668  
    

 

 

 
             $ 5,567,409  
Total Common Stocks (Identified Cost, $255,806,748)            $ 256,304,417  
Investment Companies (h) - 1.0%               
Money Market Funds - 1.0%               
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)
(Identified Cost, $2,526,382)
     2,526,129     $ 2,526,382  
Collateral for Securities Loaned - 0.3%               
State Street Navigator Securities Lending Government Money Market Portfolio, 0.13% (j) (Identified Cost, $880,950)      880,950     $ 880,950  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - (0.2)%           (644,866)  
Net Assets - 100.0%            $ 259,066,883  

 

(a)

Non-income producing security.

(h)

An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate values of the fund’s investments in affiliated issuers and in unaffiliated issuers were $2,526,382 and $257,185,367, respectively.

(j)

The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

(l)

A portion of this security is on loan. See Note 2 for additional information.

 

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(v)

Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

The following abbreviations are used in this report and are defined:

 

REIT   Real Estate Investment Trust

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

At 5/31/20

This statement represents your fund’s balance sheet, which details the assets and liabilities comprising the total value of the fund.

 

Assets         

Investments in unaffiliated issuers, at value, including $888,711 of securities on loan (identified cost, $256,687,698)

     $257,185,367  

Investments in affiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $2,526,382)

     2,526,382  

Receivables for

  

Investments sold

     20,217,930  

Fund shares sold

     669,693  

Interest and dividends

     263,107  

Receivable from investment adviser

     31,466  

Other assets

     696  

Total assets

     $280,894,641  
Liabilities         

Payables for

  

Investments purchased

     $20,091,725  

Fund shares reacquired

     669,778  

Collateral for securities loaned, at value

     880,950  

Payable to affiliates

  

Administrative services fee

     514  

Shareholder servicing costs

     82,356  

Distribution and service fees

     3,143  

Program manager fees

     48  

Payable for independent Trustees’ compensation

     14  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     99,230  

Total liabilities

     $21,827,758  

Net assets

     $259,066,883  
Net assets consist of         

Paid-in capital

     $285,805,218  

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     (26,738,335

Net assets

     $259,066,883  

Shares of beneficial interest outstanding

     22,792,149  

 

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     Net assets      Shares
outstanding
     Net asset value
per share (a)
 

Class A

     $57,133,056        5,041,910        $11.33  

Class B

     387,103        34,887        11.10  

Class C

     5,132,658        462,915        11.09  

Class I

     53,562,035        4,703,523        11.39  

Class R1

     2,897,298        261,142        11.09  

Class R2

     9,315,481        822,853        11.32  

Class R3

     537,107        47,309        11.35  

Class R4

     19,043,661        1,671,165        11.40  

Class R6

     102,331,646        8,973,579        11.40  

Class 529A

     7,187,890        633,893        11.34  

Class 529B

     261,236        23,520        11.11  

Class 529C

     1,277,712        115,453        11.07  

 

(a)

Maximum offering price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for all share classes, except for Classes A and 529A, for which the maximum offering prices per share were $12.02 [100 / 94.25 x $11.33] and $12.03 [100 / 94.25 x $11.34], respectively. On sales of $50,000 or more, the maximum offering prices of Class A and Class 529A shares are reduced. A contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on redemptions of Class A, Class B, Class C, Class 529B, and Class 529C shares. Redemption price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for Classes I, R1, R2, R3, R4, R6, and 529A.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

Year ended 5/31/20

This statement describes how much your fund earned in investment income and accrued in expenses. It also describes any gains and/or losses generated by fund operations.

 

Net investment income (loss)         

Income

  

Dividends

     $3,412,239  

Income on securities loaned

     85,559  

Dividends from affiliated issuers

     56,007  

Other

     44,428  

Foreign taxes withheld

     (3,563

Total investment income

     $3,594,670  

Expenses

  

Management fee

     $1,578,960  

Distribution and service fees

     322,252  

Shareholder servicing costs

     194,423  

Program manager fees

     4,879  

Administrative services fee

     42,905  

Independent Trustees’ compensation

     6,556  

Custodian fee

     19,019  

Shareholder communications

     29,272  

Audit and tax fees

     58,269  

Legal fees

     2,270  

Registration fees

     159,249  

Miscellaneous

     36,007  

Total expenses

     $2,454,061  

Reduction of expenses by investment adviser and distributor

     (414,210

Net expenses

     $2,039,851  

Net investment income (loss)

     $1,554,819  
Realized and unrealized gain (loss)         
Realized gain (loss) (identified cost basis)   

Unaffiliated issuers

     $(23,467,939

Affiliated issuers

     (494

Net realized gain (loss)

     $(23,468,433

Change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation

  

Unaffiliated issuers

     $(3,474,702

Affiliated issuers

     (214

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     $(3,474,916

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     $(26,943,349

Change in net assets from operations

     $(25,388,530

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

These statements describe the increases and/or decreases in net assets resulting from operations, any distributions, and any shareholder transactions.

 

     Year ended  
     5/31/20      5/31/19  
Change in net assets              
From operations                  

Net investment income (loss)

     $1,554,819        $789,598  

Net realized gain (loss)

     (23,468,433      2,590,722  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     (3,474,916      (9,190,910

Change in net assets from operations

     $(25,388,530      $(5,810,590

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(4,783,135      $(7,032,165

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $108,097,955        $77,114,601  

Total change in net assets

     $77,926,290        $64,271,846  
Net assets                  

At beginning of period

     181,140,593        116,868,747  

At end of period

     $259,066,883        $181,140,593  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years (or life of a particular share class, if shorter). Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

Class A   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.77       $13.83       $11.91       $10.36       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.06       $0.06       $0.05       $0.05       $0.04  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (1.28     (0.44     2.32       1.57       0.35  

Total from investment operations

    $(1.22     $(0.38     $2.37       $1.62       $0.39  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.05     $(0.04     $(0.06     $(0.03     $(0.03

From net realized gain

    (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.22     $(0.68     $(0.45     $(0.07     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.33       $12.77       $13.83       $11.91       $10.36  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (9.87     (2.28     20.15       15.63       3.89 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.16       1.22       1.28       1.88       5.46 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.99       0.99       0.99       0.96       0.96 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    0.48       0.41       0.41       0.45       0.52 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    75       64       90       90       47 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $57,133       $60,929       $43,682       $3,700       $637  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Class B   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.56       $13.67       $11.81       $10.33       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $(0.03     $(0.05     $(0.05     $(0.04     $(0.02

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (1.26     (0.42     2.30       1.56       0.35  

Total from investment operations

    $(1.29     $(0.47     $2.25       $1.52       $0.33  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $—       $—       $—       $—       $(0.00 )(w) 

From net realized gain

    (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.17     $(0.64     $(0.39     $(0.04     $(0.00 )(w) 

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.10       $12.56       $13.67       $11.81       $10.33  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (10.53     (3.00     19.28       14.73       3.34 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.91       1.97       2.07       3.04       7.17 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.74       1.74       1.74       1.74       1.71 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    (0.27     (0.36     (0.39     (0.34     (0.25 )(a) 

Portfolio turnover

    75       64       90       90       47 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $387       $500       $403       $243       $98  
Class C   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.55       $13.66       $11.80       $10.33       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $(0.03     $(0.03     $(0.05     $(0.03     $(0.02

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (1.26     (0.44     2.30       1.54       0.36  

Total from investment operations

    $(1.29     $(0.47     $2.25       $1.51       $0.34  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.00 )(w)      $(0.00 )(w)      $—       $—       $(0.01

From net realized gain

    (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.17     $(0.64     $(0.39     $(0.04     $(0.01

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.09       $12.55       $13.66       $11.80       $10.33  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (10.53     (2.97     19.30       14.64       3.38 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.91       1.97       2.07       2.87       7.03 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.74       1.74       1.74       1.74       1.71 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    (0.26     (0.21     (0.40     (0.28     (0.24 )(a) 

Portfolio turnover

    75       64       90       90       47 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $5,133       $3,234       $406       $408       $89  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Class I   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.83       $13.90       $11.94       $10.38       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.09       $0.09       $0.08       $0.08       $0.05  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (1.27     (0.45     2.33       1.55       0.36  

Total from investment operations

    $(1.18     $(0.36     $2.41       $1.63       $0.41  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.09     $(0.07     $(0.06     $(0.03     $(0.03

From net realized gain

    (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.26     $(0.71     $(0.45     $(0.07     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.39       $12.83       $13.90       $11.94       $10.38  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (9.58     (2.06     20.49       15.77       4.14 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.91       0.97       1.05       2.02       5.39 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.74       0.74       0.74       0.74       0.71 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    0.74       0.69       0.64       0.68       0.73 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    75       64       90       90       47 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $53,562       $39,397       $12,225       $752       $351  
Class R1   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.56       $13.67       $11.81       $10.33       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $(0.03     $0.07       $(0.05     $(0.04     $(0.02

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (1.27     (0.54 )(g)      2.30       1.56       0.35  

Total from investment operations

    $(1.30     $(0.47     $2.25       $1.52       $0.33  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.00 )(w)      $—       $—       $—       $(0.00 )(w) 

From net realized gain

    (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.17     $(0.64     $(0.39     $(0.04     $(0.00 )(w) 

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.09       $12.56       $13.67       $11.81       $10.33  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (10.59     (3.00     19.28       14.73       3.33 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.91       1.97       2.07       3.32       7.32 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.74       1.74       1.74       1.74       1.71 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    (0.27     0.54       (0.39     (0.35     (0.24 )(a) 

Portfolio turnover

    75       64       90       90       47 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $2,897       $3,339       $79       $63       $52  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Class R2   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.78       $13.84       $11.89       $10.35       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.03       $0.16       $0.01       $0.02       $0.02  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (1.27     (0.58 )(g)      2.33       1.56       0.35  

Total from investment operations

    $(1.24     $(0.42     $2.34       $1.58       $0.37  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.05     $(0.00 )(w)      $—       $—       $(0.02

From net realized gain

    (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.22     $(0.64     $(0.39     $(0.04     $(0.02

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.32       $12.78       $13.84       $11.89       $10.35  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (10.07     (2.57     19.91       15.29       3.68 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.41       1.47       1.57       2.84       6.82 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.24       1.24       1.24       1.24       1.21 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    0.23       1.22       0.11       0.15       0.26 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    75       64       90       90       47 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $9,315       $9,647       $72       $60       $52  
Class R3   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.83       $13.88       $11.92       $10.36       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.06       $0.05       $0.05       $0.05       $0.04  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (1.28     (0.42     2.33       1.56       0.34  

Total from investment operations

    $(1.22     $(0.37     $2.38       $1.61       $0.38  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.09     $(0.04     $(0.03     $(0.01     $(0.02

From net realized gain

    (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.26     $(0.68     $(0.42     $(0.05     $(0.02

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.35       $12.83       $13.88       $11.92       $10.36  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (9.92     (2.23     20.21       15.54       3.86 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.16       1.21       1.32       2.59       6.57 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.99       0.99       0.99       0.99       0.96 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    0.52       0.38       0.36       0.40       0.51 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    75       64       90       90       47 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $537       $70       $72       $60       $52  

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Class R4   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.84       $13.91       $11.94       $10.37       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.10       $0.09       $0.08       $0.07       $0.05  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (1.28     (0.45     2.34       1.57       0.35  

Total from investment operations

    $(1.18     $(0.36     $2.42       $1.64       $0.40  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.09     $(0.07     $(0.06     $(0.03     $(0.03

From net realized gain

    (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.26     $(0.71     $(0.45     $(0.07     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.40       $12.84       $13.91       $11.94       $10.37  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (9.60     (2.09     20.54       15.87       4.04 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.95       0.96       1.07       2.34       6.32 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.74       0.74       0.74       0.74       0.71 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    0.96       0.63       0.61       0.65       0.76 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    75       64       90       90       47 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $19,044       $71       $73       $60       $52  
Class R6   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.85       $13.91       $11.94       $10.37       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.10       $0.10       $0.09       $0.08       $0.05  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (1.28     (0.44     2.34       1.57       0.35  

Total from investment operations

    $(1.18     $(0.34     $2.43       $1.65       $0.40  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.10     $(0.08     $(0.07     $(0.04     $(0.03

From net realized gain

    (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.27     $(0.72     $(0.46     $(0.08     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.40       $12.85       $13.91       $11.94       $10.37  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (9.59     (1.93     20.62       15.90       4.04 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.82       0.88       0.99       1.22       6.31 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.65       0.66       0.65       0.69       0.70 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    0.83       0.72       0.71       0.73       0.77 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    75       64       90       90       47 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $102,332       $53,947       $49,503       $46,259       $1,874  

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Class 529A    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (i)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $12.78       $13.85       $11.90       $10.74  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.06       $0.05       $0.02       $0.04  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (1.28     (0.44     2.35       1.19  

Total from investment operations

     $(1.22     $(0.39     $2.37       $1.23  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $(0.05     $(0.04     $(0.03     $(0.03

From net realized gain

     (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.22     $(0.68     $(0.42     $(0.07

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $11.34       $12.78       $13.85       $11.90  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (9.88     (2.34     20.13       11.47 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.21       1.27       1.34       1.77 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.02       1.02       1.03       1.04 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     0.45       0.35       0.17       0.36 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

     75       64       90       90  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $7,188       $8,049       $8,175       $287  
Class 529B    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (i)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $12.54       $13.66       $11.80       $10.70  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.02     $(0.06     $(0.07     $(0.04

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (1.24     (0.42     2.32       1.18  

Total from investment operations

     $(1.26     $(0.48     $2.25       $1.14  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $—       $—       $—       $—  

From net realized gain

     (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.17     $(0.64     $(0.39     $(0.04

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $11.11       $12.54       $13.66       $11.80  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (10.31     (3.08     19.30       10.67 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.76       2.01       2.10       2.91 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.59       1.79       1.79       1.79 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.12     (0.43     (0.54     (0.42 )(a) 

Portfolio turnover

     75       64       90       90  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $261       $369       $459       $55  

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Class 529C    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17 (i)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $12.53       $13.65       $11.79       $10.69  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                       

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.04     $(0.06     $(0.08     $(0.04

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (1.25     (0.42     2.33       1.18  

Total from investment operations

     $(1.29     $(0.48     $2.25       $1.14  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                       

From net investment income

     $—       $—       $—       $—  

From net realized gain

     (0.17     (0.64     (0.39     (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.17     $(0.64     $(0.39     $(0.04

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $11.07       $12.53       $13.65       $11.79  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (10.56     (3.08     19.31       10.68 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.96       2.02       2.08       2.84 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.79       1.79       1.79       1.79 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.32     (0.43     (0.61     (0.39 )(a) 

Portfolio turnover

     75       64       90       90  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $1,278       $1,588       $1,721       $78  

 

(a)

Annualized.

(c)

For the period from the commencement of the fund’s investment operations, September 15, 2015, through the stated period end.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(g)

The per share amount varies from the net realized and unrealized gain/loss for the period because of the timing of sales of fund shares and the per share amount of realized and unrealized gains and losses at such time.

(i)

For Class 529A, Class 529B, and Class 529C, the period is from the class inception, July 14, 2016, through the stated period end.

(n)

Not annualized.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(w)

Per share amount was less than $0.01.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(1) Business and Organization

MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of MFS Series Trust X (the trust). The trust is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company.

The fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies.

(2) Significant Accounting Policies

General – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the preparation of these financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events occurring after the date of the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities through the date that the financial statements were issued.

In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) – Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”), which provides optional, temporary relief with respect to the financial reporting of contracts subject to certain types of modifications due to the planned discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR-based reference rates as of the end of 2021. The temporary relief provided by ASU 2020-04 is effective for certain reference rate-related contract modifications that occur during the period from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-04 on the fund’s investments, derivatives, debt and other contracts that will undergo reference rate-related modifications as a result of the reference rate reform.

Balance Sheet Offsetting – The fund’s accounting policy with respect to balance sheet offsetting is that, absent an event of default by the counterparty or a termination of the agreement, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreement, or similar agreement, does not result in an offset of reported amounts of financial assets and financial liabilities in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities across transactions between the fund and the applicable counterparty. The fund’s right to setoff may be restricted or prohibited by the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the particular jurisdiction to which a specific master netting agreement counterparty is subject. Balance sheet offsetting disclosures, to the extent applicable to the fund, have been included in the fund’s Significant Accounting Policies note under the captions for each of the fund’s in-scope financial instruments and transactions.

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exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per share. Securities and other assets generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, and other market data. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.

The Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments (including any fair valuation) to the adviser pursuant to valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. If the adviser determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available, investments are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with such procedures under the oversight of the Board of Trustees. Under the fund’s valuation policies and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for most types of debt instruments and floating rate loans and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services. In addition, investments may be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that an investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.

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measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The fund’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. The following is a summary of the levels used as of May 31, 2020 in valuing the fund’s assets or liabilities:

 

Financial Instruments   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  
Equity Securities     $256,304,417       $—       $—       $256,304,417  
Mutual Funds     3,407,332                   3,407,332  
Total     $259,711,749       $—       $—       $259,711,749  

For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments.

Security Loans – Under its Securities Lending Agency Agreement with the fund, State Street Bank and Trust Company, as lending agent, loans the securities of the fund to certain qualified institutions (the “Borrowers”) approved by the fund. Security loans can be terminated at the discretion of either the lending agent or the fund and the related securities must be returned within the earlier of the standard trade settlement period for such securities or within three business days. The loans are collateralized by cash and/or U.S. Treasury and federal agency obligations in an amount typically at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned. On loans collateralized by cash, the cash collateral is invested in a money market fund. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the fund on the next business day. The lending agent provides the fund with indemnification against Borrower default. In the event of Borrower default, the lending agent will, for the benefit of the fund, either purchase securities identical to those loaned or, when such purchase is commercially impracticable, pay the fund the market value of the loaned securities. In return, the lending agent assumes the fund’s rights to the related collateral. If the collateral value is less than the cost to purchase identical securities, the lending agent is responsible for the shortfall, but only to the extent that such shortfall is not due to a decline in collateral value resulting from collateral reinvestment for which the fund bears the risk of loss. At period end, the fund had investment securities on loan, all of which were classified as equity securities in the fund’s Portfolio of Investments, with a fair value of $888,711. The fair value of the fund’s investment securities on loan and a related liability of $880,950 for cash collateral received on securities loaned are both presented gross in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The value of the fund’s securities on loan net of the related collateral is $7,761 at period end. The liability for cash collateral for securities loaned is carried at fair value, which is categorized as level 2 within the fair value hierarchy. A portion of the income generated upon investment of the collateral is remitted to the Borrowers, and the remainder is allocated between the fund and the lending agent. On loans collateralized by U.S. Treasury and/or federal agency obligations, a fee is received

 

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from the Borrower, and is allocated between the fund and the lending agent. Income from securities lending is separately reported in the Statement of Operations. The dividend and interest income earned on the securities loaned is accounted for in the same manner as other dividend and interest income.

Indemnifications – Under the fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the fund. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The fund’s maximum exposure under these agreements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the fund that have not yet occurred.

Investment Transactions and Income – Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Dividends received in cash are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain dividends from foreign securities will be recorded when the fund is informed of the dividend if such information is obtained subsequent to the ex-dividend date. Dividend payments received in additional securities are recorded on the ex-dividend date in an amount equal to the value of the security on such date.

The fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received from litigation involving portfolio holdings are reflected in the Statement of Operations in realized gain/loss if the security has been disposed of by the fund or in unrealized gain/loss if the security is still held by the fund. Any other proceeds from litigation not related to portfolio holdings are reflected as other income in the Statement of Operations.

Tax Matters and Distributions – The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company, as defined under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and to distribute all of its taxable income, including realized capital gains. As a result, no provision for federal income tax is required. The fund’s federal tax returns, when filed, will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a three year period. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal and state tax returns for all open tax years and does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability. Foreign taxes, if any, have been accrued by the fund in the accompanying financial statements in accordance with the applicable foreign tax law. Foreign income taxes may be withheld by certain countries in which the fund invests. Additionally, capital gains realized by the fund on securities issued in or by certain foreign countries may be subject to capital gains tax imposed by those countries.

Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Certain capital accounts in the financial statements are periodically adjusted for permanent differences in order to reflect their tax character. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or net asset value per share. Temporary differences which arise from recognizing certain items of income, expense, gain or loss in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes will reverse at some time in the future.

Book/tax differences primarily relate to wash sale loss deferrals.

 

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The tax character of distributions declared to shareholders for the last two fiscal years is as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
Ordinary income (including any
short-term capital gains)
     $3,362,096        $4,687,458  
Long-term capital gains      1,421,039        2,344,707  
Total distributions      $4,783,135        $7,032,165  

The federal tax cost and the tax basis components of distributable earnings were as follows:

 

As of 5/31/20       
Cost of investments      $263,655,399  
Gross appreciation      20,525,680  
Gross depreciation      (24,469,330
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      $(3,943,650
Undistributed ordinary income      359,339  
Post-October capital loss deferral      (23,154,024

Multiple Classes of Shares of Beneficial Interest – The fund offers multiple classes of shares, which differ in their respective distribution, service, and program manager fees. The fund’s income, realized and unrealized gain (loss), and common expenses are allocated to shareholders based on the daily net assets of each class. Dividends are declared separately for each class. Differences in per share dividend rates are generally due to differences in separate class expenses. Class B and Class 529B shares will convert to Class A and Class 529A shares, respectively, approximately eight years after purchase. Class C and Class 529C shares will convert to Class A and Class 529A shares, respectively, approximately ten years after purchase. The fund’s distributions declared to shareholders as reported in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets are presented by class as follows:

 

     Year
ended
5/31/20
     Year
ended
5/31/19
 
Class A      $994,396        $2,346,262  
Class B      6,379        22,802  
Class C      68,104        55,241  
Class I      1,366,399        1,312,167  
Class R1      47,825        3,829  
Class R2      165,195        3,479  
Class R3      11,984        3,530  
Class R4      1,532        3,729  
Class R6      1,960,249        2,777,870  
Class 529A      135,468        402,303  
Class 529B      4,658        21,057  
Class 529C      20,946        79,896  
Total      $4,783,135        $7,032,165  

 

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(3) Transactions with Affiliates

Investment Adviser – The fund has an investment advisory agreement with MFS to provide overall investment management and related administrative services and facilities to the fund. The management fee is computed daily and paid monthly at the following annual rates based on the fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Up to $1 billion      0.65
In excess of $1 billion and up to $2.5 billion      0.60
In excess of $2.5 billion      0.575

MFS has agreed in writing to reduce its management fee by a specified amount if certain MFS mutual fund assets exceed thresholds agreed to by MFS and the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this management fee reduction amounted to $24,751, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations. The management fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.64% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

The investment adviser has agreed in writing to pay a portion of the fund’s total annual operating expenses, excluding interest, taxes, extraordinary expenses, brokerage and transaction costs, and investment-related expenses, such that total fund operating expenses do not exceed the following rates annually of each class’s average daily net assets:

 

Classes  
A   B     C     I     R1     R2     R3     R4     R6     529A     529B     529C  
0.99%     1.74%       1.74%       0.74%       1.74%       1.24%       0.99%       0.74%       0.70%       1.04%       1.79%       1.79%  

This written agreement will continue until modified by the fund’s Board of Trustees, but such agreement will continue at least until September 30, 2021. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reduction amounted to $387,360, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Distributor – MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (MFD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, as distributor, received $14,513 and $3,402 for the year ended May 31, 2020, as its portion of the initial sales charge on sales of Class A and Class 529A shares of the fund, respectively.

The Board of Trustees has adopted a distribution plan for certain share classes pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

The fund’s distribution plan provides that the fund will pay MFD for services provided by MFD and financial intermediaries in connection with the distribution and servicing of certain share classes. One component of the plan is a distribution fee paid to MFD and another component of the plan is a service fee paid to MFD. MFD may subsequently pay all, or a portion, of the distribution and/or service fees to financial intermediaries.

 

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Distribution Plan Fee Table:

 

     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
Class A             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        $148,455  
Class B      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        4,704  
Class C      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        46,994  
Class R1      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        33,452  
Class R2      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        50,016  
Class R3             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        890  
Class 529A             0.25%        0.25%        0.23%        19,726  
Class 529B      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        0.80%        2,692  
Class 529C      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        15,323  
Total Distribution and Service Fees

 

           $322,252  

 

(d)

In accordance with the distribution plan for certain classes, the fund pays distribution and/or service fees equal to these annual percentage rates of each class’s average daily net assets. The distribution and service fee rates disclosed by class represent the current rates in effect at the end of the reporting period. Any rate changes, if applicable, are detailed below.

(e)

The annual effective rates represent actual fees incurred under the distribution plan for the year ended May 31, 2020 based on each class’s average daily net assets. MFD has voluntarily agreed to rebate a portion of each class’s 0.25% service fee attributable to accounts for which there is no financial intermediary specified on the account except for accounts attributable to MFS or its affiliates’ seed money. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this rebate amounted to $385, $1,684, $18, and $12 for Class A, Class 529A, Class 529B, and Class 529C, respectively, and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations. For the period February 1, 2020 through May 31, 2020, the 0.75% distribution fee was not imposed for Class 529B shares due to the sales charge limitations contained in Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) Rule 2341.

Certain Class A shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) in the event of a shareholder redemption within 18 months of purchase. Class B and Class 529B shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within six years of purchase. Class C and Class 529C shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within 12 months of purchase. All contingent deferred sales charges are paid to MFD and during the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

     Amount  
Class A      $1,057  
Class B      689  
Class C      1,125  
Class 529B      200  
Class 529C      56  

During the year ended May 31, 2020, to meet the requirements of FINRA Rule 2341, MFD returned $5 of the CDSC collected in the prior fiscal year for Class 529B which had the effect of further reducing the annual effective distribution fee rate for this class by 0.00%.

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investment in the fund’s 529 share classes is made. The fund has entered into an agreement with MFD pursuant to which MFD receives an annual fee of up to 0.05% of the average daily net assets attributable to each 529 share class. The services provided by MFD, or a third party with which MFD contracts, include recordkeeping and tax reporting and account services, as well as services designed to maintain the program’s compliance with the Internal Revenue Code and other regulatory requirements. Program manager fees for the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

     Fee  
Class 529A      $3,945  
Class 529B      168  
Class 529C      766  
Total Program Manager Fees      $4,879  

Shareholder Servicing Agent – MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, receives a fee from the fund for its services as shareholder servicing agent calculated as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the fund as determined periodically under the supervision of the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee was $30,480, which equated to 0.0126% annually of the fund’s average daily net assets. MFSC also receives payment from the fund for out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs which may be paid to affiliated and unaffiliated service providers. Class R6 shares do not incur sub-accounting fees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, these out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs amounted to $163,943.

Administrator – MFS provides certain financial, legal, shareholder communications, compliance, and other administrative services to the fund. Under an administrative services agreement, the fund reimburses MFS the costs incurred to provide these services. The fund is charged an annual fixed amount of $17,500 plus a fee based on average daily net assets. The administrative services fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.0177% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Trustees’ and Officers’ Compensation – The fund pays compensation to independent Trustees in the form of a retainer, attendance fees, and additional compensation to Board and Committee chairpersons. The fund does not pay compensation directly to Trustees or officers of the fund who are also officers of the investment adviser, all of whom receive remuneration from MFS for their services to the fund. Certain officers and Trustees of the fund are officers or directors of MFS, MFD, and MFSC.

Other – This fund and certain other funds managed by MFS (the funds) had entered into a service agreement (the ISO Agreement) which provided for payment of fees solely by the funds to Tarantino LLC in return for the provision of services of an Independent Senior Officer (ISO) for the funds. Frank L. Tarantino served as the ISO and was an officer of the funds and the sole member of Tarantino LLC. Effective June 30, 2019, Mr. Tarantino retired from his position as ISO for the funds, and the ISO Agreement was terminated. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee paid by the fund under this agreement was $91 and is included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations. MFS had agreed to bear all expenses associated with office space, other administrative support, and supplies provided to the ISO.

 

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The fund invests in the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio which is managed by MFS and seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity. This money market fund does not pay a management fee to MFS but does incur investment and operating costs.

On December 14, 2018, MFS redeemed 4,324 shares of Class C, 5,223 shares of Class I, 4,832 shares of Class 529A, and 4,835 shares of Class 529C for an aggregate amount of $242,285.

The fund is permitted to engage in purchase and sale transactions with funds and accounts for which MFS serves as investment adviser or sub-adviser (“cross-trades”) pursuant to a policy adopted by the Board of Trustees. This policy has been designed to ensure that cross-trades conducted by the fund comply with Rule 17a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. During the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund engaged in purchase transactions pursuant to this policy, which amounted to $3,056,817.

The adviser has voluntarily undertaken to reimburse the fund from its own resources on a quarterly basis for the cost of investment research embedded in the cost of the fund’s securities trades. This agreement may be rescinded at any time. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reimbursement amounted to $44,428, which is included in “Other” income in the Statement of Operations.

(4) Portfolio Securities

For the year ended May 31, 2020, purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $284,681,064 and $179,943,226, respectively.

(5) Shares of Beneficial Interest

The fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest. Transactions in fund shares were as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares sold            

Class A

     2,947,246        $35,152,616        3,027,957        $40,301,997  

Class B

     2,217        28,276        13,338        179,637  

Class C

     288,444        3,498,617        249,204        3,318,658  

Class I

     4,824,238        58,982,956        3,354,289        45,360,138  

Class R1

     81,580        1,034,944        260,836        3,537,709  

Class R2

     328,867        4,228,600        760,303        10,504,387  

Class R3

     44,525        601,618                

Class R4

     2,145,894        28,234,586                

Class R6

     6,042,226        74,362,922        1,293,935        17,102,993  

Class 529A

     73,562        888,156        94,840        1,309,336  

Class 529B

                   1,179        16,239  

Class 529C

     14,951        185,177        19,916        278,775  
     16,793,750        $207,198,468        9,075,797        $121,909,869  

 

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     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares issued to shareholders in
reinvestment of distributions

 

        

Class A

     29,221        $412,313        53,486        $626,861  

Class B

     460        6,379        1,973        22,802  

Class C

     4,917        68,104        4,787        55,241  

Class I

     96,409        1,366,111        111,579        1,312,167  

Class R1

     3,451        47,825        331        3,829  

Class R2

     11,708        165,195        296        3,479  

Class R3

     848        11,984        300        3,530  

Class R4

     108        1,532        317        3,729  

Class R6

     137,656        1,951,962        236,013        2,777,870  

Class 529A

     9,595        135,468        34,323        402,303  

Class 529B

     323        4,476        1,823        21,057  

Class 529C

     1,513        20,946        6,929        79,896  
     296,209        $4,192,295        452,157        $5,312,764  
Shares reacquired            

Class A

     (2,705,401      $(34,562,796      (1,468,534      $(19,440,723

Class B

     (7,625      (85,235      (4,935      (65,723

Class C

     (88,189      (1,038,234      (25,941      (334,651

Class I

     (3,286,638      (39,224,188      (1,275,656      (16,172,289

Class R1

     (89,781      (1,112,560      (1,058      (13,832

Class R2

     (272,281      (3,464,069      (11,218      (151,483

Class R3

     (3,560      (50,247              

Class R4

     (480,377      (4,923,233              

Class R6

     (1,404,880      (17,428,205      (889,299      (12,258,750

Class 529A

     (79,114      (995,061      (89,758      (1,233,254

Class 529B

     (6,230      (80,280      (7,216      (95,029

Class 529C

     (27,715      (328,700      (26,257      (342,298
     (8,451,791      $(103,292,808      (3,799,872      $(50,108,032
Net change            

Class A

     271,066        $1,002,133        1,612,909        $21,488,135  

Class B

     (4,948      (50,580      10,376        136,716  

Class C

     205,172        2,528,487        228,050        3,039,248  

Class I

     1,634,009        21,124,879        2,190,212        30,500,016  

Class R1

     (4,750      (29,791      260,109        3,527,706  

Class R2

     68,294        929,726        749,381        10,356,383  

Class R3

     41,813        563,355        300        3,530  

Class R4

     1,665,625        23,312,885        317        3,729  

Class R6

     4,775,002        58,886,679        640,649        7,622,113  

Class 529A

     4,043        28,563        39,405        478,385  

Class 529B

     (5,907      (75,804      (4,214      (57,733

Class 529C

     (11,251      (122,577      588        16,373  
     8,638,168        $108,097,955        5,728,082        $77,114,601  

 

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Class T shares were not publicly available for sale during the period. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective June 1, 2019, purchases of the fund’s Class B and Class 529B shares are closed to new and existing investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

The fund is one of several mutual funds in which certain MFS funds may invest. The MFS funds do not invest in the underlying funds for the purpose of exercising management or control. At the end of the period, the MFS Lifetime 2040 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2030 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2035 Fund, the MFS Lifetime Income Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2050 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2045 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2025 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2020 Fund, and the MFS Lifetime 2055 Fund were the owners of record of approximately 4%, 4%, 3%, 2%, 2%, 2%, 1%, 1%, and 1%, respectively, of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund. In addition, the MFS Lifetime 2060 Fund was the owner of record of less than 1% of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund.

(6) Line of Credit

The fund and certain other funds managed by MFS participate in a $1.25 billion unsecured committed line of credit, subject to a $1 billion sublimit, provided by a syndicate of banks under a credit agreement. Borrowings may be made for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, generally at a rate equal to the highest of one month LIBOR, the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus an agreed upon spread. A commitment fee, based on the average daily, unused portion of the committed line of credit, is allocated among the participating funds. In addition, the fund and other funds managed by MFS have established unsecured uncommitted borrowing arrangements with certain banks for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, at rates equal to customary reference rates plus an agreed upon spread. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund’s commitment fee and interest expense were $1,225 and $0, respectively, and are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

(7) Investments in Affiliated Issuers

An affiliated issuer may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:

 

Affiliated Issuers   Beginning
Value
    Purchases     Sales
Proceeds
    Realized
Gain
(Loss)
    Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
    Ending
Value
 
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio     $4,381,041       $127,758,230       $129,612,181       $(494     $(214     $2,526,382  
Affiliated Issuers                               Dividend
Income
    Capital Gain
Distributions
 
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

 

          $56,007       $—  

 

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(8) Impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic related to the global spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in December 2019, has resulted in significant disruptions to global business activity and the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the securities and commodities markets in general. This pandemic, the full effects of which are still unknown, has resulted in substantial market volatility and may have adversely impacted the prices and liquidity of the fund’s investments and the fund’s performance.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Trustees of MFS Series Trust X and the Shareholders of MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Fund:

Opinion on the Financial Statements and Financial Highlights

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Fund (the “Fund”), including the portfolio of investments, as of May 31, 2020, the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from September 15, 2015 (the commencement of the Fund’s investment operations) through May 31, 2016, and the related notes. In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of May 31, 2020, and the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from September 15, 2015 (the commencement of the Fund’s investment operations) through May 31, 2016, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements and financial highlights, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and financial highlights. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements and financial highlights. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2020, by correspondence with the custodian and brokers; when replies were not received from

 

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brokers, we performed other auditing procedures. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

July 17, 2020

We have served as the auditor of one or more of the MFS investment companies since 1924.

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS — IDENTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND

The Trustees and Officers of the Trust, as of July 1, 2020, are listed below, together with their principal occupations during the past five years. (Their titles may have varied during that period.) The address of each Trustee and Officer is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

INTERESTED TRUSTEES
Robert J. Manning (k) (age 56)   Trustee   February 2004   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Chairman (since January 2017); Director; Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (until 2015); Co-Chief Executive Officer (2015-2016)   N/A

Robin A. Stelmach (k)

(age 58)

  Trustee   January 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice Chair (since January 2017); Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (until January 2017)   N/A
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES    

John P. Kavanaugh

(age 65)

  Trustee and Chair of Trustees   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A

Steven E. Buller

(age 68)

  Trustee   February 2014   134   Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman (2014-2015); Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Standing Advisory Group, Member (until 2014); BlackRock, Inc. (investment management), Managing Director (until 2014), BlackRock Finco UK (investment management), Director (until 2014)   N/A

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

John A. Caroselli

(age 66)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   JC Global Advisors, LLC (management consulting), President (since 2015); First Capital Corporation (commercial finance), Executive Vice President (until 2015)   N/A

Maureen R. Goldfarb

(age 65)

  Trustee   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A
Peter D. Jones
(age 64)
  Trustee   January 2019   134   Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (investment management), President (until 2015); Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (investment management), Chairman (until 2015)   N/A
James W. Kilman, Jr. (age 59)   Trustee   January 2019   134   Burford Capital Limited (finance and investment management), Chief Financial Officer (since 2019); KielStrand Capital LLC (family office), Chief Executive Officer (since 2016); Morgan Stanley & Co. (financial services), Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Co-Head of Diversified Financials Coverage – Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group (until 2016)   Alpha-En Corporation, Director (2016-2019)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

Clarence Otis, Jr.

(age 64)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   Darden Restaurants, Inc., Chief Executive Officer (until 2014)   VF Corporation, Director; Verizon Communications, Inc., Director; The Travelers Companies, Director; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Director (until 2015)

Maryanne L. Roepke

(age 64)

  Trustee   May 2014   134   American Century Investments (investment management), Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (until 2014)   N/A
Laurie J. Thomsen
(age 62)
  Trustee   March 2005   134   Private investor   The Travelers Companies, Director; Dycom Industries, Inc., Director (since 2015)

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

OFFICERS      
Christopher R. Bohane (k) (age 46)   Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Kino Clark (k)

(age 52)

 

Assistant

Treasurer

  January 2012   134  

Massachusetts Financial

Services Company, Vice President

John W. Clark, Jr. (k)

(age 53)

  Assistant Treasurer   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President (since March 2017); Deutsche Bank (financial services), Department Head – Treasurer’s Office (until February 2017)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

Thomas H. Connors (k)

(age 60)

 

Assistant

Secretary and Assistant Clerk

  September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel
David L. DiLorenzo (k)
(age 51)
  President   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

Heidi W. Hardin (k)

(age 52)

  Secretary and Clerk   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Vice President and General Counsel (since March 2017); Harris Associates (investment management), General Counsel (from September 2015 to January 2017); Janus Capital Management LLC (investment management), Senior Vice President and General Counsel (until September 2015)

Brian E. Langenfeld (k)

(age 47)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  June 2006   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel

Amanda S. Mooradian (k)

(age 41)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  September 2018   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel
Susan A. Pereira (k)
(age 49)
  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Kasey L. Phillips (k)

(age 49)

  Assistant Treasurer   September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

Matthew A. Stowe (k)

(age 45)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   October 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Martin J. Wolin (k)

(age 52)

  Chief Compliance Officer   July 2015   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (since July 2015); Mercer (financial service provider), Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, North America and Latin America (until June 2015)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

James O. Yost (k)
(age 60)
  Treasurer   September 1990   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

 

(h)

Date first appointed to serve as Trustee/officer of an MFS Fund. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. For the period from December 15, 2004 until February 22, 2005, Mr. Manning served as Advisory Trustee. From January 2012 through December 2016, Messrs. DiLorenzo and Yost served as Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer of the Funds, respectively.

(j)

Directorships or trusteeships of companies required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., “public companies”).

(k)

“Interested person” of the Trust within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (referred to as the 1940 Act), which is the principal federal law governing investment companies like the fund, as a result of a position with MFS. The address of MFS is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

Each Trustee (other than Messrs. Jones and Kilman) has been elected by shareholders and each Trustee and Officer holds office until his or her successor is chosen and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal. Messrs. Jones and Kilman became Trustees of the Funds on January 1, 2019. The Trust does not hold annual meetings for the purpose of electing Trustees, and Trustees are not elected for fixed terms. Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of any Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20 years of service on the Board).

Messrs. Buller, Kilman and Otis and Ms. Roepke are members of the Trust’s Audit Committee.

Each of the Interested Trustees and certain Officers hold comparable officer positions with certain affiliates of MFS.

The Statement of Additional Information for a Fund includes further information about the Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

 

Investment Adviser   Custodian

Massachusetts Financial Services Company
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

State Street Bank and Trust Company

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111-2900

Distributor   Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

200 Berkeley Street

Boston, MA 02116

Portfolio Manager(s)  

Jim Fallon

Matt Krummell

Jonathan Sage

Jed Stocks

 

 

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STATEMENT REGARDING LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) as required by Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated MFS as the administrator of the Program. The Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage the liquidity risk of the fund. Liquidity risk is the risk that the fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by the fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interests.

MFS provided a written report to the Board for consideration at its April 2020 meeting that addressed the operation of the Program and provided an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of the Program during the period from the adoption of the Program on December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (the “Covered Period”). The report concluded that during the Covered Period the Program had operated effectively and had adequately and effectively been implemented to assess and manage the fund’s liquidity risk. MFS also reported that there were no liquidity events that impacted the fund or its ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders during the Covered Period.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Further information on liquidity risk, and other principal risks to which an investment in the fund may be subject, can be found in the prospectus.

 

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND INFORMATION

MFS votes proxies on behalf of the fund pursuant to proxy voting policies and procedures that are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-225-2606, by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available by August 31 of each year without charge by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO DISCLOSURE

The fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A shareholder can obtain the portfolio holdings report for the first and third quarters of the fund’s fiscal year at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name and then selecting the “Resources” tab and clicking on “Prospectus and Reports”.

FURTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, MFS may post important information about the fund or the MFS funds on the MFS web site (mfs.com). This information is available at https://www.mfs.com/en-us/what-we-do/announcements.html or at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name.

INFORMATION ABOUT FUND CONTRACTS AND LEGAL CLAIMS

The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, 529 program manager (if applicable), and custodian who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the Trust’s By-Laws and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the MFS Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (unaudited)

The fund will notify shareholders of amounts for use in preparing 2020 income tax forms in January 2021. The following information is provided pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as qualified dividend income eligible to be taxed at the same rate as long-term capital gain.

The fund designates $1,564,000 as capital gain dividends paid during the fiscal year.

For corporate shareholders, 48.59% of the ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year qualify for the corporate dividends received deduction.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as Section 199A dividends as defined in Proposed Treasury Regulation §1.199A-3(d).

 

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FACTS

 

  WHAT DOES MFS DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?   LOGO

 

Why?   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

 

What?  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

 Social Security number and account balances

 Account transactions and transaction history

 Checking account information and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

How?   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons MFS chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your
personal information
  Does MFS
share?
  Can you limit
this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes –

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

  Yes   No

For our marketing purposes –

to offer our products and services to you

  No   We don’t share

For joint marketing with other

financial companies

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your transactions and experiences

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your creditworthiness

  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

   
Questions?   Call 800-225-2606 or go to mfs.com.

 

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   MFS Funds, MFS Investment Management, MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., and MFS Heritage Trust Company.

 

What we do
How does MFS protect my personal information?   To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include procedural, electronic, and physical safeguards for the protection of the personal information we collect about you.
How does MFS collect my personal information?  

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

 open an account or provide account information

 direct us to buy securities or direct us to sell your securities

 make a wire transfer

 

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

 sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness

 affiliates from using your information to market to you

 sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 

Definitions
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share personal information with affiliates, except for everyday business purposes as described on page one of this notice.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

 MFS doesnt jointly market.

 

 

Other important information
If you own an MFS product or receive an MFS service in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, their privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.

 

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Save paper with eDelivery.

 

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MFS® will send you prospectuses,

reports, and proxies directly via e-mail so you will get information faster with less mailbox clutter.

To sign up:

1. Go to mfs.com.

2. Log in via MFS® Access.

3. Select eDelivery.

If you own your MFS fund shares through a financial institution or a retirement plan, MFS® TALK, MFS® Access, or eDelivery may not be available to you.

 

CONTACT

WEB SITE

mfs.com

MFS TALK

1-800-637-8255

24 hours a day

ACCOUNT SERVICE AND LITERATURE

Shareholders

1-800-225-2606

Financial advisors

1-800-343-2829

Retirement plan services

1-800-637-1255

MAILING ADDRESS

MFS Service Center, Inc.

P.O. Box 219341

Kansas City, MO 64121-9341

OVERNIGHT MAIL

MFS Service Center, Inc.

Suite 219341

430 W 7th Street

Kansas City, MO 64105-1407

 


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Annual Report

May 31, 2020

 

LOGO

 

MFS® Blended Research®

Value Equity Fund

 

LOGO

 

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the fund’s annual and semiannual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the complete reports will be made available on the fund’s Web site (funds.mfs.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a Web site link to access the report.

If you are already signed up to receive shareholder reports by email, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may sign up to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund by email by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you hold your shares directly with the fund, by calling 1-800-225-2606 or by logging on to MFS Access at mfs.com.

Beginning on January 1, 2019, you may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. Contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the fund, you can call 1-800-225-2606 or send an email request to orderliterature@mfs.com to let the fund know that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary or all funds held with the MFS fund complex if you invest directly.

 

BRU-ANN

 


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MFS® Blended Research® Value Equity Fund

 

CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Executive Chair     1  
Portfolio composition     2  
Management review     3  
Performance summary     6  
Expense table     9  
Portfolio of investments     11  
Statement of assets and liabilities     17  
Statement of operations     19  
Statements of changes in net assets     20  
Financial highlights     21  
Notes to financial statements     27  
Report of independent registered public accounting firm     37  
Trustees and officers     39  
Statement regarding liquidity risk management program     44  
Proxy voting policies and information     45  
Quarterly portfolio disclosure     45  
Further information     45  
Information about fund contracts and legal claims     45  
Federal tax information     45  
MFS® privacy notice     46  
Contact information     back cover  

 

The report is prepared for the general information of shareholders. It is authorized for distribution to prospective investors only when preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

 

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LOGO

 

LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR

 

Dear Shareholders:

Markets experienced dramatic swings in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill for several months. Optimism over the

development of vaccines and therapeutics, along with a decline in cases in countries that had been affected by the outbreak early on, brightened the economic and market outlook during the second quarter, as did the phased reopening of US states. However, a great deal of uncertainty remains, including the possibility of a second wave of cases later this year.

Global central banks have taken aggressive, coordinated steps to cushion the economic and market fallout related to the virus, and governments are deploying unprecedented levels of fiscal stimulus. As uncertainty recedes, these measures can help build a supportive environment and encourage economic recovery;

however, if markets disconnect from fundamentals, they can also sow the seeds of instability. In the aftermath of the crisis, societal changes may be likely as households, businesses, and governments adjust to a new reality, and these alterations could change the investment landscape. For investors, events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrate the importance of having a deep understanding of company fundamentals, and we have built our global research platform to do just that.

Here at MFS®, we aim to help our clients navigate the growing complexity of the markets and world economies. Our long-term investment philosophy and commitment to the responsible allocation of capital allow us to tune out the noise and uncover what we believe are the best, most durable investment opportunities in the market. Through our powerful global investment platform, we combine collective expertise, thoughtful risk management, and long-term discipline to create sustainable value for investors.

Respectfully,

 

LOGO

Robert J. Manning

Executive Chair

MFS Investment Management

July 17, 2020

The opinions expressed in this letter are subject to change and may not be relied upon for investment advice. No forecasts can be guaranteed.

 

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PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION

 

Portfolio structure

 

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Top ten holdings  
Johnson & Johnson     3.8%  
Intel Corp.     3.1%  
Bank of America Corp.     2.7%  
Medtronic PLC     2.3%  
Verizon Communications, Inc.     2.0%  
Citigroup, Inc.     1.9%  
Procter & Gamble Co.     1.8%  
Morgan Stanley     1.8%  
Eaton Corp. PLC     1.7%  
Charter Communications, Inc., “A”     1.7%  
GICS sectors (g)  
Financials     20.6%  
Health Care     15.1%  
Consumer Staples     9.5%  
Industrials     9.2%  
Communication Services     8.8%  
Utilities     8.2%  
Information Technology     7.1%  
Consumer Discretionary     6.0%  
Energy     6.0%  
Real Estate     4.7%  
Materials     3.6%  
 

 

(g)

The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and/or is the exclusive property of MSCI, Inc. and S&P Global Market Intelligence Inc. (“S&P Global Market Intelligence”). GICS is a service mark of MSCI and S&P Global Market Intelligence and has been licensed for use by MFS.

Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. Please see the Statement of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS Blended Research Value Equity Fund (fund) provided a total return of –3.04%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of –1.64% for the fund’s benchmark, the Russell 1000® Value Index.

Market Environment

Markets experienced an extraordinarily sharp selloff and in many cases an unusually rapid partial recovery late in the period. Central banks and fiscal authorities undertook astonishing levels of stimulus to offset the economic effects of government-imposed social-distancing measures implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19. Despite policymakers’ best efforts, a global recession has undoubtedly begun.

Compounding market uncertainty earlier in the coronavirus pandemic was a crash in the price of crude oil due to a sharp drop in global demand and a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts, which resulted in a price war. The subsequent decline in prices undercut oil exporters, many of which are in emerging markets, as well as a large segment of the high-yield credit market. OPEC+ later agreed on output cuts, which – along with the gradual reopening of some major economies and resultant boost in demand – helped stabilize the price of crude.

Around the world, central banks responded quickly and massively to the crisis with programs to improve liquidity and support markets. They proved largely successful in helping to restore market function, easing volatility and stimulating a market rebound at the end of the period. Monetary easing measures were complemented by large fiscal stimulus plans in developed countries. Even emerging market countries were able to implement countercyclical policies – a departure from the usual market-dictated response to risk-off crises – due to relatively manageable external liabilities and balances of payments in many countries, along with persistently low inflation.

As is often the case in a crisis, market vulnerabilities were revealed. For example, companies that added significant leverage to their balance sheets in recent years by borrowing to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks may find it difficult to follow that path in the future, and investors may not reward them if they do. Recapitalizations by some of these highly leveraged firms could dilute existing shareholders. Very long supply chains designed to squeeze out every bit of savings may be shifted closer to home markets if companies seek to put resiliency before cost after a series of supply disruptions. The aftereffects of the pandemic could affect consumer, business and government behavior in ways difficult to forecast. Also, while markets have regained lost ground more swiftly than expected, any economic recovery is likely to be protracted.

Detractors from Performance

Stock selection within both the utilities and real estate sectors hindered performance relative to the Russell 1000® Value Index. Within the utilities sector, not owning shares of electricity provider NextEra Energy detracted from relative results. The share price of NextEra rose as the company reported financial results that were well ahead of expectations, driven by strong electricity results and the integration of Gulf Power.

 

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Management Review – continued

 

Within the real estate sector, the fund’s overweight holdings of real estate investment trusts STORE Capital and EPR Properties held back relative returns. Despite strong financial results, STORE Capital’s shares declined on concerns that its retail tenants may not be able to make their lease payments due to the coronavirus-related store closures.

Elsewhere, the fund’s overweight positions in natural gas transmission company Equitrans Midstream, energy exploration and production company EOG Resources, direct banking and payment services provider Discover Financial Services, insurance and financial services provider Hartford Financial Services Group, oil field services company Schlumberger, casual dining restaurants operator Darden Restaurants and diversified financial services firm Citigroup held back relative performance. The share price of Equitrans Midstream suffered after the company revised its full-year guidance downward due to delays in its Mountain Valley Pipeline joint venture. The company increased the estimated total costs of the joint venture and delayed its opening-service date to mid-2020, due to regulatory and legal issues facing the 300-mile natural gas pipeline project.

Contributors to Performance

Security selection within the industrials sector was a primary contributor to relative returns. However, there were no individual stocks within this sector that were among the fund’s top relative contributors during the reporting period.

Stock selection within the communication services sector also helped relative performance. Here, the fund’s overweight position in cable services provider Charter Communications supported relative results as the company reported solid financial results on the back of better-than-anticipated net growth in broadband subscribers, paired with stronger revenues and free cash flows.

Security selection within the consumer discretionary sector aided relative returns. Within this sector, the fund’s overweight holdings of general merchandising retailer Target and discount merchandise retailer Dollar General led the way. The share price of Target appreciated during the reporting period after the company reported adjusted earnings that beat consensus estimates on the back of solid top-line and margin performance. Gross margins expanded due to merchandising incentives and changes in product mix. Company management raised its full-year guidance more than expected, which further supported the stock.

Within other sectors, the fund’s overweight positions in software giant Microsoft, pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly, health services and information technology company McKesson, biotechnology company Biogen, diversified financial services firm Wells Fargo and semiconductor chips and electronics engineering solutions provider Applied Materials bolstered relative performance. An underweight position in integrated oil and gas company Exxon Mobil further contributed to relative results.

Respectfully,

Portfolio Manager(s)

Jim Fallon, Matt Krummell, Jonathan Sage, and Jed Stocks

 

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Management Review – continued

 

The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover and do not necessarily reflect the views of MFS or any other person in the MFS organization. These views are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions, and MFS disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice or an indication of trading intent on behalf of any MFS portfolio. References to specific securities are not recommendations of such securities, and may not be representative of any MFS portfolio’s current or future investments.

 

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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY THROUGH 5/31/20

The following chart illustrates a representative class of the fund’s historical performance in comparison to its benchmark(s). Performance results include the deduction of the maximum applicable sales charge and reflect the percentage change in net asset value, including reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. The performance of other share classes will be greater than or less than that of the class depicted below. Benchmarks are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. Benchmark returns do not reflect sales charges, commissions or expenses. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value fluctuate so your shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost; current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. The performance shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes, if any, that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

Growth of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment (t)

 

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Performance Summary – continued

 

Total Returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class    Class Inception Date   1-yr   Life (t)     
    A    9/15/15   (3.04)%   5.50%    
    B    9/15/15   (3.87)%   4.71%    
    C    9/15/15   (3.76)%   4.71%    
    I    9/15/15   (2.84)%   5.76%    
    R1    9/15/15   (3.79)%   4.72%    
    R2    9/15/15   (3.31)%   5.24%    
    R3    9/15/15   (3.09)%   5.51%    
    R4    9/15/15   (2.86)%   5.76%    
    R6    9/15/15   (2.69)%   5.86%    
Comparative benchmark(s)            
     Russell 1000® Value Index (f)   (1.64)%   6.77%     
Average annual with sales charge            
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
  (8.62)%   4.18%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
  (7.67)%   4.35%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
  (4.71)%   4.71%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 shares do not have a sales charge.

 

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(t)

For the period from the class inception date through the stated period end. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

Benchmark Definition(s)

Russell 1000® Value Index – constructed to provide a comprehensive barometer for the value securities in the large-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe. Companies in this index generally have lower price-to-book ratios and lower forecasted growth values. Frank Russell Company (“Russell”) is the source and owner of the trademarks, service marks, and copyrights related to the Russell Indexes. Russell® is a trademark of Frank Russell Company. Neither Russell nor its licensors accept any liability for any errors or omissions in the Russell Indexes and/or Russell ratings or underlying data and no party may rely on any Russell Indexes and/or Russell ratings and/or underlying data contained in this document. No further distribution of Russell Data is permitted without Russell’s express written consent. Russell does not promote, sponsor, or endorse the content of this document.

It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

 

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Performance Summary – continued

 

Notes to Performance Summary

Average annual total return represents the average annual change in value for each share class for the periods presented. Life returns are presented where the share class has less than 10 years of performance history and represent the average annual total return from the class inception date to the stated period end date.

Performance results reflect any applicable expense subsidies and waivers in effect during the periods shown. Without such subsidies and waivers the fund’s performance results would be less favorable. Please see the prospectus and financial statements for complete details.

Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and may differ from amounts reported in the financial highlights.

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

 

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EXPENSE TABLE

Fund expenses borne by the shareholders during the period, December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on certain purchase or redemption payments, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and service (12b-1) fees; and other fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the following table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the following table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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Share
Class
      

Annualized
Expense

Ratio

    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During

Period (p)

12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     0.74%       $1,000.00       $859.88       $3.44  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.74%       $1,000.00       $1,021.30       $3.74  
B   Actual     1.49%       $1,000.00       $856.28       $6.91  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.49%       $1,000.00       $1,017.55       $7.52  
C   Actual     1.49%       $1,000.00       $856.50       $6.92  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.49%       $1,000.00       $1,017.55       $7.52  
I   Actual     0.49%       $1,000.00       $860.90       $2.28  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.49%       $1,000.00       $1,022.55       $2.48  
R1   Actual     1.49%       $1,000.00       $856.90       $6.92  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.49%       $1,000.00       $1,017.55       $7.52  
R2   Actual     0.99%       $1,000.00       $858.34       $4.60  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.99%       $1,000.00       $1,020.05       $5.00  
R3   Actual     0.74%       $1,000.00       $859.96       $3.44  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.74%       $1,000.00       $1,021.30       $3.74  
R4   Actual     0.49%       $1,000.00       $860.75       $2.28  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.49%       $1,000.00       $1,022.55       $2.48  
R6   Actual     0.38%       $1,000.00       $861.72       $1.77  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.38%       $1,000.00       $1,023.10       $1.92  

 

(h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

(p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

5/31/20

The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - 98.8%               
Aerospace - 2.4%               
Honeywell International, Inc.      18,062     $ 2,634,343  
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc.      4,506       900,704  
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.      5,656       1,128,089  
    

 

 

 
             $ 4,663,136  
Automotive - 1.2%               
Lear Corp.      22,373     $ 2,372,657  
Biotechnology - 1.3%               
Biogen, Inc. (a)      8,334     $ 2,559,288  
Broadcasting - 0.3%               
Walt Disney Co.      4,787     $ 561,515  
Brokerage & Asset Managers - 0.8%               
Charles Schwab Corp.      45,088     $ 1,619,110  
Business Services - 1.4%               
Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.      2,324     $ 322,641  
Fiserv, Inc. (a)      22,452       2,397,200  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,719,841  
Cable TV - 3.0%               
Charter Communications, Inc., “A” (a)      6,127     $ 3,333,088  
Comcast Corp., “A”      62,799       2,486,840  
    

 

 

 
             $ 5,819,928  
Chemicals - 1.6%               
Eastman Chemical Co.      27,122     $ 1,846,466  
PPG Industries, Inc.      13,209       1,342,959  
    

 

 

 
             $ 3,189,425  
Computer Software - 1.4%               
Microsoft Corp.      14,752     $ 2,703,304  
Construction - 2.2%               
AvalonBay Communities, Inc., REIT      3,766     $ 587,534  
Masco Corp.      14,100       657,765  
Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc., REIT      5,264       612,519  
Toll Brothers, Inc.      72,349       2,337,596  
    

 

 

 
             $ 4,195,414  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Consumer Products - 3.4%               
Colgate-Palmolive Co.      9,110     $ 658,926  
Kimberly-Clark Corp.      17,022       2,407,592  
Procter & Gamble Co.      30,178       3,498,234  
    

 

 

 
             $ 6,564,752  
Electrical Equipment - 0.5%               
Johnson Controls International PLC      21,783     $ 684,204  
Reynolds Consumer Products, Inc.      9,633       321,646  
    

 

 

 
             $ 1,005,850  
Electronics - 4.3%               
Applied Materials, Inc.      41,763     $ 2,346,245  
Intel Corp.      95,977       6,039,833  
    

 

 

 
             $ 8,386,078  
Energy - Independent - 3.3%               
ConocoPhillips      42,423     $ 1,789,402  
EOG Resources, Inc.      14,050       716,128  
Marathon Petroleum Corp.      43,840       1,540,538  
Valero Energy Corp.      35,088       2,338,264  
    

 

 

 
             $ 6,384,332  
Energy - Integrated - 1.5%               
Chevron Corp.      12,125     $ 1,111,862  
Exxon Mobil Corp.      41,195       1,873,137  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,984,999  
Engineering - Construction - 0.4%               
Quanta Services, Inc.      20,420     $ 754,111  
Food & Beverages - 2.3%               
Ingredion, Inc.      6,792     $ 572,090  
J.M. Smucker Co.      18,689       2,129,238  
PepsiCo, Inc.      13,445       1,768,690  
    

 

 

 
             $ 4,470,018  
Food & Drug Stores - 1.7%               
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.      26,746     $ 3,318,109  
General Merchandise - 1.1%               
Dollar General Corp.      11,540     $ 2,210,025  
Health Maintenance Organizations - 1.5%               
Cigna Corp.      3,664     $ 722,980  
Humana, Inc.      5,452       2,238,864  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,961,844  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Insurance - 6.4%               
Allstate Corp.      7,491     $ 732,695  
Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., “B” (a)      17,203       3,192,533  
Chubb Ltd.      18,401       2,243,818  
Equitable Holdings, Inc.      41,560       794,211  
Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.      55,227       2,114,642  
MetLife, Inc.      57,309       2,063,697  
Prudential Financial, Inc.      6,562       400,019  
Reinsurance Group of America, Inc.      9,965       904,324  
    

 

 

 
             $ 12,445,939  
Internet - 0.6%               
Facebook, Inc., “A” (a)      5,602     $ 1,260,954  
Leisure & Toys - 1.4%               
Activision Blizzard, Inc.      18,330     $ 1,319,394  
Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)      12,240       1,504,051  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,823,445  
Machinery & Tools - 3.9%               
AGCO Corp.      34,966     $ 1,931,172  
Eaton Corp. PLC      39,357       3,341,409  
Regal Beloit Corp.      20,685       1,645,285  
Trane Technologies PLC      6,415       578,697  
    

 

 

 
             $ 7,496,563  
Major Banks - 9.8%               
Bank of America Corp.      221,216     $ 5,335,730  
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.      8,847       1,738,347  
JPMorgan Chase & Co.      29,736       2,893,610  
Morgan Stanley      78,825       3,484,065  
PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.      26,414       3,012,252  
State Street Corp.      8,510       518,770  
Wells Fargo & Co.      77,678       2,056,137  
    

 

 

 
             $ 19,038,911  
Medical & Health Technology & Services - 1.8%               
HCA Healthcare, Inc.      14,229     $ 1,521,080  
McKesson Corp.      12,258       1,944,977  
    

 

 

 
             $ 3,466,057  
Medical Equipment - 3.0%               
Boston Scientific Corp. (a)      24,937     $ 947,357  
Danaher Corp.      2,712       451,846  
Medtronic PLC      45,166       4,452,464  
    

 

 

 
             $ 5,851,667  

 

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Portfolio of Investments – continued

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Natural Gas - Distribution - 1.1%               
Sempra Energy      17,571     $ 2,219,393  
Natural Gas - Pipeline - 0.4%               
Equitrans Midstream Corp.      99,449     $ 804,542  
Oil Services - 0.7%               
Schlumberger Ltd.      78,832     $ 1,456,027  
Other Banks & Diversified Financials - 3.6%               
American Express Co.      11,691     $ 1,111,463  
Citigroup, Inc.      78,801       3,775,356  
Discover Financial Services      10,627       504,889  
Synchrony Financial      27,693       564,107  
U.S. Bancorp      30,697       1,091,585  
    

 

 

 
             $ 7,047,400  
Pharmaceuticals - 7.5%               
Eli Lilly & Co.      16,590     $ 2,537,441  
Johnson & Johnson      49,968       7,432,740  
Merck & Co., Inc.      30,877       2,492,391  
Pfizer, Inc.      53,717       2,051,452  
    

 

 

 
             $ 14,514,024  
Railroad & Shipping - 1.9%               
CSX Corp.      20,094     $ 1,438,329  
Kansas City Southern Co.      5,439       818,678  
Union Pacific Corp.      8,550       1,452,303  
    

 

 

 
             $ 3,709,310  
Real Estate - 4.1%               
Brixmor Property Group, Inc., REIT      50,762     $ 566,504  
EPR Properties, REIT      9,996       315,574  
Life Storage, Inc., REIT      9,246       901,300  
Medical Properties Trust, Inc., REIT      140,404       2,538,504  
Public Storage, Inc., REIT      3,071       622,614  
Spirit Realty Capital, Inc., REIT      40,428       1,149,368  
STORE Capital Corp., REIT      64,603       1,249,422  
W.P. Carey, Inc., REIT      9,060       542,785  
    

 

 

 
             $ 7,886,071  
Restaurants - 0.6%               
Darden Restaurants, Inc.      8,414     $ 646,700  
Yum China Holdings, Inc.      10,290       476,839  
    

 

 

 
             $ 1,123,539  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Specialty Chemicals - 2.0%               
Corteva, Inc.      39,557     $ 1,080,302  
DuPont de Nemours, Inc.      29,603       1,501,760  
Linde PLC      6,082       1,230,632  
    

 

 

 
             $ 3,812,694  
Specialty Stores - 1.9%               
Home Depot, Inc.      5,870     $ 1,458,577  
Target Corp.      18,015       2,203,775  
    

 

 

 
             $ 3,662,352  
Telecommunications - Wireless - 0.3%               
T-Mobile U.S., Inc. (a)      5,240     $ 524,210  
Telephone Services - 3.2%               
AT&T, Inc.      77,585     $ 2,394,273  
Verizon Communications, Inc.      66,544       3,818,295  
    

 

 

 
             $ 6,212,568  
Tobacco - 2.0%               
Altria Group, Inc.      14,700     $ 574,035  
Philip Morris International, Inc.      44,613       3,272,810  
    

 

 

 
             $ 3,846,845  
Utilities - Electric Power - 7.0%               
AES Corp.      90,864     $ 1,134,891  
American Electric Power Co., Inc.      18,185       1,550,271  
Edison International      12,140       705,455  
Exelon Corp.      76,302       2,923,130  
FirstEnergy Corp.      23,421       989,772  
NRG Energy, Inc.      34,059       1,227,827  
Southern Co.      25,418       1,450,605  
Vistra Energy Corp.      64,289       1,314,067  
Xcel Energy, Inc.      35,759       2,325,408  
    

 

 

 
             $ 13,621,426  
Total Common Stocks (Identified Cost, $183,839,137)            $ 192,267,673  
Investment Companies (h) - 1.0%               
Money Market Funds - 1.0%               
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v) (Identified Cost, $1,980,316)      1,980,118     $ 1,980,316  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - 0.2%           299,560  
Net Assets - 100.0%            $ 194,547,549  

 

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(a)

Non-income producing security.

(h)

An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate values of the fund’s investments in affiliated issuers and in unaffiliated issuers were $1,980,316 and $192,267,673, respectively.

(v)

Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

The following abbreviations are used in this report and are defined:

 

REIT   Real Estate Investment Trust

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

 

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

At 5/31/20

This statement represents your fund’s balance sheet, which details the assets and liabilities comprising the total value of the fund.

 

Assets         

Investments in unaffiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $183,839,137)

     $192,267,673  

Investments in affiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $1,980,316)

     1,980,316  

Cash

     28,731  

Receivables for

  

Fund shares sold

     27,421  

Dividends

     552,041  

Receivable from investment adviser

     32,136  

Other assets

     556  

Total assets

     $194,888,874  
Liabilities         

Payables for

  

Fund shares reacquired

     $241,156  

Payable to affiliates

  

Administrative services fee

     412  

Shareholder servicing costs

     22,723  

Distribution and service fees

     1,523  

Payable for independent Trustees’ compensation

     14  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     75,497  

Total liabilities

     $341,325  

Net assets

     $194,547,549  
Net assets consist of         

Paid-in capital

     $190,432,857  

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     4,114,692  

Net assets

     $194,547,549  

Shares of beneficial interest outstanding

     16,865,653  

 

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     Net assets      Shares
outstanding
     Net asset value
per share (a)
 

Class A

     $52,734,554        4,593,470        $11.48  

Class B

     131,652        11,483        11.46  

Class C

     456,048        39,835        11.45  

Class I

     487,727        42,256        11.54  

Class R1

     62,136        5,428        11.45  

Class R2

     76,941        6,689        11.50  

Class R3

     70,531        6,117        11.53  

Class R4

     65,131        5,642        11.54  

Class R6

     140,462,829        12,154,733        11.56  

 

(a)

Maximum offering price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for all share classes, except for Class A, for which the maximum offering price per share was $12.18 [100 / 94.25 x $11.48]. On sales of $50,000 or more, the maximum offering price of Class A shares is reduced. A contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on redemptions of Class A, Class B, and Class C shares. Redemption price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for Classes I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

 

STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

Year ended 5/31/20

This statement describes how much your fund earned in investment income and accrued in expenses. It also describes any gains and/or losses generated by fund operations.

 

Net investment income (loss)         

Income

  

Dividends

     $5,056,737  

Dividends from affiliated issuers

     49,299  

Other

     6,609  

Total investment income

     $5,112,645  

Expenses

  

Management fee

     $756,262  

Distribution and service fees

     139,653  

Shareholder servicing costs

     58,339  

Administrative services fee

     35,834  

Independent Trustees’ compensation

     6,490  

Custodian fee

     14,375  

Shareholder communications

     9,360  

Audit and tax fees

     55,889  

Legal fees

     1,916  

Registration fees

     137,121  

Miscellaneous

     31,126  

Total expenses

     $1,246,365  

Reduction of expenses by investment adviser and distributor

     (315,958

Net expenses

     $930,407  

Net investment income (loss)

     $4,182,238  
Realized and unrealized gain (loss)         
Realized gain (loss) (identified cost basis)   

Unaffiliated issuers

     $(5,145,851

Affiliated issuers

     705  

Net realized gain (loss)

     $(5,145,146
Change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation   

Unaffiliated issuers

     $(1,500,688

Affiliated issuers

     (121

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     $(1,500,809

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     $(6,645,955

Change in net assets from operations

     $(2,463,717

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

 

STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

These statements describe the increases and/or decreases in net assets resulting from operations, any distributions, and any shareholder transactions.

 

     Year ended  
     5/31/20      5/31/19  
Change in net assets              
From operations                  

Net investment income (loss)

     $4,182,238        $3,748,399  

Net realized gain (loss)

     (5,145,146      883,449  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     (1,500,809      (6,043,532

Change in net assets from operations

     $(2,463,717      $(1,411,684

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(4,275,227      $(7,727,193

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $25,805,690        $8,742,578  

Total change in net assets

     $19,066,746        $(396,299
Net assets                  

At beginning of period

     175,480,803        175,877,102  

At end of period

     $194,547,549        $175,480,803  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

 

FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years (or life of a particular share class, if shorter). Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

Class A   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.07       $12.84       $11.85       $10.57       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.24       $0.23       $0.22       $0.18       $0.12  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (0.57     (0.47     1.22       1.16       0.55  

Total from investment operations

    $(0.33     $(0.24     $1.44       $1.34       $0.67  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.26     $(0.22     $(0.16     $(0.06     $(0.06

From net realized gain

          (0.31     (0.29           (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.26     $(0.53     $(0.45     $(0.06     $(0.10

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.48       $12.07       $12.84       $11.85       $10.57  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (3.04     (1.62     12.18       12.71       6.70 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.91       0.90       0.91       1.90       5.03 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.74       0.74       0.74       0.74       0.71 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    1.96       1.83       1.72       1.59       1.74 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    45       43       61       51       33 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $52,735       $51,642       $53,388       $1,012       $420  

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Class B   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.07       $12.81       $11.79       $10.55       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.15       $0.14       $0.10       $0.10       $0.07  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (0.59     (0.45     1.24       1.15       0.55  

Total from investment operations

    $(0.44     $(0.31     $1.34       $1.25       $0.62  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.17     $(0.12     $(0.03     $(0.01     $(0.03

From net realized gain

          (0.31     (0.29           (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.17     $(0.43     $(0.32     $(0.01     $(0.07

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.46       $12.07       $12.81       $11.79       $10.55  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (3.87     (2.26     11.36       11.80       6.20 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.65       1.64       1.66       2.53       6.53 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.49       1.49       1.49       1.49       1.46 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    1.20       1.08       0.80       0.84       0.94 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    45       43       61       51       33 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $132       $163       $164       $148       $60  
Class C   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.05       $12.76       $11.74       $10.53       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.15       $0.14       $0.10       $0.10       $0.07  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (0.58     (0.46     1.23       1.14       0.54  

Total from investment operations

    $(0.43     $(0.32     $1.33       $1.24       $0.61  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.17     $(0.08     $(0.02     $(0.03     $(0.04

From net realized gain

          (0.31     (0.29           (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.17     $(0.39     $(0.31     $(0.03     $(0.08

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.45       $12.05       $12.76       $11.74       $10.53  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (3.76     (2.32     11.33       11.81       6.16(n
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.66       1.65       1.67       2.33       6.15 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.49       1.49       1.49       1.49       1.46 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    1.20       1.07       0.77       0.83       0.91 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    45       43       61       51       33 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $456       $470       $539       $586       $137  

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Class I   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.13       $12.91       $11.89       $10.60       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.28       $0.27       $0.23       $0.21       $0.14  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (0.58     (0.48     1.24       1.16       0.56  

Total from investment operations

    $(0.30     $(0.21     $1.47       $1.37       $0.70  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.29     $(0.26     $(0.16     $(0.08     $(0.06

From net realized gain

          (0.31     (0.29           (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.29     $(0.57     $(0.45     $(0.08     $(0.10

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.54       $12.13       $12.91       $11.89       $10.60  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (2.84     (1.37     12.40       12.96       7.02 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.65       0.65       0.67       1.43       5.02 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.49       0.49       0.49       0.49       0.46 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    2.18       2.14       1.81       1.84       1.95 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    45       43       61       51       33 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $488       $923       $822       $533       $189  
Class R1   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.05       $12.81       $11.80       $10.55       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.15       $0.14       $0.10       $0.10       $0.07  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (0.58     (0.47     1.24       1.15       0.55  

Total from investment operations

    $(0.43     $(0.33     $1.34       $1.25       $0.62  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.17     $(0.12     $(0.04     $—       $(0.03

From net realized gain

          (0.31     (0.29           (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.17     $(0.43     $(0.33     $—       $(0.07

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.45       $12.05       $12.81       $11.80       $10.55  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (3.79     (2.35     11.37       11.85       6.20 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.65       1.64       1.66       3.03       6.58 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.49       1.49       1.49       1.49       1.46 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    1.21       1.09       0.78       0.85       0.95 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    45       43       61       51       33 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $62       $65       $66       $59       $53  

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Class R2   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.10       $12.87       $11.85       $10.57       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.21       $0.20       $0.16       $0.15       $0.10  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (0.57     (0.47     1.25       1.16       0.55  

Total from investment operations

    $(0.36     $(0.27     $1.41       $1.31       $0.65  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.24     $(0.19     $(0.10     $(0.03     $(0.04

From net realized gain

          (0.31     (0.29           (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.24     $(0.50     $(0.39     $(0.03     $(0.08

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.50       $12.10       $12.87       $11.85       $10.57  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (3.31     (1.85     11.93       12.38       6.56 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.16       1.14       1.16       2.53       6.08 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.99       0.99       0.99       0.99       0.96 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    1.71       1.59       1.29       1.35       1.45 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    45       43       61       51       33 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $77       $78       $69       $60       $53  
Class R3   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.13       $12.90       $11.87       $10.58       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.25       $0.23       $0.21       $0.18       $0.12  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (0.58     (0.47     1.24       1.16       0.55  

Total from investment operations

    $(0.33     $(0.24     $1.45       $1.34       $0.67  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.27     $(0.22     $(0.13     $(0.05     $(0.05

From net realized gain

          (0.31     (0.29           (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.27     $(0.53     $(0.42     $(0.05     $(0.09

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.53       $12.13       $12.90       $11.87       $10.58  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (3.09     (1.64     12.24       12.72       6.74 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.90       0.90       0.91       2.27       5.83 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.74       0.74       0.74       0.74       0.71 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    1.93       1.77       1.64       1.60       1.70 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    45       43       61       51       33 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $71       $122       $187       $60       $53  

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Class R4   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.14       $12.91       $11.88       $10.59       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.28       $0.27       $0.23       $0.21       $0.14  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (0.58     (0.48     1.25       1.16       0.55  

Total from investment operations

    $(0.30     $(0.21     $1.48       $1.37       $0.69  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.30     $(0.25     $(0.16     $(0.08     $(0.06

From net realized gain

          (0.31     (0.29           (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.30     $(0.56     $(0.45     $(0.08     $(0.10

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.54       $12.14       $12.91       $11.88       $10.59  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (2.86     (1.33     12.49       12.96       6.92 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.66       0.64       0.66       2.02       5.58 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.49       0.49       0.49       0.49       0.46 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    2.21       2.09       1.78       1.85       1.95 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    45       43       61       51       33 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $65       $67       $68       $60       $53  
Class R6   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16 (c)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $12.15       $12.92       $11.89       $10.59       $10.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.29       $0.28       $0.24       $0.22       $0.14  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (0.57     (0.47     1.25       1.16       0.55  

Total from investment operations

    $(0.28     $(0.19     $1.49       $1.38       $0.69  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.31     $(0.27     $(0.17     $(0.08     $(0.06

From net realized gain

          (0.31     (0.29           (0.04

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.31     $(0.58     $(0.46     $(0.08     $(0.10

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.56       $12.15       $12.92       $11.89       $10.59  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (2.69     (1.23     12.55       13.08       6.92 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.56       0.55       0.57       0.65       5.57 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.39       0.39       0.39       0.45       0.45 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

    2.32       2.18       1.87       1.88       1.96 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    45       43       61       51       33 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $140,463       $121,952       $120,575       $115,619       $1,925  

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(a)

Annualized.

(c)

For the period from the commencement of the fund’s investment operations, September 15, 2015, through the stated period end.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(n)

Not annualized.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(1) Business and Organization

MFS Blended Research Value Equity Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of MFS Series Trust X (the trust). The trust is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company.

The fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies.

(2) Significant Accounting Policies

General – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the preparation of these financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events occurring after the date of the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities through the date that the financial statements were issued.

In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) – Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”), which provides optional, temporary relief with respect to the financial reporting of contracts subject to certain types of modifications due to the planned discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR-based reference rates as of the end of 2021. The temporary relief provided by ASU 2020-04 is effective for certain reference rate-related contract modifications that occur during the period from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-04 on the fund’s investments, derivatives, debt and other contracts that will undergo reference rate-related modifications as a result of the reference rate reform.

Balance Sheet Offsetting – The fund’s accounting policy with respect to balance sheet offsetting is that, absent an event of default by the counterparty or a termination of the agreement, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreement, or similar agreement, does not result in an offset of reported amounts of financial assets and financial liabilities in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities across transactions between the fund and the applicable counterparty. The fund’s right to setoff may be restricted or prohibited by the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the particular jurisdiction to which a specific master netting agreement counterparty is subject. Balance sheet offsetting disclosures, to the extent applicable to the fund, have been included in the fund’s Significant Accounting Policies note under the captions for each of the fund’s in-scope financial instruments and transactions.

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exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per share. Securities and other assets generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, and other market data. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.

The Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments (including any fair valuation) to the adviser pursuant to valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. If the adviser determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available, investments are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with such procedures under the oversight of the Board of Trustees. Under the fund’s valuation policies and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for most types of debt instruments and floating rate loans and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services. In addition, investments may be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that an investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.

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measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The fund’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. The following is a summary of the levels used as of May 31, 2020 in valuing the fund’s assets or liabilities:

 

Financial Instruments   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  
Equity Securities     $192,267,673       $—       $—       $192,267,673  
Mutual Funds     1,980,316                   1,980,316  
Total     $194,247,989       $—       $—       $194,247,989  

For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments.

Indemnifications – Under the fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the fund. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The fund’s maximum exposure under these agreements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the fund that have not yet occurred.

Investment Transactions and Income – Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Dividends received in cash are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain dividends from foreign securities will be recorded when the fund is informed of the dividend if such information is obtained subsequent to the ex-dividend date. Dividend payments received in additional securities are recorded on the ex-dividend date in an amount equal to the value of the security on such date.

The fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received from litigation involving portfolio holdings are reflected in the Statement of Operations in realized gain/loss if the security has been disposed of by the fund or in unrealized gain/loss if the security is still held by the fund. Any other proceeds from litigation not related to portfolio holdings are reflected as other income in the Statement of Operations.

Tax Matters and Distributions – The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company, as defined under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and to distribute all of its taxable income, including realized capital gains. As a result, no provision for federal income tax is required. The fund’s federal tax returns, when filed, will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a three year period. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal and state tax returns for all open tax years and does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability. Foreign taxes, if any, have been accrued by the fund in the accompanying financial statements in accordance

 

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with the applicable foreign tax law. Foreign income taxes may be withheld by certain countries in which the fund invests. Additionally, capital gains realized by the fund on securities issued in or by certain foreign countries may be subject to capital gains tax imposed by those countries.

Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Certain capital accounts in the financial statements are periodically adjusted for permanent differences in order to reflect their tax character. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or net asset value per share. Temporary differences which arise from recognizing certain items of income, expense, gain or loss in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes will reverse at some time in the future.

Book/tax differences primarily relate to wash sale loss deferrals.

The tax character of distributions declared to shareholders for the last two fiscal years is as follows:

 

    Year ended
5/31/20
    Year ended
5/31/19
 
Ordinary income (including any
short-term capital gains)
    $4,275,227       $5,302,135  
Long-term capital gains           2,425,058  
Total distributions     $4,275,227       $7,727,193  

The federal tax cost and the tax basis components of distributable earnings were as follows:

 

As of 5/31/20       
Cost of investments      $186,405,923  
Gross appreciation      21,657,288  
Gross depreciation      (13,815,222
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      $7,842,066  
Undistributed ordinary income      1,521,570  
Capital loss carryforwards      (5,248,944

As of May 31, 2020, the fund had capital loss carryforwards available to offset future realized gains. These net capital losses may be carried forward indefinitely and their character is retained as short-term and/or long-term losses. Such losses are characterized as follows:

 

Short-Term      $(2,929,738
Long-Term      (2,319,206
Total      $(5,248,944

Multiple Classes of Shares of Beneficial Interest – The fund offers multiple classes of shares, which differ in their respective distribution and service fees. The fund’s income, realized and unrealized gain (loss), and common expenses are allocated to shareholders based on the daily net assets of each class. Dividends are declared separately for each class. Differences in per share dividend rates are generally due to

 

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differences in separate class expenses. Class B shares will convert to Class A shares approximately eight years after purchase. Class C shares will convert to Class A shares approximately ten years after purchase. The fund’s distributions declared to shareholders as reported in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets are presented by class as follows:

 

     Year
ended
5/31/20
     Year
ended
5/31/19
 
Class A      $1,051,815        $2,140,828  
Class B      2,221        4,790  
Class C      6,791        11,593  
Class I      17,348        81,156  
Class R1      913        2,260  
Class R2      1,523        2,890  
Class R3      2,653        6,742  
Class R4      1,643        2,987  
Class R6      3,190,320        5,473,947  
Total      $4,275,227        $7,727,193  

(3) Transactions with Affiliates

Investment Adviser – The fund has an investment advisory agreement with MFS to provide overall investment management and related administrative services and facilities to the fund. The management fee is computed daily and paid monthly at the following annual rates based on the fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Up to $1 billion      0.40
In excess of $1 billion and up to $2.5 billion      0.375
In excess of $2.5 billion      0.35

MFS has agreed in writing to reduce its management fee by a specified amount if certain MFS mutual fund assets exceed thresholds agreed to by MFS and the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this management fee reduction amounted to $19,213, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations. The management fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.39% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

The investment adviser has agreed in writing to pay a portion of the fund’s total annual operating expenses, excluding interest, taxes, extraordinary expenses, brokerage and transaction costs, and investment-related expenses, such that total fund operating expenses do not exceed the following rates annually of each class’s average daily net assets:

 

Classes  
A   B     C     I     R1     R2     R3     R4     R6  
0.74%     1.49%       1.49%       0.49%       1.49%       0.99%       0.74%       0.49%       0.45%  

This written agreement will continue until modified by the fund’s Board of Trustees, but such agreement will continue at least until September 30, 2021. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reduction amounted to $296,744, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

 

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Distributor – MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (MFD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, as distributor, received $2,262 for the year ended May 31, 2020, as its portion of the initial sales charge on sales of Class A shares of the fund.

The Board of Trustees has adopted a distribution plan for certain share classes pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

The fund’s distribution plan provides that the fund will pay MFD for services provided by MFD and financial intermediaries in connection with the distribution and servicing of certain share classes. One component of the plan is a distribution fee paid to MFD and another component of the plan is a service fee paid to MFD. MFD may subsequently pay all, or a portion, of the distribution and/or service fees to financial intermediaries.

Distribution Plan Fee Table:

 

     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
Class A             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        $131,772  
Class B      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        1,636  
Class C      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        4,872  
Class R1      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        672  
Class R2      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        408  
Class R3             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        293  
Total Distribution and Service Fees

 

           $139,653  

 

(d)

In accordance with the distribution plan for certain classes, the fund pays distribution and/or service fees equal to these annual percentage rates of each class’s average daily net assets. The distribution and service fee rates disclosed by class represent the current rates in effect at the end of the reporting period. Any rate changes, if applicable, are detailed below.

(e)

The annual effective rates represent actual fees incurred under the distribution plan for the year ended May 31, 2020 based on each class’s average daily net assets. MFD has voluntarily agreed to rebate a portion of each class’s 0.25% service fee attributable to accounts for which there is no financial intermediary specified on the account except for accounts attributable to MFS or its affiliates’ seed money. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this rebate amounted to $1 for Class A and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Certain Class A shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) in the event of a shareholder redemption within 18 months of purchase. Class B shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within six years of purchase. Class C shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within 12 months of purchase. All contingent deferred sales charges are paid to MFD and during the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

     Amount  
Class A              $4  
Class B       
Class C      46  

Shareholder Servicing Agent – MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, receives a fee from the fund for its services as shareholder servicing agent calculated as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the fund as determined periodically under the supervision of the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the

 

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year ended May 31, 2020, the fee was $1,497, which equated to 0.0008% annually of the fund’s average daily net assets. MFSC also receives payment from the fund for out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs which may be paid to affiliated and unaffiliated service providers. Class R6 shares do not incur sub-accounting fees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, these out-of- pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs amounted to $56,842.

Administrator – MFS provides certain financial, legal, shareholder communications, compliance, and other administrative services to the fund. Under an administrative services agreement, the fund reimburses MFS the costs incurred to provide these services. The fund is charged an annual fixed amount of $17,500 plus a fee based on average daily net assets. The administrative services fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.0189% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Trustees’ and Officers’ Compensation – The fund pays compensation to independent Trustees in the form of a retainer, attendance fees, and additional compensation to Board and Committee chairpersons. The fund does not pay compensation directly to Trustees or officers of the fund who are also officers of the investment adviser, all of whom receive remuneration from MFS for their services to the fund. Certain officers and Trustees of the fund are officers or directors of MFS, MFD, and MFSC.

Other – This fund and certain other funds managed by MFS (the funds) had entered into a service agreement (the ISO Agreement) which provided for payment of fees solely by the funds to Tarantino LLC in return for the provision of services of an Independent Senior Officer (ISO) for the funds. Frank L. Tarantino served as the ISO and was an officer of the funds and the sole member of Tarantino LLC. Effective June 30, 2019, Mr. Tarantino retired from his position as ISO for the funds, and the ISO Agreement was terminated. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee paid by the fund under this agreement was $89 and is included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations. MFS had agreed to bear all expenses associated with office space, other administrative support, and supplies provided to the ISO.

The fund invests in the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio which is managed by MFS and seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity. This money market fund does not pay a management fee to MFS but does incur investment and operating costs.

On December 14, 2018, MFS redeemed 4,259 and 4,244 shares of Class A and Class I, respectively, for an aggregate amount of $104,881.

At May 31, 2020, MFS held approximately 83% and 91% of the outstanding shares of Class R2 and Class R3, respectively, and 100% of the outstanding shares of Class R1 and Class R4.

The adviser has voluntarily undertaken to reimburse the fund from its own resources on a quarterly basis for the cost of investment research embedded in the cost of the fund’s securities trades. This agreement may be rescinded at any time. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reimbursement amounted to $6,609, which is included in “Other” income in the Statement of Operations.

 

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(4) Portfolio Securities

For the year ended May 31, 2020, purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $110,715,224 and $84,372,892, respectively.

(5) Shares of Beneficial Interest

The fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest. Transactions in fund shares were as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares sold            

Class A

     2,522,641        $30,373,323        1,186,414        $14,636,824  

Class B

                   3,068        38,298  

Class C

     6,473        76,714        12,176        148,053  

Class I

     14,917        158,176        113,172        1,469,251  

Class R2

     173        2,155        759        9,829  

Class R3

     229        2,735        5,025        64,686  

Class R6

     3,156,025        36,841,779        2,075,317        26,042,905  
     5,700,458        $67,454,882        3,395,931        $42,409,846  
Shares issued to shareholders in reinvestment of distributions            

Class A

     4,802        $65,063        8,353        $95,808  

Class B

     163        2,221        417        4,790  

Class C

     501        6,791        1,009        11,593  

Class I

     1,275        17,348        7,045        81,156  

Class R1

     68        913        197        2,260  

Class R2

     112        1,523        251        2,890  

Class R3

     195        2,653        585        6,742  

Class R4

     121        1,643        259        2,987  

Class R6

     234,238        3,190,320        474,757        5,473,947  
     241,475        $3,288,475        492,873        $5,682,173  
Shares reacquired            

Class A

     (2,210,914      $(28,350,259      (1,075,429      $(13,730,031

Class B

     (2,191      (22,754      (2,740      (34,367

Class C

     (6,099      (74,556      (16,436      (216,451

Class I

     (50,013      (601,667      (107,761      (1,353,830

Class R2

     (1      (10              

Class R3

     (4,348      (42,807      (10,057      (128,536

Class R6

     (1,271,527      (15,845,614      (1,843,146      (23,886,226
     (3,545,093      $(44,937,667      (3,055,569      $(39,349,441

 

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     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Net change            

Class A

     316,529        $2,088,127        119,338        $1,002,601  

Class B

     (2,028      (20,533      745        8,721  

Class C

     875        8,949        (3,251      (56,805

Class I

     (33,821      (426,143      12,456        196,577  

Class R1

     68        913        197        2,260  

Class R2

     284        3,668        1,010        12,719  

Class R3

     (3,924      (37,419      (4,447      (57,108

Class R4

     121        1,643        259        2,987  

Class R6

     2,118,736        24,186,485        706,928        7,630,626  
     2,396,840        $25,805,690        833,235        $8,742,578  

Class T shares were not publicly available for sale during the period. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective June 1, 2019, purchases of the fund’s Class B shares are closed to new and existing investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

The fund is one of several mutual funds in which certain MFS funds may invest. The MFS funds do not invest in the underlying funds for the purpose of exercising management or control. At the end of the period, the MFS Lifetime 2040 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2030 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2035 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2050 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2045 Fund, the MFS Lifetime Income Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2025 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2020 Fund, and the MFS Lifetime 2055 Fund were the owners of record of approximately 13%, 13%, 10%, 8%, 8%, 6%, 6%, 4%, and 4%, respectively, of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund. In addition, the MFS Lifetime 2060 Fund was the owner of record of less than 1% of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund.

(6) Line of Credit

The fund and certain other funds managed by MFS participate in a $1.25 billion unsecured committed line of credit, subject to a $1 billion sublimit, provided by a syndicate of banks under a credit agreement. Borrowings may be made for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, generally at a rate equal to the highest of one month LIBOR, the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus an agreed upon spread. A commitment fee, based on the average daily, unused portion of the committed line of credit, is allocated among the participating funds. In addition, the fund and other funds managed by MFS have established unsecured uncommitted borrowing arrangements with certain banks for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, at rates equal to customary reference rates plus an agreed upon spread. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund’s commitment fee and interest expense were $983 and $0, respectively, and are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

 

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(7) Investments in Affiliated Issuers

An affiliated issuer may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:

 

Affiliated Issuers  

Beginning

Value

    Purchases     Sales
Proceeds
   

Realized
Gain

(Loss)

    Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
    Ending
Value
 
MFS Institutional Money
Market Portfolio
    $1,726,163       $49,496,957       $49,243,388       $705       $(121     $1,980,316  
Affiliated Issuers                               Dividend
Income
    Capital Gain
Distributions
 
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

 

          $49,299       $—  

(8) Impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic related to the global spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in December 2019, has resulted in significant disruptions to global business activity and the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the securities and commodities markets in general. This pandemic, the full effects of which are still unknown, has resulted in substantial market volatility and may have adversely impacted the prices and liquidity of the fund’s investments and the fund’s performance.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Trustees of MFS Series Trust X and the Shareholders of MFS Blended Research Value Equity Fund:

Opinion on the Financial Statements and Financial Highlights

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of MFS Blended Research Value Equity Fund (the “Fund”), including the portfolio of investments, as of May 31, 2020, the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from September 15, 2015 (the commencement of the Fund’s investment operations) through May 31, 2016, and the related notes. In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of May 31, 2020, and the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the four years in the period then ended and for the period from September 15, 2015 (the commencement of the Fund’s investment operations) through May 31, 2016, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements and financial highlights, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and financial highlights. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements and financial highlights.

 

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Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2020, by correspondence with the custodian. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

July 17, 2020

We have served as the auditor of one or more of the MFS investment companies since 1924.

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS — IDENTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND

The Trustees and Officers of the Trust, as of July 1, 2020, are listed below, together with their principal occupations during the past five years. (Their titles may have varied during that period.) The address of each Trustee and Officer is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

INTERESTED TRUSTEES
Robert J. Manning (k) (age 56)   Trustee   February 2004   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Chairman (since January 2017); Director; Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (until 2015); Co-Chief Executive Officer (2015-2016)   N/A

Robin A. Stelmach (k)

(age 58)

  Trustee   January 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice Chair (since January 2017); Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (until January 2017)   N/A
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES    

John P. Kavanaugh

(age 65)

  Trustee and Chair of Trustees   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A

Steven E. Buller

(age 68)

  Trustee   February 2014   134   Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman (2014-2015); Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Standing Advisory Group, Member (until 2014); BlackRock, Inc. (investment management), Managing Director (until 2014), BlackRock Finco UK (investment management), Director (until 2014)   N/A

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

John A. Caroselli

(age 66)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   JC Global Advisors, LLC (management consulting), President (since 2015); First Capital Corporation (commercial finance), Executive Vice President (until 2015)   N/A

Maureen R. Goldfarb

(age 65)

  Trustee   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A
Peter D. Jones
(age 64)
  Trustee   January 2019   134   Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (investment management), President (until 2015); Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (investment management), Chairman (until 2015)   N/A
James W. Kilman, Jr. (age 59)   Trustee   January 2019   134   Burford Capital Limited (finance and investment management), Chief Financial Officer (since 2019); KielStrand Capital LLC (family office), Chief Executive Officer (since 2016); Morgan Stanley & Co. (financial services), Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Co-Head of Diversified Financials Coverage – Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group (until 2016)   Alpha-En Corporation, Director (2016-2019)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

Clarence Otis, Jr.

(age 64)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   Darden Restaurants, Inc., Chief Executive Officer (until 2014)   VF Corporation, Director; Verizon Communications, Inc., Director; The Travelers Companies, Director; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Director (until 2015)

Maryanne L. Roepke

(age 64)

  Trustee   May 2014   134   American Century Investments (investment management), Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (until 2014)   N/A
Laurie J. Thomsen
(age 62)
  Trustee   March 2005   134   Private investor   The Travelers Companies, Director; Dycom Industries, Inc., Director (since 2015)

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

OFFICERS      
Christopher R. Bohane (k) (age 46)   Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Kino Clark (k)

(age 52)

 

Assistant

Treasurer

  January 2012   134  

Massachusetts Financial

Services Company, Vice President

John W. Clark, Jr. (k)

(age 53)

  Assistant Treasurer   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President (since March 2017); Deutsche Bank (financial services), Department Head – Treasurer’s Office (until February 2017)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

Thomas H. Connors (k)

(age 60)

 

Assistant

Secretary and Assistant Clerk

  September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel
David L. DiLorenzo (k)
(age 51)
  President   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

Heidi W. Hardin (k)

(age 52)

  Secretary and Clerk   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Vice President and General Counsel (since March 2017); Harris Associates (investment management), General Counsel (from September 2015 to January 2017); Janus Capital Management LLC (investment management), Senior Vice President and General Counsel (until September 2015)

Brian E. Langenfeld (k)

(age 47)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  June 2006   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel

Amanda S. Mooradian (k)

(age 41)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  September 2018   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel
Susan A. Pereira (k)
(age 49)
  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Kasey L. Phillips (k)

(age 49)

  Assistant Treasurer   September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

Matthew A. Stowe (k)

(age 45)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   October 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Martin J. Wolin (k)

(age 52)

  Chief Compliance Officer   July 2015   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (since July 2015); Mercer (financial service provider), Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, North America and Latin America (until June 2015)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

James O. Yost (k)
(age 60)
  Treasurer   September 1990   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

 

(h)

Date first appointed to serve as Trustee/officer of an MFS Fund. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. For the period from December 15, 2004 until February 22, 2005, Mr. Manning served as Advisory Trustee. From January 2012 through December 2016, Messrs. DiLorenzo and Yost served as Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer of the Funds, respectively.

(j)

Directorships or trusteeships of companies required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., “public companies”).

(k)

“Interested person” of the Trust within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (referred to as the 1940 Act), which is the principal federal law governing investment companies like the fund, as a result of a position with MFS. The address of MFS is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

Each Trustee (other than Messrs. Jones and Kilman) has been elected by shareholders and each Trustee and Officer holds office until his or her successor is chosen and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal. Messrs. Jones and Kilman became Trustees of the Funds on January 1, 2019. The Trust does not hold annual meetings for the purpose of electing Trustees, and Trustees are not elected for fixed terms. Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of any Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20 years of service on the Board).

Messrs. Buller, Kilman and Otis and Ms. Roepke are members of the Trust’s Audit Committee.

Each of the Interested Trustees and certain Officers hold comparable officer positions with certain affiliates of MFS.

The Statement of Additional Information for a Fund includes further information about the Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

 

Investment Adviser   Custodian

Massachusetts Financial Services Company
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

State Street Bank and Trust Company

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111-2900

Distributor   Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

200 Berkeley Street

Boston, MA 02116

Portfolio Manager(s)  

Jim Fallon

Matt Krummell

Jonathan Sage

Jed Stocks

 

 

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STATEMENT REGARDING LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) as required by Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated MFS as the administrator of the Program. The Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage the liquidity risk of the fund. Liquidity risk is the risk that the fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by the fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interests.

MFS provided a written report to the Board for consideration at its April 2020 meeting that addressed the operation of the Program and provided an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of the Program during the period from the adoption of the Program on December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (the “Covered Period”). The report concluded that during the Covered Period the Program had operated effectively and had adequately and effectively been implemented to assess and manage the fund’s liquidity risk. MFS also reported that there were no liquidity events that impacted the fund or its ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders during the Covered Period.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Further information on liquidity risk, and other principal risks to which an investment in the fund may be subject, can be found in the prospectus.

 

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND INFORMATION

MFS votes proxies on behalf of the fund pursuant to proxy voting policies and procedures that are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-225-2606, by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available by August 31 of each year without charge by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO DISCLOSURE

The fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A shareholder can obtain the portfolio holdings report for the first and third quarters of the fund’s fiscal year at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name and then selecting the “Resources” tab and clicking on “Prospectus and Reports”.

FURTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, MFS may post important information about the fund or the MFS funds on the MFS web site (mfs.com). This information is available at https://www.mfs.com/en-us/what-we-do/announcements.html or at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name.

INFORMATION ABOUT FUND CONTRACTS AND LEGAL CLAIMS

The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, 529 program manager (if applicable), and custodian who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the Trust’s By-Laws and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the MFS Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (unaudited)

The fund will notify shareholders of amounts for use in preparing 2020 income tax forms in January 2021. The following information is provided pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as qualified dividend income eligible to be taxed at the same rate as long-term capital gain.

For corporate shareholders, 93.96% of the ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year qualify for the corporate dividends received deduction.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as Section 199A dividends as defined in Proposed Treasury Regulation §1.199A-3(d).

 

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FACTS

 

  WHAT DOES MFS DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?   LOGO

 

Why?   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

 

What?  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

 Social Security number and account balances

 Account transactions and transaction history

 Checking account information and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

How?   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons MFS chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your
personal information
  Does MFS
share?
  Can you limit
this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes –

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

  Yes   No

For our marketing purposes –

to offer our products and services to you

  No   We don’t share

For joint marketing with other

financial companies

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your transactions and experiences

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your creditworthiness

  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

   
Questions?   Call 800-225-2606 or go to mfs.com.

 

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   MFS Funds, MFS Investment Management, MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., and MFS Heritage Trust Company.

 

What we do
How does MFS protect my personal information?   To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include procedural, electronic, and physical safeguards for the protection of the personal information we collect about you.
How does MFS collect my personal information?  

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

 open an account or provide account information

 direct us to buy securities or direct us to sell your securities

 make a wire transfer

 

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

 sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness

 affiliates from using your information to market to you

 sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 

Definitions
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share personal information with affiliates, except for everyday business purposes as described on page one of this notice.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

 MFS doesnt jointly market.

 

 

Other important information
If you own an MFS product or receive an MFS service in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, their privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.

 

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reports, and proxies directly via e-mail so you will get information faster with less mailbox clutter.

To sign up:

1. Go to mfs.com.

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3. Select eDelivery.

If you own your MFS fund shares through a financial institution or a retirement plan, MFS® TALK, MFS® Access, or eDelivery may not be available to you.

 

CONTACT

WEB SITE

mfs.com

MFS TALK

1-800-637-8255

24 hours a day

ACCOUNT SERVICE AND LITERATURE

Shareholders

1-800-225-2606

Financial advisors

1-800-343-2829

Retirement plan services

1-800-637-1255

MAILING ADDRESS

MFS Service Center, Inc.

P.O. Box 219341

Kansas City, MO 64121-9341

OVERNIGHT MAIL

MFS Service Center, Inc.

Suite 219341

430 W 7th Street

Kansas City, MO 64105-1407

 


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Annual Report

May 31, 2020

 

LOGO

 

MFS® Emerging Markets Equity Fund

 

LOGO

 

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the fund’s annual and semiannual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the complete reports will be made available on the fund’s Web site (funds.mfs.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a Web site link to access the report.

If you are already signed up to receive shareholder reports by email, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may sign up to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund by email by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you hold your shares directly with the fund, by calling 1-800-225-2606 or by logging on to MFS Access at mfs.com.

Beginning on January 1, 2019, you may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. Contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the fund, you can call 1-800-225-2606 or send an email request to orderliterature@mfs.com to let the fund know that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary or all funds held with the MFS fund complex if you invest directly.

 

FEM-ANN

 


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MFS® Emerging Markets Equity Fund

 

CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Executive Chair     1  
Portfolio composition     2  
Management review     4  
Performance summary     7  
Expense table     10  
Portfolio of investments     12  
Statement of assets and liabilities     17  
Statement of operations     19  
Statements of changes in net assets     20  
Financial highlights     21  
Notes to financial statements     27  
Report of independent registered public accounting firm     38  
Trustees and officers     40  
Statement regarding liquidity risk management program     45  
Proxy voting policies and information     46  
Quarterly portfolio disclosure     46  
Further information     46  
Information about fund contracts and legal claims     46  
Federal tax information     46  
MFS® privacy notice     47  
Contact information     back cover  

 

The report is prepared for the general information of shareholders. It is authorized for distribution to prospective investors only when preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

 

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LOGO

 

LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR

 

Dear Shareholders:

Markets experienced dramatic swings in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill for several months. Optimism over the

development of vaccines and therapeutics, along with a decline in cases in countries that had been affected by the outbreak early on, brightened the economic and market outlook during the second quarter, as did the phased reopening of US states. However, a great deal of uncertainty remains, including the possibility of a second wave of cases later this year.

Global central banks have taken aggressive, coordinated steps to cushion the economic and market fallout related to the virus, and governments are deploying unprecedented levels of fiscal stimulus. As uncertainty recedes, these measures can help build a supportive environment and encourage economic recovery;

however, if markets disconnect from fundamentals, they can also sow the seeds of instability. In the aftermath of the crisis, societal changes may be likely as households, businesses, and governments adjust to a new reality, and these alterations could change the investment landscape. For investors, events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrate the importance of having a deep understanding of company fundamentals, and we have built our global research platform to do just that.

Here at MFS®, we aim to help our clients navigate the growing complexity of the markets and world economies. Our long-term investment philosophy and commitment to the responsible allocation of capital allow us to tune out the noise and uncover what we believe are the best, most durable investment opportunities in the market. Through our powerful global investment platform, we combine collective expertise, thoughtful risk management, and long-term discipline to create sustainable value for investors.

Respectfully,

 

LOGO

Robert J. Manning

Executive Chair

MFS Investment Management

July 17, 2020

The opinions expressed in this letter are subject to change and may not be relied upon for investment advice. No forecasts can be guaranteed.

 

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PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION

 

Portfolio structure

 

LOGO

 

Top ten holdings

 

Tencent Holdings Ltd.     7.8%  
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.     5.9%  
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.     5.7%  
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., ADR     4.5%  
Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd.     2.7%  
Yum China Holdings, Inc.     2.6%  
AIA Group Ltd.     2.5%  
NAVER Corp.     2.4%  
LUKOIL PJSC, ADR     2.4%  
China Construction Bank     2.2%  
GICS equity sectors (g)

 

Financials     19.9%  
Information Technology     16.3%  
Communication Services     16.1%  
Consumer Discretionary     12.5%  
Consumer Staples     12.1%  
Industrials     8.0%  
Energy     4.2%  
Materials     2.6%  
Utilities     2.2%  
Real Estate     2.1%  
Health Care     0.8%  
Issuer country weightings (x)

 

China     31.6%  
South Korea     14.0%  
India     10.3%  
Taiwan     8.6%  
Hong Kong     7.6%  
Brazil     5.3%  
Russia     5.0%  
United States     3.3%  
Indonesia     2.3%  
Other Countries     12.0%  
Currency exposure weightings (y)

 

Hong Kong Dollar     20.7%  
Chinese Renminbi     14.7%  
South Korean Won     14.0%  
Indian Rupee     9.3%  
United States Dollar     8.7%  
Taiwan Dollar     8.6%  
Brazilian Real     5.3%  
Russian Ruble     5.0%  
Indonesian Rupiah     2.3%  
Other Currencies     11.4%  
 

 

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(g)

The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and/or is the exclusive property of MSCI, Inc. and S&P Global Market Intelligence Inc. (“S&P Global Market Intelligence”). GICS is a service mark of MSCI and S&P Global Market Intelligence and has been licensed for use by MFS.

(x)

Represents the portfolio’s exposure to issuer countries as a percentage of a portfolio’s net assets. For purposes of this presentation, United States includes Cash & Cash Equivalents.

(y)

Represents the portfolio’s exposure to a particular currency as a percentage of a portfolio’s net assets. For purposes of this presentation, United States Dollar includes Cash & Cash Equivalents.

Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. Please see the Statement of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund (fund) provided a total return of –9.55%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of –4.39% for the fund’s benchmark, the MSCI Emerging Markets Index (net div).

Market Environment

Markets experienced an extraordinarily sharp selloff and in many cases an unusually rapid partial recovery late in the period. Central banks and fiscal authorities undertook astonishing levels of stimulus to offset the economic effects of government-imposed social-distancing measures implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19. Despite policymakers’ best efforts, a global recession has undoubtedly begun.

Compounding market uncertainty earlier in the coronavirus pandemic was a crash in the price of crude oil due to a sharp drop in global demand and a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts, which resulted in a price war. The subsequent decline in prices undercut oil exporters, many of which are in emerging markets, as well as a large segment of the high-yield credit market. OPEC+ later agreed on output cuts, which – along with the gradual reopening of some major economies and resultant boost in demand – helped stabilize the price of crude.

Around the world, central banks responded quickly and massively to the crisis with programs to improve liquidity and support markets. They proved largely successful in helping to restore market function, easing volatility and stimulating a market rebound at the end of the period. Monetary easing measures were complemented by large fiscal stimulus plans in developed countries. Even emerging market countries were able to implement countercyclical policies – a departure from the usual market-dictated response to risk-off crises – due to relatively manageable external liabilities and balances of payments in many countries, along with persistently low inflation.

As is often the case in a crisis, market vulnerabilities were revealed. For example, companies that added significant leverage to their balance sheets in recent years by borrowing to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks may find it difficult to follow that path in the future, and investors may not reward them if they do. Recapitalizations by some of these highly leveraged firms could dilute existing shareholders. Very long supply chains designed to squeeze out every bit of savings may be shifted closer to home markets if companies seek to put resiliency before cost after a series of supply disruptions. The aftereffects of the pandemic could affect consumer, business and government behavior in ways difficult to forecast. Also, while markets have regained lost ground more swiftly than expected, any economic recovery is likely to be protracted.

Detractors from Performance

Security selection in the consumer discretionary sector was a primary factor that detracted from performance relative to the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Within this sector, the fund’s underweight position in online and mobile commerce company Alibaba Group Holding (China) weakened relative results as the stock outperformed the benchmark over the reporting period due to robust ecommerce demand experienced during the pandemic.

 

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Management Review – continued

 

Stock selection and, to a lesser extent, an overweight position in the financials sector also held back relative performance. Notably, overweight positions in financial services firms ABSA Group (South Africa), Banco Bradesco (Brazil), Shriram Transport Finance (h) (India), Metropolitan Bank & Trust (Philippines), Kasikornbank (h) (Thailand) and Housing Development Finance Corp. (India) weighed on relative returns. Stocks in the financial services industry generally came under pressure at the onset of the pandemic, as central banks across the global reduced interest rates and provided other forms of stimulus in response to a rapid deterioration of economic conditions.

Stocks in other sectors that further hindered relative returns included the fund’s overweight position in beverage manufacturer AmBev (Brazil), holding shares of enterprise software solutions provider Linx (b) (Brazil) and the timing of the fund’s position in power plant and steam generator constructor Bharat Heavy Electricals (b)(h) (India).

Contributors to Performance

Stock selection in both the communication services and consumer staples sectors benefited relative performance over the reporting period. Within the communication services sector, overweight positions in shares of internet search engine and online computer games provider NAVER (South Korea) and internet-based multiple services company Tencent Holdings (China) lifted relative returns. The stock price of NAVER rose steadily throughout the period on the back of solid earnings, which were driven primarily by strength in search and display advertising revenue. Within the consumer staples sector, overweight positions in snack manufacturer Orion (South Korea), brewing company China Resources Beer (China) and wine producer Kweichow Moutai (China) contributed positively to relative results.

Elsewhere, the fund’s overweight positions in shares of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, fast food restaurant operator Yum China Holdings and securities exchange services provider Moscow Exchange MIXCEX-RTS (Russia) helped relative returns. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s stock price rose on increased demand for smartphone technology, notably for its 7nm processor chips. Later in the period, the company agreed to build a new manufacturing plant in Arizona to help alleviate some of the US-related supply chain concerns brought on during the pandemic. Holding shares of electronic power tools manufacturer Techtronic Industries (b) (China), and not holding shares of banking services provider Itau Unibanco (h) (Brazil), were also supportive of relative performance.

During the reporting period, the fund’s relative currency exposure, resulting primarily from exposure differences between the fund and the benchmark to holdings of securities denominated in foreign currencies, was a contributor to relative performance. All of MFS’ investment decisions are driven by the fundamentals of each individual opportunity and as such, it is common for our portfolios to have different currency exposure than the benchmark.

Respectfully,

Portfolio Manager(s)

Jose Luis Garcia, Robert Lau, and Harry Purcell

 

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Management Review – continued

 

(b)

Security is not a benchmark constituent.

(h)

Security was not held in the portfolio at period end.

The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover and do not necessarily reflect the views of MFS or any other person in the MFS organization. These views are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions, and MFS disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice or an indication of trading intent on behalf of any MFS portfolio. References to specific securities are not recommendations of such securities, and may not be representative of any MFS portfolio’s current or future investments.

 

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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY THROUGH 5/31/20

The following chart illustrates a representative class of the fund’s historical performance in comparison to its benchmark(s). Performance results include the deduction of the maximum applicable sales charge and reflect the percentage change in net asset value, including reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. The performance of other share classes will be greater than or less than that of the class depicted below. Benchmarks are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. Benchmark returns do not reflect sales charges, commissions or expenses. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value fluctuate so your shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost; current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. The performance shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes, if any, that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

Growth of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment

 

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Performance Summary – continued

 

Total Returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class    Class Inception Date   1-yr   5-yr   10-yr   Life (t)     
    A    10/24/95   (9.55)%   0.77%   1.45%   N/A    
    B    10/24/95   (10.24)%   0.01%   0.69%   N/A    
    C    6/27/96   (10.23)%   0.01%   0.69%   N/A    
    I    1/02/97   (9.32)%   1.01%   1.70%   N/A    
    R1    10/01/08   (10.22)%   0.00%   0.68%   N/A    
    R2    10/01/08   (9.80)%   0.51%   1.19%   N/A    
    R3    10/01/08   (9.55)%   0.77%   1.45%   N/A    
    R4    10/01/08   (9.31)%   1.02%   1.70%   N/A    
    R6    6/01/12   (9.23)%   1.13%   N/A   1.51%    
Comparative benchmark(s)                    
     MSCI Emerging Markets Index (net div) (f)   (4.39)%   0.88%   2.47%   N/A     
Average annual with sales charge                    
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
  (14.75)%   (0.42)%   0.85%   N/A    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
  (13.80)%   (0.39)%   0.69%   N/A    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
  (11.12)%   0.01%   0.69%   N/A    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 shares do not have a sales charge.

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(t)

For the period from the class inception date through the stated period end (for those share classes with less than 10 years of performance history). No comparative benchmark performance information is provided for “life” periods. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

Benchmark Definition(s)

MSCI Emerging Markets Index (net div) – a market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure equity market performance in the global emerging markets. Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) makes no express or implied warranties or representations and shall have no liability whatsoever with respect to any MSCI data contained herein. The MSCI data may not be further redistributed or used as a basis for other indices or any securities or financial products. This report is not approved, reviewed, or produced by MSCI.

It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

Notes to Performance Summary

Average annual total return represents the average annual change in value for each share class for the periods presented. Life returns are presented where the share class

 

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has less than 10 years of performance history and represent the average annual total return from the class inception date to the stated period end date. As the fund’s share classes may have different inception dates, the life returns may represent different time periods and may not be comparable. As a result, no comparative benchmark performance information is provided for life periods.

Performance results reflect any applicable expense subsidies and waivers in effect during the periods shown. Without such subsidies and waivers the fund’s performance results would be less favorable. Please see the prospectus and financial statements for complete details.

Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and may differ from amounts reported in the financial highlights.

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

 

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EXPENSE TABLE

Fund expenses borne by the shareholders during the period, December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on certain purchase or redemption payments, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and service (12b-1) fees; and other fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the following table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the following table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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Share
Class
      

Annualized
Expense

Ratio

    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During
Period (p)

12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     1.32%       $1,000.00       $853.49       $6.12  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.32%       $1,000.00       $1,018.40       $6.66  
B   Actual     2.07%       $1,000.00       $850.12       $9.57  
  Hypothetical (h)     2.07%       $1,000.00       $1,014.65       $10.43  
C   Actual     2.07%       $1,000.00       $850.27       $9.58  
  Hypothetical (h)     2.07%       $1,000.00       $1,014.65       $10.43  
I   Actual     1.07%       $1,000.00       $854.41       $4.96  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.07%       $1,000.00       $1,019.65       $5.40  
R1   Actual     2.07%       $1,000.00       $850.07       $9.57  
  Hypothetical (h)     2.07%       $1,000.00       $1,014.65       $10.43  
R2   Actual     1.57%       $1,000.00       $852.13       $7.27  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.57%       $1,000.00       $1,017.15       $7.92  
R3   Actual     1.32%       $1,000.00       $853.25       $6.12  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.32%       $1,000.00       $1,018.40       $6.66  
R4   Actual     1.07%       $1,000.00       $854.52       $4.96  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.07%       $1,000.00       $1,019.65       $5.40  
R6   Actual     0.95%       $1,000.00       $855.03       $4.41  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.95%       $1,000.00       $1,020.25       $4.80  

 

(h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

(p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

5/31/20

The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - 96.8%               
Airlines - 0.9%               
Shanghai International Air Co., Ltd.      3,265,074     $ 33,077,517  
Alcoholic Beverages - 4.2%               
Ambev S.A., ADR      19,680,049     $ 45,460,913  
China Resources Beer Holdings Co. Ltd.      9,964,000       52,766,845  
Kweichow Moutai Co. Ltd., “A”      279,554       53,464,859  
    

 

 

 
             $ 151,692,617  
Apparel Manufacturers - 0.4%               
Shenzhou International Group Holdings Ltd.      1,182,000     $ 14,051,642  
Automotive - 2.8%               
Hero MotoCorp Ltd.      979,173     $ 30,571,214  
Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd.      4,685,218       27,036,449  
PT United Tractors Tbk      39,407,000       42,347,016  
    

 

 

 
             $ 99,954,679  
Brokerage & Asset Managers - 1.7%               
B3 Brasil Bolsa Balcao S.A.      2,298,500     $ 19,619,713  
Moscow Exchange MICEX-RTS PJSC      26,081,037       42,375,556  
    

 

 

 
             $ 61,995,269  
Business Services - 2.1%               
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.      2,906,649     $ 75,816,100  
Computer Software - Systems - 0.5%               
Linx S.A.      4,542,400     $ 17,450,143  
Construction - 1.7%               
Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd.      7,209,000     $ 62,031,904  
Consumer Products - 0.3%               
Dabur India Ltd.      1,649,730     $ 10,176,603  
Consumer Services - 2.7%               
51job, Inc., ADR (a)      925,136     $ 59,662,020  
MakeMyTrip Ltd. (a)      2,262,730       35,049,688  
    

 

 

 
             $ 94,711,708  
Electrical Equipment - 0.9%               
LS Industrial Systems Co. Ltd.      892,094     $ 32,811,080  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Electronics - 12.9%               
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.      5,000,725     $ 204,721,028  
Silicon Motion Technology Corp., ADR      985,054       44,396,384  
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.      21,643,695       210,489,890  
    

 

 

 
             $ 459,607,302  
Energy - Integrated - 2.9%               
LUKOIL PJSC, ADR      1,127,196     $ 84,243,121  
Petroleo Brasileiro S.A., ADR      2,687,558       20,506,068  
    

 

 

 
             $ 104,749,189  
Food & Beverages - 5.9%               
AVI Ltd.      4,599,406     $ 18,951,685  
Inner Mongolia Yili Industrial Group Co. Ltd., “A” (a)      12,957,574       51,590,207  
Orion Corp.      688,097       73,340,711  
Tata Consumer Products Ltd.      3,575,757       17,350,044  
Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp.      28,976,000       49,791,694  
    

 

 

 
             $ 211,024,341  
Forest & Paper Products - 0.7%               
Suzano S.A. (a)      3,258,000     $ 23,114,870  
Furniture & Appliances - 0.8%               
Gree Electric Appliances, Inc.      3,626,104     $ 28,894,755  
Gaming & Lodging - 1.5%               
Genting Berhad      40,934,500     $ 37,662,565  
Kangwon Land, Inc.      856,180       16,730,232  
    

 

 

 
             $ 54,392,797  
General Merchandise - 1.1%               
Bim Birlesik Magazalar A.S.      2,005,774     $ 19,126,393  
Walmart de Mexico S.A.B. de C.V.      7,747,503       19,338,623  
    

 

 

 
             $ 38,465,016  
Insurance - 4.3%               
AIA Group Ltd.      10,967,800     $ 88,928,108  
Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Ltd.      433,586       63,893,936  
    

 

 

 
             $ 152,822,044  
Internet - 18.6%               
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., ADR (a)      780,111     $ 161,787,220  
Baidu, Inc., ADR (a)      598,926       63,815,565  
NAVER Corp.      472,188       86,167,781  
NetEase.com, Inc., ADR      195,266       74,767,351  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Internet - continued               
Tencent Holdings Ltd.      5,266,300     $ 278,822,102  
    

 

 

 
             $ 665,360,019  
Machinery & Tools - 1.6%               
Doosan Bobcat, Inc.      1,178,114     $ 22,545,361  
Haitian International Holdings Ltd.      16,380,000       34,570,960  
    

 

 

 
             $ 57,116,321  
Major Banks - 4.3%               
ABSA Group Ltd.      7,037,978     $ 32,699,085  
Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank      9,247,126       11,076,965  
Banco Bradesco S.A., ADR      9,351,896       32,357,560  
China Construction Bank      98,527,490       77,408,555  
    

 

 

 
             $ 153,542,165  
Metals & Mining - 1.2%               
Lundin Mining Corp.      4,880,500     $ 22,473,305  
Vale S.A., ADR      2,109,993       20,593,532  
    

 

 

 
             $ 43,066,837  
Network & Telecom - 0.8%               
VTech Holdings Ltd.      4,971,900     $ 29,985,980  
Oil Services - 0.1%               
Lamprell PLC (a)      9,696,016     $ 1,975,805  
Other Banks & Diversified Financials - 9.5%               
Banco de Chile      255,352,337     $ 21,697,292  
Credicorp Ltd.      162,967       22,460,112  
E.Sun Financial Holding Co. Ltd.      59,602,059       52,902,410  
Grupo Financiero Inbursa S.A. de C.V. (a)      21,710,140       14,881,694  
Housing Development Finance Corp. Ltd.      4,326,111       94,907,980  
Komercni Banka A.S. (a)      988,599       21,164,865  
Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co.      43,907,331       30,532,162  
Public Bank Berhad      10,892,851       36,731,270  
Sberbank of Russia      16,131,432       45,980,050  
    

 

 

 
             $ 341,257,835  
Pharmaceuticals - 0.8%               
Genomma Lab Internacional S.A., “B” (a)      32,052,980     $ 29,213,318  
Real Estate - 2.1%               
Aldar Properties PJSC      31,425,822     $ 14,886,659  
Hang Lung Properties Ltd.      16,430,000       34,549,313  

 

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Issuer   Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued              
Real Estate - continued              
Multiplan Empreendimentos Imobiliarios S.A.     2,774,115     $ 10,755,849  
Swire Properties Ltd.     7,108,600       15,828,477  
   

 

 

 
            $ 76,020,298  
Restaurants - 2.7%              
Yum China Holdings, Inc.     2,042,685     $ 94,658,023  
Specialty Chemicals - 0.8%              
PTT Global Chemical PLC     19,923,900     $ 26,932,653  
Specialty Stores - 1.1%              
Jardine Strategic Holdings Ltd.     2,039,000     $ 40,678,050  
Telecommunications - Wireless - 0.2%              
Mobile TeleSystems PJSC, ADR     746,931     $ 6,640,217  
Telephone Services - 1.9%              
Hellenic Telecommunications Organization S.A.     3,471,646     $ 48,787,868  
PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia     84,417,700       18,200,941  
   

 

 

 
            $ 66,988,809  
Tobacco - 0.6%              
PT Hanjaya Mandala Sampoerna Tbk     162,118,200     $ 21,526,989  
Utilities - Electric Power - 2.2%              
CESC Ltd.     4,271,953     $ 31,205,108  
NTPC Ltd.     36,283,829       46,952,509  
   

 

 

 
            $ 78,157,617  
Total Common Stocks (Identified Cost, $3,490,703,156)           $ 3,459,960,512  
Investment Companies (h) - 2.0%              
Money Market Funds - 2.0%              
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)
(Identified Cost, $72,638,536)
    72,632,158     $ 72,639,421  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - 1.2%          43,932,964  
Net Assets - 100.0%           $ 3,576,532,897  

 

(a)

Non-income producing security.

(h)

An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate values of the fund’s investments in affiliated issuers and in unaffiliated issuers were $72,639,421 and $3,459,960,512, respectively.

 

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(v)

Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

The following abbreviations are used in this report and are defined:

 

ADR   American Depositary Receipt

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

At 5/31/20

This statement represents your fund’s balance sheet, which details the assets and liabilities comprising the total value of the fund.

 

Assets         

Investments in unaffiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $3,490,703,156)

     $3,459,960,512  

Investments in affiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $72,638,536)

     72,639,421  

Cash

     572,225  

Foreign currency, at value (identified cost, $920,490)

     920,530  

Receivables for

  

Investments sold

     2,493,380  

Fund shares sold

     41,349,599  

Interest and dividends

     4,363,657  

Receivable from investment adviser

     115,298  

Other assets

     6,768  

Total assets

     $3,582,421,390  
Liabilities         

Payables for

  

Investments purchased

     $3,736,327  

Fund shares reacquired

     489,523  

Payable to affiliates

  

Administrative services fee

     5,497  

Shareholder servicing costs

     160,403  

Distribution and service fees

     4,710  

Payable for independent Trustees’ compensation

     24  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     1,492,009  

Total liabilities

     $5,888,493  

Net assets

     $3,576,532,897  
Net assets consist of         

Paid-in capital

     $3,949,592,707  

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     (373,059,810

Net assets

     $3,576,532,897  

Shares of beneficial interest outstanding

     120,916,927  

 

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     Net assets      Shares
outstanding
     Net asset value
per share (a)
 

Class A

     $118,726,038        4,220,305        $28.13  

Class B

     2,393,107        92,810        25.78  

Class C

     10,081,895        400,848        25.15  

Class I

     94,349,988        3,182,789        29.64  

Class R1

     1,742,061        70,238        24.80  

Class R2

     3,430,835        133,833        25.64  

Class R3

     6,246,248        223,447        27.95  

Class R4

     2,673,459        95,391        28.03  

Class R6

     3,336,889,266        112,497,266        29.66  

 

(a)

Maximum offering price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for all share classes, except for Class A, for which the maximum offering price per share was $29.85 [100 / 94.25 x $28.13]. On sales of $50,000 or more, the maximum offering price of Class A shares is reduced. A contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on redemptions of Class A, Class B, and Class C shares. Redemption price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for Classes I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

Year ended 5/31/20

This statement describes how much your fund earned in investment income and accrued in expenses. It also describes any gains and/or losses generated by fund operations.

 

Net investment income (loss)         

Income

  

Dividends

     $86,499,178  

Non-cash dividends

     21,600,028  

Dividends from affiliated issuers

     1,112,637  

Other

     569,297  

Interest

     10,135  

Income on securities loaned

     5,330  

Foreign taxes withheld

     (8,924,465

Total investment income

     $100,872,140  

Expenses

  

Management fee

     $30,773,822  

Distribution and service fees

     542,929  

Shareholder servicing costs

     413,079  

Administrative services fee

     447,068  

Independent Trustees’ compensation

     39,293  

Custodian fee

     2,095,584  

Shareholder communications

     45,200  

Audit and tax fees

     98,011  

Legal fees

     28,852  

Miscellaneous

     453,475  

Total expenses

     $34,937,313  

Reduction of expenses by investment adviser and distributor

     (2,706,928
Net expenses      $32,230,385  

Net investment income (loss)

     $68,641,755  
Realized and unrealized gain (loss)         
Realized gain (loss) (identified cost basis)   

Unaffiliated issuers (net of $699,305 country tax)

     $(281,411,111

Affiliated issuers

     1,680  

Foreign currency

     (2,918,199

Net realized gain (loss)

     $(284,327,630
Change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation   

Unaffiliated issuers (net of $289,856 decrease in deferred country tax)

     $(169,831,399

Affiliated issuers

     (2,926

Translation of assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

     96,680  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     $(169,737,645

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     $(454,065,275

Change in net assets from operations

     $(385,423,520

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

These statements describe the increases and/or decreases in net assets resulting from operations, any distributions, and any shareholder transactions.

 

     Year ended  
     5/31/20      5/31/19  
Change in net assets              
From operations                  

Net investment income (loss)

     $68,641,755        $17,656,050  

Net realized gain (loss)

     (284,327,630      (7,991,778

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     (169,737,645      (172,008,054

Change in net assets from operations

     $(385,423,520      $(162,343,782

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(68,825,844      $(13,400,377

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $1,989,747,868        $632,270,778  

Total change in net assets

     $1,535,498,504        $456,526,619  
Net assets                  

At beginning of period

     2,041,034,393        1,584,507,774  

At end of period

     $3,576,532,897        $2,041,034,393  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

Class A    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $31.63       $34.99       $30.39       $24.05       $27.87  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.58       $0.24       $0.10       $0.16 (c)      $0.16  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (3.50     (3.46     4.53       6.32       (3.95

Total from investment operations

     $(2.92     $(3.22     $4.63       $6.48       $(3.79
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.58     $(0.14     $(0.03     $(0.14     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $28.13       $31.63       $34.99       $30.39       $24.05  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (9.55     (9.19     15.24       27.04 (c)      (13.59
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.39       1.44       1.49       1.63 (c)      1.73  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.30       1.42       1.48       1.61 (c)      1.70  

Net investment income (loss)

     1.82       0.72       0.28       0.60 (c)      0.64  

Portfolio turnover

     32       27       24       43       55  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $118,726       $120,862       $154,713       $116,512       $114,533  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Class B    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $29.01       $32.18       $28.15       $22.32       $26.03  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.35       $(0.01     $(0.15     $(0.05 )(c)      $(0.01

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (3.26     (3.16     4.18       5.88       (3.70

Total from investment operations

     $(2.91     $(3.17     $4.03       $5.83       $(3.71
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.32     $—       $—       $—       $—  

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $25.78       $29.01       $32.18       $28.15       $22.32  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (10.24     (9.85     14.32       26.12 (c)      (14.25
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     2.13       2.19       2.24       2.38 (c)      2.48  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     2.06       2.17       2.23       2.37 (c)      2.45  

Net investment income (loss)

     1.19       (0.04     (0.48     (0.20 )(c)      (0.03

Portfolio turnover

     32       27       24       43       55  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $2,393       $3,672       $5,385       $5,786       $5,777  
Class C    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $28.33       $31.42       $27.49       $21.80       $25.42  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.33       $(0.01     $(0.15     $(0.05 )(c)      $(0.01

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (3.17     (3.08     4.08       5.74       (3.61

Total from investment operations

     $(2.84     $(3.09     $3.93       $5.69       $(3.62
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.34     $—       $—       $—       $—  

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $25.15       $28.33       $31.42       $27.49       $21.80  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (10.23     (9.83     14.30       26.10 (c)      (14.24
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     2.13       2.19       2.24       2.38 (c)      2.48  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     2.06       2.17       2.23       2.37 (c)      2.45  

Net investment income (loss)

     1.16       (0.04     (0.49     (0.21 )(c)      (0.04

Portfolio turnover

     32       27       24       43       55  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $10,082       $14,116       $17,790       $22,567       $20,132  

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Class I    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $33.29       $36.85       $32.00       $25.31       $29.31  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.66       $0.32       $0.21       $0.21 (c)      $0.30  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (3.65     (3.63     4.74       6.69       (4.22

Total from investment operations

     $(2.99     $(3.31     $4.95       $6.90       $(3.92
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.66     $(0.25     $(0.10     $(0.21     $(0.08

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $29.64       $33.29       $36.85       $32.00       $25.31  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (9.32     (8.96     15.48       27.41 (c)      (13.38
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.15       1.20       1.24       1.38 (c)      1.47  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.06       1.17       1.23       1.36 (c)      1.45  

Net investment income (loss)

     1.98       0.92       0.59       0.74 (c)      1.18  

Portfolio turnover

     32       27       24       43       55  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $94,350       $69,443       $62,565       $33,855       $19,942  
Class R1    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $27.97       $31.17       $27.26       $21.62       $25.21  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.30       $(0.05     $(0.14     $(0.05 )(c)      $(0.00 )(w) 

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (3.09     (3.04     4.05       5.69       (3.59

Total from investment operations

     $(2.79     $(3.09     $3.91       $5.64       $(3.59
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.38     $(0.11     $—       $—       $—  

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $24.80       $27.97       $31.17       $27.26       $21.62  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (10.22     (9.89     14.34       26.09 (c)      (14.24
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     2.14       2.19       2.24       2.38 (c)      2.48  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     2.06       2.17       2.24       2.37 (c)      2.46  

Net investment income (loss)

     1.08       (0.18     (0.45     (0.23 )(c)      (0.02

Portfolio turnover

     32       27       24       43       55  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $1,742       $1,844       $637       $457       $376  

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Class R2    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $28.87       $31.96       $27.81       $22.05       $25.61  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.49       $0.14       $0.01       $0.05 (c)      $0.06  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (3.22     (3.15     4.14       5.82       (3.59

Total from investment operations

     $(2.73     $(3.01     $4.15       $5.87       $(3.53
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.50     $(0.08     $—       $(0.11     $(0.03

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $25.64       $28.87       $31.96       $27.81       $22.05  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (9.76     (9.42     14.92       26.72 (c)      (13.80
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.63       1.69       1.74       1.88 (c)      1.98  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.56       1.67       1.73       1.87 (c)      1.96  

Net investment income (loss)

     1.68       0.48       0.03       0.21 (c)      0.27  

Portfolio turnover

     32       27       24       43       55  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $3,431       $4,614       $6,067       $4,643       $3,358  
Class R3    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $31.47       $34.84       $30.27       $23.94       $27.70  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.51       $0.21       $0.09       $0.16 (c)      $0.24  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     (3.41     (3.42     4.51       6.29       (4.00

Total from investment operations

     $(2.90     $(3.21     $4.60       $6.45       $(3.76
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.62     $(0.16     $(0.03     $(0.12     $—  

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $27.95       $31.47       $34.84       $30.27       $23.94  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     (9.55     (9.19     15.20       27.06 (c)      (13.57
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.39       1.44       1.49       1.63 (c)      1.72  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.31       1.42       1.48       1.62 (c)      1.70  

Net investment income (loss)

     1.64       0.66       0.26       0.61 (c)      0.97  

Portfolio turnover

     32       27       24       43       55  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $6,246       $2,405       $2,465       $2,072       $1,947  

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Class R4   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $31.47       $34.85       $30.26       $23.96       $27.77  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.81       $0.30       $0.17       $0.21 (c)      $0.22  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (3.63     (3.43     4.52       6.30       (3.93

Total from investment operations

    $(2.82     $(3.13     $4.69       $6.51       $(3.71
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.62     $(0.25     $(0.10     $(0.21     $(0.10

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $28.03       $31.47       $34.85       $30.26       $23.96  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (9.31     (8.97     15.52       27.32 (c)      (13.35
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.13       1.19       1.24       1.38 (c)      1.48  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.06       1.17       1.23       1.37 (c)      1.46  

Net investment income (loss)

    2.54       0.93       0.49       0.77 (c)      0.90  

Portfolio turnover

    32       27       24       43       55  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $2,673       $6,917       $7,023       $4,817       $3,940  
Class R6   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $33.30       $36.86       $32.00       $25.32       $29.34  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.70       $0.37       $0.23       $0.24 (c)      $0.25  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    (3.64     (3.65     4.76       6.67       (4.14

Total from investment operations

    $(2.94     $(3.28     $4.99       $6.91       $(3.89
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.70     $(0.28     $(0.13     $(0.23     $(0.13

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $29.66       $33.30       $36.86       $32.00       $25.32  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    (9.21     (8.86     15.60       27.49 (c)      (13.25
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                       

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.03       1.06       1.14       1.28 (c)      1.36  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.95       1.04       1.13       1.26 (c)      1.34  

Net investment income (loss)

    2.10       1.07       0.64       0.86 (c)      0.99  

Portfolio turnover

    32       27       24       43       55  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $3,336,889       $1,817,161       $1,327,862       $875,711       $588,772  

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(c)

Amount reflects a one-time reimbursement of expenses by the custodian (or former custodian) without which net investment income and performance would be lower and expenses would be higher.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(w)

Per share amount was less than $0.01.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(1) Business and Organization

MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of MFS Series Trust X (the trust). The trust is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company.

The fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies.

(2) Significant Accounting Policies

General – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the preparation of these financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events occurring after the date of the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities through the date that the financial statements were issued. The fund invests in foreign securities, including securities of emerging market issuers. Investments in foreign securities are vulnerable to the effects of changes in the relative values of the local currency and the U.S. dollar and to the effects of changes in each country’s market, economic, industrial, political, regulatory, geopolitical, and other conditions. Investments in emerging markets can involve additional and greater risks than the risks associated with investments in developed foreign markets. Emerging markets can have less developed markets, greater custody and operational risk, less developed legal, regulatory, and accounting systems, and greater political, social, and economic instability than developed markets.

In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) – Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”), which provides optional, temporary relief with respect to the financial reporting of contracts subject to certain types of modifications due to the planned discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR-based reference rates as of the end of 2021. The temporary relief provided by ASU 2020-04 is effective for certain reference rate-related contract modifications that occur during the period from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-04 on the fund’s investments, derivatives, debt and other contracts that will undergo reference rate-related modifications as a result of the reference rate reform.

Balance Sheet Offsetting – The fund’s accounting policy with respect to balance sheet offsetting is that, absent an event of default by the counterparty or a termination of the agreement, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreement, or similar agreement, does not result in an offset of reported amounts of financial assets and financial liabilities in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities across transactions between the fund and the applicable counterparty. The fund’s right to

 

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setoff may be restricted or prohibited by the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the particular jurisdiction to which a specific master netting agreement counterparty is subject. Balance sheet offsetting disclosures, to the extent applicable to the fund, have been included in the fund’s Significant Accounting Policies note under the captions for each of the fund’s in-scope financial instruments and transactions.

Investment Valuations – Equity securities, including restricted equity securities, are generally valued at the last sale or official closing price on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per share. Securities and other assets generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, and other market data. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.

The Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments (including any fair valuation) to the adviser pursuant to valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. If the adviser determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available, investments are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with such procedures under the oversight of the Board of Trustees. Under the fund’s valuation policies and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for most types of debt instruments and floating rate loans and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services. In addition, investments may be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that an investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source

 

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and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.

Various inputs are used in determining the value of the fund’s assets or liabilities. These inputs are categorized into three broad levels. In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The fund’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. The following is a summary of the levels used as of May 31, 2020 in valuing the fund’s assets or liabilities:

 

Financial Instruments   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  
Equity Securities:        

China

    $1,129,129,315       $—       $—       $1,129,129,315  

South Korea

    500,210,129                   500,210,129  

India

    369,065,695                   369,065,695  

Taiwan

    307,788,684                   307,788,684  

Hong Kong

    272,001,832                   272,001,832  

Brazil

    189,858,648                   189,858,648  

Russia

    6,640,217       172,598,727             179,238,944  

Indonesia

    82,074,946                   82,074,946  

Malaysia

    74,393,835                   74,393,835  

Other Countries

    277,615,061       78,583,423             356,198,484  
Mutual Funds     72,639,421                   72,639,421  
Total     $3,281,417,783       $251,182,150       $—       $3,532,599,933  

For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments.

Foreign Currency Translation – Purchases and sales of foreign investments, income, and expenses are converted into U.S. dollars based upon currency exchange rates prevailing on the respective dates of such transactions or on the reporting date for foreign denominated receivables and payables. Gains and losses attributable to foreign currency exchange rates on sales of securities are recorded for financial statement purposes as net realized gains and losses on investments. Gains and losses attributable to foreign exchange rate movements on receivables, payables, income and expenses are recorded for financial statement purposes as foreign currency transaction gains and losses. That portion of both realized and unrealized gains and losses on investments that results from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates is not separately disclosed.

 

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Security Loans – Under its Securities Lending Agency Agreement with the fund, State Street Bank and Trust Company, as lending agent, loans the securities of the fund to certain qualified institutions (the “Borrowers”) approved by the fund. Security loans can be terminated at the discretion of either the lending agent or the fund and the related securities must be returned within the earlier of the standard trade settlement period for such securities or within three business days. The loans are collateralized by cash and/or U.S. Treasury and federal agency obligations in an amount typically at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned. On loans collateralized by cash, the cash collateral is invested in a money market fund. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the fund on the next business day. The lending agent provides the fund with indemnification against Borrower default. In the event of Borrower default, the lending agent will, for the benefit of the fund, either purchase securities identical to those loaned or, when such purchase is commercially impracticable, pay the fund the market value of the loaned securities. In return, the lending agent assumes the fund’s rights to the related collateral. If the collateral value is less than the cost to purchase identical securities, the lending agent is responsible for the shortfall, but only to the extent that such shortfall is not due to a decline in collateral value resulting from collateral reinvestment for which the fund bears the risk of loss. A portion of the income generated upon investment of the collateral is remitted to the Borrowers, and the remainder is allocated between the fund and the lending agent. On loans collateralized by U.S. Treasury and/or federal agency obligations, a fee is received from the Borrower, and is allocated between the fund and the lending agent. Income from securities lending is separately reported in the Statement of Operations. The dividend and interest income earned on the securities loaned is accounted for in the same manner as other dividend and interest income. At May 31, 2020, there were no securities on loan or collateral outstanding.

Indemnifications – Under the fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the fund. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The fund’s maximum exposure under these agreements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the fund that have not yet occurred.

Investment Transactions and Income – Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Dividends received in cash are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain dividends from foreign securities will be recorded when the fund is informed of the dividend if such information is obtained subsequent to the ex-dividend date. Dividend payments received in additional securities are recorded on the ex-dividend date in an amount equal to the value of the security on such date.

The fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received from litigation involving portfolio holdings are reflected in the Statement of Operations in realized gain/loss if the security has been disposed of by the fund or in unrealized gain/loss if the security is still held by the fund. Any other proceeds from litigation not related to portfolio holdings are reflected as other income in the Statement of Operations.

 

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Tax Matters and Distributions – The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company, as defined under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and to distribute all of its taxable income, including realized capital gains. As a result, no provision for federal income tax is required. The fund’s federal tax returns, when filed, will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a three year period. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal and state tax returns for all open tax years and does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability. Foreign taxes, if any, have been accrued by the fund in the accompanying financial statements in accordance with the applicable foreign tax law. Foreign income taxes may be withheld by certain countries in which the fund invests. Additionally, capital gains realized by the fund on securities issued in or by certain foreign countries may be subject to capital gains tax imposed by those countries.

Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Certain capital accounts in the financial statements are periodically adjusted for permanent differences in order to reflect their tax character. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or net asset value per share. Temporary differences which arise from recognizing certain items of income, expense, gain or loss in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes will reverse at some time in the future.

Book/tax differences primarily relate to wash sale loss deferrals.

The tax character of distributions declared to shareholders for the last two fiscal years is as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
Ordinary income (including any
short-term capital gains)
     $68,825,844        $13,400,377  

The federal tax cost and the tax basis components of distributable earnings were as follows:

 

As of 5/31/20       
Cost of investments      $3,612,034,478  
Gross appreciation      447,883,846  
Gross depreciation      (527,318,391
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      $(79,434,545
Undistributed ordinary income      12,713,136  
Capital loss carryforwards      (305,958,625
Other temporary differences      (379,776

 

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As of May 31, 2020, the fund had capital loss carryforwards available to offset future realized gains. These net capital losses may be carried forward indefinitely and their character is retained as short-term and/or long-term losses. Such losses are characterized as follows:

 

Short-Term      $133,926,259  
Long-Term      172,032,366  
Total      $305,958,625  

Multiple Classes of Shares of Beneficial Interest – The fund offers multiple classes of shares, which differ in their respective distribution and service fees. The fund’s income, realized and unrealized gain (loss), and common expenses are allocated to shareholders based on the daily net assets of each class. Dividends are declared separately for each class. Differences in per share dividend rates are generally due to differences in separate class expenses. Class B shares will convert to Class A shares approximately eight years after purchase. Class C shares will convert to Class A shares approximately ten years after purchase. The fund’s distributions declared to shareholders as reported in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets are presented by class as follows:

 

     Year
ended
5/31/20
     Year
ended
5/31/19
 
Class A      $2,319,285        $520,307  
Class B      35,142         
Class C      156,722         
Class I      1,762,494        476,211  
Class R1      25,621        7,588  
Class R2      75,352        12,943  
Class R3      128,665        12,533  
Class R4      57,249        53,866  
Class R6      64,265,314        12,316,929  
Total      $68,825,844        $13,400,377  

(3) Transactions with Affiliates

Investment Adviser – The fund has an investment advisory agreement with MFS to provide overall investment management and related administrative services and facilities to the fund. The management fee is computed daily and paid monthly at the following annual rates based on the fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Up to $500 million      1.05
In excess of $500 million and up to $1 billion      0.95
In excess of $1 billion and up to $4 billion      0.90
In excess of $4 billion      0.85

MFS has agreed in writing to reduce its management fee by a specified amount if certain MFS mutual fund assets exceed thresholds agreed to by MFS and the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this management fee reduction amounted to $337,360, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the

 

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Statement of Operations. The management fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.92% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

The investment adviser has agreed in writing to pay a portion of the fund’s total annual operating expenses, excluding interest, taxes, extraordinary expenses, brokerage and transaction costs, and investment-related expenses, such that total fund operating expenses do not exceed the following rates annually of each class’s average daily net assets:

 

Classes  
A   B     C     I     R1     R2     R3     R4     R6  
1.31%     2.06%       2.06%       1.06%       2.06%       1.56%       1.31%       1.06%       0.95%  

This written agreement will continue until modified by the fund’s Board of Trustees, but such agreement will continue at least until September 30, 2021. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reduction amounted to $2,362,726, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Distributor – MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (MFD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, as distributor, received $67,057 for the year ended May 31, 2020, as its portion of the initial sales charge on sales of Class A shares of the fund.

The Board of Trustees has adopted a distribution plan for certain share classes pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

The fund’s distribution plan provides that the fund will pay MFD for services provided by MFD and financial intermediaries in connection with the distribution and servicing of certain share classes. One component of the plan is a distribution fee paid to MFD and another component of the plan is a service fee paid to MFD. MFD may subsequently pay all, or a portion, of the distribution and/or service fees to financial intermediaries.

Distribution Plan Fee Table:

 

     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
Class A             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        $322,193  
Class B      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        32,778  
Class C      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        132,552  
Class R1      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        19,185  
Class R2      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        21,818  
Class R3             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        14,403  
Total Distribution and Service Fees

 

           $542,929  

 

(d)

In accordance with the distribution plan for certain classes, the fund pays distribution and/or service fees equal to these annual percentage rates of each class’s average daily net assets. The distribution and service fee rates disclosed by class represent the current rates in effect at the end of the reporting period. Any rate changes, if applicable, are detailed below.

(e)

The annual effective rates represent actual fees incurred under the distribution plan for the year ended May 31, 2020 based on each class’s average daily net assets. MFD has voluntarily agreed to rebate a portion of each class’s 0.25% service fee attributable to accounts for which there is no financial intermediary specified on the account except for accounts attributable to MFS or its

 

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  affiliates’ seed money. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this rebate amounted to $6,638, $49, and $155 for Class A, Class B, and Class C, respectively, and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Certain Class A shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) in the event of a shareholder redemption within 18 months of purchase. Class B shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within six years of purchase. Class C shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within 12 months of purchase. All contingent deferred sales charges are paid to MFD and during the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

     Amount  
Class A      $1,790  
Class B      3,107  
Class C      1,246  

Shareholder Servicing Agent – MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, receives a fee from the fund for its services as shareholder servicing agent calculated as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the fund as determined periodically under the supervision of the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee was $87,162, which equated to 0.0026% annually of the fund’s average daily net assets. MFSC also receives payment from the fund for out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs which may be paid to affiliated and unaffiliated service providers. Class R6 shares do not incur sub-accounting fees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, these out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs amounted to $325,917.

Administrator – MFS provides certain financial, legal, shareholder communications, compliance, and other administrative services to the fund. Under an administrative services agreement, the fund reimburses MFS the costs incurred to provide these services. The fund is charged an annual fixed amount of $17,500 plus a fee based on average daily net assets. The administrative services fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.0135% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Trustees’ and Officers’ Compensation – The fund pays compensation to independent Trustees in the form of a retainer, attendance fees, and additional compensation to Board and Committee chairpersons. The fund does not pay compensation directly to Trustees or officers of the fund who are also officers of the investment adviser, all of whom receive remuneration from MFS for their services to the fund. Certain officers and Trustees of the fund are officers or directors of MFS, MFD, and MFSC.

Other – This fund and certain other funds managed by MFS (the funds) had entered into a service agreement (the ISO Agreement) which provided for payment of fees solely by the funds to Tarantino LLC in return for the provision of services of an Independent Senior Officer (ISO) for the funds. Frank L. Tarantino served as the ISO and was an officer of the funds and the sole member of Tarantino LLC. Effective June 30, 2019, Mr. Tarantino retired from his position as ISO for the funds, and the ISO Agreement was terminated. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee paid by the fund under this agreement was $1,046 and is included in “Miscellaneous” expense in

 

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the Statement of Operations. MFS had agreed to bear all expenses associated with office space, other administrative support, and supplies provided to the ISO.

The fund invests in the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio which is managed by MFS and seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity. This money market fund does not pay a management fee to MFS but does incur investment and operating costs.

On December 14, 2018, MFS redeemed 1,770 shares of Class R1 for an aggregate amount of $47,360.

The fund is permitted to engage in purchase and sale transactions with funds and accounts for which MFS serves as investment adviser or sub-adviser (“cross-trades”) pursuant to a policy adopted by the Board of Trustees. This policy has been designed to ensure that cross-trades conducted by the fund comply with Rule 17a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. During the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund engaged in purchase and sale transactions pursuant to this policy, which amounted to $11,096,830 and $78,486, respectively. The sales transactions resulted in net realized gains (losses) of $16,215.

The adviser has voluntarily undertaken to reimburse the fund from its own resources on a quarterly basis for the cost of investment research embedded in the cost of the fund’s securities trades. This agreement may be rescinded at any time. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reimbursement amounted to $569,297, which is included in “Other” income in the Statement of Operations.

(4) Portfolio Securities

For the year ended May 31, 2020, purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $2,914,847,193 and $1,005,709,055, respectively.

(5) Shares of Beneficial Interest

The fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest. Transactions in fund shares were as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares sold            

Class A

     1,190,435        $37,819,440        1,483,096        $48,759,114  

Class B

     935        29,943        12,037        360,450  

Class C

     63,962        1,887,319        135,082        3,970,092  

Class I

     2,368,864        79,671,976        1,668,710        56,239,873  

Class R1

     6,990        196,313        94,894        2,869,121  

Class R2

     48,382        1,428,605        39,335        1,186,896  

Class R3

     196,269        6,193,038        26,468        884,424  

Class R4

     32,464        982,320        48,111        1,570,272  

Class R6

     61,542,850        2,061,826,062        19,525,400        672,872,420  
     65,451,151        $2,190,035,016        23,033,133        $788,712,662  

 

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     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares issued to shareholders in
reinvestment of distributions

 

        

Class A

     64,558        $2,205,955        16,637        $508,270  

Class B

     1,098        34,499                

Class C

     4,234        129,803                

Class I

     41,583        1,495,334        11,955        384,001  

Class R1

     848        25,621        280        7,588  

Class R2

     2,324        72,434        445        12,415  

Class R3

     3,790        128,665        412        12,533  

Class R4

     1,684        57,249        1,774        53,866  

Class R6

     1,778,620        63,959,158        379,363        12,185,130  
     1,898,739        $68,108,718        410,866        $13,163,803  
Shares reacquired            

Class A

     (856,185      $(26,625,828      (2,100,219      $(66,580,385

Class B

     (35,822      (1,026,904      (52,762      (1,570,886

Class C

     (165,669      (4,665,492      (202,906      (5,937,457

Class I

     (1,313,702      (40,785,503      (1,292,303      (44,543,086

Class R1

     (3,539      (98,749      (49,681      (1,468,701

Class R2

     (76,705      (2,265,930      (69,814      (2,103,798

Class R3

     (53,024      (1,668,144      (21,214      (679,281

Class R4

     (158,577      (5,091,946      (31,606      (1,037,399

Class R6

     (5,386,290      (186,167,370      (1,364,810      (45,684,694
     (8,049,513      $(268,395,866      (5,185,315      $(169,605,687
Net change            

Class A

     398,808        $13,399,567        (600,486      $(17,313,001

Class B

     (33,789      (962,462      (40,725      (1,210,436

Class C

     (97,473      (2,648,370      (67,824      (1,967,365

Class I

     1,096,745        40,381,807        388,362        12,080,788  

Class R1

     4,299        123,185        45,493        1,408,008  

Class R2

     (25,999      (764,891      (30,034      (904,487

Class R3

     147,035        4,653,559        5,666        217,676  

Class R4

     (124,429      (4,052,377      18,279        586,739  

Class R6

     57,935,180        1,939,617,850        18,539,953        639,372,856  
     59,300,377        $1,989,747,868        18,258,684        $632,270,778  

Class T shares were not publicly available for sale during the period. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective June 1, 2019, purchases of the fund’s Class B and Class 529B shares are closed to new and existing investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

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management or control. At the end of the period, the MFS International Diversification Fund and the MFS Growth Allocation Fund were the owners of record of approximately 89%, and 1% of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund. In addition,the MFS Aggresive Growth Allocation Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2030 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2035 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2040 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2045 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2050 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2055 Fund, and the MFS Lifetime 2060 Fund were each owners of record of less than 1% of the value of the outstanding voting shares of the fund.

(6) Line of Credit

The fund and certain other funds managed by MFS participate in a $1.25 billion unsecured committed line of credit, subject to a $1 billion sublimit, provided by a syndicate of banks under a credit agreement. Borrowings may be made for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, generally at a rate equal to the highest of one month LIBOR, the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus an agreed upon spread. A commitment fee, based on the average daily, unused portion of the committed line of credit, is allocated among the participating funds. In addition, the fund and other funds managed by MFS have established unsecured uncommitted borrowing arrangements with certain banks for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, at rates equal to customary reference rates plus an agreed upon spread. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund’s commitment fee and interest expense were $16,088 and $0, respectively, and are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

(7) Investments in Affiliated Issuers

An affiliated issuer may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:

 

Affiliated Issuers   Beginning
Value
    Purchases     Sales
Proceeds
    Realized
Gain
(Loss)
    Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
    Ending
Value
 
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio     $60,319,149       $1,175,659,727       $1,163,338,209       $1,680       $(2,926     $72,639,421  
Affiliated Issuers                               Dividend
Income
    Capital Gain
Distributions
 
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

 

          $1,112,637       $—  

(8) Impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic related to the global spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in December 2019, has resulted in significant disruptions to global business activity and the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the securities and commodities markets in general. This pandemic, the full effects of which are still unknown, has resulted in substantial market volatility and may have adversely impacted the prices and liquidity of the fund’s investments and the fund’s performance.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Shareholders of MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund and the Board of Trustees of MFS Series Trust X

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting MFS Series Trust X (the “Trust”)), including the portfolio of investments, as of May 31, 2020, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund (one of the funds constituting MFS Series Trust X) at May 31, 2020, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and its financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2020, by correspondence with the custodian and others or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from others were not received. Our audits also included

 

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evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

LOGO

We have served as the auditor of one or more MFS investment companies since 1993.

Boston, Massachusetts

July 17, 2020

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS — IDENTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND

The Trustees and Officers of the Trust, as of July 1, 2020, are listed below, together with their principal occupations during the past five years. (Their titles may have varied during that period.) The address of each Trustee and Officer is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

INTERESTED TRUSTEES
Robert J. Manning (k) (age 56)   Trustee   February 2004   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Chairman (since January 2017); Director; Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (until 2015); Co-Chief Executive Officer (2015-2016)   N/A

Robin A. Stelmach (k)

(age 58)

  Trustee   January 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice Chair (since January 2017); Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (until January 2017)   N/A
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES    

John P. Kavanaugh

(age 65)

  Trustee and Chair of Trustees   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A

Steven E. Buller

(age 68)

  Trustee   February 2014   134   Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman (2014-2015); Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Standing Advisory Group, Member (until 2014); BlackRock, Inc. (investment management), Managing Director (until 2014), BlackRock Finco UK (investment management), Director (until 2014)   N/A

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

John A. Caroselli

(age 66)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   JC Global Advisors, LLC (management consulting), President (since 2015); First Capital Corporation (commercial finance), Executive Vice President (until 2015)   N/A

Maureen R. Goldfarb

(age 65)

  Trustee   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A
Peter D. Jones
(age 64)
  Trustee   January 2019   134   Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (investment management), President (until 2015); Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (investment management), Chairman (until 2015)   N/A
James W. Kilman, Jr. (age 59)   Trustee   January 2019   134   Burford Capital Limited (finance and investment management), Chief Financial Officer (since 2019); KielStrand Capital LLC (family office), Chief Executive Officer (since 2016); Morgan Stanley & Co. (financial services), Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Co-Head of Diversified Financials Coverage – Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group (until 2016)   Alpha-En Corporation, Director (2016-2019)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

Clarence Otis, Jr.

(age 64)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   Darden Restaurants, Inc., Chief Executive Officer (until 2014)   VF Corporation, Director; Verizon Communications, Inc., Director; The Travelers Companies, Director; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Director (until 2015)

Maryanne L. Roepke

(age 64)

  Trustee   May 2014   134   American Century Investments (investment management), Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (until 2014)   N/A
Laurie J. Thomsen
(age 62)
  Trustee   March 2005   134   Private investor   The Travelers Companies, Director; Dycom Industries, Inc., Director (since 2015)

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

OFFICERS      
Christopher R. Bohane (k) (age 46)   Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Kino Clark (k)

(age 52)

 

Assistant

Treasurer

  January 2012   134  

Massachusetts Financial

Services Company, Vice President

John W. Clark, Jr. (k)

(age 53)

  Assistant Treasurer   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President (since March 2017); Deutsche Bank (financial services), Department Head – Treasurer’s Office (until February 2017)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

Thomas H. Connors (k)

(age 60)

 

Assistant

Secretary and Assistant Clerk

  September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel
David L. DiLorenzo (k)
(age 51)
  President   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

Heidi W. Hardin (k)

(age 52)

  Secretary and Clerk   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Vice President and General Counsel (since March 2017); Harris Associates (investment management), General Counsel (from September 2015 to January 2017); Janus Capital Management LLC (investment management), Senior Vice President and General Counsel (until September 2015)

Brian E. Langenfeld (k)

(age 47)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  June 2006   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel

Amanda S. Mooradian (k)

(age 41)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  September 2018   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel
Susan A. Pereira (k)
(age 49)
  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Kasey L. Phillips (k)

(age 49)

  Assistant Treasurer   September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

Matthew A. Stowe (k)

(age 45)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   October 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Martin J. Wolin (k)

(age 52)

  Chief Compliance Officer   July 2015   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (since July 2015); Mercer (financial service provider), Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, North America and Latin America (until June 2015)

 

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Trustees and Officers – continued

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

James O. Yost (k)
(age 60)
  Treasurer   September 1990   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

 

(h)

Date first appointed to serve as Trustee/officer of an MFS Fund. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. For the period from December 15, 2004 until February 22, 2005, Mr. Manning served as Advisory Trustee. From January 2012 through December 2016, Messrs. DiLorenzo and Yost served as Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer of the Funds, respectively.

(j)

Directorships or trusteeships of companies required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., “public companies”).

(k)

“Interested person” of the Trust within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (referred to as the 1940 Act), which is the principal federal law governing investment companies like the fund, as a result of a position with MFS. The address of MFS is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

Each Trustee (other than Messrs. Jones and Kilman) has been elected by shareholders and each Trustee and Officer holds office until his or her successor is chosen and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal. Messrs. Jones and Kilman became Trustees of the Funds on January 1, 2019. The Trust does not hold annual meetings for the purpose of electing Trustees, and Trustees are not elected for fixed terms. Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of any Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20 years of service on the Board).

Messrs. Buller, Kilman and Otis and Ms. Roepke are members of the Trust’s Audit Committee.

Each of the Interested Trustees and certain Officers hold comparable officer positions with certain affiliates of MFS.

The Statement of Additional Information for a Fund includes further information about the Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

 

Investment Adviser   Custodian

Massachusetts Financial Services Company

111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

State Street Bank and Trust Company

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111-2900

Distributor   Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.

111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

Ernst & Young LLP

200 Clarendon Street

Boston, MA 02116

Portfolio Manager(s)  

Jose Luis Garcia

Robert Lau

Harry Purcell

 

 

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STATEMENT REGARDING LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) as required by Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated MFS as the administrator of the Program. The Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage the liquidity risk of the fund. Liquidity risk is the risk that the fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by the fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interests.

MFS provided a written report to the Board for consideration at its April 2020 meeting that addressed the operation of the Program and provided an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of the Program during the period from the adoption of the Program on December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (the “Covered Period”). The report concluded that during the Covered Period the Program had operated effectively and had adequately and effectively been implemented to assess and manage the fund’s liquidity risk. MFS also reported that there were no liquidity events that impacted the fund or its ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders during the Covered Period.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Further information on liquidity risk, and other principal risks to which an investment in the fund may be subject, can be found in the prospectus.

 

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND INFORMATION

MFS votes proxies on behalf of the fund pursuant to proxy voting policies and procedures that are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-225-2606, by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available by August 31 of each year without charge by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO DISCLOSURE

The fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A shareholder can obtain the portfolio holdings report for the first and third quarters of the fund’s fiscal year at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name and then selecting the “Resources” tab and clicking on “Prospectus and Reports”.

FURTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, MFS may post important information about the fund or the MFS funds on the MFS web site (mfs.com). This information is available at https://www.mfs.com/en-us/what-we-do/announcements.html or at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name.

INFORMATION ABOUT FUND CONTRACTS AND LEGAL CLAIMS

The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, 529 program manager (if applicable), and custodian who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the Trust’s By-Laws and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the MFS Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (unaudited)

The fund will notify shareholders of amounts for use in preparing 2020 income tax forms in January 2021. The following information is provided pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as qualified dividend income eligible to be taxed at the same rate as long-term capital gain.

Income derived from foreign sources was $107,288,375. The fund intends to pass through foreign tax credits of $9,249,816 for the fiscal year.

 

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FACTS

 

  WHAT DOES MFS DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?   LOGO

 

Why?   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

 

What?  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

 Social Security number and account balances

 Account transactions and transaction history

 Checking account information and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

How?   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons MFS chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your
personal information
  Does MFS
share?
  Can you limit
this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes –

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

  Yes   No

For our marketing purposes –

to offer our products and services to you

  No   We don’t share

For joint marketing with other

financial companies

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your transactions and experiences

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your creditworthiness

  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

   
Questions?   Call 800-225-2606 or go to mfs.com.

 

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   MFS Funds, MFS Investment Management, MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., and MFS Heritage Trust Company.

 

What we do
How does MFS protect my personal information?   To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include procedural, electronic, and physical safeguards for the protection of the personal information we collect about you.
How does MFS collect my personal information?  

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

 open an account or provide account information

 direct us to buy securities or direct us to sell your securities

 make a wire transfer

 

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

 sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness

 affiliates from using your information to market to you

 sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 

Definitions
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share personal information with affiliates, except for everyday business purposes as described on page one of this notice.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

 MFS doesnt jointly market.

 

 

Other important information
If you own an MFS product or receive an MFS service in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, their privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.

 

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LOGO

 

Save paper with eDelivery.

 

LOGO

MFS® will send you prospectuses,

reports, and proxies directly via e-mail so you will get information faster with less mailbox clutter.

To sign up:

1. Go to mfs.com.

2. Log in via MFS® Access.

3. Select eDelivery.

If you own your MFS fund shares through a financial institution or a retirement plan, MFS® TALK, MFS® Access, or eDelivery may not be available to you.

 

CONTACT

WEB SITE

mfs.com

MFS TALK

1-800-637-8255

24 hours a day

ACCOUNT SERVICE AND LITERATURE

Shareholders

1-800-225-2606

Financial advisors

1-800-343-2829

Retirement plan services

1-800-637-1255

MAILING ADDRESS

MFS Service Center, Inc.

P.O. Box 219341

Kansas City, MO 64121-9341

OVERNIGHT MAIL

MFS Service Center, Inc.

Suite 219341

430 W 7th Street

Kansas City, MO 64105-1407

 


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Annual Report

May 31, 2020

 

LOGO

 

MFS® International

DiversificationSM Fund

 

LOGO

 

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the fund’s annual and semiannual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the complete reports will be made available on the fund’s Web site (funds.mfs.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a Web site link to access the report.

If you are already signed up to receive shareholder reports by email, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may sign up to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund by email by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you hold your shares directly with the fund, by calling 1-800-225-2606 or by logging on to MFS Access at mfs.com.

Beginning on January 1, 2019, you may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. Contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the fund, you can call 1-800-225-2606 or send an email request to orderliterature@mfs.com to let the fund know that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary or all funds held with the MFS fund complex if you invest directly.

 

MDI-ANN

 


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CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Executive Chair     1  
Portfolio composition     2  
Management review     3  
Performance summary     5  
Expense table     8  
Portfolio of investments     10  
Statement of assets and liabilities     11  
Statement of operations     13  
Statements of changes in net assets     14  
Financial highlights     15  
Notes to financial statements     21  
Report of independent registered public accounting firm     32  
Trustees and officers     34  
Statement regarding liquidity risk management program     39  
Proxy voting policies and information     40  
Quarterly portfolio disclosure     40  
Further information     40  
Information about fund contracts and legal claims     40  
Federal tax information     40  
MFS® privacy notice     41  
Contact information     back cover  

 

The report is prepared for the general information of shareholders. It is authorized for distribution to prospective investors only when preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

 

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LOGO

 

LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR

 

Dear Shareholders:

Markets experienced dramatic swings in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill for several months. Optimism over the

development of vaccines and therapeutics, along with a decline in cases in countries that had been affected by the outbreak early on, brightened the economic and market outlook during the second quarter, as did the phased reopening of US states. However, a great deal of uncertainty remains, including the possibility of a second wave of cases later this year.

Global central banks have taken aggressive, coordinated steps to cushion the economic and market fallout related to the virus, and governments are deploying unprecedented levels of fiscal stimulus. As uncertainty recedes, these measures can help build a supportive environment and encourage economic recovery;

however, if markets disconnect from fundamentals, they can also sow the seeds of instability. In the aftermath of the crisis, societal changes may be likely as households, businesses, and governments adjust to a new reality, and these alterations could change the investment landscape. For investors, events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrate the importance of having a deep understanding of company fundamentals, and we have built our global research platform to do just that.

Here at MFS®, we aim to help our clients navigate the growing complexity of the markets and world economies. Our long-term investment philosophy and commitment to the responsible allocation of capital allow us to tune out the noise and uncover what we believe are the best, most durable investment opportunities in the market. Through our powerful global investment platform, we combine collective expertise, thoughtful risk management, and long-term discipline to create sustainable value for investors.

Respectfully,

 

LOGO

Robert J. Manning

Executive Chair

MFS Investment Management

July 17, 2020

The opinions expressed in this letter are subject to change and may not be relied upon for investment advice. No forecasts can be guaranteed.

 

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PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION

 

Portfolio target allocation

 

LOGO

 

Portfolio holdings

 

MFS Research International Fund     29.9%  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund     22.5%  
MFS International Growth Fund     22.4%  
MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund     14.8%  
MFS International New Discovery Fund     10.1%  
Cash & Cash Equivalents     0.3%  

Portfolio actual allocation

 

LOGO

 

Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. MFS endeavors to fully invest all MFS funds-of-funds in underlying funds on a daily basis. Any divergence from 0.0% in Cash & Cash Equivalents is typically due to the timing of fund subscriptions/redemptions and the settlement of subsequent investment in/divestment from the underlying funds. While the MFS funds-of-funds’ subscriptions/redemptions are processed at the same day NAV of the underlying funds, a positive/negative cash balance will be reflected on the MFS funds-of-funds’ Statements of Assets and Liabilities until the trades with the underlying funds settle, which is typically two business days. Please see the Statements of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS International Diversification Fund (fund) provided a total return of 2.80%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of –3.43% for the fund’s benchmark, the MSCI All Country World (ex-US) Index (net div).

Market Environment

Markets experienced an extraordinarily sharp selloff and in many cases an unusually rapid partial recovery late in the period. Central banks and fiscal authorities undertook astonishing levels of stimulus to offset the economic effects of government-imposed social-distancing measures implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19. Despite policymakers’ best efforts, a global recession has undoubtedly begun.

Compounding market uncertainty earlier in the coronavirus pandemic was a crash in the price of crude oil due to a sharp drop in global demand and a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts, which resulted in a price war. The subsequent decline in prices undercut oil exporters, many of which are in emerging markets, as well as a large segment of the high-yield credit market. OPEC+ later agreed on output cuts, which – along with the gradual reopening of some major economies and resultant boost in demand – helped stabilize the price of crude.

Around the world, central banks responded quickly and massively to the crisis with programs to improve liquidity and support markets. They proved largely successful in helping to restore market function, easing volatility and stimulating a market rebound at the end of the period. Monetary easing measures were complemented by large fiscal stimulus plans in developed countries. Even emerging market countries were able to implement countercyclical policies –a departure from the usual market-dictated response to risk-off crises – due to relatively manageable external liabilities and balances of payments in many countries, along with persistently low inflation.

As is often the case in a crisis, market vulnerabilities were revealed. For example, companies that added significant leverage to their balance sheets in recent years by borrowing to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks may find it difficult to follow that path in the future, and investors may not reward them if they do. Recapitalizations by some of these highly leveraged firms could dilute existing shareholders. Very long supply chains designed to squeeze out every bit of savings may be shifted closer to home markets if companies seek to put resiliency before cost after a series of supply disruptions. The aftereffects of the pandemic could affect consumer, business and government behavior in ways difficult to forecast. Also, while markets have regained lost ground more swiftly than expected, any economic recovery is likely to be protracted.

Factors Affecting Performance

During the reporting period, the fund benefited from its exposure to the MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund, MFS Research International Fund and MFS International New Discovery Fund as all three funds outperformed their respective

 

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market segments. The fund’s exposure to the MFS International Growth Fund further supported results. Conversely, the fund’s exposure to the MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund held back relative returns.

Respectfully,

Portfolio Manager(s)

Camille Humphries Lee

The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover and do not necessarily reflect the views of MFS or any other person in the MFS organization. These views are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions, and MFS disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice or an indication of trading intent on behalf of any MFS portfolio. References to specific securities are not recommendations of such securities, and may not be representative of any MFS portfolio’s current or future investments.

 

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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY THROUGH 5/31/20

The following chart illustrates a representative class of the fund’s historical performance in comparison to its benchmark(s). Performance results include the deduction of the maximum applicable sales charge and reflect the percentage change in net asset value, including reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. The performance of other share classes will be greater than or less than that of the class depicted below. Benchmarks are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. Benchmark returns do not reflect sales charges, commissions or expenses. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value fluctuate so your shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost; current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. The performance shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes, if any, that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

Growth of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment

 

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Performance Summary – continued

 

Total Returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class    Class Inception Date   1-yr   5-yr   10-yr   Life (t)     
    A    9/30/04   2.80%   4.22%   7.14%   N/A    
    B    9/30/04   2.08%   3.44%   6.34%   N/A    
    C    9/30/04   2.04%   3.45%   6.34%   N/A    
    I    9/30/04   3.04%   4.48%   7.41%   N/A    
    R1    4/01/05   2.04%   3.44%   6.33%   N/A    
    R2    9/30/04   2.60%   3.97%   6.87%   N/A    
    R3    4/01/05   2.83%   4.23%   7.14%   N/A    
    R4    4/01/05   3.04%   4.48%   7.40%   N/A    
    R6    10/02/17   3.17%   N/A   N/A   2.69%    
Comparative benchmark(s)                    
     MSCI All Country World (ex-US) Index (net div) (f)   (3.43)%   0.79%   4.38%   N/A     
Average annual with sales charge                    
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
  (3.12)%   2.99%   6.50%   N/A    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
  (1.92)%   3.09%   6.34%   N/A    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
  1.04%   3.45%   6.34%   N/A    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 shares do not have a sales charge.

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(t)

For the period from the class inception date through the stated period end (for those share classes with less than 10 years of performance history). No comparative benchmark performance information is provided for “life” periods. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

Benchmark Definition(s)

MSCI All Country World (ex-US) Index (net div) – a market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure equity market performance in the developed and emerging markets, excluding the U.S. Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) makes no express or implied warranties or representations and shall have no liability whatsoever with respect to any MSCI data contained herein. The MSCI data may not be further redistributed or used as a basis for other indices or any securities or financial products. This report is not approved, reviewed, or produced by MSCI.

It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

Notes to Performance Summary

Average annual total return represents the average annual change in value for each share class for the periods presented. Life returns are presented where the share class

 

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has less than 10 years of performance history and represent the average annual total return from the class inception date to the stated period end date. As the fund’s share classes may have different inception dates, the life returns may represent different time periods and may not be comparable. As a result, no comparative benchmark performance information is provided for life periods.

Performance results reflect any applicable expense subsidies and waivers in effect during the periods shown. Without such subsidies and waivers the fund’s performance results would be less favorable. Please see the prospectus and financial statements for complete details.

Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and may differ from amounts reported in the financial highlights.

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

 

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EXPENSE TABLE

Fund expenses borne by the shareholders during the period, December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on certain purchase or redemption payments, and (2) ongoing costs, including distribution and service (12b-1) fees; and other fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. Because the underlying funds have varied expenses and fee levels and the fund may own different proportions of the underlying funds at different times, the amount of fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the fund will vary. If these transactional and indirect costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the following table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the following table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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Expense Table – continued

 

Share
Class
       Annualized
Expense
Ratio
    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
    Ending
Account Value
5/31/20
    Expenses
Paid During
Period (p)
12/01/19-5/31/20
 
A   Actual     0.36%       $1,000.00       $936.83       $1.74  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.36%       $1,000.00       $1,023.20       $1.82  
B   Actual     1.11%       $1,000.00       $933.49       $5.37  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.11%       $1,000.00       $1,019.45       $5.60  
C   Actual     1.11%       $1,000.00       $933.58       $5.37  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.11%       $1,000.00       $1,019.45       $5.60  
I   Actual     0.11%       $1,000.00       $938.14       $0.53  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.11%       $1,000.00       $1,024.45       $0.56  
R1   Actual     1.11%       $1,000.00       $933.22       $5.36  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.11%       $1,000.00       $1,019.45       $5.60  
R2   Actual     0.61%       $1,000.00       $935.95       $2.95  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.61%       $1,000.00       $1,021.95       $3.08  
R3   Actual     0.36%       $1,000.00       $937.02       $1.74  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.36%       $1,000.00       $1,023.20       $1.82  
R4   Actual     0.11%       $1,000.00       $937.88       $0.53  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.11%       $1,000.00       $1,024.45       $0.56  
R6   Actual     0.00%       $1,000.00       $938.86       $0.00  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.00%       $1,000.00       $1,025.00       $0.00  

 

(h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

(p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher. In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. If these indirect costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

5/31/20

The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Investment Companies (h) - 99.9%               
International Stock Funds - 99.6%               
MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund - Class R6      108,003,550     $ 3,203,385,279  
MFS International Growth Fund - Class R6      143,134,821       4,837,956,951  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund - Class R6      109,122,234       4,870,125,294  
MFS International New Discovery Fund - Class R6      69,303,281       2,189,290,663  
MFS Research International Fund - Class R6      366,107,454       6,472,779,783  
    

 

 

 
             $ 21,573,537,970  
Money Market Funds - 0.3%               
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)      58,826,826     $ 58,832,709  
Total Investment Companies (Identified Cost, $20,507,319,414)            $ 21,632,370,679  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - 0.1%           13,384,749  
Net Assets - 100.0%            $ 21,645,755,428  

 

(h)

An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate value of the fund’s investments in affiliated issuers was $21,632,370,679.

(v)

Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

At 5/31/20

This statement represents your fund’s balance sheet, which details the assets and liabilities comprising the total value of the fund.

 

Assets         

Investments in affiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $20,507,319,414)

     $21,632,370,679  

Receivables for

  

Fund shares sold

     95,146,331  

Receivable from investment adviser

     1,153,016  

Other assets

     34,202  

Total assets

     $21,728,704,228  
Liabilities         

Payables for

  

Investments purchased

     $51,874,427  

Fund shares reacquired

     22,234,141  

Payable to affiliates

  

Administrative services fee

     193  

Shareholder servicing costs

     7,174,100  

Distribution and service fees

     146,340  

Payable for independent Trustees’ compensation

     12  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     1,519,587  

Total liabilities

     $82,948,800  

Net assets

     $21,645,755,428  
Net assets consist of         

Paid-in capital

     $20,536,074,820  

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     1,109,680,608  

Net assets

     $21,645,755,428  

Shares of beneficial interest outstanding

     1,141,549,702  

 

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     Net assets      Shares
outstanding
     Net asset value
per share (a)
 

Class A

     $2,778,815,301        147,774,706        $18.80  

Class B

     20,423,953        1,097,561        18.61  

Class C

     419,044,607        22,823,918        18.36  

Class I

     9,936,595,216        522,602,769        19.01  

Class R1

     7,756,377        429,930        18.04  

Class R2

     53,110,394        2,873,017        18.49  

Class R3

     724,023,291        38,806,198        18.66  

Class R4

     721,937,053        38,094,009        18.95  

Class R6

     6,984,049,236        367,047,594        19.03  

 

(a)

Maximum offering price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for all share classes, except for Class A, for which the maximum offering price per share was $19.95 [100 / 94.25 x $18.80]. On sales of $50,000 or more, the maximum offering price of Class A shares is reduced. A contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on redemptions of Class A, Class B, and Class C shares. Redemption price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for Classes I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

Year ended 5/31/20

This statement describes how much your fund earned in investment income and accrued in expenses. It also describes any gains and/or losses generated by fund operations.

 

Net investment income (loss)         

Income

  

Dividends from affiliated issuers

     $328,748,793  

Expenses

  

Distribution and service fees

     $13,648,591  

Shareholder servicing costs

     14,715,020  

Administrative services fee

     17,500  

Independent Trustees’ compensation

     141,386  

Custodian fee

     102,339  

Shareholder communications

     1,941,721  

Audit and tax fees

     43,278  

Legal fees

     179,683  

Miscellaneous

     1,618,161  

Total expenses

     $32,407,679  

Reduction of expenses by investment adviser and distributor

     (4,612,210

Net expenses

     $27,795,469  

Net investment income (loss)

     $300,953,324  
Realized and unrealized gain (loss)         
Realized gain (loss) (identified cost basis)   

Investments in affiliated issuers

     $(92,320,953

Capital gain distributions from affiliated issuers

     188,490,690  

Net realized gain (loss)

     $96,169,737  
Change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation   

Affiliated issuers

     $(71,593,371

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     $24,576,366  

Change in net assets from operations

     $325,529,690  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

These statements describe the increases and/or decreases in net assets resulting from operations, any distributions, and any shareholder transactions.

 

     Year ended  
     5/31/20      5/31/19  
Change in net assets              
From operations                  

Net investment income (loss)

     $300,953,324        $295,982,331  

Net realized gain (loss)

     96,169,737        249,029,308  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     (71,593,371      (721,445,505

Change in net assets from operations

     $325,529,690        $(176,433,866

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(530,914,635      $(385,690,225

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $5,144,131,183        $5,132,815,691  

Total change in net assets

     $4,938,746,238        $4,570,691,600  
Net assets                  

At beginning of period

     16,707,009,190        12,136,317,590  

At end of period

     $21,645,755,428        $16,707,009,190  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years (or life of a particular share class, if shorter). Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

Class A   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $18.71       $19.68       $18.07       $15.59       $16.91  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

    $0.25       $0.37       $0.21       $0.24 (c)      $0.17  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.32       (0.85     1.68       2.54       (1.24

Total from investment operations

    $0.57       $(0.48     $1.89       $2.78       $(1.07
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.26     $(0.37     $(0.28     $(0.30     $(0.25

From net realized gain

    (0.22     (0.12                  

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.48     $(0.49     $(0.28     $(0.30     $(0.25

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $18.80       $18.71       $19.68       $18.07       $15.59  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    2.80       (2.15     10.46       18.18 (c)      (6.36
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.37       0.36       0.38       0.37 (c)      0.38  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.35       0.34       0.35       0.35 (c)      0.35  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

    1.31       1.96       1.09       1.51 (c)      1.11  

Portfolio turnover

    6       1       1       3       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $2,778,815       $2,458,587       $2,263,605       $1,804,722       $2,388,830  

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Class B    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $18.50       $19.43       $17.84       $15.38       $16.75  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.10       $0.22       $0.07       $0.09 (c)      $0.06  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.31       (0.82     1.66       2.54       (1.25

Total from investment operations

     $0.41       $(0.60     $1.73       $2.63       $(1.19
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.08     $(0.21     $(0.14     $(0.17     $(0.18

From net realized gain

     (0.22     (0.12                  

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.30     $(0.33     $(0.14     $(0.17     $(0.18

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $18.61       $18.50       $19.43       $17.84       $15.38  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     2.08       (2.93     9.71       17.27 (c)      (7.09
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.12       1.11       1.12       1.12 (c)      1.13  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.10       1.09       1.10       1.10 (c)      1.10  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.53       1.20       0.36       0.56 (c)      0.37  

Portfolio turnover

     6       1       1       3       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $20,424       $27,434       $34,421       $34,040       $35,760  
Class C    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $18.28       $19.20       $17.65       $15.23       $16.60  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

     $0.10       $0.22       $0.07       $0.09 (c)      $0.06  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.30       (0.81     1.64       2.51       (1.23

Total from investment operations

     $0.40       $(0.59     $1.71       $2.60       $(1.17
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.10     $(0.21     $(0.16     $(0.18     $(0.20

From net realized gain

     (0.22     (0.12                  

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(0.32     $(0.33     $(0.16     $(0.18     $(0.20

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $18.36       $18.28       $19.20       $17.65       $15.23  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     2.04       (2.87     9.67       17.28 (c)      (7.07
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.12       1.11       1.12       1.12 (c)      1.13  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.10       1.09       1.10       1.10 (c)      1.10  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

     0.53       1.21       0.37       0.57 (c)      0.36  

Portfolio turnover

     6       1       1       3       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $419,045       $472,251       $517,523       $470,214       $460,869  

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Class I   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $18.91       $19.89       $18.25       $15.75       $17.05  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

    $0.30       $0.42       $0.30       $0.23 (c)      $0.22  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.32       (0.86     1.66       2.61       (1.26

Total from investment operations

    $0.62       $(0.44     $1.96       $2.84       $(1.04
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.30     $(0.42     $(0.32     $(0.34     $(0.26

From net realized gain

    (0.22     (0.12                  

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.52     $(0.54     $(0.32     $(0.34     $(0.26

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $19.01       $18.91       $19.89       $18.25       $15.75  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    3.04       (1.91     10.78       18.42 (c)      (6.09
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.12       0.11       0.13       0.12 (c)      0.13  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.10       0.09       0.10       0.10 (c)      0.10  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

    1.56       2.21       1.56       1.39 (c)      1.38  

Portfolio turnover

    6       1       1       3       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $9,936,595       $7,848,998       $5,199,628       $4,166,366       $1,036,517  
Class R1   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $17.99       $18.93       $17.39       $15.01       $16.36  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

    $0.12       $0.22       $0.06       $0.09 (c)      $0.05  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.28       (0.81     1.63       2.47       (1.21

Total from investment operations

    $0.40       $(0.59     $1.69       $2.56       $(1.16
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.13     $(0.23     $(0.15     $(0.18     $(0.19

From net realized gain

    (0.22     (0.12                  

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.35     $(0.35     $(0.15     $(0.18     $(0.19

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $18.04       $17.99       $18.93       $17.39       $15.01  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    2.04       (2.91     9.70       17.29 (c)      (7.08
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    1.12       1.11       1.12       1.12 (c)      1.13  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    1.10       1.09       1.10       1.10 (c)      1.10  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

    0.67       1.23       0.33       0.58 (c)      0.36  

Portfolio turnover

    6       1       1       3       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $7,756       $8,625       $8,912       $8,716       $7,736  

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Class R2   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $18.39       $19.34       $17.76       $15.34       $16.66  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

    $0.19       $0.33       $0.16       $0.17 (c)      $0.13  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.33       (0.84     1.65       2.52       (1.22

Total from investment operations

    $0.52       $(0.51     $1.81       $2.69       $(1.09
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.20     $(0.32     $(0.23     $(0.27     $(0.23

From net realized gain

    (0.22     (0.12                  

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.42     $(0.44     $(0.23     $(0.27     $(0.23

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $18.49       $18.39       $19.34       $17.76       $15.34  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    2.60       (2.41     10.20       17.82 (c)      (6.55
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.62       0.61       0.62       0.62 (c)      0.63  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.60       0.59       0.60       0.60 (c)      0.60  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

    1.02       1.75       0.84       1.07 (c)      0.86  

Portfolio turnover

    6       1       1       3       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $53,110       $61,929       $73,998       $72,991       $59,795  
Class R3   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $18.57       $19.54       $17.95       $15.49       $16.80  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

    $0.24       $0.35       $0.21       $0.21 (c)      $0.17  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.33       (0.82     1.66       2.55       (1.24

Total from investment operations

    $0.57       $(0.47     $1.87       $2.76       $(1.07
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.26     $(0.38     $(0.28     $(0.30     $(0.24

From net realized gain

    (0.22     (0.12                  

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.48     $(0.50     $(0.28     $(0.30     $(0.24

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $18.66       $18.57       $19.54       $17.95       $15.49  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    2.83       (2.15     10.44       18.19 (c)      (6.34
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.38       0.36       0.38       0.37 (c)      0.38  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.35       0.34       0.35       0.35 (c)      0.35  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

    1.25       1.86       1.09       1.32 (c)      1.11  

Portfolio turnover

    6       1       1       3       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $724,023       $523,367       $391,082       $289,853       $230,042  

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Class R4   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $18.85       $19.82       $18.19       $15.70       $17.00  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

    $0.32       $0.42       $0.26       $0.26 (c)      $0.20  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.30       (0.85     1.69       2.57       (1.24

Total from investment operations

    $0.62       $(0.43     $1.95       $2.83       $(1.04
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.30     $(0.42     $(0.32     $(0.34     $(0.26

From net realized gain

    (0.22     (0.12                  

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.52     $(0.54     $(0.32     $(0.34     $(0.26

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $18.95       $18.85       $19.82       $18.19       $15.70  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    3.04       (1.89     10.75       18.42 (c)      (6.11
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.12       0.11       0.13       0.12 (c)      0.13  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.10       0.09       0.10       0.10 (c)      0.10  

Net investment income (loss) (l)

    1.62       2.22       1.32       1.57 (c)      1.30  

Portfolio turnover

    6       1       1       3       3  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $721,937       $779,264       $948,409       $829,724       $506,597  

 

Class R6   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18 (i)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $18.92       $19.90       $19.09  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

               

Net investment income (loss) (d)(l)

    $0.32       $0.43       $0.02  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.33       (0.85     1.12  

Total from investment operations

    $0.65       $(0.42     $1.14  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

               

From net investment income

    $(0.32     $(0.44     $(0.33

From net realized gain

    (0.22     (0.12      

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.54     $(0.56     $(0.33

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $19.03       $18.92       $19.90  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    3.17       (1.82     5.98 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.02       0.02       0.03 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.00       0.00       0.00 (a) 

Net investment income (loss) (l)

    1.65       2.25       0.13 (a) 

Portfolio turnover

    6       1       1 (n) 

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $6,984,049       $4,526,554       $2,698,739  

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(a)

Annualized.

(c)

Amount reflects a one-time reimbursement of expenses by the custodian (or former custodian) without which net investment income and performance would be lower and expenses would be higher.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(h)

In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests. Accordingly, the expense ratio for the fund reflects only those fees and expenses borne directly by the fund. Because the underlying affiliated funds have varied expense and fee levels and the fund may own different proportions of the underlying affiliated funds at different times, the amount of fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the fund will vary.

(i)

For Class R6, the period is from the class inception, October 2, 2017, through the stated period end.

(l)

The ratios and per share amounts do not include net investment income of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests.

(n)

Not annualized.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(1) Business and Organization

MFS International Diversification Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of MFS Series Trust X (the trust). The trust is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company.

The fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies.

(2) Significant Accounting Policies

General – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the preparation of these financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events occurring after the date of the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities through the date that the financial statements were issued.

The fund is a “fund of funds”, which invests the majority of its assets in other MFS mutual funds (underlying funds), which may have different fiscal year ends than the fund. The underlying funds, in turn, may engage in a number of investment techniques and practices, which involve certain risks. Certain underlying funds can invest in foreign securities, including securities of emerging market issuers. Investments in foreign securities are vulnerable to the effects of changes in the relative values of the local currency and the U.S. dollar and to the effects of changes in each country’s market, economic, industrial, political, regulatory, geopolitical, and other conditions. Investments in emerging markets can involve additional and greater risks than the risks associated with investments in developed foreign markets. Emerging markets can have less developed markets, greater custody and operational risk, less developed legal, regulatory, and accounting systems, and greater political, social, and economic instability than developed markets.

The accounting policies of the underlying funds in which the fund invests are outlined in the underlying funds’ shareholder reports, which are available without charge by calling 1-800-225-2606, at mfs.com and on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) web site at http://www.sec.gov. The underlying funds’ shareholder reports are not covered by this report.

The investment objective of each of the international stock funds held by the fund at May 31, 2020 was to seek capital appreciation.

In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) – Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”), which provides optional, temporary relief with respect to the financial reporting of contracts subject to certain types of modifications

 

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due to the planned discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR-based reference rates as of the end of 2021. The temporary relief provided by ASU 2020-04 is effective for certain reference rate-related contract modifications that occur during the period from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-04 on the fund’s investments, derivatives, debt and other contracts that will undergo reference rate-related modifications as a result of the reference rate reform.

Investment Valuations Open-end investment companies (underlying funds) are generally valued at their net asset value per share. The investments of underlying funds managed by the adviser are valued as described below. For purposes of this policy disclosure, “fund” also refers to the underlying funds in which the fund-of-funds invests.

Equity securities, including restricted equity securities and equity securities sold short, are generally valued at the last sale or official closing price on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities sold short, for which there were no sales reported for that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily ask quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Debt instruments and floating rate loans, including restricted debt instruments, are generally valued at an evaluated or composite bid as provided by a third-party pricing service. Debt instruments sold short are generally valued at an evaluated or composite mean as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Exchange-traded options are generally valued at the last sale or official closing price on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Exchange-traded options for which there were no sales reported that day are generally valued at the last daily bid quotation on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. For put options, the position may be valued at the last daily ask quotation if there are no trades reported during the day. Options not traded on an exchange are generally valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. Foreign currency options are generally valued at valuations provided by a third-party pricing service. Futures contracts are generally valued at last posted settlement price on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Futures contracts for which there were no trades that day for a particular position are generally valued at the closing bid quotation on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Forward foreign currency exchange contracts are generally valued at the mean of bid and asked prices for the time period interpolated from rates provided by a third-party pricing service for proximate time periods. Swap agreements are generally valued using valuations provided by a third-party pricing service, which for cleared swaps includes an evaluation of any trading activity at the clearinghouses. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per share. Securities and other assets generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality,

 

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coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, and other market data. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.

The Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments (including any fair valuation) to the adviser pursuant to valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. If the adviser determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available, investments are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with such procedures under the oversight of the Board of Trustees. Under the fund’s valuation policies and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for most types of debt instruments and floating rate loans and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services. In addition, investments may be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that an investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.

Various inputs are used in determining the value of the fund’s assets or liabilities. These inputs are categorized into three broad levels. In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The fund’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes

 

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unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. The following is a summary of the levels used as of May 31, 2020 in valuing the fund’s assets or liabilities:

 

Financial Instruments   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  
Mutual Funds     $21,632,370,679       $—       $—       $21,632,370,679  

For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments. Please refer to the underlying funds’ shareholder reports for further information regarding the levels used in valuing the underlying funds’ assets or liabilities.

Derivatives – The fund does not invest in derivatives directly. The fund does invest in underlying funds that may use derivatives primarily to increase or decrease exposure to a particular market or segment of the market, or security, to increase or decrease interest rate or currency exposure, or as alternatives to direct investments. Derivatives are used for hedging or non-hedging purposes. While hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains. When the underlying funds use derivatives as an investment to increase market exposure, or for hedging purposes, gains and losses from derivative instruments may be substantially greater than the derivative’s original cost.

Indemnifications – Under the fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the fund. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The fund’s maximum exposure under these agreements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the fund that have not yet occurred.

Investment Transactions and Income – Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Interest income is recorded on the accrual basis. All premium and discount is amortized or accreted for financial statement purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Distributions of income and capital gains from the underlying funds are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Recognition of net investment income by the fund is affected by the timing of the declaration of distributions by the underlying funds in which the fund invests. In determining the net gain or loss on securities sold, the cost of securities is determined on the identified cost basis.

The fund and/or the underlying funds may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received from litigation involving portfolio holdings are reflected in the Statement of Operations in realized gain/loss if the security has been disposed of by the fund or in unrealized gain/loss if the security is still held by the fund. Any other proceeds from litigation not related to portfolio holdings are reflected as other income in the Statement of Operations.

Tax Matters and Distributions – The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company, as defined under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and to distribute all of its taxable income, including realized capital gains. As a result, no provision for federal income tax is required. The fund’s federal tax returns, when filed, will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a three year

 

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period. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal and state tax returns for all open tax years and does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability.

Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Certain capital accounts in the financial statements are periodically adjusted for permanent differences in order to reflect their tax character. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or net asset value per share. Temporary differences which arise from recognizing certain items of income, expense, gain or loss in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes will reverse at some time in the future.

Book/tax differences primarily relate to wash sale loss deferrals and treating a portion of the proceeds from redemptions as a distribution for tax purposes.

The tax character of distributions declared to shareholders for the last two fiscal years is as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
Ordinary income (including any
short-term capital gains)
     $300,909,086        $298,850,815  
Long-term capital gains      230,005,549        86,839,410  
Total distributions      $530,914,635        $385,690,225  

The federal tax cost and the tax basis components of distributable earnings were as follows:

 

As of 5/31/20       
Cost of investments      $20,638,625,170  
Gross appreciation      1,360,125,130  
Gross depreciation      (366,379,621
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      $993,745,509  
Undistributed long-term capital gain      124,897,573  
Late year ordinary loss deferral      (8,962,474

Multiple Classes of Shares of Beneficial Interest – The fund offers multiple classes of shares, which differ in their respective distribution and service fees. The fund’s income, realized and unrealized gain (loss), and common expenses are allocated to shareholders based on the daily net assets of each class. Dividends are declared separately for each class. Differences in per share dividend rates are generally due to differences in separate class expenses. Class B shares will convert to Class A shares approximately eight years after purchase. Class C shares will convert to Class A shares

 

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approximately ten years after purchase. The fund’s distributions declared to shareholders as reported in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets are presented by class as follows:

 

     Year
ended
5/31/20
     Year
ended
5/31/19
 
Class A      $67,819,520        $59,207,345  
Class B      387,736        519,613  
Class C      7,858,901        8,605,640  
Class I      253,102,831        178,684,250  
Class R1      182,773        161,514  
Class R2      1,278,642        1,537,266  
Class R3      15,677,872        11,107,617  
Class R4      22,450,225        23,836,493  
Class R6      162,156,135        102,030,487  
Total      $530,914,635        $385,690,225  

(3) Transactions with Affiliates

Investment Adviser – The fund has an investment advisory agreement with MFS to provide overall investment management and related administrative services and facilities to the fund. MFS receives no compensation under this agreement; however MFS receives management fees from the underlying MFS funds.

The investment adviser has agreed in writing to pay a portion of the fund’s operating expenses, excluding distribution and service fees, interest, taxes, extraordinary expenses, brokerage and transaction costs, and investment-related expenses including fees and expenses associated with investments in investment companies and other similar investment vehicles, such that fund operating expenses do not exceed 0.10% annually of the class’s average daily net assets for each of Class A, Class B, Class C, Class I, Class R1, Class R2, Class R3, and Class R4 shares and 0.00% annually of the class’s average daily net assets for Class R6 shares. This written agreement will continue until modified by the fund’s Board of Trustees, but such agreement will continue at least until September 30, 2021. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reduction amounted to $4,602,211, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. Accordingly, the expense ratio for the fund reflects only those fees and expenses borne directly by the fund.

Distributor – MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (MFD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, as distributor, received $951,169 for the year ended May 31, 2020, as its portion of the initial sales charge on sales of Class A shares of the fund.

The Board of Trustees has adopted a distribution plan for certain share classes pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

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another component of the plan is a service fee paid to MFD. MFD may subsequently pay all, or a portion, of the distribution and/or service fees to financial intermediaries.

Distribution Plan Fee Table:

 

     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
Class A             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        $6,796,323  
Class B      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        250,127  
Class C      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        4,647,928  
Class R1      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        90,700  
Class R2      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        300,432  
Class R3             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        1,563,081  
Total Distribution and Service Fees

 

           $13,648,591  

 

(d)

In accordance with the distribution plan for certain classes, the fund pays distribution and/or service fees equal to these annual percentage rates of each class’s average daily net assets. The distribution and service fee rates disclosed by class represent the current rates in effect at the end of the reporting period. Any rate changes, if applicable, are detailed below.

(e)

The annual effective rates represent actual fees incurred under the distribution plan for the year ended May 31, 2020 based on each class’s average daily net assets. MFD has voluntarily agreed to rebate a portion of each class’s 0.25% service fee attributable to accounts for which there is no financial intermediary specified on the account except for accounts attributable to MFS or its affiliates’ seed money. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this rebate amounted to $9,582, $45, $300, and $72 for Class A, Class B, Class C, and Class R3, respectively, and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Certain Class A shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) in the event of a shareholder redemption within 18 months of purchase. Class B shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within six years of purchase. Class C shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within 12 months of purchase. All contingent deferred sales charges are paid to MFD and during the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

     Amount  
Class A      $68,118  
Class B      23,002  
Class C      59,121  

Shareholder Servicing Agent – MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, receives a fee from the fund for its services as shareholder servicing agent calculated as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the fund as determined periodically under the supervision of the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee was $343,803, which equated to 0.0017% annually of the fund’s average daily net assets. MFSC also receives payment from the fund for out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs which may be paid to affiliated and unaffiliated service providers. Class R6 shares do not incur sub-accounting fees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, these out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs amounted to $14,371,217.

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services agreement, the fund reimburses MFS the costs incurred to provide these services. The fund pays an annual fixed amount of $17,500. The administrative services fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.0001% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Trustees’ and Officers’ Compensation – The fund pays compensation to independent Trustees in the form of a retainer, attendance fees, and additional compensation to Board and Committee chairpersons. The fund does not pay compensation directly to Trustees or officers of the fund who are also officers of the investment adviser, all of whom receive remuneration from MFS for their services to the fund. Certain officers and Trustees of the fund are officers or directors of MFS, MFD, and MFSC.

Other – This fund and certain other funds managed by MFS (the funds) had entered into a service agreement (the ISO Agreement) which provided for payment of fees solely by the funds to Tarantino LLC in return for the provision of services of an Independent Senior Officer (ISO) for the funds. Frank L. Tarantino served as the ISO and was an officer of the funds and the sole member of Tarantino LLC. Effective June 30, 2019, Mr. Tarantino retired from his position as ISO for the funds, and the ISO Agreement was terminated. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee paid by the fund under this agreement was $8,340 and is included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations. MFS had agreed to bear all expenses associated with office space, other administrative support, and supplies provided to the ISO.

The fund invests in the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio which is managed by MFS and seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity. This money market fund does not pay a management fee to MFS but does incur investment and operating costs.

On December 14, 2018, MFS redeemed 2,661 shares of Class R6 for an aggregate amount of $47,602.

(4) Portfolio Securities

For the year ended May 31, 2020, purchases and sales of shares of underlying funds, excluding the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, aggregated $5,778,802,529 and $1,239,894,391, respectively.

 

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(5) Shares of Beneficial Interest

The fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest. Transactions in fund shares were as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares sold            

Class A

     41,250,536        $798,861,213        37,275,199        $698,858,943  

Class B

     7,171        137,727        147,932        2,762,980  

Class C

     4,774,099        91,525,185        6,603,147        120,816,691  

Class I

     266,430,478        5,141,105,282        244,579,663        4,604,731,408  

Class R1

     128,033        2,376,947        101,380        1,823,421  

Class R2

     1,180,186        22,541,074        1,210,082        22,289,152  

Class R3

     19,364,507        370,821,785        12,690,756        233,325,380  

Class R4

     11,276,261        221,195,859        13,900,416        260,587,719  

Class R6

     175,315,187        3,423,958,035        126,258,985        2,388,942,482  
     519,726,458        $10,072,523,107        442,767,560        $8,334,138,176  
Shares issued to shareholders in
reinvestment of distributions

 

        

Class A

     3,040,475        $63,363,512        3,316,888        $55,723,723  

Class B

     18,040        373,253        30,091        501,316  

Class C

     341,310        6,969,545        472,709        7,780,783  

Class I

     10,366,283        218,210,265        9,169,367        155,512,461  

Class R1

     9,111        182,773        9,970        161,514  

Class R2

     53,169        1,090,507        62,334        1,030,381  

Class R3

     758,076        15,677,014        666,324        11,107,617  

Class R4

     995,391        20,883,293        1,324,233        22,379,530  

Class R6

     7,405,196        155,953,430        5,894,049        99,963,068  
     22,987,051        $482,703,592        20,945,965        $354,160,393  
Shares reacquired

 

        

Class A

     (27,918,023      $(524,778,931      (24,193,272      $(452,003,567

Class B

     (410,250      (7,733,270      (467,270      (8,681,058

Class C

     (8,128,098      (150,652,720      (8,189,236      (149,261,516

Class I

     (169,321,688      (3,154,741,089      (100,049,126      (1,867,595,903

Class R1

     (186,673      (3,404,779      (102,751      (1,870,354

Class R2

     (1,727,193      (33,092,520      (1,730,887      (31,842,175

Class R3

     (9,499,079      (183,036,430      (5,184,900      (96,855,612

Class R4

     (15,526,585      (308,304,175      (21,718,945      (409,452,535

Class R6

     (54,979,151      (1,045,351,602      (28,476,598      (537,920,158
     (287,696,740      $(5,411,095,516      (190,112,985      $(3,555,482,878

 

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     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Net change

 

        

Class A

     16,372,988        $337,445,794        16,398,815        $302,579,099  

Class B

     (385,039      (7,222,290      (289,247      (5,416,762

Class C

     (3,012,689      (52,157,990      (1,113,380      (20,664,042

Class I

     107,475,073        2,204,574,458        153,699,904        2,892,647,966  

Class R1

     (49,529      (845,059      8,599        114,581  

Class R2

     (493,838      (9,460,939      (458,471      (8,522,642

Class R3

     10,623,504        203,462,369        8,172,180        147,577,385  

Class R4

     (3,254,933      (66,225,023      (6,494,296      (126,485,286

Class R6

     127,741,232        2,534,559,863        103,676,436        1,950,985,392  
     255,016,769        $5,144,131,183        273,600,540        $5,132,815,691  

Class T shares were not publicly available for sale during the period. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective June 1, 2019, purchases of the fund’s Class B shares are closed to new and existing investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

(6) Line of Credit

The fund and certain other funds managed by MFS participate in a $1.25 billion unsecured committed line of credit, subject to a $1 billion sublimit, provided by a syndicate of banks under a credit agreement. Borrowings may be made for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, generally at a rate equal to the highest of one month LIBOR, the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus an agreed upon spread. A commitment fee, based on the average daily, unused portion of the committed line of credit, is allocated among the participating funds. In addition, the fund and other funds managed by MFS have established unsecured uncommitted borrowing arrangements with certain banks for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, at rates equal to customary reference rates plus an agreed upon spread. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund’s commitment fee and interest expense were $100,938 and $0, respectively, and are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

 

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(7) Investments in Affiliated Issuers

An affiliated issuer may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:

 

Affiliated Issuers   Beginning
Value
    Purchases     Sales
Proceeds
    Realized
Gain
(Loss)
    Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
    Ending
Value
 
MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund     $1,697,864,882       $2,079,120,361       $168,831,960       $(14,354,553     $(390,413,451     $3,203,385,279  
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio     12,614,829       624,237,898       578,004,642       (14,571     (805     58,832,709  
MFS International Growth Fund     4,159,528,038       1,058,414,771       464,562,207       (18,003,634     102,579,983       4,837,956,951  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund     4,161,412,989       1,040,836,917       519,276,355       (52,082,484     239,234,227       4,870,125,294  
MFS International New Discovery Fund     1,670,998,554       626,841,661       14,510,868       (1,279,481     (92,759,203     2,189,290,663  
MFS Research International Fund     4,991,711,456       1,490,601,680       72,713,001       (6,586,230     69,765,878       6,472,779,783  
    $16,694,130,748       $6,920,053,288       $1,817,899,033       $(92,320,953     $(71,593,371     $21,632,370,679  
Affiliated Issuers                               Dividend
Income
    Capital Gain
Distributions
 
MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund

 

          $61,612,150       $—  
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

 

        226,621        
MFS International Growth Fund

 

          54,216,941       18,433,708  
MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

 

          57,864,675       139,450,190  
MFS International New Discovery Fund

 

          27,823,984       30,606,792  
MFS Research International Fund

 

                            127,004,422        
          $328,748,793       $188,490,690  

(8) Impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic related to the global spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in December 2019, has resulted in significant disruptions to global business activity and the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the securities and commodities markets in general. This pandemic, the full effects of which are still unknown, has resulted in substantial market volatility and may have adversely impacted the prices and liquidity of the fund’s investments and the fund’s performance.

(9) Subsequent Event

The Board of Trustees of the fund has approved modifications to the underlying funds and underlying fund target weightings of the fund. The transition to the revised underlying fund allocations will commence on or about June 30, 2020, and will be completed by December 31, 2020, although these dates could change based on market conditions and other factors. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Trustees of MFS Series Trust X and the Shareholders of MFS International Diversification Fund:

Opinion on the Financial Statements and Financial Highlights

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of MFS International Diversification Fund (the “Fund”), including the portfolio of investments, as of May 31, 2020, the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, and the related notes. In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund as of May 31, 2020, and the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements and financial highlights are the responsibility of the Fund’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements and financial highlights based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Fund in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Fund is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Fund’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements and financial highlights, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and financial highlights. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements and financial highlights. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2020, by

 

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correspondence with the underlying funds’ transfer agent. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

Boston, Massachusetts

July 17, 2020

We have served as the auditor of one or more of the MFS investment companies since 1924.

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS — IDENTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND

The Trustees and Officers of the Trust, as of July 1, 2020, are listed below, together with their principal occupations during the past five years. (Their titles may have varied during that period.) The address of each Trustee and Officer is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

INTERESTED TRUSTEES
Robert J. Manning (k) (age 56)   Trustee   February 2004   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Chairman (since January 2017); Director; Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (until 2015); Co-Chief Executive Officer (2015-2016)   N/A

Robin A. Stelmach (k)

(age 58)

  Trustee   January 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice Chair (since January 2017); Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (until January 2017)   N/A
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES    

John P. Kavanaugh

(age 65)

  Trustee and Chair of Trustees   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A

Steven E. Buller

(age 68)

  Trustee   February 2014   134   Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman (2014-2015); Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Standing Advisory Group, Member (until 2014); BlackRock, Inc. (investment management), Managing Director (until 2014), BlackRock Finco UK (investment management), Director (until 2014)   N/A

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

John A. Caroselli

(age 66)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   JC Global Advisors, LLC (management consulting), President (since 2015); First Capital Corporation (commercial finance), Executive Vice President (until 2015)   N/A

Maureen R. Goldfarb

(age 65)

  Trustee   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A
Peter D. Jones
(age 64)
  Trustee   January 2019   134   Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (investment management), President (until 2015); Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (investment management), Chairman (until 2015)   N/A
James W. Kilman, Jr. (age 59)   Trustee   January 2019   134   Burford Capital Limited (finance and investment management), Chief Financial Officer (since 2019); KielStrand Capital LLC (family office), Chief Executive Officer (since 2016); Morgan Stanley & Co. (financial services), Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Co-Head of Diversified Financials Coverage – Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group (until 2016)   Alpha-En Corporation, Director (2016-2019)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

Clarence Otis, Jr.

(age 64)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   Darden Restaurants, Inc., Chief Executive Officer (until 2014)   VF Corporation, Director; Verizon Communications, Inc., Director; The Travelers Companies, Director; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Director (until 2015)

Maryanne L. Roepke

(age 64)

  Trustee   May 2014   134   American Century Investments (investment management), Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (until 2014)   N/A
Laurie J. Thomsen
(age 62)
  Trustee   March 2005   134   Private investor   The Travelers Companies, Director; Dycom Industries, Inc., Director (since 2015)

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

OFFICERS      
Christopher R. Bohane (k) (age 46)   Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Kino Clark (k)

(age 52)

 

Assistant

Treasurer

  January 2012   134  

Massachusetts Financial

Services Company, Vice President

John W. Clark, Jr. (k)

(age 53)

  Assistant Treasurer   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President (since March 2017); Deutsche Bank (financial services), Department Head – Treasurer’s Office (until February 2017)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

Thomas H. Connors (k)

(age 60)

 

Assistant

Secretary and Assistant Clerk

  September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel
David L. DiLorenzo (k)
(age 51)
  President   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

Heidi W. Hardin (k)

(age 52)

  Secretary and Clerk   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Vice President and General Counsel (since March 2017); Harris Associates (investment management), General Counsel (from September 2015 to January 2017); Janus Capital Management LLC (investment management), Senior Vice President and General Counsel (until September 2015)

Brian E. Langenfeld (k)

(age 47)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  June 2006   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel

Amanda S. Mooradian (k)

(age 41)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  September 2018   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel
Susan A. Pereira (k)
(age 49)
  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Kasey L. Phillips (k)

(age 49)

  Assistant Treasurer   September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

Matthew A. Stowe (k)

(age 45)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   October 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Martin J. Wolin (k)

(age 52)

  Chief Compliance Officer   July 2015   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (since July 2015); Mercer (financial service provider), Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, North America and Latin America (until June 2015)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

James O. Yost (k)
(age 60)
  Treasurer   September 1990   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

 

(h)

Date first appointed to serve as Trustee/officer of an MFS Fund. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. For the period from December 15, 2004 until February 22, 2005, Mr. Manning served as Advisory Trustee. From January 2012 through December 2016, Messrs. DiLorenzo and Yost served as Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer of the Funds, respectively.

(j)

Directorships or trusteeships of companies required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., “public companies”).

(k)

“Interested person” of the Trust within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (referred to as the 1940 Act), which is the principal federal law governing investment companies like the fund, as a result of a position with MFS. The address of MFS is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

Each Trustee (other than Messrs. Jones and Kilman) has been elected by shareholders and each Trustee and Officer holds office until his or her successor is chosen and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal. Messrs. Jones and Kilman became Trustees of the Funds on January 1, 2019. The Trust does not hold annual meetings for the purpose of electing Trustees, and Trustees are not elected for fixed terms. Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of any Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20 years of service on the Board).

Messrs. Buller, Kilman and Otis and Ms. Roepke are members of the Trust’s Audit Committee.

Each of the Interested Trustees and certain Officers hold comparable officer positions with certain affiliates of MFS.

The Statement of Additional Information for a Fund includes further information about the Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

 

Investment Adviser   Custodian

Massachusetts Financial Services Company
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

State Street Bank and Trust Company

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111-2900

Distributor   Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

Deloitte & Touche LLP

200 Berkeley Street

Boston, MA 02116

Portfolio Manager(s)  
Camille Humphries Lee  

 

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STATEMENT REGARDING LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) as required by Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated MFS as the administrator of the Program. The Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage the liquidity risk of the fund. Liquidity risk is the risk that the fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by the fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interests.

MFS provided a written report to the Board for consideration at its April 2020 meeting that addressed the operation of the Program and provided an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of the Program during the period from the adoption of the Program on December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (the “Covered Period”). The report concluded that during the Covered Period the Program had operated effectively and had adequately and effectively been implemented to assess and manage the fund’s liquidity risk. MFS also reported that there were no liquidity events that impacted the fund or its ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders during the Covered Period.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Further information on liquidity risk, and other principal risks to which an investment in the fund may be subject, can be found in the prospectus.

 

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND INFORMATION

MFS votes proxies on behalf of the fund pursuant to proxy voting policies and procedures that are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-225-2606, by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available by August 31 of each year without charge by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO DISCLOSURE

The fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A shareholder can obtain the portfolio holdings report for the first and third quarters of the fund’s fiscal year at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name and then selecting the “Resources” tab and clicking on “Prospectus and Reports”.

FURTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, MFS may post important information about the fund or the MFS funds on the MFS web site (mfs.com). This information is available at https://www.mfs.com/en-us/what-we-do/announcements.html or at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name.

INFORMATION ABOUT FUND CONTRACTS AND LEGAL CLAIMS

The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, 529 program manager (if applicable), and custodian who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the Trust’s By-Laws and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the MFS Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (unaudited)

The fund will notify shareholders of amounts for use in preparing 2020 income tax forms in January 2021. The following information is provided pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as qualified dividend income eligible to be taxed at the same rate as long-term capital gain.

The fund designates $274,265,000 as capital gain dividends paid during the fiscal year.

Income derived from foreign sources was $305,561,152. The fund intends to pass through foreign tax credits of $37,893,381 for the fiscal year.

 

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Why?   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

 

What?  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

 Social Security number and account balances

 Account transactions and transaction history

 Checking account information and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

How?   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons MFS chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your
personal information
  Does MFS
share?
  Can you limit
this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes –

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

  Yes   No

For our marketing purposes –

to offer our products and services to you

  No   We don’t share

For joint marketing with other

financial companies

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your transactions and experiences

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your creditworthiness

  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

   
Questions?   Call 800-225-2606 or go to mfs.com.

 

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   MFS Funds, MFS Investment Management, MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., and MFS Heritage Trust Company.

 

What we do
How does MFS protect my personal information?   To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include procedural, electronic, and physical safeguards for the protection of the personal information we collect about you.
How does MFS collect my personal information?  

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

 open an account or provide account information

 direct us to buy securities or direct us to sell your securities

 make a wire transfer

 

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

 sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness

 affiliates from using your information to market to you

 sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 

Definitions
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share personal information with affiliates, except for everyday business purposes as described on page one of this notice.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

 MFS doesnt jointly market.

 

 

Other important information
If you own an MFS product or receive an MFS service in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, their privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.

 

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Annual Report

May 31, 2020

 

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     MFS® International Growth Fund

 

LOGO

 

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the fund’s annual and semiannual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the complete reports will be made available on the fund’s Web site (funds.mfs.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a Web site link to access the report.

If you are already signed up to receive shareholder reports by email, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may sign up to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund by email by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you hold your shares directly with the fund, by calling 1-800-225-2606 or by logging on to MFS Access at mfs.com.

Beginning on January 1, 2019, you may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. Contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the fund, you can call 1-800-225-2606 or send an email request to orderliterature@mfs.com to let the fund know that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary or all funds held with the MFS fund complex if you invest directly.

 

FGF-ANN

 


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MFS® International Growth Fund

 

CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Executive Chair     1  
Portfolio composition     2  
Management review     4  
Performance summary     7  
Expense table     10  
Portfolio of investments     12  
Statement of assets and liabilities     16  
Statement of operations     18  
Statements of changes in net assets     19  
Financial highlights     20  
Notes to financial statements     26  
Report of independent registered public accounting firm     37  
Trustees and officers     39  
Statement regarding liquidity risk management program     44  
Proxy voting policies and information     45  
Quarterly portfolio disclosure     45  
Further information     45  
Information about fund contracts and legal claims     45  
Federal tax information     45  
MFS® privacy notice     46  
Contact information     back cover  

 

The report is prepared for the general information of shareholders. It is authorized for distribution to prospective investors only when preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

 

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LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR

 

Dear Shareholders:

Markets experienced dramatic swings in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill for several months. Optimism over the

development of vaccines and therapeutics, along with a decline in cases in countries that had been affected by the outbreak early on, brightened the economic and market outlook during the second quarter, as did the phased reopening of US states. However, a great deal of uncertainty remains, including the possibility of a second wave of cases later this year.

Global central banks have taken aggressive, coordinated steps to cushion the economic and market fallout related to the virus, and governments are deploying unprecedented levels of fiscal stimulus. As uncertainty recedes, these measures can help build a supportive environment and encourage economic recovery;

however, if markets disconnect from fundamentals, they can also sow the seeds of instability. In the aftermath of the crisis, societal changes may be likely as households, businesses, and governments adjust to a new reality, and these alterations could change the investment landscape. For investors, events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrate the importance of having a deep understanding of company fundamentals, and we have built our global research platform to do just that.

Here at MFS®, we aim to help our clients navigate the growing complexity of the markets and world economies. Our long-term investment philosophy and commitment to the responsible allocation of capital allow us to tune out the noise and uncover what we believe are the best, most durable investment opportunities in the market. Through our powerful global investment platform, we combine collective expertise, thoughtful risk management, and long-term discipline to create sustainable value for investors.

Respectfully,

 

LOGO

Robert J. Manning

Executive Chair

MFS Investment Management

July 17, 2020

The opinions expressed in this letter are subject to change and may not be relied upon for investment advice. No forecasts can be guaranteed.

 

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PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION

 

Portfolio structure

 

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Top ten holdings

 

Nestle S.A.     5.6%  
Roche Holding AG     5.5%  
SAP AG     3.6%  
Novartis AG     3.5%  
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE     3.3%  
AIA Group Ltd.     3.0%  
L’Oréal     2.9%  
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., ADR     2.8%  
Tencent Holdings Ltd.     2.5%  
Schneider Electric SE     2.5%  
GICS equity sectors (g)

 

Consumer Staples     20.2%  
Health Care     15.9%  
Information Technology     14.4%  
Industrials     13.7%  
Materials     10.7%  
Consumer Discretionary     10.0%  
Financials     8.0%  
Communication Services     4.3%  
Energy     0.6%  
Utilities     0.3%  
Issuer country weightings (x)

 

France     18.9%  
Switzerland     15.6%  
United Kingdom     9.1%  
Germany     8.9%  
Japan     8.5%  
United States     7.5%  
Canada     7.1%  
India     3.4%  
Taiwan     3.4%  
Other Countries     17.6%  
Currency exposure weightings (y)

 

Euro     33.0%  
Swiss Franc     15.6%  
British Pound Sterling     10.1%  
Japanese Yen     8.5%  
United States Dollar     8.1%  
Hong Kong Dollar     5.8%  
Canadian Dollar     4.7%  
Indian Rupee     3.4%  
Taiwan Dollar     3.4%  
Other Currencies     7.4%  
 

 

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(g)

The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and/or is the exclusive property of MSCI, Inc. and S&P Global Market Intelligence Inc. (“S&P Global Market Intelligence”). GICS is a service mark of MSCI and S&P Global Market Intelligence and has been licensed for use by MFS.

(x)

Represents the portfolio’s exposure to issuer countries as a percentage of a portfolio’s net assets. For purposes of this presentation, United States includes Cash & Cash Equivalents.

(y)

Represents the portfolio’s exposure to a particular currency as a percentage of a portfolio’s net assets. For purposes of this presentation, United States Dollar includes Cash & Cash Equivalents.

Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. Please see the Statement of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS International Growth Fund (fund) provided a total return of 4.24%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of 7.37% for the fund’s benchmark, the MSCI All Country World (ex-US) Growth Index (net div).

Market Environment

Markets experienced an extraordinarily sharp selloff and in many cases an unusually rapid partial recovery late in the period. Central banks and fiscal authorities undertook astonishing levels of stimulus to offset the economic effects of government-imposed social-distancing measures implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19. Despite policymakers’ best efforts, a global recession has undoubtedly begun.

Compounding market uncertainty earlier in the coronavirus pandemic was a crash in the price of crude oil due to a sharp drop in global demand and a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts, which resulted in a price war. The subsequent decline in prices undercut oil exporters, many of which are in emerging markets, as well as a large segment of the high-yield credit market. OPEC+ later agreed on output cuts, which – along with the gradual reopening of some major economies and resultant boost in demand – helped stabilize the price of crude.

Around the world, central banks responded quickly and massively to the crisis with programs to improve liquidity and support markets. They proved largely successful in helping to restore market function, easing volatility and stimulating a market rebound at the end of the period. Monetary easing measures were complemented by large fiscal stimulus plans in developed countries. Even emerging market countries were able to implement countercyclical policies – a departure from the usual market-dictated response to risk-off crises – due to relatively manageable external liabilities and balances of payments in many countries, along with persistently low inflation.

As is often the case in a crisis, market vulnerabilities were revealed. For example, companies that added significant leverage to their balance sheets in recent years by borrowing to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks may find it difficult to follow that path in the future, and investors may not reward them if they do. Recapitalizations by some of these highly leveraged firms could dilute existing shareholders. Very long supply chains designed to squeeze out every bit of savings may be shifted closer to home markets if companies seek to put resiliency before cost after a series of supply disruptions. The aftereffects of the pandemic could affect consumer, business and government behavior in ways difficult to forecast. Also, while markets have regained lost ground more swiftly than expected, any economic recovery is likely to be protracted.

Detractors from Performance

Stock selection in the information technology, health care and financials sectors weakened performance relative to the MSCI All Country World (ex-US) Growth Index. Within the information technology sector, not holding shares of lithography systems manufacturer ASML (Netherlands) and cloud-based e-commerce platform operator

 

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Management Review – continued

 

Shopify (Canada) held back relative returns as both stocks outperformed the benchmark. Although security selection in the health care sector also weighed on relative results, there were no individual securities within this sector that were among the fund’s top relative detractors. Within the financials sector, holding shares of Indian banking firm HDFC Bank (b), and the fund’s overweight positions in shares of insurance company AIA Group (Hong Kong) and banking services provider Grupo Financiero Banorte (Mexico), also detracted from relative performance. Stocks in the financial services industry generally came under pressure at the onset of the pandemic, as central banks across the globe reduced interest rates and provided other forms of stimulus in response to a rapid deterioration of economic conditions.

Elsewhere, the fund’s overweight positions in diversified industrial manufacturer Rolls-Royce (United Kingdom), food processing company Danone (France) and oil and gas exploration company Oil Search (Australia) dampened relative results. Shares of Rolls-Royce Holdings, already under pressure from a slow-down in the wide-body aircraft market prior to the pandemic, declined further as the COVID-19 outbreak severely halted air travel across the globe. The timing of the fund’s position in shares of internet-based, multiple services company Tencent Holdings (China), as well as an underweight position in shares of online and mobile commerce company Alibaba Group (h) (China), also hindered relative performance. The underweight position in shares of Alibaba hurt relative returns as the stock outperformed the benchmark, in part, due to robust e-commerce demand experienced during the pandemic.

Contributors to Performance

Not holding any securities within the poor-performing real estate sector supported relative results. There were no individual stocks within this sector that were among the fund’s top relative contributors over the reporting period.

Stock selection in the industrials sector also benefited relative returns. Not holding shares of poor-performing aerospace company Airbus (France), an overweight position in electrical distribution equipment manufacturer Schneider Electric (France) and holding shares of industrial auctioneer Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers (b) (Canada) lifted relative performance within this sector. The stock price of Schneider Electric performed well prior to the pandemic, as strength in its energy management division helped drive solid business results. Late in the period, the stock recovered from pandemic-induced lows as management highlighted the company’s diverse business divisions, such as its software and services division, and its cost management plans that they believe will help the firm weather the global recession. An overweight position in the materials sector further contributed to relative results. However, there were no individual stocks within this sector that were among the fund’s top relative contributors over the reporting period.

Stocks in other sectors that aided relative performance included overweight positions in pharmaceutical and diagnostic company Roche Holding (Switzerland), internet search engine and online computer games provider NAVER (South Korea), semiconductor manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (Taiwan) and medical products and equipment manufacturer Terumo (Japan). The stock price of NAVER rose steadily throughout the period on the back of solid earnings that were driven primarily by strength in search and display advertising revenue. Additionally, holding shares of

 

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Management Review – continued

 

online betting and gaming operator Flutter Entertainment (b) (United Kingdom), and not holding shares of both beverage manufacturer Anheuser-Busch InBev (Belgium) and Brazilian banking firm Banco Bradesco, helped relative returns.

During the reporting period, the fund’s relative currency exposure, resulting primarily from exposure differences between the fund and the benchmark to holdings of securities denominated in foreign currencies, was a contributor to relative performance. All of MFS’ investment decisions are driven by the fundamentals of each individual opportunity and as such, it is common for our portfolios to have different currency exposure than the benchmark.

Respectfully,

Portfolio Manager(s)

David Antonelli, Matthew Barrett, and Kevin Dwan

Note to Shareholders: Effective April 15, 2021, David Antonelli will be removed as a Portfolio Manager of the Fund.

 

(b)

Security is not a benchmark constituent.

(h)

Security was not held in the portfolio at period end.

The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover and do not necessarily reflect the views of MFS or any other person in the MFS organization. These views are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions, and MFS disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice or an indication of trading intent on behalf of any MFS portfolio. References to specific securities are not recommendations of such securities, and may not be representative of any MFS portfolio’s current or future investments.

 

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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY THROUGH 5/31/20

The following chart illustrates a representative class of the fund’s historical performance in comparison to its benchmark(s). Performance results include the deduction of the maximum applicable sales charge and reflect the percentage change in net asset value, including reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. The performance of other share classes will be greater than or less than that of the class depicted below. Benchmarks are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. Benchmark returns do not reflect sales charges, commissions or expenses. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value fluctuate so your shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost; current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. The performance shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes, if any, that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

Growth of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment

 

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Total Returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class    Class Inception Date   1-yr   5-yr   10-yr     
    A    10/24/95   4.24%   5.52%   7.45%    
    B    10/24/95   3.44%   4.73%   6.65%    
    C    7/01/96   3.46%   4.73%   6.65%    
    I    1/02/97   4.51%   5.78%   7.72%    
    R1    10/01/08   3.45%   4.73%   6.64%    
    R2    10/01/08   3.95%   5.25%   7.18%    
    R3    10/01/08   4.22%   5.51%   7.45%    
    R4    10/01/08   4.48%   5.77%   7.71%    
    R6    5/01/06   4.60%   5.89%   7.79%    
Comparative benchmark(s)                
     MSCI All Country World (ex-US) Growth Index (net div) (f)   7.37%   4.02%   6.43%     
Average annual with sales charge                
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
  (1.76)%   4.28%   6.82%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
  (0.56)%   4.40%   6.65%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
  2.46%   4.73%   6.65%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 shares do not have a sales charge.

On May 30, 2012, Class W shares were redesignated Class R5 shares. Total returns for Class R5 shares prior to May 30, 2012 reflect the performance history of Class W shares which had different fees and expenses than Class R5 shares. Effective August 26, 2016, Class R5 shares were renamed Class R6 shares.

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

Benchmark Definition(s)

MSCI All Country World (ex-US) Growth Index (net div) – a market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure equity market performance for growth securities in the global developed and emerging markets, excluding the U.S. Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) makes no express or implied warranties or representations and shall have no liability whatsoever with respect to any MSCI data contained herein. The MSCI data may not be further redistributed or used as a basis for other indices or any securities or financial products. This report is not approved, reviewed, or produced by MSCI.

It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

 

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Performance Summary – continued

 

Notes to Performance Summary

Average annual total return represents the average annual change in value for each share class for the periods presented.

Performance results reflect any applicable expense subsidies and waivers in effect during the periods shown. Without such subsidies and waivers the fund’s performance results would be less favorable. Please see the prospectus and financial statements for complete details.

Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and may differ from amounts reported in the financial highlights.

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

 

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EXPENSE TABLE

Fund expenses borne by the shareholders during the period, December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on certain purchase or redemption payments, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and service (12b-1) fees; and other fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the following table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the following table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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Share
Class
      

Annualized
Expense

Ratio

    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During
Period (p)
12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     1.08%       $1,000.00       $939.93       $5.24  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.08%       $1,000.00       $1,019.60       $5.45  
B   Actual     1.83%       $1,000.00       $936.43       $8.86  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.83%       $1,000.00       $1,015.85       $9.22  
C   Actual     1.83%       $1,000.00       $936.43       $8.86  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.83%       $1,000.00       $1,015.85       $9.22  
I   Actual     0.83%       $1,000.00       $941.22       $4.03  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.83%       $1,000.00       $1,020.85       $4.19  
R1   Actual     1.83%       $1,000.00       $936.45       $8.86  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.83%       $1,000.00       $1,015.85       $9.22  
R2   Actual     1.33%       $1,000.00       $938.82       $6.45  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.33%       $1,000.00       $1,018.35       $6.71  
R3   Actual     1.08%       $1,000.00       $939.85       $5.24  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.08%       $1,000.00       $1,019.60       $5.45  
R4   Actual     0.83%       $1,000.00       $941.04       $4.03  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.83%       $1,000.00       $1,020.85       $4.19  
R6   Actual     0.73%       $1,000.00       $941.55       $3.54  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.73%       $1,000.00       $1,021.35       $3.69  

 

(h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

(p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

5/31/20

The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - 98.1%               
Aerospace - 0.6%               
Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC      19,790,740     $ 66,776,177  
Airlines - 0.3%               
Japan Airport Terminal Co. Ltd. (l)      763,200     $ 33,544,142  
Alcoholic Beverages - 4.1%               
Diageo PLC      7,305,682     $ 252,639,570  
Pernod Ricard S.A.      1,263,088       197,246,229  
    

 

 

 
             $ 449,885,799  
Apparel Manufacturers - 4.9%               
Burberry Group PLC      3,183,178     $ 59,120,493  
Kering S.A.      214,800       112,603,396  
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE      875,313       366,546,306  
    

 

 

 
             $ 538,270,195  
Automotive - 0.7%               
Koito Manufacturing Co. Ltd.      1,809,800     $ 76,607,511  
Business Services - 5.7%               
Accenture PLC, “A”      1,003,819     $ 202,389,987  
Brenntag AG      1,654,702       87,082,812  
Compass Group PLC      4,603,158       67,664,780  
Experian PLC      5,419,097       189,202,123  
Infosys Technologies Ltd., ADR      8,500,813       77,357,398  
    

 

 

 
             $ 623,697,100  
Computer Software - 4.9%               
Dassault Systemes S.A.      352,414     $ 59,825,307  
OBIC Co. Ltd.      463,200       80,231,591  
SAP SE      3,203,253       398,837,278  
    

 

 

 
             $ 538,894,176  
Computer Software - Systems - 3.6%               
Amadeus IT Group S.A.      1,473,536     $ 77,158,706  
Hitachi Ltd.      7,020,700       224,920,196  
NICE Systems Ltd., ADR (a)      513,540       95,590,336  
    

 

 

 
             $ 397,669,238  

 

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Portfolio of Investments – continued

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Consumer Products - 6.3%               
Kao Corp.      1,381,800     $ 110,792,569  
L’Oréal      1,100,626       321,371,188  
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC      2,881,616       257,764,446  
    

 

 

 
             $ 689,928,203  
Consumer Services - 0.4%               
51job, Inc., ADR (a)      718,774     $ 46,353,735  
Containers - 0.3%               
Brambles Ltd.      4,770,062     $ 37,009,192  
Electrical Equipment - 3.9%               
Legrand S.A.      829,876     $ 56,694,453  
Prysmian S.p.A.      4,479,153       95,705,940  
Schneider Electric SE      2,742,880       273,635,333  
    

 

 

 
             $ 426,035,726  
Electronics - 3.4%               
Delta Electronics, Inc.      12,939,000     $ 59,469,842  
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., ADR      6,145,097       309,282,732  
    

 

 

 
             $ 368,752,574  
Energy - Independent - 0.6%               
Oil Search Ltd.      29,044,551     $ 67,371,546  
Food & Beverages - 8.0%               
Danone S.A.      3,818,555     $ 261,753,430  
Nestle S.A.      5,706,027       617,787,847  
    

 

 

 
             $ 879,541,277  
Gaming & Lodging - 1.0%               
Flutter Entertainment PLC (l)      838,765     $ 106,487,874  
General Merchandise - 0.3%               
Walmart de Mexico S.A.B. de C.V.      11,576,635     $ 28,896,559  
Insurance - 3.0%               
AIA Group Ltd.      41,077,200     $ 333,058,378  
Internet - 4.3%               
NAVER Corp.      953,670     $ 174,031,588  
Tencent Holdings Ltd.      5,239,000       277,376,714  
Yandex N.V., “A” (a)      431,928       17,376,463  
    

 

 

 
             $ 468,784,765  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Leisure & Toys - 0.8%               
BANDAI NAMCO Holdings, Inc.      1,473,700     $ 81,935,233  
Machinery & Tools - 2.9%               
GEA Group AG      2,688,317     $ 79,945,843  
Ingersoll Rand, Inc. (a)      2,400,407       67,691,478  
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers, Inc.      4,038,960       174,805,989  
    

 

 

 
             $ 322,443,310  
Medical & Health Technology & Services - 0.3%               
Alcon, Inc. (a)      567,810     $ 36,706,539  
Medical Equipment - 5.4%               
EssilorLuxottica (a)      1,758,121     $ 227,029,334  
Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (a)      103,190       82,036,050  
QIAGEN N.V. (a)      2,422,010       105,687,025  
Terumo Corp.      4,570,300       179,260,689  
    

 

 

 
             $ 594,013,098  
Natural Gas - Distribution - 0.3%               
China Resources Gas Group Ltd.      5,858,000     $ 31,929,369  
Other Banks & Diversified Financials - 5.0%               
AEON Financial Service Co. Ltd.      4,561,300     $ 51,303,787  
Credicorp Ltd.      331,169       45,641,711  
DBS Group Holdings Ltd.      8,600,900       118,530,240  
Element Fleet Management Corp.      10,372,510       73,753,040  
Grupo Financiero Banorte S.A. de C.V.      18,224,022       55,269,137  
HDFC Bank Ltd.      14,588,309       183,597,630  
Komercni Banka A.S. (a)      808,195       17,302,605  
    

 

 

 
             $ 545,398,150  
Pharmaceuticals - 12.2%               
Bayer AG      2,685,614     $ 179,391,288  
Novartis AG      4,441,433       385,026,072  
Novo Nordisk A.S., “B”      2,576,700       167,992,857  
Roche Holding AG      1,740,464       604,156,684  
    

 

 

 
             $ 1,336,566,901  
Precious Metals & Minerals - 2.4%               
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.      2,371,113     $ 151,702,324  
Franco-Nevada Corp.      826,595       116,024,076  
    

 

 

 
             $ 267,726,400  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Railroad & Shipping - 2.7%               
Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd.      8,140,331     $ 34,858,105  
Canadian National Railway Co.      3,057,272       263,047,683  
    

 

 

 
             $ 297,905,788  
Specialty Chemicals - 8.2%               
Akzo Nobel N.V.      1,639,113     $ 134,540,037  
Croda International PLC      1,614,112       103,819,227  
L’Air Liquide S.A.      1,480,624       201,488,902  
Linde PLC      1,304,358       261,708,488  
Sika AG      436,646       75,030,368  
Symrise AG      1,163,139       127,048,462  
    

 

 

 
             $ 903,635,484  
Tobacco - 1.6%               
ITC Ltd. (a)      29,732,048     $ 77,597,337  
Japan Tobacco, Inc.      4,692,900       93,013,805  
    

 

 

 
             $ 170,611,142  
Total Common Stocks (Identified Cost, $9,094,612,494)

 

  $ 10,766,435,581  
Investment Companies (h) - 1.2%               
Money Market Funds - 1.2%               
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)
(Identified Cost, $136,257,638)
     136,248,243     $ 136,261,868  
Collateral for Securities Loaned - 0.0%               
State Street Navigator Securities Lending Government Money Market Portfolio, 0.13% (j) (Identified Cost, $208,168)      208,168     $ 208,168  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - 0.7%           76,818,203  
Net Assets - 100.0%            $ 10,979,723,820  

 

(a)

Non-income producing security.

(h)

An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate values of the fund’s investments in affiliated issuers and in unaffiliated issuers were $136,261,868 and $10,766,643,749, respectively.

(j)

The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

(l)

A portion of this security is on loan. See Note 2 for additional information.

(v)

Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

The following abbreviations are used in this report and are defined:

 

ADR   American Depositary Receipt

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

At 5/31/20

This statement represents your fund’s balance sheet, which details the assets and liabilities comprising the total value of the fund.

 

Assets         

Investments in unaffiliated issuers, at value, including $19,491,239 of securities on loan (identified cost, $9,094,820,662)

     $10,766,643,749  

Investments in affiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $136,257,638)

     136,261,868  

Cash

     89,443,000  

Foreign currency, at value (identified cost, $793,174)

     793,225  

Receivables for

  

Fund shares sold

     37,350,114  

Dividends

     34,475,543  

Other assets

     17,713  

Total assets

     $11,064,985,212  
Liabilities         

Payables for

  

Investments purchased

     $72,507,301  

Fund shares reacquired

     8,844,045  

Collateral for securities loaned, at value (c)

     208,168  

Payable to affiliates

  

Investment adviser

     823,500  

Administrative services fee

     6,580  

Shareholder servicing costs

     1,540,751  

Distribution and service fees

     25,086  

Payable for independent Trustees’ compensation

     10  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     1,305,951  

Total liabilities

     $85,261,392  

Net assets

     $10,979,723,820  
Net assets consist of         

Paid-in capital

     $9,377,856,937  

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     1,601,866,883  

Net assets

     $10,979,723,820  

Shares of beneficial interest outstanding

     317,637,662  

 

(c)

Non-cash collateral is not included.

 

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     Net assets      Shares
outstanding
     Net asset value
per share (a)
 

Class A

     $546,391,153        16,234,571        $33.66  

Class B

     2,922,280        93,133        31.38  

Class C

     39,530,061        1,300,526        30.40  

Class I

     2,457,330,238        65,100,128        37.75  

Class R1

     4,890,078        164,534        29.72  

Class R2

     34,148,931        1,114,957        30.63  

Class R3

     124,732,197        3,736,620        33.38  

Class R4

     262,924,641        7,780,447        33.79  

Class R6

     7,506,854,241        222,112,746        33.80  

 

(a)

Maximum offering price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for all share classes, except for Class A, for which the maximum offering price per share was $35.71 [100 / 94.25 x $33.66]. On sales of $50,000 or more, the maximum offering price of Class A shares is reduced. A contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on redemptions of Class A, Class B, and Class C shares. Redemption price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for Classes I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

Year ended 5/31/20

This statement describes how much your fund earned in investment income and accrued in expenses. It also describes any gains and/or losses generated by fund operations.

 

Net investment income (loss)         

Income

  

Dividends

     $191,533,936  

Dividends from affiliated issuers

     2,045,472  

Other

     42,638  

Income on securities loaned

     35,689  

Foreign taxes withheld

     (20,540,553

Total investment income

     $173,117,182  

Expenses

  

Management fee

     $70,573,282  

Distribution and service fees

     2,144,654  

Shareholder servicing costs

     3,139,661  

Administrative services fee

     571,699  

Independent Trustees’ compensation

     102,156  

Custodian fee

     1,567,093  

Shareholder communications

     246,456  

Audit and tax fees

     81,890  

Legal fees

     91,003  

Miscellaneous

     747,038  

Total expenses

     $79,264,932  

Reduction of expenses by investment adviser and distributor

     (1,025,519

Net expenses

     $78,239,413  

Net investment income (loss)

     $94,877,769  
Realized and unrealized gain (loss)         
Realized gain (loss) (identified cost basis)   

Unaffiliated issuers (net of $11,544 country tax)

     $(120,002,152

Affiliated issuers

     16,889  

Foreign currency

     239,849  

Net realized gain (loss)

     $(119,745,414
Change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation   

Unaffiliated issuers (net of $3,258,183 decrease in deferred country tax)

     $370,010,896  

Affiliated issuers

     (10,290

Translation of assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

     420,199  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     $370,420,805  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     $250,675,391  

Change in net assets from operations

     $345,553,160  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

These statements describe the increases and/or decreases in net assets resulting from operations, any distributions, and any shareholder transactions.

 

     Year ended  
     5/31/20      5/31/19  
Change in net assets              
From operations                  

Net investment income (loss)

     $94,877,769        $118,902,626  

Net realized gain (loss)

     (119,745,414      199,499,335  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     370,420,805        (289,254,634

Change in net assets from operations

     $345,553,160        $29,147,327  

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(158,637,952      $(256,363,860

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $2,060,458,436        $2,605,537,537  

Total change in net assets

     $2,247,373,644        $2,378,321,004  
Net assets                  

At beginning of period

     8,732,350,176        6,354,029,172  

At end of period

     $10,979,723,820        $8,732,350,176  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

Class A    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $32.76       $34.20       $31.09       $26.46       $28.28  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $0.23       $0.42       $0.37       $0.14 (c)      $0.27  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.20       (0.73     3.50       4.75       (1.81

Total from investment operations

     $1.43       $(0.31     $3.87       $4.89       $(1.54
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.35     $(0.29     $(0.23     $(0.26     $(0.26

From net realized gain

     (0.18     (0.84     (0.53           (0.02

Total distributions declared to
shareholders

     $(0.53     $(1.13     $(0.76     $(0.26     $(0.28

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $33.66       $32.76       $34.20       $31.09       $26.46  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     4.24       (0.64     12.53       18.69 (c)      (5.44
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.08       1.10       1.15       1.18 (c)      1.21  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.07       1.09       1.14       1.17 (c)      1.20  

Net investment income (loss)

     0.66       1.28       1.12       0.51 (c)      1.04  

Portfolio turnover

     17       17       12       21       20  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $546,391       $402,964       $360,401       $319,266       $585,089  

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Class B    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $30.67       $32.01       $29.15       $24.82       $26.64  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.06     $0.11       $0.07       $(0.01 )(c)      $0.05  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.15       (0.61     3.32       4.41       (1.68

Total from investment operations

     $1.09       $(0.50     $3.39       $4.40       $(1.63
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.20     $—       $(0.00 )(w)      $(0.07     $(0.17

From net realized gain

     (0.18     (0.84     (0.53           (0.02

Total distributions declared to
shareholders

     $(0.38     $(0.84     $(0.53     $(0.07     $(0.19

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $31.38       $30.67       $32.01       $29.15       $24.82  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     3.44       (1.36     11.68       17.79 (c)      (6.12
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.83       1.85       1.90       1.93 (c)      1.96  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.82       1.84       1.89       1.92 (c)      1.95  

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.18     0.35       0.23       (0.02 )(c)      0.21  

Portfolio turnover

     17       17       12       21       20  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $2,922       $4,599       $6,537       $7,799       $8,792  
Class C    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $29.76       $31.15       $28.43       $24.22       $26.03  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.04     $0.14       $0.09       $0.00 (c)(w)      $0.06  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     1.10       (0.64     3.21       4.30       (1.67

Total from investment operations

     $1.06       $(0.50     $3.30       $4.30       $(1.61
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.24     $(0.05     $(0.05     $(0.09     $(0.18

From net realized gain

     (0.18     (0.84     (0.53           (0.02

Total distributions declared to
shareholders

     $(0.42     $(0.89     $(0.58     $(0.09     $(0.20

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $30.40       $29.76       $31.15       $28.43       $24.22  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     3.46       (1.37     11.67       17.81 (c)      (6.17
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.83       1.85       1.90       1.93 (c)      1.96  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.82       1.84       1.89       1.92 (c)      1.95  

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.14     0.48       0.30       0.01 (c)      0.25  

Portfolio turnover

     17       17       12       21       20  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $39,530       $42,015       $42,981       $38,985       $40,163  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Class I   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $36.61       $38.08       $34.52       $29.36       $31.29  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.34       $0.60       $0.50       $0.34 (c)      $0.37  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    1.35       (0.86     3.90       5.16       (2.00

Total from investment operations

    $1.69       $(0.26     $4.40       $5.50       $(1.63
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.37     $(0.37     $(0.31     $(0.34     $(0.28

From net realized gain

    (0.18     (0.84     (0.53           (0.02

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.55     $(1.21     $(0.84     $(0.34     $(0.30

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $37.75       $36.61       $38.08       $34.52       $29.36  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    4.51       (0.41     12.84       18.97 (c)      (5.19
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.83       0.85       0.90       0.93 (c)      0.96  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.82       0.84       0.89       0.92 (c)      0.95  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.89       1.63       1.35       1.12 (c)      1.27  

Portfolio turnover

    17       17       12       21       20  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $2,457,330       $1,974,109       $1,371,442       $1,497,306       $1,174,202  
Class R1   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $29.12       $30.57       $27.93       $23.87       $25.65  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $(0.03     $0.18       $0.14       $0.02 (c)      $0.10  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    1.07       (0.68     3.11       4.19       (1.67

Total from investment operations

    $1.04       $(0.50     $3.25       $4.21       $(1.57
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.26     $(0.11     $(0.08     $(0.15     $(0.19

From net realized gain

    (0.18     (0.84     (0.53           (0.02

Total distributions declared to
shareholders

    $(0.44     $(0.95     $(0.61     $(0.15     $(0.21

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $29.72       $29.12       $30.57       $27.93       $23.87  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    3.45       (1.39     11.69       17.77 (c)      (6.12
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.83       1.85       1.90       1.93 (c)      1.96  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.82       1.84       1.89       1.92 (c)      1.95  

Net investment income (loss)

    (0.11     0.61       0.47       0.08 (c)      0.41  

Portfolio turnover

    17       17       12       21       20  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $4,890       $4,266       $3,663       $2,496       $1,587  

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Class R2   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $29.92       $31.31       $28.54       $24.32       $26.05  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.15       $0.28       $0.25       $0.14 (c)      $0.17  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    1.07       (0.64     3.23       4.29       (1.66

Total from investment operations

    $1.22       $(0.36     $3.48       $4.43       $(1.49
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.33     $(0.19     $(0.18     $(0.21     $(0.22

From net realized gain

    (0.18     (0.84     (0.53           (0.02

Total distributions declared to
shareholders

    $(0.51     $(1.03     $(0.71     $(0.21     $(0.24

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $30.63       $29.92       $31.31       $28.54       $24.32  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    3.95       (0.89     12.27       18.39 (c)      (5.69
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.33       1.35       1.40       1.43 (c)      1.46  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.32       1.34       1.39       1.42 (c)      1.45  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.48       0.92       0.83       0.56 (c)      0.70  

Portfolio turnover

    17       17       12       21       20  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $34,149       $18,890       $23,650       $22,245       $21,051  
Class R3   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $32.51       $33.96       $30.89       $26.29       $28.07  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.23       $0.48       $0.36       $0.20 (c)      $0.18  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    1.18       (0.79     3.48       4.66       (1.71

Total from investment operations

    $1.41       $(0.31     $3.84       $4.86       $(1.53
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.36     $(0.30     $(0.24     $(0.26     $(0.23

From net realized gain

    (0.18     (0.84     (0.53           (0.02

Total distributions declared to
shareholders

    $(0.54     $(1.14     $(0.77     $(0.26     $(0.25

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $33.38       $32.51       $33.96       $30.89       $26.29  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    4.22       (0.63     12.52       18.67 (c)      (5.43
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.08       1.10       1.15       1.18 (c)      1.21  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.07       1.09       1.14       1.17 (c)      1.20  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.69       1.47       1.09       0.72 (c)      0.69  

Portfolio turnover

    17       17       12       21       20  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $124,732       $59,575       $30,465       $26,234       $27,198  

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Class R4   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $32.83       $34.28       $31.17       $26.52       $28.30  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.31       $0.53       $0.45       $0.26 (c)      $0.32  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    1.20       (0.76     3.52       4.71       (1.80

Total from investment operations

    $1.51       $(0.23     $3.97       $4.97       $(1.48
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.37     $(0.38     $(0.33     $(0.32     $(0.28

From net realized gain

    (0.18     (0.84     (0.53           (0.02

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.55     $(1.22     $(0.86     $(0.32     $(0.30

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $33.79       $32.83       $34.28       $31.17       $26.52  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    4.48       (0.40     12.81       18.97 (c)      (5.20
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.83       0.85       0.90       0.93 (c)      0.96  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.82       0.84       0.89       0.92 (c)      0.95  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.91       1.60       1.36       0.97 (c)      1.22  

Portfolio turnover

    17       17       12       21       20  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $262,925       $209,454       $167,066       $124,580       $231,275  
Class R6   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $32.81       $34.27       $31.15       $26.54       $28.29  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.34       $0.56       $0.51       $0.34 (c)      $0.37  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    1.21       (0.78     3.49       4.65       (1.81

Total from investment operations

    $1.55       $(0.22     $4.00       $4.99       $(1.44
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.38     $(0.40     $(0.35     $(0.38     $(0.29

From net realized gain

    (0.18     (0.84     (0.53           (0.02

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.56     $(1.24     $(0.88     $(0.38     $(0.31

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $33.80       $32.81       $34.27       $31.15       $26.54  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    4.60       (0.34     12.95       19.08 (c)      (5.05
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.74       0.77       0.80       0.82 (c)      0.83  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.73       0.76       0.79       0.81 (c)      0.82  

Net investment income (loss)

    1.00       1.69       1.53       1.22 (c)      1.41  

Portfolio turnover

    17       17       12       21       20  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $7,506,854       $6,016,478       $4,347,824       $2,717,276       $1,973,418  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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(c)

Amount reflects a one-time reimbursement of expenses by the custodian (or former custodian) without which net investment income and performance would be lower and expenses would be higher.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(w)

Per share amount was less than $0.01.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(1) Business and Organization

MFS International Growth Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of MFS Series Trust X (the trust). The trust is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company.

The fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies.

(2) Significant Accounting Policies

General – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the preparation of these financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events occurring after the date of the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities through the date that the financial statements were issued. The fund invests in foreign securities, including securities of emerging market issuers. Investments in foreign securities are vulnerable to the effects of changes in the relative values of the local currency and the U.S. dollar and to the effects of changes in each country’s market, economic, industrial, political, regulatory, geopolitical, and other conditions. Investments in emerging markets can involve additional and greater risks than the risks associated with investments in developed foreign markets. Emerging markets can have less developed markets, greater custody and operational risk, less developed legal, regulatory, and accounting systems, and greater political, social, and economic instability than developed markets.

In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) – Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”), which provides optional, temporary relief with respect to the financial reporting of contracts subject to certain types of modifications due to the planned discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR-based reference rates as of the end of 2021. The temporary relief provided by ASU 2020-04 is effective for certain reference rate-related contract modifications that occur during the period from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-04 on the fund’s investments, derivatives, debt and other contracts that will undergo reference rate-related modifications as a result of the reference rate reform.

Balance Sheet Offsetting – The fund’s accounting policy with respect to balance sheet offsetting is that, absent an event of default by the counterparty or a termination of the agreement, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreement, or similar agreement, does not result in an offset of reported amounts of financial assets and financial liabilities in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities across transactions between the fund and the applicable counterparty. The fund’s right to

 

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setoff may be restricted or prohibited by the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the particular jurisdiction to which a specific master netting agreement counterparty is subject. Balance sheet offsetting disclosures, to the extent applicable to the fund, have been included in the fund’s Significant Accounting Policies note under the captions for each of the fund’s in-scope financial instruments and transactions.

Investment Valuations – Equity securities, including restricted equity securities, are generally valued at the last sale or official closing price on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per share. Securities and other assets generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, and other market data. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.

The Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments (including any fair valuation) to the adviser pursuant to valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. If the adviser determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available, investments are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with such procedures under the oversight of the Board of Trustees. Under the fund’s valuation policies and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for most types of debt instruments and floating rate loans and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services. In addition, investments may be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that an investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source

 

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and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.

Various inputs are used in determining the value of the fund’s assets or liabilities. These inputs are categorized into three broad levels. In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The fund’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. The following is a summary of the levels used as of May 31, 2020 in valuing the fund’s assets or liabilities:

 

Financial Instruments   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  
Equity Securities:        

France

    $—       $2,078,193,878       $—       $2,078,193,878  

Switzerland

          1,718,707,510             1,718,707,510  

United Kingdom

          996,986,816             996,986,816  

Germany

    399,764,142       578,228,566             977,992,708  

Japan

    931,609,523                   931,609,523  

Canada

    779,333,112                   779,333,112  

United States

    613,826,003                   613,826,003  

India

    373,410,470                   373,410,470  

Taiwan

    368,752,574                   368,752,574  

Other Countries

    1,452,225,447       475,397,540             1,927,622,987  
Mutual Funds     136,470,036                   136,470,036  
Total     $5,055,391,307       $5,847,514,310       $—       $10,902,905,617  

For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments.

Foreign Currency Translation – Purchases and sales of foreign investments, income, and expenses are converted into U.S. dollars based upon currency exchange rates prevailing on the respective dates of such transactions or on the reporting date for foreign denominated receivables and payables. Gains and losses attributable to foreign currency exchange rates on sales of securities are recorded for financial statement purposes as net realized gains and losses on investments. Gains and losses attributable to foreign exchange rate movements on receivables, payables, income and expenses are recorded for financial statement purposes as foreign currency transaction gains and losses. That portion of both realized and unrealized gains and losses on investments that results from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates is not separately disclosed.

 

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Security Loans – Under its Securities Lending Agency Agreement with the fund, State Street Bank and Trust Company, as lending agent, loans the securities of the fund to certain qualified institutions (the “Borrowers”) approved by the fund. Security loans can be terminated at the discretion of either the lending agent or the fund and the related securities must be returned within the earlier of the standard trade settlement period for such securities or within three business days. The loans are collateralized by cash and/or U.S. Treasury and federal agency obligations in an amount typically at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned. On loans collateralized by cash, the cash collateral is invested in a money market fund. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the fund on the next business day. The lending agent provides the fund with indemnification against Borrower default. In the event of Borrower default, the lending agent will, for the benefit of the fund, either purchase securities identical to those loaned or, when such purchase is commercially impracticable, pay the fund the market value of the loaned securities. In return, the lending agent assumes the fund’s rights to the related collateral. If the collateral value is less than the cost to purchase identical securities, the lending agent is responsible for the shortfall, but only to the extent that such shortfall is not due to a decline in collateral value resulting from collateral reinvestment for which the fund bears the risk of loss. At period end, the fund had investment securities on loan, all of which were classified as equity securities in the fund’s Portfolio of Investments, with a fair value of $19,491,239. The fair value of the fund’s investment securities on loan and a related liability of $208,168 for cash collateral received on securities loaned are both presented gross in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Additionally, these loans were collateralized by U.S. Treasury Obligations of $20,526,474 held by the lending agent. The collateral on securities loaned exceeded the value of securities on loan at period end. The liability for cash collateral for securities loaned is carried at fair value, which is categorized as level 2 within the fair value hierarchy. A portion of the income generated upon investment of the collateral is remitted to the Borrowers, and the remainder is allocated between the fund and the lending agent. On loans collateralized by U.S. Treasury and/or federal agency obligations, a fee is received from the Borrower, and is allocated between the fund and the lending agent. Income from securities lending is separately reported in the Statement of Operations. The dividend and interest income earned on the securities loaned is accounted for in the same manner as other dividend and interest income.

Indemnifications – Under the fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the fund. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The fund’s maximum exposure under these agreements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the fund that have not yet occurred.

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dividend if such information is obtained subsequent to the ex-dividend date. Dividend payments received in additional securities are recorded on the ex-dividend date in an amount equal to the value of the security on such date.

The fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received from litigation involving portfolio holdings are reflected in the Statement of Operations in realized gain/loss if the security has been disposed of by the fund or in unrealized gain/loss if the security is still held by the fund. Any other proceeds from litigation not related to portfolio holdings are reflected as other income in the Statement of Operations.

Tax Matters and Distributions – The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company, as defined under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and to distribute all of its taxable income, including realized capital gains. As a result, no provision for federal income tax is required. The fund’s federal tax returns, when filed, will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a three year period. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal and state tax returns for all open tax years and does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability. Foreign taxes, if any, have been accrued by the fund in the accompanying financial statements in accordance with the applicable foreign tax law. Foreign income taxes may be withheld by certain countries in which the fund invests. Additionally, capital gains realized by the fund on securities issued in or by certain foreign countries may be subject to capital gains tax imposed by those countries.

Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Certain capital accounts in the financial statements are periodically adjusted for permanent differences in order to reflect their tax character. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or net asset value per share. Temporary differences which arise from recognizing certain items of income, expense, gain or loss in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes will reverse at some time in the future.

Book/tax differences primarily relate to wash sale loss deferrals.

The tax character of distributions declared to shareholders for the last two fiscal years is as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
Ordinary income (including any short-term capital gains)      $118,011,521        $111,362,405  
Long-term capital gains      40,626,431        145,001,455  
Total distributions      $158,637,952        $256,363,860  

 

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The federal tax cost and the tax basis components of distributable earnings were as follows:

 

As of 5/31/20       
Cost of investments      $9,292,735,323  
Gross appreciation      2,142,273,706  
Gross depreciation      (532,103,412
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      $1,610,170,294  
Undistributed ordinary income      94,741,366  
Capital loss carryforwards      (102,262,566
Other temporary differences      (782,211

As of May 31, 2020, the fund had capital loss carryforwards available to offset future realized gains. These net capital losses may be carried forward indefinitely and their character is retained as short-term and/or long-term losses. Such losses are characterized as follows:

 

Short-Term      $(17,736,937
Long-Term      (84,525,629
Total      $(102,262,566

Multiple Classes of Shares of Beneficial Interest – The fund offers multiple classes of shares, which differ in their respective distribution and service fees. The fund’s income, realized and unrealized gain (loss), and common expenses are allocated to shareholders based on the daily net assets of each class. Dividends are declared separately for each class. Differences in per share dividend rates are generally due to differences in separate class expenses. Class B shares will convert to Class A shares approximately eight years after purchase. Class C shares will convert to Class A shares approximately ten years after purchase. The fund’s distributions declared to shareholders as reported in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets are presented by class as follows:

 

     Year
ended
5/31/20
     Year
ended
5/31/19
 
Class A      $8,054,194        $12,211,974  
Class B      44,332        143,810  
Class C      575,884        1,215,622  
Class I      32,629,581        52,900,003  
Class R1      68,031        125,448  
Class R2      472,801        633,180  
Class R3      1,703,950        1,216,796  
Class R4      3,769,910        6,437,586  
Class R6      111,319,269        181,479,441  
Total      $158,637,952        $256,363,860  

(3) Transactions with Affiliates

Investment Adviser – The fund has an investment advisory agreement with MFS to provide overall investment management and related administrative services and

 

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facilities to the fund. For the period from June 1, 2019 through July 31, 2019, the management fee was computed daily and paid monthly at the following annual rates based on the fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Up to $1 billion      0.90
In excess of $1 billion and up to $2 billion      0.80
In excess of $2 billion and up to $5 billion      0.70
In excess of $5 billion      0.65

Effective August 1, 2019, the management fee is computed daily and paid monthly at the following annual rates based on the fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Up to $1 billion      0.90
In excess of $1 billion and up to $2 billion      0.80
In excess of $2 billion and up to $5 billion      0.70
In excess of $5 billion and up to $10 billion      0.65
In excess of $10 billion and up to $20 billion      0.62
In excess of $20 billion      0.60

MFS has agreed in writing to reduce its management fee by a specified amount if certain MFS mutual fund assets exceed thresholds agreed to by MFS and the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this management fee reduction amounted to $1,020,976, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations. The management fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.69% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Distributor – MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (MFD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, as distributor, received $110,525 for the year ended May 31, 2020, as its portion of the initial sales charge on sales of Class A shares of the fund.

The Board of Trustees has adopted a distribution plan for certain share classes pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

The fund’s distribution plan provides that the fund will pay MFD for services provided by MFD and financial intermediaries in connection with the distribution and servicing of certain share classes. One component of the plan is a distribution fee paid to MFD and another component of the plan is a service fee paid to MFD. MFD may subsequently pay all, or a portion, of the distribution and/or service fees to financial intermediaries.

Distribution Plan Fee Table:

 

     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
Class A             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        $1,233,761  
Class B      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        38,581  
Class C      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        431,826  
Class R1      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        47,969  
Class R2      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        138,846  
Class R3             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        253,671  
Total Distribution and Service Fees

 

           $2,144,654  

 

(d)

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  distribution and service fee rates disclosed by class represent the current rates in effect at the end of the reporting period. Any rate changes, if applicable, are detailed below.
(e)

The annual effective rates represent actual fees incurred under the distribution plan for the year ended May 31, 2020 based on each class’s average daily net assets. MFD has voluntarily agreed to rebate a portion of each class’s 0.25% service fee attributable to accounts for which there is no financial intermediary specified on the account except for accounts attributable to MFS or its affiliates’ seed money. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this rebate amounted to $3,893, $14, $129, and $507 for Class A, Class B, Class C, and Class R3, respectively, and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Certain Class A shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) in the event of a shareholder redemption within 18 months of purchase. Class B shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within six years of purchase. Class C shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within 12 months of purchase. All contingent deferred sales charges are paid to MFD and during the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

     Amount  
Class A      $4,198  
Class B      4,156  
Class C      5,281  

Shareholder Servicing Agent – MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, receives a fee from the fund for its services as shareholder servicing agent calculated as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the fund as determined periodically under the supervision of the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee was $114,626, which equated to 0.0011% annually of the fund’s average daily net assets. MFSC also receives payment from the fund for out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs which may be paid to affiliated and unaffiliated service providers. Class R6 shares do not incur sub-accounting fees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, these out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs amounted to $3,025,035.

Administrator – MFS provides certain financial, legal, shareholder communications, compliance, and other administrative services to the fund. Under an administrative services agreement, the fund reimburses MFS the costs incurred to provide these services. The fund is charged an annual fixed amount of $17,500 plus a fee based on average daily net assets. The administrative services fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.0057% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Trustees’ and Officers’ Compensation – The fund pays compensation to independent Trustees in the form of a retainer, attendance fees, and additional compensation to Board and Committee chairpersons. The fund does not pay compensation directly to Trustees or officers of the fund who are also officers of the investment adviser, all of whom receive remuneration from MFS for their services to the fund. Certain officers and Trustees of the fund are officers or directors of MFS, MFD, and MFSC.

Other – This fund and certain other funds managed by MFS (the funds) had entered into a service agreement (the ISO Agreement) which provided for payment of fees solely by the funds to Tarantino LLC in return for the provision of services of an

 

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Independent Senior Officer (ISO) for the funds. Frank L. Tarantino served as the ISO and was an officer of the funds and the sole member of Tarantino LLC. Effective June 30, 2019, Mr. Tarantino retired from his position as ISO for the funds, and the ISO

Agreement was terminated. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee paid by the fund under this agreement was $4,373 and is included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations. MFS had agreed to bear all expenses associated with office space, other administrative support, and supplies provided to the ISO.

The fund invests in the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio which is managed by MFS and seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity. This money market fund does not pay a management fee to MFS but does incur investment and operating costs.

The fund is permitted to engage in purchase and sale transactions with funds and accounts for which MFS serves as investment adviser or sub-adviser (“cross-trades”) pursuant to a policy adopted by the Board of Trustees. This policy has been designed to ensure that cross-trades conducted by the fund comply with Rule 17a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. During the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund engaged in purchase and sale transactions pursuant to this policy, which amounted to $14,352,515 and $5,104,260, respectively. The sales transactions resulted in net realized gains (losses) of $(235,741).

(4) Portfolio Securities

For the year ended May 31, 2020, purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $3,662,251,874 and $1,705,005,418, respectively.

(5) Shares of Beneficial Interest

The fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest. Transactions in fund shares were as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares sold            

Class A

     7,110,440        $245,948,585        3,811,189        $124,288,708  

Class B

     1,713        53,631        10,263        317,167  

Class C

     288,084        9,041,809        394,651        11,619,008  

Class I

     29,332,088        1,099,001,832        26,140,472        947,472,325  

Class R1

     65,481        1,992,292        85,066        2,526,994  

Class R2

     902,153        28,948,022        148,136        4,418,593  

Class R3

     2,900,890        100,640,646        1,521,262        49,777,985  

Class R4

     3,984,941        137,814,467        2,622,234        85,022,441  

Class R6

     61,771,463        2,134,382,871        58,542,671        1,905,536,796  
     106,357,253        $3,757,824,155        93,275,944        $3,130,980,017  

 

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     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares issued to shareholders in
reinvestment of distributions

 

        

Class A

     181,396        $6,577,430        369,629        $11,199,745  

Class B

     1,287        43,672        4,983        141,879  

Class C

     15,591        512,308        40,123        1,108,204  

Class I

     710,345        28,854,199        1,355,581        45,859,310  

Class R1

     2,117        68,031        4,641        125,448  

Class R2

     13,730        453,624        20,850        577,746  

Class R3

     47,371        1,703,950        40,465        1,216,796  

Class R4

     77,959        2,835,359        157,327        4,773,308  

Class R6

     2,915,703        105,985,806        5,869,167        177,894,461  
     3,965,499        $147,034,379        7,862,766        $242,896,897  
Shares reacquired            

Class A

     (3,358,128      $(113,176,248      (2,417,847      $(78,641,496

Class B

     (59,824      (1,882,068      (69,496      (2,138,066

Class C

     (415,000      (12,698,807      (402,624      (11,997,231

Class I

     (18,859,303      (695,195,694      (9,596,712      (343,497,745

Class R1

     (49,551      (1,515,499      (63,038      (1,865,197

Class R2

     (432,373      (13,371,338      (292,976      (8,893,812

Class R3

     (1,044,223      (34,943,677      (626,119      (19,896,671

Class R4

     (2,662,266      (91,208,654      (1,273,363      (41,839,130

Class R6

     (25,930,767      (880,408,113      (7,942,275      (259,570,029
     (52,811,435      $(1,844,400,098      (22,684,450      $(768,339,377
Net change            

Class A

     3,933,708        $139,349,767        1,762,971        $56,846,957  

Class B

     (56,824      (1,784,765      (54,250      (1,679,020

Class C

     (111,325      (3,144,690      32,150        729,981  

Class I

     11,183,130        432,660,337        17,899,341        649,833,890  

Class R1

     18,047        544,824        26,669        787,245  

Class R2

     483,510        16,030,308        (123,990      (3,897,473

Class R3

     1,904,038        67,400,919        935,608        31,098,110  

Class R4

     1,400,634        49,441,172        1,506,198        47,956,619  

Class R6

     38,756,399        1,359,960,564        56,469,563        1,823,861,228  
     57,511,317        $2,060,458,436        78,454,260        $2,605,537,537  

Class T shares were not publicly available for sale during the period. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective June 1, 2019, purchases of the fund’s Class B shares are closed to new and existing investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

The fund is one of several mutual funds in which certain MFS funds may invest. The MFS funds do not invest in the underlying funds for the purpose of exercising management or control. At the end of the period, the MFS International Diversification

 

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Fund, the MFS Growth Allocation Fund, the MFS Moderate Allocation Fund, and the MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund were the owners of record of approximately 44%, 2%, 2%, and 1%, respectively, of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund. In addition, the MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2020 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2025 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2030 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2035 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2040 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2045 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2050 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2055 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2060 Fund, and the MFS Lifetime Income Fund were each the owners of record of less than 1% of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund.

(6) Line of Credit

The fund and certain other funds managed by MFS participate in a $1.25 billion unsecured committed line of credit, subject to a $1 billion sublimit, provided by a syndicate of banks under a credit agreement. Borrowings may be made for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, generally at a rate equal to the highest of one month LIBOR, the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus an agreed upon spread. A commitment fee, based on the average daily, unused portion of the committed line of credit, is allocated among the participating funds. In addition, the fund and other funds managed by MFS have established unsecured uncommitted borrowing arrangements with certain banks for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, at rates equal to customary reference rates plus an agreed upon spread. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund’s commitment fee and interest expense were $50,347 and $0, respectively, and are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

(7) Investments in Affiliated Issuers

An affiliated issuer may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:

 

Affiliated Issuers   Beginning
Value
    Purchases     Sales
Proceeds
    Realized
Gain
(Loss)
    Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
    Ending
Value
 
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio     $119,890,323       $2,213,123,294       $2,196,758,348       $16,889       $(10,290     $136,261,868  
Affiliated Issuers                               Dividend
Income
    Capital Gain
Distributions
 
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

 

          $2,045,472       $—  

(8) Impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic related to the global spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in December 2019, has resulted in significant disruptions to global business activity and the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the securities and commodities markets in general. This pandemic, the full effects of which are still unknown, has resulted in substantial market volatility and may have adversely impacted the prices and liquidity of the fund’s investments and the fund’s performance.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Shareholders of MFS International Growth Fund and the Board of Trustees of MFS Series Trust X

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of MFS International Growth Fund (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting MFS Series Trust X (the “Trust”)), including the portfolio of investments, as of May 31, 2020, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund (one of the funds constituting MFS Series Trust X) at May 31, 2020, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and its financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2020, by correspondence with the custodian and others or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from others were not received. Our audits also included

 

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evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

LOGO

We have served as the auditor of one or more MFS investment companies since 1993.

Boston, Massachusetts

July 17, 2020

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS — IDENTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND

The Trustees and Officers of the Trust, as of July 1, 2020, are listed below, together with their principal occupations during the past five years. (Their titles may have varied during that period.) The address of each Trustee and Officer is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

INTERESTED TRUSTEES
Robert J. Manning (k) (age 56)   Trustee   February 2004   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Chairman (since January 2017); Director; Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (until 2015); Co-Chief Executive Officer (2015-2016)   N/A

Robin A. Stelmach (k)

(age 58)

  Trustee   January 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice Chair (since January 2017); Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (until January 2017)   N/A
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES    

John P. Kavanaugh

(age 65)

  Trustee and Chair of Trustees   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A

Steven E. Buller

(age 68)

  Trustee   February 2014   134   Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman (2014-2015); Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Standing Advisory Group, Member (until 2014); BlackRock, Inc. (investment management), Managing Director (until 2014), BlackRock Finco UK (investment management), Director (until 2014)   N/A

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

John A. Caroselli

(age 66)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   JC Global Advisors, LLC (management consulting), President (since 2015); First Capital Corporation (commercial finance), Executive Vice President (until 2015)   N/A

Maureen R. Goldfarb

(age 65)

  Trustee   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A
Peter D. Jones
(age 64)
  Trustee   January 2019   134   Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (investment management), President (until 2015); Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (investment management), Chairman (until 2015)   N/A
James W. Kilman, Jr. (age 59)   Trustee   January 2019   134   Burford Capital Limited (finance and investment management), Chief Financial Officer (since 2019); KielStrand Capital LLC (family office), Chief Executive Officer (since 2016); Morgan Stanley & Co. (financial services), Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Co-Head of Diversified Financials Coverage – Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group (until 2016)   Alpha-En Corporation, Director (2016-2019)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

Clarence Otis, Jr.

(age 64)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   Darden Restaurants, Inc., Chief Executive Officer (until 2014)   VF Corporation, Director; Verizon Communications, Inc., Director; The Travelers Companies, Director; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Director (until 2015)

Maryanne L. Roepke

(age 64)

  Trustee   May 2014   134   American Century Investments (investment management), Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (until 2014)   N/A
Laurie J. Thomsen
(age 62)
  Trustee   March 2005   134   Private investor   The Travelers Companies, Director; Dycom Industries, Inc., Director (since 2015)

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

OFFICERS      
Christopher R. Bohane (k) (age 46)   Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Kino Clark (k)

(age 52)

 

Assistant

Treasurer

  January 2012   134  

Massachusetts Financial

Services Company, Vice President

John W. Clark, Jr. (k)

(age 53)

  Assistant Treasurer   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President (since March 2017); Deutsche Bank (financial services), Department Head – Treasurer’s Office (until February 2017)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

Thomas H. Connors (k)

(age 60)

 

Assistant

Secretary and Assistant Clerk

  September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel
David L. DiLorenzo (k)
(age 51)
  President   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

Heidi W. Hardin (k)

(age 52)

  Secretary and Clerk   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Vice President and General Counsel (since March 2017); Harris Associates (investment management), General Counsel (from September 2015 to January 2017); Janus Capital Management LLC (investment management), Senior Vice President and General Counsel (until September 2015)

Brian E. Langenfeld (k)

(age 47)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  June 2006   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel

Amanda S. Mooradian (k)

(age 41)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  September 2018   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel
Susan A. Pereira (k)
(age 49)
  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Kasey L. Phillips (k)

(age 49)

  Assistant Treasurer   September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

Matthew A. Stowe (k)

(age 45)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   October 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Martin J. Wolin (k)

(age 52)

  Chief Compliance Officer   July 2015   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (since July 2015); Mercer (financial service provider), Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, North America and Latin America (until June 2015)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

James O. Yost (k)
(age 60)
  Treasurer   September 1990   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

 

(h)

Date first appointed to serve as Trustee/officer of an MFS Fund. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. For the period from December 15, 2004 until February 22, 2005, Mr. Manning served as Advisory Trustee. From January 2012 through December 2016, Messrs. DiLorenzo and Yost served as Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer of the Funds, respectively.

(j)

Directorships or trusteeships of companies required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., “public companies”).

(k)

“Interested person” of the Trust within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (referred to as the 1940 Act), which is the principal federal law governing investment companies like the fund, as a result of a position with MFS. The address of MFS is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

Each Trustee (other than Messrs. Jones and Kilman) has been elected by shareholders and each Trustee and Officer holds office until his or her successor is chosen and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal. Messrs. Jones and Kilman became Trustees of the Funds on January 1, 2019. The Trust does not hold annual meetings for the purpose of electing Trustees, and Trustees are not elected for fixed terms. Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of any Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20 years of service on the Board).

Messrs. Buller, Kilman and Otis and Ms. Roepke are members of the Trust’s Audit Committee.

Each of the Interested Trustees and certain Officers hold comparable officer positions with certain affiliates of MFS.

The Statement of Additional Information for a Fund includes further information about the Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

 

Investment Adviser   Custodian

Massachusetts Financial Services Company
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

State Street Bank and Trust Company

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111-2900

Distributor   Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

Ernst & Young LLP

200 Clarendon Street

Boston, MA 02116

Portfolio Manager(s)  

David Antonelli

Matthew Barrett

Kevin Dwan

 

 

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STATEMENT REGARDING LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) as required by Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated MFS as the administrator of the Program. The Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage the liquidity risk of the fund. Liquidity risk is the risk that the fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by the fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interests.

MFS provided a written report to the Board for consideration at its April 2020 meeting that addressed the operation of the Program and provided an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of the Program during the period from the adoption of the Program on December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (the “Covered Period”). The report concluded that during the Covered Period the Program had operated effectively and had adequately and effectively been implemented to assess and manage the fund’s liquidity risk. MFS also reported that there were no liquidity events that impacted the fund or its ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders during the Covered Period.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Further information on liquidity risk, and other principal risks to which an investment in the fund may be subject, can be found in the prospectus.

 

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND INFORMATION

MFS votes proxies on behalf of the fund pursuant to proxy voting policies and procedures that are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-225-2606, by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available by August 31 of each year without charge by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO DISCLOSURE

The fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A shareholder can obtain the portfolio holdings report for the first and third quarters of the fund’s fiscal year at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name and then selecting the “Resources” tab and clicking on “Prospectus and Reports”.

FURTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, MFS may post important information about the fund or the MFS funds on the MFS web site (mfs.com). This information is available at https://www.mfs.com/en-us/what-we-do/announcements.html or at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name.

INFORMATION ABOUT FUND CONTRACTS AND LEGAL CLAIMS

The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, 529 program manager (if applicable), and custodian who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the Trust’s By-Laws and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the MFS Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (unaudited)

The fund will notify shareholders of amounts for use in preparing 2020 income tax forms in January 2021. The following information is provided pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as qualified dividend income eligible to be taxed at the same rate as long-term capital gain.

The fund designates $44,690,000 as capital gain dividends paid during the fiscal year.

Income derived from foreign sources was $191,179,498. The fund intends to pass through foreign tax credits of $20,076,307 for the fiscal year.

 

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FACTS

 

  WHAT DOES MFS DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?   LOGO

 

Why?   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

 

What?  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

 Social Security number and account balances

 Account transactions and transaction history

 Checking account information and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

How?   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons MFS chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your
personal information
  Does MFS
share?
  Can you limit
this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes –

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

  Yes   No

For our marketing purposes –

to offer our products and services to you

  No   We don’t share

For joint marketing with other

financial companies

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your transactions and experiences

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your creditworthiness

  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

   
Questions?   Call 800-225-2606 or go to mfs.com.

 

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   MFS Funds, MFS Investment Management, MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., and MFS Heritage Trust Company.

 

What we do
How does MFS protect my personal information?   To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include procedural, electronic, and physical safeguards for the protection of the personal information we collect about you.
How does MFS collect my personal information?  

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

 open an account or provide account information

 direct us to buy securities or direct us to sell your securities

 make a wire transfer

 

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

 sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness

 affiliates from using your information to market to you

 sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 

Definitions
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share personal information with affiliates, except for everyday business purposes as described on page one of this notice.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

 MFS doesnt jointly market.

 

 

Other important information
If you own an MFS product or receive an MFS service in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, their privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.

 

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reports, and proxies directly via e-mail so you will get information faster with less mailbox clutter.

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CONTACT

WEB SITE

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MFS TALK

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ACCOUNT SERVICE AND LITERATURE

Shareholders

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Retirement plan services

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MAILING ADDRESS

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OVERNIGHT MAIL

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Annual Report

May 31, 2020

 

LOGO

 

MFS® International Intrinsic Value Fund

 

LOGO

 

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the fund’s annual and semiannual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the complete reports will be made available on the fund’s Web site (funds.mfs.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a Web site link to access the report.

If you are already signed up to receive shareholder reports by email, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may sign up to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund by email by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you hold your shares directly with the fund, by calling 1-800-225-2606 or by logging on to MFS Access at mfs.com.

Beginning on January 1, 2019, you may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. Contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the fund, you can call 1-800-225-2606 or send an email request to orderliterature@mfs.com to let the fund know that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary or all funds held with the MFS fund complex if you invest directly.

 

FGI-ANN

 


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MFS® International Intrinsic Value Fund

 

CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Executive Chair     1  
Portfolio composition     2  
Management review     4  
Performance summary     7  
Expense table     10  
Portfolio of investments     12  
Statement of assets and liabilities     17  
Statement of operations     19  
Statements of changes in net assets     20  
Financial highlights     21  
Notes to financial statements     27  
Report of independent registered public accounting firm     41  
Trustees and officers     43  
Statement regarding liquidity risk management program     48  
Proxy voting policies and information     49  
Quarterly portfolio disclosure     49  
Further information     49  
Information about fund contracts and legal claims     49  
Federal tax information     49  
MFS® privacy notice     50  
Contact information     back cover  

 

The report is prepared for the general information of shareholders. It is authorized for distribution to prospective investors only when preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

 

NOT FDIC INSURED MAY LOSE VALUE NO BANK GUARANTEE



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LOGO

 

LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR

 

Dear Shareholders:

Markets experienced dramatic swings in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill for several months. Optimism over the

development of vaccines and therapeutics, along with a decline in cases in countries that had been affected by the outbreak early on, brightened the economic and market outlook during the second quarter, as did the phased reopening of US states. However, a great deal of uncertainty remains, including the possibility of a second wave of cases later this year.

Global central banks have taken aggressive, coordinated steps to cushion the economic and market fallout related to the virus, and governments are deploying unprecedented levels of fiscal stimulus. As uncertainty recedes, these measures can help build a supportive environment and encourage economic recovery;

however, if markets disconnect from fundamentals, they can also sow the seeds of instability. In the aftermath of the crisis, societal changes may be likely as households, businesses, and governments adjust to a new reality, and these alterations could change the investment landscape. For investors, events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrate the importance of having a deep understanding of company fundamentals, and we have built our global research platform to do just that.

Here at MFS®, we aim to help our clients navigate the growing complexity of the markets and world economies. Our long-term investment philosophy and commitment to the responsible allocation of capital allow us to tune out the noise and uncover what we believe are the best, most durable investment opportunities in the market. Through our powerful global investment platform, we combine collective expertise, thoughtful risk management, and long-term discipline to create sustainable value for investors.

Respectfully,

 

LOGO

Robert J. Manning

Executive Chair

MFS Investment Management

July 17, 2020

The opinions expressed in this letter are subject to change and may not be relied upon for investment advice. No forecasts can be guaranteed.

 

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PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION

 

Portfolio structure

 

LOGO

 

Top ten holdings  
Nestle S.A.     5.2%  
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.     4.5%  
Givaudan S.A.     3.7%  
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC     2.5%  
Schneider Electric SE     2.4%  
ANSYS, Inc.     2.3%  
Pernod Ricard S.A.     2.3%  
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., ADR     2.3%  
Kao Corp.     2.2%  
Colgate-Palmolive Co.     2.2%  
GICS equity sectors (g)  
Consumer Staples     30.7%  
Information Technology     25.1%  
Industrials     16.6%  
Materials     9.1%  
Health Care     3.2%  
Financials     3.1%  
Real Estate     3.0%  
Consumer Discretionary     2.4%  
Communication Services     0.8%  
Energy     0.2%  
Issuer country weightings (x)

 

Japan     21.6%  
United States     19.5%  
Switzerland     13.2%  
France     12.6%  
United Kingdom     11.8%  
Germany     8.0%  
Canada     2.5%  
Taiwan     2.3%  
Spain     1.5%  
Other Countries     7.0%  
Currency exposure weightings (y)

 

Euro     25.0%  
United States Dollar     24.7%  
Japanese Yen     17.2%  
Swiss Franc     13.2%  
British Pound Sterling     11.8%  
Canadian Dollar     2.5%  
Taiwan Dollar     2.3%  
Danish Krone     1.4%  
South Korean Won     1.1%  
Other Currencies     0.8%  
 

 

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(g)

The Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS®) was developed by and/or is the exclusive property of MSCI, Inc. and S&P Global Market Intelligence Inc. (“S&P Global Market Intelligence”). GICS is a service mark of MSCI and S&P Global Market Intelligence and has been licensed for use by MFS.

(x)

Represents the portfolio’s exposure to issuer countries as a percentage of a portfolio’s net assets. For purposes of this presentation, United States includes Cash & Cash Equivalents and Other.

(y)

Represents the portfolio’s exposure to a particular currency as a percentage of a portfolio’s net assets. For purposes of this presentation, United States Dollar includes Cash & Cash Equivalents.

Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short-term securities, and other assets less liabilities. Please see the Statement of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

Other includes equivalent exposure from currency derivatives and/or any offsets to derivative positions and may be negative.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Summary of Results

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund (fund) provided a total return of 9.84%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of –13.03% for the fund’s benchmark, the MSCI EAFE Value Index (net div).

Market Environment

Markets experienced an extraordinarily sharp selloff and in many cases an unusually rapid partial recovery late in the period. Central banks and fiscal authorities undertook astonishing levels of stimulus to offset the economic effects of government-imposed social-distancing measures implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19. Despite policymakers’ best efforts, a global recession has undoubtedly begun.

Compounding market uncertainty earlier in the coronavirus pandemic was a crash in the price of crude oil due to a sharp drop in global demand and a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts, which resulted in a price war. The subsequent decline in prices undercut oil exporters, many of which are in emerging markets, as well as a large segment of the high-yield credit market. OPEC+ later agreed on output cuts, which – along with the gradual reopening of some major economies and resultant boost in demand – helped stabilize the price of crude.

Around the world, central banks responded quickly and massively to the crisis with programs to improve liquidity and support markets. They proved largely successful in helping to restore market function, easing volatility and stimulating a market rebound at the end of the period. Monetary easing measures were complemented by large fiscal stimulus plans in developed countries. Even emerging market countries were able to implement countercyclical policies – a departure from the usual market-dictated response to risk-off crises – due to relatively manageable external liabilities and balances of payments in many countries, along with persistently low inflation.

As is often the case in a crisis, market vulnerabilities were revealed. For example, companies that added significant leverage to their balance sheets in recent years by borrowing to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks may find it difficult to follow that path in the future, and investors may not reward them if they do. Recapitalizations by some of these highly leveraged firms could dilute existing shareholders. Very long supply chains designed to squeeze out every bit of savings may be shifted closer to home markets if companies seek to put resiliency before cost after a series of supply disruptions. The aftereffects of the pandemic could affect consumer, business and government behavior in ways difficult to forecast. Also, while markets have regained lost ground more swiftly than expected, any economic recovery is likely to be protracted.

Contributors to Performance

Stock selection in the information technology sector positively impacted performance relative to the MSCI EAFE Value Index during the reporting period. Notably, the fund’s holdings of integrated circuits and electronic devices developer Cadence Design Systems (b), simulation software developer ANSYS (b), semiconductor manufacturer Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (b) (Taiwan) and business system services

 

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company Nomura Research Institute (b) (Japan) benefited relative returns. Cadence Design System’s stock price rose as digital delivery of the firm’s design software proved resilient, even as the pandemic hit, and the company reported strong sales and earnings throughout the reporting period.

An overweight position in the consumer staples sector further aided relative results. Within this sector, holding shares of global food company Nestle (b) (Switzerland) and household products manufacturer Reckitt Benckiser (b) (United Kingdom) contributed to relative performance. The stock price of both companies benefited from increased demand from consumers sheltered at home in response to government-issued lockdowns across the globe.

Elsewhere, holding shares of flavors and fragrances company Givaudan (b) (Switzerland), and not holding shares of both global energy and petrochemicals company Royal Dutch Shell (United Kingdom) and banking and financial services company HSBC (United Kingdom), lifted relative returns.

The fund’s cash and/or cash equivalents position during the period was also a contributor to relative performance. Under normal market conditions, the fund strives to be fully invested and generally holds cash to buy new holdings and to provide liquidity. In a period when equity markets declined, as measured by the fund’s benchmark, holding cash benefited performance versus the benchmark, which has no cash position.

Detractors from Performance

Not holding any positions in the strong-performing utilities sector weakened relative performance over the reporting period. Notably, not holding shares of electricity and gas distributor Enel (Italy) and electric utility company Iberdrola (Spain) hurt relative returns; both stocks were benchmark constituents and performed well over the reporting period as utilities were largely unscathed by the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Both an underweight position and stock selection in the consumer discretionary sector further weighed on relative results, led by the fund not holding shares of auto manufacturer Toyota Motor (Japan). Prior to the pandemic, Toyota’s stock price traded upwards on the back of solid business and earnings results. At the onset of the pandemic, the share price traded lower but recovered off its lows, reflecting what appeared to have been investor optimism in the resiliency of the business, and the Toyota brand, in the midst of a global vehicle sales decline.

An underweight position in the health care sector also hindered relative performance. Within this sector, not holding pharmaceutical firms Sanofi (France), GlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom) and Takeda Pharmaceutical (Japan), as well as the fund’s underweight position in life sciences company Bayer (h) (Germany), hurt relative returns. All four stocks outperformed the benchmark over the reporting period as investors, and the world, looked to pharmaceutical companies for help in the fight against COVID-19.

Stocks in other sectors that also had a negative impact on relative results included holding shares of tourism and travel IT solutions provider Amadeus IT Holding (b) (Spain), and not holding tobacco distributor British American Tobacco (United Kingdom) and technology investment firm SoftBank (Japan).

 

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Management Review – continued

 

Respectfully,

Portfolio Manager(s)

Philip Evans, Pablo de la Mata, and Benjamin Stone

Note to Shareholders: Effective February 1, 2020, Philip Evans was added as a Portfolio Manager of the Fund. Effective April 15, 2022, Pablo de la Mata will be removed as a Portfolio Manager of the Fund.

 

(b)

Security is not a benchmark constituent.

(h)

Security was not held in the portfolio at period end.

The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover and do not necessarily reflect the views of MFS or any other person in the MFS organization. These views are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions, and MFS disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice or an indication of trading intent on behalf of any MFS portfolio. References to specific securities are not recommendations of such securities, and may not be representative of any MFS portfolio’s current or future investments.

 

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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY THROUGH 5/31/20

The following chart illustrates a representative class of the fund’s historical performance in comparison to its benchmark(s). Performance results include the deduction of the maximum applicable sales charge and reflect the percentage change in net asset value, including reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. The performance of other share classes will be greater than or less than that of the class depicted below. Benchmarks are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. Benchmark returns do not reflect sales charges, commissions or expenses. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value fluctuate so your shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost; current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. The performance shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes, if any, that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

Growth of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment

 

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Performance Summary – continued

 

Total Returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class    Class Inception Date   1-yr   5-yr   10-yr     
    A    10/24/95   9.84%   7.51%   10.65%    
    B    10/24/95   8.99%   6.70%   9.82%    
    C    7/01/96   9.00%   6.71%   9.82%    
    I    1/02/97   10.10%   7.78%   10.93%    
    R1    10/01/08   9.01%   6.71%   9.83%    
    R2    10/01/08   9.56%   7.24%   10.37%    
    R3    10/01/08   9.81%   7.51%   10.65%    
    R4    10/01/08   10.09%   7.78%   10.93%    
    R6    5/01/06   10.21%   7.89%   10.99%    
Comparative benchmark(s)                
     MSCI EAFE Value Index (net div) (f)   (13.03)%   (2.89)%   2.96%     
Average annual with sales charge                
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
  3.52%   6.24%   9.99%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
  4.99%   6.39%   9.82%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
  8.00%   6.71%   9.82%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 shares do not have a sales charge.

On May 30, 2012, Class W shares were redesignated Class R5 shares. Total returns for Class R5 shares prior to May 30, 2012 reflect the performance history of Class W shares which had different fees and expenses than Class R5 shares. Effective August 26, 2016, Class R5 shares were renamed Class R6 shares.

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

Benchmark Definition(s)

MSCI EAFE (Europe, Australasia, Far East) Value Index (net div) – a market capitalization-weighted index that is designed to measure equity market performance for value securities in the developed markets, excluding the U.S. and Canada. Morgan Stanley Capital International (“MSCI”) makes no express or implied warranties or representations and shall have no liability whatsoever with respect to any MSCI data contained herein. The MSCI data may not be further redistributed or used as a basis for other indices or any securities or financial products. This report is not approved, reviewed, or produced by MSCI.

It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

 

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Performance Summary – continued

 

Notes to Performance Summary

Average annual total return represents the average annual change in value for each share class for the periods presented.

Performance results reflect any applicable expense subsidies and waivers in effect during the periods shown. Without such subsidies and waivers the fund’s performance results would be less favorable. Please see the prospectus and financial statements for complete details.

Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and may differ from amounts reported in the financial highlights.

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

 

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EXPENSE TABLE

Fund expenses borne by the shareholders during the period, December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on certain purchase or redemption payments, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and service (12b-1) fees; and other fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the following table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the following table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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Expense Table – continued

 

Share
Class
      

Annualized
Expense

Ratio

    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During
Period (p)
12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     0.98%       $1,000.00       $1,006.53       $4.92  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.98%       $1,000.00       $1,020.10       $4.95  
B   Actual     1.73%       $1,000.00       $1,002.62       $8.66  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.73%       $1,000.00       $1,016.35       $8.72  
C   Actual     1.73%       $1,000.00       $1,002.76       $8.66  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.73%       $1,000.00       $1,016.35       $8.72  
I   Actual     0.73%       $1,000.00       $1,007.78       $3.66  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.73%       $1,000.00       $1,021.35       $3.69  
R1   Actual     1.73%       $1,000.00       $1,002.82       $8.66  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.73%       $1,000.00       $1,016.35       $8.72  
R2   Actual     1.23%       $1,000.00       $1,005.18       $6.17  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.23%       $1,000.00       $1,018.85       $6.21  
R3   Actual     0.98%       $1,000.00       $1,006.56       $4.92  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.98%       $1,000.00       $1,020.10       $4.95  
R4   Actual     0.73%       $1,000.00       $1,007.76       $3.66  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.73%       $1,000.00       $1,021.35       $3.69  
R6   Actual     0.63%       $1,000.00       $1,008.31       $3.16  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.63%       $1,000.00       $1,021.85       $3.18  

 

(h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

(p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

5/31/20

The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - 92.1%               
Airlines - 0.6%               
Ryanair Holdings PLC, ADR (a)      2,216,223     $ 159,058,325  
Alcoholic Beverages - 5.6%               
Diageo PLC      16,118,199     $ 557,387,369  
Heineken N.V.      3,943,506       362,470,384  
Pernod Ricard S.A.      4,026,876       628,844,629  
    

 

 

 
             $ 1,548,702,382  
Apparel Manufacturers - 0.9%               
Compagnie Financiere Richemont S.A.      2,339,624     $ 136,769,844  
LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE      244,189       102,256,651  
    

 

 

 
             $ 239,026,495  
Automotive - 0.3%               
Compagnie Generale des Etablissements Michelin      813,303     $ 82,413,789  
Knorr-Bremse AG      111,274       11,756,609  
    

 

 

 
             $ 94,170,398  
Biotechnology - 1.2%               
Novozymes A.S.      5,841,579     $ 320,059,525  
Brokerage & Asset Managers - 0.4%               
Euronext N.V.      1,368,460     $ 125,930,038  
Business Services - 7.6%               
Compass Group PLC      14,071,626     $ 206,847,882  
Experian PLC      9,279,198       323,973,525  
Intertek Group PLC      3,997,427       273,060,811  
Nomura Research Institute Ltd.      12,363,554       326,500,086  
Rentokil Initial PLC      3,881,513       23,918,386  
Secom Co. Ltd.      4,469,100       386,801,237  
SGS S.A.      161,777       381,061,117  
Sohgo Security Services Co. Ltd.      2,410,900       118,482,730  
Thomson Reuters Corp.      836,404       56,021,481  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,096,667,255  
Chemicals - 3.7%               
Givaudan S.A.      285,940     $ 1,028,879,949  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Computer Software - 10.0%               
ANSYS, Inc. (a)      2,296,238     $ 649,835,354  
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (a)      13,673,974       1,248,297,086  
Dassault Systemes S.A.      1,505,364       255,548,483  
OBIC Co. Ltd.      2,123,200       367,762,771  
SAP SE      1,669,335       207,849,029  
Wisetech Global Ltd.      2,325,823       31,610,145  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,760,902,868  
Computer Software - Systems - 2.5%               
Amadeus IT Group S.A.      8,072,193     $ 422,683,918  
Descartes Systems Group, Inc. (a)      1,445,368       68,906,530  
Wix.com Ltd. (a)      890,642       198,016,436  
    

 

 

 
             $ 689,606,884  
Construction - 0.5%               
Geberit AG      288,571     $ 140,729,569  
Consumer Products - 11.4%               
Colgate-Palmolive Co.      8,466,665     $ 612,393,879  
Kao Corp.      7,664,400       614,530,732  
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (h)      4,299,200       382,700,357  
KOSE Corp.      393,300       49,196,690  
L’Oréal      2,040,058       595,675,427  
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC      7,721,677       690,714,444  
ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (h)      7,120,600       218,546,859  
    

 

 

 
             $ 3,163,758,388  
Electrical Equipment - 5.9%               
Legrand S.A.      6,508,469     $ 444,637,620  
OMRON Corp.      4,176,000       276,476,796  
Schneider Electric SE      6,682,549       666,664,792  
Spectris PLC      5,021,826       159,761,621  
Yokogawa Electric Corp.      5,707,100       82,131,014  
    

 

 

 
             $ 1,629,671,843  
Electronics - 8.8%               
Analog Devices, Inc.      4,638,691     $ 523,940,148  
DISCO Corp.      347,100       77,437,304  
Halma PLC      8,949,359       258,669,673  
Hirose Electric Co. Ltd. (h)      2,851,900       340,339,867  
Infineon Technologies AG      2,589,761       54,206,573  
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.      7,754,842       317,469,813  
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd., ADR      12,373,042       622,735,204  
Texas Instruments, Inc.      1,920,700       228,063,918  
    

 

 

 
             $ 2,422,862,500  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Engineering - Construction - 0.8%               
IMI PLC (h)      18,158,403     $ 202,609,414  
Wartsila Oyj Abp      4,278,841       33,519,166  
    

 

 

 
             $ 236,128,580  
Food & Beverages - 11.6%               
Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Sprungli AG      3,364     $ 28,103,731  
Danone S.A.      6,562,588       449,850,772  
Ezaki Glico Co. Ltd.      3,287,900       158,838,695  
ITO EN Ltd. (h)      7,140,300       409,171,070  
Kerry Group PLC      1,882,569       233,878,951  
Nestle S.A.      13,244,260       1,433,947,451  
Nissan Foods Holdings Co. Ltd.      1,109,000       92,549,492  
Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd. (h)      7,633,300       398,493,013  
    

 

 

 
             $ 3,204,833,175  
Insurance - 0.6%               
Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.      279,704     $ 77,697,926  
Hiscox Ltd.      8,286,429       76,058,273  
    

 

 

 
             $ 153,756,199  
Internet - 0.8%               
Alphabet, Inc., “A” (a)      149,172     $ 213,841,045  
Machinery & Tools - 4.9%               
Epiroc AB, “A”      7,194,623     $ 80,195,240  
GEA Group AG      5,984,933       177,981,434  
Nordson Corp.      1,426,902       268,756,992  
Schindler Holding AG      562,746       131,053,818  
SMC Corp.      594,700       299,817,692  
Spirax-Sarco Engineering PLC      3,378,538       413,514,301  
    

 

 

 
             $ 1,371,319,477  
Major Banks - 0.9%               
Svenska Handelsbanken AB, “A” (a)      12,945,644     $ 122,974,658  
UBS Group AG      12,970,916       139,768,592  
    

 

 

 
             $ 262,743,250  
Medical Equipment - 3.2%               
EssilorLuxottica (a)      1,136,959     $ 146,817,565  
Nihon Kohden Corp. (h)      7,846,900       261,575,460  
Shimadzu Corp.      8,071,200       218,160,768  
Terumo Corp.      6,892,000       270,324,633  
    

 

 

 
             $ 896,878,426  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Common Stocks - continued               
Oil Services - 0.2%               
Core Laboratories N.V. (h)(l)      2,369,009     $ 47,901,362  
Other Banks & Diversified Financials - 1.1%               
Chiba Bank Ltd.      11,283,200     $ 53,567,605  
Hachijuni Bank Ltd.      11,069,100       40,850,311  
Julius Baer Group Ltd.      1,619,077       69,267,977  
Jyske Bank A.S. (a)      1,405,266       38,960,270  
Mebuki Financial Group, Inc.      18,640,670       42,174,635  
North Pacific Bank Ltd.      16,592,400       31,232,391  
Sydbank A.S. (a)      1,863,351       32,627,877  
    

 

 

 
             $ 308,681,066  
Pharmaceuticals - 1.3%               
Santen Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.      19,369,500     $ 357,413,927  
Precious Metals & Minerals - 1.8%               
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.      2,102,072     $ 134,489,249  
Franco-Nevada Corp.      2,573,190       361,182,917  
    

 

 

 
             $ 495,672,166  
Real Estate - 3.0%               
Deutsche Wohnen SE      8,159,634     $ 364,296,871  
LEG Immobilien AG (a)      944,568       117,517,907  
TAG Immobilien AG      4,806,681       111,710,460  
Vonovia SE      3,990,442       230,221,625  
    

 

 

 
             $ 823,746,863  
Specialty Chemicals - 2.5%               
Croda International PLC      1,270,584     $ 81,723,603  
Kansai Paint Co. Ltd.      5,305,200       109,798,381  
Sika AG      856,795       147,226,001  
Symrise AG      3,128,185       341,688,391  
    

 

 

 
             $ 680,436,376  
Total Common Stocks (Identified Cost, $16,302,767,967)

 

  $ 25,473,378,331  
Preferred Stocks - 2.1%               
Consumer Products - 2.1%               
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Identified Cost, $659,365,742)      6,690,710     $ 594,198,267  
Investment Companies (h) - 5.5%               
Money Market Funds - 5.5%               
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v) (Identified Cost, $1,532,062,878)      1,532,101,713     $ 1,532,254,924  

 

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Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Collateral for Securities Loaned - 0.0%               
State Street Navigator Securities Lending Government Money Market Portfolio, 0.13% (j) (Identified Cost, $11,043,534)      11,043,535     $ 11,043,534  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - 0.3%           61,042,970  
Net Assets - 100.0%            $ 27,671,918,026  

 

(a)

Non-income producing security.

(h)

An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate values of the fund’s investments in affiliated issuers and in unaffiliated issuers were $3,793,592,326 and $23,817,282,730, respectively.

(j)

The rate quoted is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

(l)

A portion of this security is on loan. See Note 2 for additional information.

(v)

Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

The following abbreviations are used in this report and are defined:

 

ADR   American Depositary Receipt

Abbreviations indicate amounts shown in currencies other than the U.S. dollar. All amounts are stated in U.S. dollars unless otherwise indicated. A list of abbreviations is shown below:

 

JPY   Japanese Yen

Derivative Contracts at 5/31/20

Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts

 

Currency

Purchased

   

Currency
Sold

  Counterparty   Settlement
Date
    Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
 
Liability Derivatives      
USD     1,155,430,338     JPY   127,367,445,000   HSBC Bank     8/21/2020       $(27,021,282
USD     55,126,156     JPY   5,991,965,000   Morgan Stanley Capital Services, Inc.     8/21/2020       (501,941
           

 

 

 
              $(27,523,223
           

 

 

 

At May 31, 2020, the fund had cash collateral of $650,000 to cover any collateral or margin obligations for certain derivative contracts. Restricted cash and/or deposits with brokers in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities are comprised of cash collateral.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

At 5/31/20

This statement represents your fund’s balance sheet, which details the assets and liabilities comprising the total value of the fund.

 

Assets         

Investments in unaffiliated issuers, at value, including $10,892,696 of securities on loan (identified cost, $15,355,167,396)

     $23,817,282,730  

Investments in affiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $3,150,072,725)

     3,793,592,326  

Foreign currency, at value (identified cost, $10,401,084)

     10,481,278  

Restricted cash for

  

Forward foreign currency exchange contracts

     650,000  

Receivables for

  

Fund shares sold

     17,647,908  

Interest and dividends

     116,846,570  

Other assets

     45,789  

Total assets

     $27,756,546,601  
Liabilities         

Payables for

  

Forward foreign currency exchange contracts

     $27,523,223  

Fund shares reacquired

     33,721,766  

Collateral for securities loaned, at value

     11,043,534  

Payable to affiliates

  

Investment adviser

     1,865,233  

Administrative services fee

     6,580  

Shareholder servicing costs

     8,466,269  

Distribution and service fees

     165,871  

Payable for independent Trustees’ compensation

     27  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     1,836,072  

Total liabilities

     $84,628,575  

Net assets

     $27,671,918,026  
Net assets consist of         

Paid-in capital

     $17,718,938,174  

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     9,952,979,852  

Net assets

     $27,671,918,026  

Shares of beneficial interest outstanding

     611,063,030  

 

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     Net assets      Shares
outstanding
     Net asset value
per share (a)
 

Class A

     $2,651,119,572        59,621,928        $44.47  

Class B

     25,230,916        598,125        42.18  

Class C

     395,411,427        9,875,002        40.04  

Class I

     10,468,862,444        223,560,456        46.83  

Class R1

     9,835,911        242,635        40.54  

Class R2

     219,474,228        5,306,363        41.36  

Class R3

     1,320,256,602        29,929,027        44.11  

Class R4

     1,019,909,090        22,879,113        44.58  

Class R6

     11,561,817,836        259,050,381        44.63  

 

(a)

Maximum offering price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for all share classes, except for Class A, for which the maximum offering price per share was $47.18 [100 / 94.25 x $44.47]. On sales of $50,000 or more, the maximum offering price of Class A shares is reduced. A contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on redemptions of Class A, Class B, and Class C shares. Redemption price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for Classes I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

Year ended 5/31/20

This statement describes how much your fund earned in investment income and accrued in expenses. It also describes any gains and/or losses generated by fund operations.

 

Net investment income (loss)         

Income

  

Dividends

     $407,759,508  

Dividends from affiliated issuers

     46,546,802  

Income on securities loaned

     480,454  

Other

     128,212  

Interest

     417  

Foreign taxes withheld

     (42,894,326

Total investment income

     $412,021,067  

Expenses

  

Management fee

     $171,594,241  

Distribution and service fees

     16,698,500  

Shareholder servicing costs

     17,834,719  

Administrative services fee

     571,699  

Independent Trustees’ compensation

     185,589  

Custodian fee

     2,528,210  

Shareholder communications

     951,229  

Audit and tax fees

     78,575  

Legal fees

     244,662  

Miscellaneous

     781,605  

Total expenses

     $211,469,029  

Reduction of expenses by investment adviser and distributor

     (2,851,154

Net expenses

     $208,617,875  

Net investment income (loss)

     $203,403,192  
Realized and unrealized gain (loss)         
Realized gain (loss) (identified cost basis)   

Unaffiliated issuers

     $1,267,803,382  

Affiliated issuers

     19,795,853  

Forward foreign currency exchange contracts

     38,103,739  

Foreign currency

     (1,797,713

Net realized gain (loss)

     $1,323,905,261  
Change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation   

Unaffiliated issuers

     $416,911,840  

Affiliated issuers

     620,720,640  

Forward foreign currency exchange contracts

     (12,057,675

Translation of assets and liabilities in foreign currencies

     1,475,967  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     $1,027,050,772  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     $2,350,956,033  

Change in net assets from operations

     $2,554,359,225  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

These statements describe the increases and/or decreases in net assets resulting from operations, any distributions, and any shareholder transactions.

 

     Year ended  
     5/31/20      5/31/19  
Change in net assets              
From operations                  

Net investment income (loss)

     $203,403,192        $334,315,188  

Net realized gain (loss)

     1,323,905,261        855,097,081  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     1,027,050,772        (521,091,836

Change in net assets from operations

     $2,554,359,225        $668,320,433  

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(1,170,503,173      $(1,145,005,100

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $(1,492,350,372      $(1,296,355,983

Total change in net assets

     $(108,494,320      $(1,773,040,650
Net assets                  

At beginning of period

     27,780,412,346        29,553,452,996  

At end of period

     $27,671,918,026        $27,780,412,346  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years. Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

Class A   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $42.09       $42.91       $40.88       $35.53       $36.07  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.21       $0.39       $0.43       $0.30 (c)      $0.50  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    3.93       0.45       2.67       5.62       0.02  

Total from investment operations

    $4.14       $0.84       $3.10       $5.92       $0.52  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.37     $(0.51     $(0.61     $(0.53     $(0.45

From net realized gain

    (1.39     (1.15     (0.46     (0.04     (0.61

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(1.76     $(1.66     $(1.07     $(0.57     $(1.06

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $44.47       $42.09       $42.91       $40.88       $35.53  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    9.84       2.29       7.60       16.94 (c)      1.60  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.99       0.99       0.98       1.04 (c)      1.10  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.98       0.98       0.97       1.00 (c)      1.01  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.48       0.93       1.02       0.82 (c)      1.45  

Portfolio turnover

    7       6       14       7       14  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $2,651,120       $2,959,958       $3,594,359       $3,927,507       $6,853,902  

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Class B    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $39.99       $40.80       $38.94       $33.86       $34.42  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.12     $0.06       $0.11       $0.09 (c)      $0.22  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     3.72       0.46       2.53       5.29       0.03  

Total from investment operations

     $3.60       $0.52       $2.64       $5.38       $0.25  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.02     $(0.18     $(0.32     $(0.26     $(0.20

From net realized gain

     (1.39     (1.15     (0.46     (0.04     (0.61

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.41     $(1.33     $(0.78     $(0.30     $(0.81

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $42.18       $39.99       $40.80       $38.94       $33.86  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     8.99       1.53       6.79       16.05 (c)      0.85  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.74       1.74       1.73       1.79 (c)      1.85  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.73       1.73       1.72       1.75 (c)      1.76  

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.29     0.16       0.27       0.27 (c)      0.67  

Portfolio turnover

     7       6       14       7       14  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $25,231       $35,571       $46,522       $52,439       $56,474  
Class C    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $38.05       $38.91       $37.19       $32.36       $32.97  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.11     $0.07       $0.11       $0.09 (c)      $0.21  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     3.54       0.42       2.40       5.06       0.03  

Total from investment operations

     $3.43       $0.49       $2.51       $5.15       $0.24  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $(0.05     $(0.20     $(0.33     $(0.28     $(0.24

From net realized gain

     (1.39     (1.15     (0.46     (0.04     (0.61

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $(1.44     $(1.35     $(0.79     $(0.32     $(0.85

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $40.04       $38.05       $38.91       $37.19       $32.36  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     9.00       1.53       6.77       16.07 (c)      0.84  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

     1.74       1.74       1.73       1.79 (c)      1.85  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

     1.73       1.73       1.72       1.75 (c)      1.76  

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.27     0.17       0.28       0.26 (c)      0.68  

Portfolio turnover

     7       6       14       7       14  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $395,411       $496,745       $627,662       $719,227       $811,433  

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Class I   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $44.24       $45.02       $42.85       $37.22       $37.73  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.34       $0.53       $0.58       $0.53 (c)      $0.62  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    4.13       0.47       2.77       5.77       0.01  

Total from investment operations

    $4.47       $1.00       $3.35       $6.30       $0.63  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.49     $(0.63     $(0.72     $(0.63     $(0.53

From net realized gain

    (1.39     (1.15     (0.46     (0.04     (0.61

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(1.88     $(1.78     $(1.18     $(0.67     $(1.14

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $46.83       $44.24       $45.02       $42.85       $37.22  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    10.10       2.56       7.85       17.25 (c)      1.84  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.74       0.74       0.73       0.79 (c)      0.85  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.73       0.73       0.72       0.75 (c)      0.76  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.74       1.22       1.30       1.39 (c)      1.71  

Portfolio turnover

    7       6       14       7       14  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $10,468,862       $10,871,918       $11,680,254       $14,934,283       $12,003,645  
Class R1   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $38.51       $39.39       $37.64       $32.77       $33.35  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $(0.10     $0.08       $0.12       $0.10 (c)      $0.22  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    3.58       0.41       2.43       5.11       0.02  

Total from investment operations

    $3.48       $0.49       $2.55       $5.21       $0.24  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.06     $(0.22     $(0.34     $(0.30     $(0.21

From net realized gain

    (1.39     (1.15     (0.46     (0.04     (0.61

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(1.45     $(1.37     $(0.80     $(0.34     $(0.82

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $40.54       $38.51       $39.39       $37.64       $32.77  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    9.01       1.52       6.79       16.08 (c)      0.84  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.74       1.73       1.73       1.79 (c)      1.84  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.73       1.73       1.72       1.75 (c)      1.76  

Net investment income (loss)

    (0.25     0.20       0.31       0.29 (c)      0.68  

Portfolio turnover

    7       6       14       7       14  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $9,836       $11,321       $12,943       $12,813       $12,422  

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Class R2   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $39.25       $40.13       $38.32       $33.36       $33.89  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.09       $0.27       $0.29       $0.29 (c)      $0.36  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    3.67       0.41       2.51       5.17       0.05  

Total from investment operations

    $3.76       $0.68       $2.80       $5.46       $0.41  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.26     $(0.41     $(0.53     $(0.46     $(0.33

From net realized gain

    (1.39     (1.15     (0.46     (0.04     (0.61

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(1.65     $(1.56     $(0.99     $(0.50     $(0.94

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $41.36       $39.25       $40.13       $38.32       $33.36  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    9.56       2.02       7.34       16.62 (c)      1.37  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    1.24       1.24       1.23       1.29 (c)      1.34  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    1.23       1.23       1.22       1.25 (c)      1.26  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.23       0.69       0.74       0.83 (c)      1.10  

Portfolio turnover

    7       6       14       7       14  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $219,474       $295,690       $358,138       $429,776       $397,056  
Class R3   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $41.78       $42.62       $40.63       $35.34       $35.88  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.21       $0.40       $0.45       $0.39 (c)      $0.51  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    3.89       0.43       2.63       5.49       0.01  

Total from investment operations

    $4.10       $0.83       $3.08       $5.88       $0.52  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.38     $(0.52     $(0.63     $(0.55     $(0.45

From net realized gain

    (1.39     (1.15     (0.46     (0.04     (0.61

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(1.77     $(1.67     $(1.09     $(0.59     $(1.06

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $44.11       $41.78       $42.62       $40.63       $35.34  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    9.81       2.28       7.61       16.93 (c)      1.62  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.99       0.99       0.98       1.04 (c)      1.10  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.98       0.98       0.97       1.00 (c)      1.01  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.49       0.97       1.06       1.08 (c)      1.47  

Portfolio turnover

    7       6       14       7       14  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $1,320,257       $1,353,427       $1,450,342       $1,406,181       $1,165,637  

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Class R4   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $42.20       $43.03       $41.01       $35.66       $36.19  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.33       $0.51       $0.55       $0.49 (c)      $0.60  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    3.93       0.44       2.66       5.53       0.02  

Total from investment operations

    $4.26       $0.95       $3.21       $6.02       $0.62  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.49     $(0.63     $(0.73     $(0.63     $(0.54

From net realized gain

    (1.39     (1.15     (0.46     (0.04     (0.61

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(1.88     $(1.78     $(1.19     $(0.67     $(1.15

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $44.58       $42.20       $43.03       $41.01       $35.66  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    10.09       2.56       7.85       17.23 (c)      1.87  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.74       0.74       0.73       0.79 (c)      0.85  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.73       0.73       0.72       0.75 (c)      0.76  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.75       1.22       1.30       1.32 (c)      1.74  

Portfolio turnover

    7       6       14       7       14  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $1,019,909       $1,048,956       $1,157,723       $1,134,929       $1,077,352  
Class R6   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $42.24       $43.09       $41.06       $35.70       $36.23  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.37       $0.56       $0.62       $0.55 (c)      $0.64  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    3.94       0.42       2.64       5.52       0.01  

Total from investment operations

    $4.31       $0.98       $3.26       $6.07       $0.65  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.53     $(0.68     $(0.77     $(0.67     $(0.57

From net realized gain

    (1.39     (1.15     (0.46     (0.04     (0.61

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(1.92     $(1.83     $(1.23     $(0.71     $(1.18

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $44.63       $42.24       $43.09       $41.06       $35.70  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    10.21       2.64       7.97       17.37 (c)      1.97  
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)

    0.63       0.63       0.63       0.69 (c)      0.74  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)

    0.62       0.62       0.62       0.65 (c)      0.66  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.85       1.34       1.46       1.49 (c)      1.85  

Portfolio turnover

    7       6       14       7       14  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $11,561,818       $10,706,826       $10,625,510       $4,751,104       $3,485,253  

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(c)

Amount reflects a one-time reimbursement of expenses by the custodian (or former custodian) without which net investment income and performance would be lower and expenses would be higher.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(1) Business and Organization

MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of MFS Series Trust X (the trust). The trust is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company.

The fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies.

(2) Significant Accounting Policies

General – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the preparation of these financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events occurring after the date of the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities through the date that the financial statements were issued. The fund invests in foreign securities. Investments in foreign securities are vulnerable to the effects of changes in the relative values of the local currency and the U.S. dollar and to the effects of changes in each country’s market, economic, industrial, political, regulatory, geopolitical, and other conditions.

In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848) – Facilitation of the Effects of Reference Rate Reform on Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”), which provides optional, temporary relief with respect to the financial reporting of contracts subject to certain types of modifications due to the planned discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR-based reference rates as of the end of 2021. The temporary relief provided by ASU 2020-04 is effective for certain reference rate-related contract modifications that occur during the period from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-04 on the fund’s investments, derivatives, debt and other contracts that will undergo reference rate-related modifications as a result of the reference rate reform.

Balance Sheet Offsetting – The fund’s accounting policy with respect to balance sheet offsetting is that, absent an event of default by the counterparty or a termination of the agreement, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreement, or similar agreement, does not result in an offset of reported amounts of financial assets and financial liabilities in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities across transactions between the fund and the applicable counterparty. The fund’s right to setoff may be restricted or prohibited by the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the particular jurisdiction to which a specific master netting agreement counterparty is subject. Balance sheet offsetting disclosures, to the extent applicable to the fund, have been included in the fund’s Significant Accounting Policies note under the captions for each of the fund’s in-scope financial instruments and transactions.

 

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Investment Valuations – Equity securities, including restricted equity securities, are generally valued at the last sale or official closing price on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Forward foreign currency exchange contracts are generally valued at the mean of bid and asked prices for the time period interpolated from rates provided by a third-party pricing service for proximate time periods. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per share. Securities and other assets generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, and other market data. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.

The Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments (including any fair valuation) to the adviser pursuant to valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. If the adviser determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available, investments are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with such procedures under the oversight of the Board of Trustees. Under the fund’s valuation policies and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for most types of debt instruments and floating rate loans and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services. In addition, investments may be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that an investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or

 

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published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.

Various inputs are used in determining the value of the fund’s assets or liabilities. These inputs are categorized into three broad levels. In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The fund’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as forward foreign currency exchange contracts. The following is a summary of the levels used as of May 31, 2020 in valuing the fund’s assets or liabilities:

 

Financial Instruments   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  
Equity Securities:        

Japan

    $5,984,874,516       $—       $—       $5,984,874,516  

United States

    3,793,029,784                   3,793,029,784  

Switzerland

          3,636,808,049             3,636,808,049  

France

    125,930,038       3,372,709,728             3,498,639,766  

United Kingdom

          3,268,239,302             3,268,239,302  

Germany

    1,067,447,785       1,143,979,381             2,211,427,166  

Canada

    698,298,103                   698,298,103  

Taiwan

    622,735,204                   622,735,204  

Spain

          422,683,918             422,683,918  

Other Countries

    706,154,719       1,224,686,071             1,930,840,790  
Mutual Funds     1,543,298,458                   1,543,298,458  
Total     $14,541,768,607       $13,069,106,449       $—       $27,610,875,056  
Other Financial Instruments                        
Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts – Liabilities     $—       $(27,523,223     $—       $(27,523,223

For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments.

Foreign Currency Translation – Purchases and sales of foreign investments, income, and expenses are converted into U.S. dollars based upon currency exchange rates prevailing on the respective dates of such transactions or on the reporting date for foreign denominated receivables and payables. Gains and losses attributable to foreign currency exchange rates on sales of securities are recorded for financial statement purposes as net realized gains and losses on investments. Gains and losses attributable to foreign exchange rate movements on receivables, payables, income and expenses are recorded for financial statement purposes as foreign currency transaction gains and

 

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losses. That portion of both realized and unrealized gains and losses on investments that results from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates is not separately disclosed.

Derivatives – The fund uses derivatives primarily to increase or decrease exposure to a particular market or segment of the market, or security, to increase or decrease interest rate or currency exposure, or as alternatives to direct investments. Derivatives are used for hedging or non-hedging purposes. While hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains. When the fund uses derivatives as an investment to increase market exposure, or for hedging purposes, gains and losses from derivative instruments may be substantially greater than the derivative’s original cost.

The derivative instruments used by the fund during the period were forward foreign currency exchange contracts. Depending on the type of derivative, the fund may exit a derivative position by entering into an offsetting transaction with a counterparty or exchange, negotiating an agreement with the derivative counterparty, or novating the position to a third party. The fund’s period end derivatives, as presented in the Portfolio of Investments and the associated Derivative Contract tables, generally are indicative of the volume of its derivative activity during the period.

The following table presents, by major type of derivative contract, the fair value, on a gross basis, of the asset and liability components of derivatives held by the fund at May 31, 2020 as reported in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities:

 

        Fair Value  
Risk   Derivative Contracts   Liability Derivatives  
Foreign Exchange   Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts   $ (27,523,223

The following table presents, by major type of derivative contract, the realized gain (loss) on derivatives held by the fund for the year ended May 31, 2020 as reported in the Statement of Operations:

 

Risk    Forward
Foreign
Currency
Exchange
Contracts
 
Foreign Exchange      $38,103,739  

The following table presents, by major type of derivative contract, the change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation on derivatives held by the fund for the year ended May 31, 2020 as reported in the Statement of Operations:

 

Risk    Forward
Foreign
Currency
Exchange
Contracts
 
Foreign Exchange      $(12,057,675

Derivative counterparty credit risk is managed through formal evaluation of the creditworthiness of all potential counterparties. On certain, but not all, uncleared derivatives, the fund attempts to reduce its exposure to counterparty credit risk

 

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whenever possible by entering into an ISDA Master Agreement on a bilateral basis. The ISDA Master Agreement gives each party to the agreement the right to terminate all transactions traded under such agreement if there is a specified deterioration in the credit quality of the other party. Upon an event of default or a termination of the ISDA Master Agreement, the non-defaulting party has the right to close out all transactions traded under such agreement and to net amounts owed under each agreement to one net amount payable by one party to the other. This right to close out and net payments across all transactions traded under the ISDA Master Agreement could result in a reduction of the fund’s credit risk to such counterparty equal to any amounts payable by the fund under the applicable transactions, if any.

Collateral and margin requirements differ by type of derivative. For cleared derivatives (e.g., futures contracts, cleared swaps, and exchange-traded options), margin requirements are set by the clearing broker and the clearing house and collateral, in the form of cash or securities, is posted by the fund directly with the clearing broker. Collateral terms are counterparty agreement specific for uncleared derivatives (e.g., forward foreign currency exchange contracts, uncleared swap agreements, and uncleared options) and collateral, in the form of cash and securities, is held in segregated accounts with the fund’s custodian in connection with these agreements. For derivatives traded under an ISDA Master Agreement, which contains a collateral support annex, the collateral requirements are netted across all transactions traded under such counterparty-specific agreement and an amount is posted from one party to the other to collateralize such obligations. Cash that has been segregated or delivered to cover the fund’s collateral or margin obligations under derivative contracts, if any, will be reported separately in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as restricted cash for uncleared derivatives and/or deposits with brokers for cleared derivatives. Securities pledged as collateral or margin for the same purpose, if any, are noted in the Portfolio of Investments. The fund may be required to make payments of interest on uncovered collateral or margin obligations with the broker. Any such payments are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

Forward Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts – The fund entered into forward foreign currency exchange contracts for the purchase or sale of a specific foreign currency at a fixed price on a future date. These contracts may be used to hedge the fund’s currency risk or for non-hedging purposes. For hedging purposes, the fund may enter into contracts to deliver or receive foreign currency that the fund will receive from or use in its normal investment activities. The fund may also use contracts to hedge against declines in the value of foreign currency denominated securities due to unfavorable exchange rate movements. For non-hedging purposes, the fund may enter into contracts with the intent of changing the relative exposure of the fund’s portfolio of securities to different currencies to take advantage of anticipated exchange rate changes.

Forward foreign currency exchange contracts are adjusted by the daily exchange rate of the underlying currency and any unrealized gains or losses are recorded as a receivable or payable for forward foreign currency exchange contracts until the contract settlement date. On contract settlement date, any gain or loss on the contract is recorded as realized gains or losses on forward foreign currency exchange contracts.

 

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Risks may arise upon entering into these contracts from unanticipated movements in the value of the contract and from the potential inability of counterparties to meet the terms of their contracts. Generally, the fund’s maximum risk due to counterparty credit risk is the unrealized gain on the contract due to the use of Continuous Linked Settlement, a multicurrency cash settlement system for the centralized settlement of foreign transactions. This risk is mitigated in cases where there is an ISDA Master Agreement between the fund and the counterparty providing for netting as described above and, where applicable, by the posting of collateral by the counterparty to the fund to cover the fund’s exposure to the counterparty under such ISDA Master Agreement.

Security Loans – Under its Securities Lending Agency Agreement with the fund, State Street Bank and Trust Company, as lending agent, loans the securities of the fund to certain qualified institutions (the “Borrowers”) approved by the fund. Security loans can be terminated at the discretion of either the lending agent or the fund and the related securities must be returned within the earlier of the standard trade settlement period for such securities or within three business days. The loans are collateralized by cash and/or U.S. Treasury and federal agency obligations in an amount typically at least equal to the market value of the securities loaned. On loans collateralized by cash, the cash collateral is invested in a money market fund. The market value of the loaned securities is determined at the close of business of the fund and any additional required collateral is delivered to the fund on the next business day. The lending agent provides the fund with indemnification against Borrower default. In the event of Borrower default, the lending agent will, for the benefit of the fund, either purchase securities identical to those loaned or, when such purchase is commercially impracticable, pay the fund the market value of the loaned securities. In return, the lending agent assumes the fund’s rights to the related collateral. If the collateral value is less than the cost to purchase identical securities, the lending agent is responsible for the shortfall, but only to the extent that such shortfall is not due to a decline in collateral value resulting from collateral reinvestment for which the fund bears the risk of loss. At period end, the fund had investment securities on loan, all of which were classified as equity securities in the fund’s Portfolio of Investments, with a fair value of $10,892,696. The fair value of the fund’s investment securities on loan and a related liability of $11,043,534 for cash collateral received on securities loaned are both presented gross in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The collateral on securities loaned exceeded the value of securities on loan at period end. The liability for cash collateral for securities loaned is carried at fair value, which is categorized as level 2 within the fair value hierarchy. A portion of the income generated upon investment of the collateral is remitted to the Borrowers, and the remainder is allocated between the fund and the lending agent. On loans collateralized by U.S. Treasury and/or federal agency obligations, a fee is received from the Borrower, and is allocated between the fund and the lending agent. Income from securities lending is separately reported in the Statement of Operations. The dividend and interest income earned on the securities loaned is accounted for in the same manner as other dividend and interest income.

Indemnifications – Under the fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the fund. Additionally, in the normal course of business,

 

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the fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The fund’s maximum exposure under these agreements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the fund that have not yet occurred.

Investment Transactions and Income – Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Interest income is recorded on the accrual basis. Dividends received in cash are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Certain dividends from foreign securities will be recorded when the fund is informed of the dividend if such information is obtained subsequent to the ex-dividend date. Dividend and interest payments received in additional securities are recorded on the ex-dividend or ex-interest date in an amount equal to the value of the security on such date.

The fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received from litigation involving portfolio holdings are reflected in the Statement of Operations in realized gain/loss if the security has been disposed of by the fund or in unrealized gain/loss if the security is still held by the fund. Any other proceeds from litigation not related to portfolio holdings are reflected as other income in the Statement of Operations.

Tax Matters and Distributions – The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company, as defined under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and to distribute all of its taxable income, including realized capital gains. As a result, no provision for federal income tax is required. The fund’s federal tax returns, when filed, will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a three year period. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal and state tax returns for all open tax years and does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability. Foreign taxes, if any, have been accrued by the fund in the accompanying financial statements in accordance with the applicable foreign tax law. Foreign income taxes may be withheld by certain countries in which the fund invests. Additionally, capital gains realized by the fund on securities issued in or by certain foreign countries may be subject to capital gains tax imposed by those countries.

Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Certain capital accounts in the financial statements are periodically adjusted for permanent differences in order to reflect their tax character. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or net asset value per share. Temporary differences which arise from recognizing certain items of income, expense, gain or loss in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes will reverse at some time in the future.

Book/tax differences primarily relate to passive foreign investment companies, wash sale loss deferrals, derivative transactions, treating a portion of the proceeds from redemptions as a distribution for tax purposes, and foreign taxes.

 

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The tax character of distributions declared to shareholders for the last two fiscal years is as follows:

 

    Year ended
5/31/20
    Year ended
5/31/19
 
Ordinary income (including any short-term capital gains)     $318,778,739       $400,002,723  
Long-term capital gains     851,724,434       745,002,377  
Total distributions     $1,170,503,173       $1,145,005,100  

The federal tax cost and the tax basis components of distributable earnings were as follows:

 

As of 5/31/20       
Cost of investments      $18,511,288,799  
Gross appreciation      9,871,995,275  
Gross depreciation      (799,932,241
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      $9,072,063,034  
Undistributed ordinary income      142,832,068  
Undistributed long-term capital gain      740,757,209  
Other temporary differences      (2,672,459

Multiple Classes of Shares of Beneficial Interest – The fund offers multiple classes of shares, which differ in their respective distribution and service fees. The fund’s income, realized and unrealized gain (loss), and common expenses are allocated to shareholders based on the daily net assets of each class. Dividends are declared separately for each class. Differences in per share dividend rates are generally due to differences in separate class expenses. Class B shares will convert to Class A shares approximately eight years after purchase. Class C shares will convert to Class A shares approximately ten years after purchase. The fund’s distributions declared to shareholders as reported in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets are presented by class as follows:

 

     Year
ended
5/31/20
     Year
ended
5/31/19
 
Class A      $113,265,526        $126,907,599  
Class B      1,068,147        1,328,470  
Class C      16,217,262        19,187,689  
Class I      434,142,654        446,208,634  
Class R1      360,163        414,071  
Class R2      10,019,225        12,331,518  
Class R3      56,109,021        54,297,176  
Class R4      43,680,889        44,122,013  
Class R6      495,640,286        440,207,930  
Total      $1,170,503,173        $1,145,005,100  

 

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(3) Transactions with Affiliates

Investment Adviser – The fund has an investment advisory agreement with MFS to provide overall investment management and related administrative services and facilities to the fund. The management fee is computed daily and paid monthly at the following annual rates based on the fund’s average daily net assets:

 

Up to $1 billion      0.90
In excess of $1 billion and up to $2 billion      0.80
In excess of $2 billion and up to $10 billion      0.70
In excess of $10 billion and up to $15 billion      0.65
In excess of $15 billion and up to $20 billion      0.55
In excess of $20 billion and up to $25 billion      0.50
In excess of $25 billion and up to $30 billion      0.45
In excess of $30 billion and up to $35 billion      0.43
In excess of $35 billion      0.41

MFS has also agreed in writing to reduce its management fee by a specified amount if certain MFS mutual fund assets exceed thresholds agreed to by MFS and the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this management fee reduction amounted to $2,843,226, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations. The management fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.60% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Distributor – MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (MFD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, as distributor, received $41,509 for the year ended May 31, 2020, as its portion of the initial sales charge on sales of Class A shares of the fund.

The Board of Trustees has adopted a distribution plan for certain share classes pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

The fund’s distribution plan provides that the fund will pay MFD for services provided by MFD and financial intermediaries in connection with the distribution and servicing of certain share classes. One component of the plan is a distribution fee paid to MFD and another component of the plan is a service fee paid to MFD. MFD may subsequently pay all, or a portion, of the distribution and/or service fees to financial intermediaries.

Distribution Plan Fee Table:

 

     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
Class A             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        $7,076,936  
Class B      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        314,841  
Class C      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        4,523,795  
Class R1      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        100,732  
Class R2      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        1,264,341  
Class R3             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        3,417,855  
Total Distribution and Service Fees

 

           $16,698,500  

 

(d)

In accordance with the distribution plan for certain classes, the fund pays distribution and/or service fees equal to these annual percentage rates of each class’s average daily net assets. The distribution and service fee rates disclosed by class represent the current rates in effect at the end of the reporting period. Any rate changes, if applicable, are detailed below.

 

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(e)

The annual effective rates represent actual fees incurred under the distribution plan for the year ended May 31, 2020 based on each class’s average daily net assets. MFD has voluntarily agreed to rebate a portion of each class’s 0.25% service fee attributable to accounts for which there is no financial intermediary specified on the account except for accounts attributable to MFS or its affiliates’ seed money. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this rebate amounted to $7,678, $12, $224, and $14 for Class A, Class B, Class C, and Class R3, respectively, and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Certain Class A shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) in the event of a shareholder redemption within 18 months of purchase. Class B shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within six years of purchase. Class C shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within 12 months of purchase. All contingent deferred sales charges are paid to MFD and during the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

     Amount  
Class A      $5,369  
Class B      21,359  
Class C      5,002  

Shareholder Servicing Agent – MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, receives a fee from the fund for its services as shareholder servicing agent calculated as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the fund as determined periodically under the supervision of the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee was $323,521, which equated to 0.0012% annually of the fund’s average daily net assets. MFSC also receives payment from the fund for out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs which may be paid to affiliated and unaffiliated service providers. Class R6 shares do not incur sub-accounting fees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, these out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs amounted to $17,511,198.

Administrator – MFS provides certain financial, legal, shareholder communications, compliance, and other administrative services to the fund. Under an administrative services agreement, the fund reimburses MFS the costs incurred to provide these services. The fund is charged an annual fixed amount of $17,500 plus a fee based on average daily net assets. The administrative services fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.0020% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Trustees’ and Officers’ Compensation – The fund pays compensation to independent Trustees in the form of a retainer, attendance fees, and additional compensation to Board and Committee chairpersons. The fund does not pay compensation directly to Trustees or officers of the fund who are also officers of the investment adviser, all of whom receive remuneration from MFS for their services to the fund. Certain officers and Trustees of the fund are officers or directors of MFS, MFD, and MFSC.

Other – This fund and certain other funds managed by MFS (the funds) had entered into a service agreement (the ISO Agreement) which provided for payment of fees solely by the funds to Tarantino LLC in return for the provision of services of an Independent Senior Officer (ISO) for the funds. Frank L. Tarantino served as the ISO and

 

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was an officer of the funds and the sole member of Tarantino LLC. Effective June 30, 2019, Mr. Tarantino retired from his position as ISO for the funds, and the ISO Agreement was terminated. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee paid by the fund under this agreement was $12,950 and is included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations. MFS had agreed to bear all expenses associated with office space, other administrative support, and supplies provided to the ISO.

The fund invests in the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio which is managed by MFS and seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity. This money market fund does not pay a management fee to MFS but does incur investment and operating costs.

The fund is permitted to engage in purchase and sale transactions with funds and accounts for which MFS serves as investment adviser or sub-adviser (“cross-trades”) pursuant to a policy adopted by the Board of Trustees. This policy has been designed to ensure that cross-trades conducted by the fund comply with Rule 17a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940. During the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund engaged in sale transactions pursuant to this policy, which amounted to $10,224,984. The sales transactions resulted in net realized gains (losses) of $4,340,692.

(4) Portfolio Securities

For the year ended May 31, 2020, purchases and sales of investments, other than short-term obligations, aggregated $1,872,547,122 and $4,572,484,181, respectively.

(5) Shares of Beneficial Interest

The fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest. Transactions in fund shares were as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares sold            

Class A

     9,489,966        $406,662,902        13,166,328        $540,261,338  

Class B

     1,899        79,845        16,719        661,100  

Class C

     219,520        8,683,562        312,436        11,615,504  

Class I

     28,106,233        1,257,995,288        36,433,894        1,581,116,677  

Class R1

     43,392        1,696,952        47,621        1,815,762  

Class R2

     772,296        31,195,475        1,087,770        42,221,562  

Class R3

     5,835,690        250,654,235        5,824,254        241,034,368  

Class R4

     5,709,984        250,380,836        4,825,043        199,950,996  

Class R6

     44,611,383        1,961,893,209        55,642,556        2,309,476,613  
     94,790,363        $4,169,242,304        117,356,621        $4,928,153,920  

 

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     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares issued to shareholders in reinvestment of distributions

 

        

Class A

     2,278,606        $101,648,593        2,954,730        $114,407,149  

Class B

     23,423        994,760        33,939        1,252,680  

Class C

     359,759        14,501,899        491,991        17,278,735  

Class I

     8,181,128        383,858,540        9,691,642        393,868,340  

Class R1

     8,825        360,163        11,651        414,071  

Class R2

     233,618        9,704,485        321,327        11,615,980  

Class R3

     1,268,000        56,109,021        1,412,885        54,297,176  

Class R4

     876,284        39,143,625        1,028,965        39,892,980  

Class R6

     10,561,776        472,111,394        10,783,392        418,287,784  
     23,791,419        $1,078,432,480        26,730,522        $1,051,314,895  
Shares reacquired

 

        

Class A

     (22,469,987      $(956,526,809      (29,557,941      $(1,208,710,690

Class B

     (316,761      (12,848,751      (301,388      (11,880,957

Class C

     (3,759,248      (146,118,818      (3,879,266      (145,637,275

Class I

     (58,492,147      (2,603,033,876      (59,793,490      (2,600,814,318

Class R1

     (103,564      (4,130,127      (93,880      (3,574,394

Class R2

     (3,232,204      (129,090,822      (2,801,384      (109,151,068

Class R3

     (9,570,168      (408,046,750      (8,875,155      (366,332,163

Class R4

     (8,566,756      (372,768,236      (7,897,510      (330,272,555

Class R6

     (49,587,172      (2,107,460,967      (59,556,093      (2,499,451,378
     (156,098,007      $(6,740,025,156      (172,756,107      $(7,275,824,798
Net change            

Class A

     (10,701,415      $(448,215,314      (13,436,883      $(554,042,203

Class B

     (291,439      (11,774,146      (250,730      (9,967,177

Class C

     (3,179,969      (122,933,357      (3,074,839      (116,743,036

Class I

     (22,204,786      (961,180,048      (13,667,954      (625,829,301

Class R1

     (51,347      (2,073,012      (34,608      (1,344,561

Class R2

     (2,226,290      (88,190,862      (1,392,287      (55,313,526

Class R3

     (2,466,478      (101,283,494      (1,638,016      (71,000,619

Class R4

     (1,980,488      (83,243,775      (2,043,502      (90,428,579

Class R6

     5,585,987        326,543,636        6,869,855        228,313,019  
     (37,516,225      $(1,492,350,372      (28,668,964      $(1,296,355,983

Class T shares were not publicly available for sale during the period. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective June 1, 2019, purchases of the fund’s Class B shares are closed to new and existing investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective at the close of business on May 29, 2015, the fund is closed to new investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

 

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The fund is one of several mutual funds in which certain MFS funds may invest. The MFS funds do not invest in the underlying funds for the purpose of exercising management or control. At the end of the period, the MFS International Diversification Fund was the owner of record of approximately 18% of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund. In addition, the MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund, the MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, the MFS Growth Allocation Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2020 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2025 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2030 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2035 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2040 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2045 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2050 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2055 Fund, the MFS Lifetime 2060 Fund, the MFS Lifetime Income Fund, and the MFS Moderate Allocation Fund were each the owners of record of less than 1% of the value of outstanding voting shares of the fund.

(6) Line of Credit

The fund and certain other funds managed by MFS participate in a $1.25 billion unsecured committed line of credit, subject to a $1 billion sublimit, provided by a syndicate of banks under a credit agreement. Borrowings may be made for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, generally at a rate equal to the highest of one month LIBOR, the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus an agreed upon spread. A commitment fee, based on the average daily, unused portion of the committed line of credit, is allocated among the participating funds. In addition, the fund and other funds managed by MFS have established unsecured uncommitted borrowing arrangements with certain banks for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, at rates equal to customary reference rates plus an agreed upon spread. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund’s commitment fee and interest expense were $148,269 and $0, respectively, and are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

 

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(7) Investments in Affiliated Issuers

An affiliated issuer may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:

 

Affiliated Issuers   Beginning
Value
    Purchases     Sales
Proceeds
    Realized
Gain
(Loss)
    Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
    Ending
Value
 
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.*     $913,507,956       $—       $45,739,369       $21,264,441       $359,264,058       $—  
Core Laboratories N.V.     101,471,294       14,397,152       280,270       (2,710,068     (64,976,746     47,901,362  
Hirose Electric Co. Ltd.     271,077,571       42,778,895       2,816,251       (987,744     30,287,396       340,339,867  
IMI PLC     221,959,593             16,303,630       (4,696,673     1,650,124       202,609,414  
ITO EN Ltd.     340,509,654             3,956,836       726,721       71,891,531       409,171,070  
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.     320,981,984             4,289,882       2,864,190       63,144,065       382,700,357  
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio     1,214,534,644       3,164,390,410       2,846,867,418       137,258       60,030       1,532,254,924  
Nihon Kohden Corp.     226,537,529             2,826,721       695,455       37,169,197       261,575,460  
ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.     154,017,877       44,527,222       2,206,866       (77,595     22,286,221       218,546,859  
Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd.     312,022,369             16,053,988       2,579,868       99,944,764       398,493,013  
    $4,076,620,471       $3,266,093,679       $2,941,341,231       $19,795,853       $620,720,640       $3,793,592,326  

 

Affiliated Issuers   Dividend
Income
    Capital Gain
Distributions
 
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.*     $—       $—  
Core Laboratories N.V.     2,767,450        
Hirose Electric Co. Ltd.     5,063,112        
IMI PLC     3,317,711        
ITO EN Ltd.     2,320,100        
Kobayashi Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.     2,541,853        
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio     21,733,666        
Nihon Kohden Corp.     2,243,427        
ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd.     1,407,203        
Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd.     5,152,280        
    $46,546,802       $—  

 

*

Held at period end. No longer considered an affiliated issuer.

(8) Impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic related to the global spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in December 2019, has resulted in significant disruptions to global business activity and the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the securities and commodities markets in general. This pandemic, the full effects of which are still unknown, has resulted in substantial market volatility and may have adversely impacted the prices and liquidity of the fund’s investments and the fund’s performance.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Shareholders of MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund and the Board of Trustees of MFS Series Trust X

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting MFS Series Trust X (the “Trust”)), including the portfolio of investments, as of May 31, 2020, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund (one of the funds constituting MFS Series Trust X) at May 31, 2020, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and its financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2020, by correspondence with the custodian. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting

 

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principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

LOGO

We have served as the auditor of one or more MFS investment companies since 1993.

Boston, Massachusetts

July 17, 2020

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS — IDENTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND

The Trustees and Officers of the Trust, as of July 1, 2020, are listed below, together with their principal occupations during the past five years. (Their titles may have varied during that period.) The address of each Trustee and Officer is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

INTERESTED TRUSTEES
Robert J. Manning (k) (age 56)   Trustee   February 2004   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Chairman (since January 2017); Director; Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (until 2015); Co-Chief Executive Officer (2015-2016)   N/A

Robin A. Stelmach (k)

(age 58)

  Trustee   January 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice Chair (since January 2017); Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (until January 2017)   N/A
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES    

John P. Kavanaugh

(age 65)

  Trustee and Chair of Trustees   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A

Steven E. Buller

(age 68)

  Trustee   February 2014   134   Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman (2014-2015); Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Standing Advisory Group, Member (until 2014); BlackRock, Inc. (investment management), Managing Director (until 2014), BlackRock Finco UK (investment management), Director (until 2014)   N/A

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

John A. Caroselli

(age 66)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   JC Global Advisors, LLC (management consulting), President (since 2015); First Capital Corporation (commercial finance), Executive Vice President (until 2015)   N/A

Maureen R. Goldfarb

(age 65)

  Trustee   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A
Peter D. Jones
(age 64)
  Trustee   January 2019   134   Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (investment management), President (until 2015); Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (investment management), Chairman (until 2015)   N/A
James W. Kilman, Jr. (age 59)   Trustee   January 2019   134   Burford Capital Limited (finance and investment management), Chief Financial Officer (since 2019); KielStrand Capital LLC (family office), Chief Executive Officer (since 2016); Morgan Stanley & Co. (financial services), Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Co-Head of Diversified Financials Coverage – Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group (until 2016)   Alpha-En Corporation, Director (2016-2019)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

Clarence Otis, Jr.

(age 64)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   Darden Restaurants, Inc., Chief Executive Officer (until 2014)   VF Corporation, Director; Verizon Communications, Inc., Director; The Travelers Companies, Director; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Director (until 2015)

Maryanne L. Roepke

(age 64)

  Trustee   May 2014   134   American Century Investments (investment management), Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (until 2014)   N/A
Laurie J. Thomsen
(age 62)
  Trustee   March 2005   134   Private investor   The Travelers Companies, Director; Dycom Industries, Inc., Director (since 2015)

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

OFFICERS      
Christopher R. Bohane (k) (age 46)   Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Kino Clark (k)

(age 52)

 

Assistant

Treasurer

  January 2012   134  

Massachusetts Financial

Services Company, Vice President

John W. Clark, Jr. (k)

(age 53)

  Assistant Treasurer   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President (since March 2017); Deutsche Bank (financial services), Department Head – Treasurer’s Office (until February 2017)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

Thomas H. Connors (k)

(age 60)

 

Assistant

Secretary and Assistant Clerk

  September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel
David L. DiLorenzo (k)
(age 51)
  President   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

Heidi W. Hardin (k)

(age 52)

  Secretary and Clerk   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Vice President and General Counsel (since March 2017); Harris Associates (investment management), General Counsel (from September 2015 to January 2017); Janus Capital Management LLC (investment management), Senior Vice President and General Counsel (until September 2015)

Brian E. Langenfeld (k)

(age 47)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  June 2006   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel

Amanda S. Mooradian (k)

(age 41)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  September 2018   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel
Susan A. Pereira (k)
(age 49)
  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Kasey L. Phillips (k)

(age 49)

  Assistant Treasurer   September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

Matthew A. Stowe (k)

(age 45)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   October 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Martin J. Wolin (k)

(age 52)

  Chief Compliance Officer   July 2015   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (since July 2015); Mercer (financial service provider), Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, North America and Latin America (until June 2015)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

James O. Yost (k)
(age 60)
  Treasurer   September 1990   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

 

(h)

Date first appointed to serve as Trustee/officer of an MFS Fund. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. For the period from December 15, 2004 until February 22, 2005, Mr. Manning served as Advisory Trustee. From January 2012 through December 2016, Messrs. DiLorenzo and Yost served as Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer of the Funds, respectively.

(j)

Directorships or trusteeships of companies required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., “public companies”).

(k)

“Interested person” of the Trust within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (referred to as the 1940 Act), which is the principal federal law governing investment companies like the fund, as a result of a position with MFS. The address of MFS is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

Each Trustee (other than Messrs. Jones and Kilman) has been elected by shareholders and each Trustee and Officer holds office until his or her successor is chosen and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal. Messrs. Jones and Kilman became Trustees of the Funds on January 1, 2019. The Trust does not hold annual meetings for the purpose of electing Trustees, and Trustees are not elected for fixed terms. Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of any Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20 years of service on the Board).

Messrs. Buller, Kilman and Otis and Ms. Roepke are members of the Trust’s Audit Committee.

Each of the Interested Trustees and certain Officers hold comparable officer positions with certain affiliates of MFS.

The Statement of Additional Information for a Fund includes further information about the Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

 

Investment Adviser   Custodian

Massachusetts Financial Services Company
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

State Street Bank and Trust Company

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111-2900

Distributor   Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.
111 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02199-7618
 

Ernst & Young LLP

200 Clarendon Street

Boston, MA 02116

Portfolio Manager(s)  

Philip Evans

Pablo de la Mata

Benjamin Stone

 

 

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STATEMENT REGARDING LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) as required by Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated MFS as the administrator of the Program. The Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage the liquidity risk of the fund. Liquidity risk is the risk that the fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by the fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interests.

MFS provided a written report to the Board for consideration at its April 2020 meeting that addressed the operation of the Program and provided an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of the Program during the period from the adoption of the Program on December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (the “Covered Period”). The report concluded that during the Covered Period the Program had operated effectively and had adequately and effectively been implemented to assess and manage the fund’s liquidity risk. MFS also reported that there were no liquidity events that impacted the fund or its ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders during the Covered Period.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Further information on liquidity risk, and other principal risks to which an investment in the fund may be subject, can be found in the prospectus.

 

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND INFORMATION

MFS votes proxies on behalf of the fund pursuant to proxy voting policies and procedures that are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-225-2606, by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available by August 31 of each year without charge by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO DISCLOSURE

The fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A shareholder can obtain the portfolio holdings report for the first and third quarters of the fund’s fiscal year at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name and then selecting the “Resources” tab and clicking on “Prospectus and Reports”.

FURTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, MFS may post important information about the fund or the MFS funds on the MFS web site (mfs.com). This information is available at https://www.mfs.com/en-us/what-we-do/announcements.html or at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name.

INFORMATION ABOUT FUND CONTRACTS AND LEGAL CLAIMS

The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, 529 program manager (if applicable), and custodian who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the Trust’s By-Laws and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the MFS Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (unaudited)

The fund will notify shareholders of amounts for use in preparing 2020 income tax forms in January 2021. The following information is provided pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as qualified dividend income eligible to be taxed at the same rate as long-term capital gain.

The fund designates $1,028,438,000 as capital gain dividends paid during the fiscal year.

For corporate shareholders, 11.58% of the ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year qualify for the corporate dividends received deduction.

Income derived from foreign sources was $394,908,296. The fund intends to pass through foreign tax credits of $42,533,181 for the fiscal year.

 

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FACTS

 

  WHAT DOES MFS DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?   LOGO

 

Why?   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

 

What?  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

 Social Security number and account balances

 Account transactions and transaction history

 Checking account information and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

How?   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons MFS chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your
personal information
  Does MFS
share?
  Can you limit
this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes –

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

  Yes   No

For our marketing purposes –

to offer our products and services to you

  No   We don’t share

For joint marketing with other

financial companies

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your transactions and experiences

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your creditworthiness

  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

   
Questions?   Call 800-225-2606 or go to mfs.com.

 

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   MFS Funds, MFS Investment Management, MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., and MFS Heritage Trust Company.

 

What we do
How does MFS protect my personal information?   To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include procedural, electronic, and physical safeguards for the protection of the personal information we collect about you.
How does MFS collect my personal information?  

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

 open an account or provide account information

 direct us to buy securities or direct us to sell your securities

 make a wire transfer

 

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

 sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness

 affiliates from using your information to market to you

 sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 

Definitions
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share personal information with affiliates, except for everyday business purposes as described on page one of this notice.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

 MFS doesnt jointly market.

 

 

Other important information
If you own an MFS product or receive an MFS service in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, their privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.

 

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LOGO

 

Save paper with eDelivery.

 

LOGO

MFS® will send you prospectuses,

reports, and proxies directly via e-mail so you will get information faster with less mailbox clutter.

To sign up:

1. Go to mfs.com.

2. Log in via MFS® Access.

3. Select eDelivery.

If you own your MFS fund shares through a financial institution or a retirement plan, MFS® TALK, MFS® Access, or eDelivery may not be available to you.

 

CONTACT

WEB SITE

mfs.com

MFS TALK

1-800-637-8255

24 hours a day

ACCOUNT SERVICE AND LITERATURE

Shareholders

1-800-225-2606

Financial advisors

1-800-343-2829

Retirement plan services

1-800-637-1255

MAILING ADDRESS

MFS Service Center, Inc.

P.O. Box 219341

Kansas City, MO 64121-9341

OVERNIGHT MAIL

MFS Service Center, Inc.

Suite 219341

430 W 7th Street

Kansas City, MO 64105-1407

 


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Annual Report

May 31, 2020

 

LOGO

 

     MFS® Managed Wealth Fund

 

LOGO

 

Beginning on January 1, 2021, as permitted by regulations adopted by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, paper copies of the fund’s annual and semiannual shareholder reports will no longer be sent by mail, unless you specifically request paper copies of the reports. Instead, the complete reports will be made available on the fund’s Web site (funds.mfs.com), and you will be notified by mail each time a report is posted and provided with a Web site link to access the report.

If you are already signed up to receive shareholder reports by email, you will not be affected by this change and you need not take any action. You may sign up to receive shareholder reports and other communications from the fund by email by contacting your financial intermediary (such as a broker-dealer or bank) or, if you hold your shares directly with the fund, by calling 1-800-225-2606 or by logging on to MFS Access at mfs.com.

Beginning on January 1, 2019, you may elect to receive all future reports in paper free of charge. Contact your financial intermediary to request that you continue to receive paper copies of your shareholder reports. If you invest directly with the fund, you can call 1-800-225-2606 or send an email request to orderliterature@mfs.com to let the fund know that you wish to continue receiving paper copies of your shareholder reports. Your election to receive reports in paper will apply to all funds held in your account if you invest through your financial intermediary or all funds held with the MFS fund complex if you invest directly.

 

MGW-ANN

 


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CONTENTS

 

Letter from the Executive Chair     1  
Portfolio composition     2  
Management review     4  
Performance summary     6  
Expense table     9  
Portfolio of investments     11  
Statement of assets and liabilities     13  
Statement of operations     15  
Statements of changes in net assets     16  
Financial highlights     17  
Notes to financial statements     23  
Report of independent registered public accounting firm     37  
Trustees and officers     39  
Statement regarding liquidity risk management program     44  
Proxy voting policies and information     45  
Quarterly portfolio disclosure     45  
Further information     45  
Information about fund contracts and legal claims     45  
Federal tax information     45  
MFS® privacy notice     46  
Contact information     back cover  

 

The report is prepared for the general information of shareholders. It is authorized for distribution to prospective investors only when preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus.

 

NOT FDIC INSURED MAY LOSE VALUE NO BANK GUARANTEE



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LOGO

 

LETTER FROM THE EXECUTIVE CHAIR

 

Dear Shareholders:

Markets experienced dramatic swings in early 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic brought the global economy to a standstill for several months. Optimism over the

development of vaccines and therapeutics, along with a decline in cases in countries that had been affected by the outbreak early on, brightened the economic and market outlook during the second quarter, as did the phased reopening of US states. However, a great deal of uncertainty remains, including the possibility of a second wave of cases later this year.

Global central banks have taken aggressive, coordinated steps to cushion the economic and market fallout related to the virus, and governments are deploying unprecedented levels of fiscal stimulus. As uncertainty recedes, these measures can help build a supportive environment and encourage economic recovery;

however, if markets disconnect from fundamentals, they can also sow the seeds of instability. In the aftermath of the crisis, societal changes may be likely as households, businesses, and governments adjust to a new reality, and these alterations could change the investment landscape. For investors, events, such as the COVID-19 outbreak, demonstrate the importance of having a deep understanding of company fundamentals, and we have built our global research platform to do just that.

Here at MFS®, we aim to help our clients navigate the growing complexity of the markets and world economies. Our long-term investment philosophy and commitment to the responsible allocation of capital allow us to tune out the noise and uncover what we believe are the best, most durable investment opportunities in the market. Through our powerful global investment platform, we combine collective expertise, thoughtful risk management, and long-term discipline to create sustainable value for investors.

Respectfully,

 

LOGO

Robert J. Manning

Executive Chair

MFS Investment Management

July 17, 2020

The opinions expressed in this letter are subject to change and may not be relied upon for investment advice. No forecasts can be guaranteed.

 

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PORTFOLIO COMPOSITION

Portfolio structure

 

          Active Security
Selection (a)
    Derivative
Overlay
Positions (b)
    Net Market
Exposure (c)
 
Strategic Allocation   MFS Value Fund     30.7%                  
  MFS Institutional International Equity Fund     30.6%                  
    MFS Growth Fund     30.1%                  
Market Exposure Overlay   Mini Russell 1000 Growth Index Future JUN 19 20             (26.6)%          
  Mini MSCI EAFE Index Future JUN 19 20             (27.1)%          
    Mini Russell 1000 Value Index Future JUN 19 20             (27.2)%          
Net Equity Exposure                     10.5%  
  Standard & Poors 500 Index Option 2000.00 PUT SEP 18 20             (0.1)%          
  Standard & Poors 500 Index Option 2625.00 PUT DEC 18 20             (0.1)%          
    Standard & Poors 500 Index Option 2975.00 PUT JUN 19 20             (0.5)%          
Standard & Poors Index Option PUT(s)                     (0.7)%  
Downside Hedge(s)                     (0.7)%  
Net Equivalent Equity Exposure     91.4%       (81.6)%       9.8%  
Limited Maturity U.S. Treasury Notes                     1.1%  
Cash   Cash & Cash Equivalent (d)                     7.4%  
    Other (e)                     81.7%  
Total Net Exposure Summary                     100.0%  

 

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Top ten holdings (c)(i)  
Microsoft Corp.     2.8%  
Amazon.com, Inc.     2.2%  
Nestle S.A.     1.9%  
Roche Holding AG     1.4%  
Adobe Systems, Inc.     1.4%  
Johnson & Johnson     1.3%  
Alphabet, Inc., “A”     1.3%  
Mini Russell 1000 Growth Index Future - JUN 2020     (26.6)%  
Mini MSCI EAFE Index Future - JUN 2020     (27.1)%  
Mini Russell 1000 Value Index Future - JUN 2020     (27.2)%  
 

 

(a)

Represents the actively managed portion of the portfolio and for purposes of this presentation, components include the value of securities, less any securities sold short. The bond component will include any accrued interest amounts. This also reflects the equivalent exposure of certain derivative positions. These amounts may be negative from time to time.

(b)

Represents the tactical overlay portion of the portfolio which is how the fund manages its exposure to markets and currencies through the use of derivative positions. Percentages reflect the equivalent exposure of those derivative positions.

(c)

For purposes of this presentation, the components include the value of securities, less any securities sold short, and reflect the impact of the equivalent exposure of all derivative positions. These amounts may be negative from time to time. The bond component will include any accrued interest amounts.

(d)

Cash & Cash Equivalents includes any cash, investments in money market funds, short term securities, and other assets less liabilities. Please see the Statement of Assets and Liabilities for additional information related to the fund’s cash position and other assets and liabilities.

(e)

Other includes currency derivatives and/or the offsetting of the leverage produced by the fund’s derivative positions, including payables and/or receivables of the finance leg of interest rate swaps and the unrealized gain or loss in connection with forward currency exchange contracts.

(i)

For purposes of this presentation, the components include a look-through to the individual holdings within the underlying affiliated funds.

Equivalent exposure is a calculated amount that translates the derivative position into a reasonable approximation of the amount of the underlying asset that the portfolio would have to hold at a given point in time to have the same price sensitivity that results from the portfolio’s ownership of the derivative contract. When dealing with derivatives, equivalent exposure is a more representative measure of the potential impact of a position on portfolio performance than value. The value of derivatives may be different.

Where the fund holds convertible bonds, they are treated as part of the equity portion of the portfolio.

Percentages are based on net assets as of May 31, 2020.

The portfolio is actively managed and current holdings may be different.

 

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MANAGEMENT REVIEW

Summary of Results

The MFS Managed Wealth Fund’s (fund) investment objective is to seek total return. MFS seeks to achieve the fund’s objective by generating returns from (1) a strategic allocation to three MFS equity funds, referred to as underlying funds, and (2) a tactical asset allocation overlay primarily using derivative instruments to seek to decrease the volatility of the fund’s returns by reducing the fund’s exposure to the equity and/or currency markets as represented by the underlying funds and also to potentially expose the fund to asset classes and/or markets in which the underlying funds have little or no exposure. In addition, MFS may seek to limit the fund’s exposure to certain extreme market events. It is expected that the fund will generally have lower volatility than the overall equity market and will generally underperform the equity markets during periods of rising equity markets.

A committee of portfolio managers (committee) is responsible for selecting the underlying funds, determining the target strategic allocations to the underlying funds, and determining the fund’s tactical allocation overlay.

For the twelve months ended May 31, 2020, Class A shares of the fund provided a total return of 6.30%, at net asset value. This compares with a return of 1.66% for the fund’s benchmark, the ICE BofA 0-3 Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index (formerly BofA Merrill Lynch 0-3 Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index). The fund’s other benchmark, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index, generated a return of 12.84%.

Market Environment

Markets experienced an extraordinarily sharp selloff and in many cases an unusually rapid partial recovery late in the period. Central banks and fiscal authorities undertook astonishing levels of stimulus to offset the economic effects of government-imposed social-distancing measures implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19. Despite policymakers’ best efforts, a global recession has undoubtedly begun.

Compounding market uncertainty earlier in the coronavirus pandemic was a crash in the price of crude oil due to a sharp drop in global demand and a disagreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia over production cuts, which resulted in a price war. The subsequent decline in prices undercut oil exporters, many of which are in emerging markets, as well as a large segment of the high-yield credit market. OPEC+ later agreed on output cuts, which – along with the gradual reopening of some major economies and resultant boost in demand – helped stabilize the price of crude.

Around the world, central banks responded quickly and massively to the crisis with programs to improve liquidity and support markets. They proved largely successful in helping to restore market function, easing volatility and stimulating a market rebound at the end of the period. Monetary easing measures were complemented by large fiscal stimulus plans in developed countries. Even emerging market countries were able to implement countercyclical policies – a departure from the usual market-dictated response to risk-off crises – due to relatively manageable external liabilities and balances of payments in many countries, along with persistently low inflation.

As is often the case in a crisis, market vulnerabilities were revealed. For example, companies that added significant leverage to their balance sheets in recent years by

 

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borrowing to fund dividend payments and stock buybacks may find it difficult to follow that path in the future, and investors may not reward them if they do. Recapitalizations by some of these highly leveraged firms could dilute existing shareholders. Very long supply chains designed to squeeze out every bit of savings may be shifted closer to home markets if companies seek to put resiliency before cost after a series of supply disruptions. The aftereffects of the pandemic could affect consumer, business and government behavior in ways difficult to forecast. Also, while markets have regained lost ground more swiftly than expected, any economic recovery is likely to be protracted.

Factors Affecting Performance

During the reporting period, the fund’s short exposure to futures contracts on the Russell 1000® Growth Index was a detractor from absolute performance.

The committee reduced the fund’s net equity exposure from 20% to 10%, compared to the fund’s neutral equity market exposure of 50%, given the committee’s view of the poor risk/return tradeoff in equity markets. The setting of the fund’s equity exposure at approximately 10% reflects the committee’s ongoing long-term views of the equity markets and is consistent with its objectives, such as reducing volatility.

Conversely, the fund’s allocation to large cap growth equities, represented by the MFS Growth Fund, and the fund’s short positions in futures contracts on the Russell 1000® Value Index and MSCI EAFE Index, were the most notable contributors to absolute performance.

Respectfully,

Portfolio Manager(s)

William Adams, Robert Almeida, Mike Roberge, and Barnaby Wiener

The views expressed in this report are those of the portfolio manager(s) only through the end of the period of the report as stated on the cover and do not necessarily reflect the views of MFS or any other person in the MFS organization. These views are subject to change at any time based on market or other conditions, and MFS disclaims any responsibility to update such views. These views may not be relied upon as investment advice or an indication of trading intent on behalf of any MFS portfolio. References to specific securities are not recommendations of such securities, and may not be representative of any MFS portfolio’s current or future investments.

 

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PERFORMANCE SUMMARY THROUGH 5/31/20

The following chart illustrates a representative class of the fund’s historical performance in comparison to its benchmark(s). Performance results include the deduction of the maximum applicable sales charge and reflect the percentage change in net asset value, including reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions. The performance of other share classes will be greater than or less than that of the class depicted below. Benchmarks are unmanaged and may not be invested in directly. Benchmark returns do not reflect sales charges, commissions or expenses. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

Performance data shown represents past performance and is no guarantee of future results. Investment return and principal value fluctuate so your shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than the original cost; current performance may be lower or higher than quoted. The performance shown does not reflect the deduction of taxes, if any, that a shareholder would pay on fund distributions or the redemption of fund shares.

Growth of a Hypothetical $10,000 Investment (t)

 

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Total Returns through 5/31/20

Average annual without sales charge

 

     Share Class    Class Inception Date   1-yr   5-yr   Life (t)     
    A    6/27/14   6.30%   3.67%   3.51%    
    B    6/27/14   5.35%   2.77%   2.58%    
    C    6/27/14   5.27%   2.76%   2.59%    
    I    6/27/14   6.33%   3.79%   3.61%    
    R1    6/27/14   5.35%   2.75%   2.58%    
    R2    6/27/14   5.79%   3.27%   3.10%    
    R3    6/27/14   6.00%   3.52%   3.35%    
    R4    6/27/14   6.43%   3.79%   3.61%    
    R6    10/02/17   6.44%   N/A   5.59%    
Comparative benchmark(s)                
    ICE BofA 0-3 Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index (f)   1.66%   1.12%   0.94%    
    Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index (f)   12.84%   9.86%   9.95%    
Average annual with sales charge                
    A
With Initial Sales Charge (5.75%)
  0.19%   2.45%   2.48%    
    B
With CDSC (Declining over six years from 4% to 0%) (v)
  1.35%   2.41%   2.43%    
    C
With CDSC (1% for 12 months) (v)
  4.27%   2.76%   2.59%    

CDSC – Contingent Deferred Sales Charge.

Class I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 shares do not have a sales charge.

(f)

Source: FactSet Research Systems Inc.

(t)

For the period from the class inception date through the stated period end. The comparative benchmark performance information provided for the “life” period is from the inception date of the Class A shares. (See Notes to Performance Summary.)

(v)

Assuming redemption at the end of the applicable period.

Benchmark Definition(s)

ICE BofA 0-3 Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index (formerly BofA Merrill Lynch 0-3 Month U.S. Treasury Bill Index) – tracks the performance of U.S. dollar denominated U.S. Treasury Bills publicly issued in the U.S. domestic market with a remaining term to final maturity of less than 3 months. Source ICE Data Indices, LLC (”ICE Data”), is used with permission. ICE Data, its affiliates and their respective third party suppliers disclaim any and all warranties and representations, express and/or implied, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose or use, including the indices, index data and any data included in, related to, or derived therefrom. Neither ICE Data, its affiliates nor their respective third party suppliers shall be subject to any damages or liability with respect the adequacy, accuracy, timeliness or completeness of the indices or the index data or any component thereof, and the indices and the index data and all

 

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components thereof are provided on an “as is” basis and your use is at your own risk. ICE Data, its affiliates and their respective third party suppliers do not sponsor, endorse or recommend MFS, or any of its products or services.

Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index – a market capitalization-weighted index of 500 widely held equity securities, designed to measure broad U.S. equity performance. “Standard & Poor’s®” and “S&P®” are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC (“S&P”) and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC (“Dow Jones”) and have been licensed for use by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and sublicensed for certain purposes by MFS. The S&P 500® is a product of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, and has been licensed for use by MFS. MFS’s product(s) is not sponsored, endorsed, sold, or promoted by S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, Dow Jones, S&P, or their respective affiliates, and neither S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC, Dow Jones, S&P, nor their respective affiliates make any representation regarding the advisability of investing in such product(s).

It is not possible to invest directly in an index.

Notes to Performance Summary

Average annual total return represents the average annual change in value for each share class for the periods presented. Life returns are presented where the share class has less than 10 years of performance history and represent the average annual total return from the class inception date to the stated period end date. As the fund’s share classes may have different inception dates, the life returns may represent different time periods and may not be comparable.

Performance results reflect any applicable expense subsidies and waivers in effect during the periods shown. Without such subsidies and waivers the fund’s performance results would be less favorable. Please see the prospectus and financial statements for complete details.

Performance results do not include adjustments made for financial reporting purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles and may differ from amounts reported in the financial highlights.

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

 

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EXPENSE TABLE

Fund expenses borne by the shareholders during the period, December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020

As a shareholder of the fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on certain purchase or redemption payments, and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution and service (12b-1) fees; and other fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) of investing in the fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. Because the underlying funds have varied expenses and fee levels and the fund may own different proportions of the underlying funds at different times, the amount of fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the fund will vary. If these transactional and indirect costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

The example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period December 1, 2019 through May 31, 2020.

Actual Expenses

The first line for each share class in the following table provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may use the information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period. Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiply the result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expenses you paid on your account during this period.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison Purposes

The second line for each share class in the following table provides information about hypothetical account values and hypothetical expenses based on the fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed rate of return of 5% per year before expenses, which is not the fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual ending account balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of investing in the fund and other funds. To do so, compare this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appear in the shareholder reports of the other funds.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transactional costs, such as sales charges (loads). Therefore, the second line for each share class in the table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owning different funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

 

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Share
Class
      

Annualized
Expense

Ratio

    Beginning
Account Value
12/01/19
   

Ending

Account Value
5/31/20

   

Expenses

Paid During
Period (p)

12/01/19-5/31/20

 
A   Actual     0.75%       $1,000.00       $1,038.28       $3.82  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.75%       $1,000.00       $1,021.25       $3.79  
B   Actual     1.67%       $1,000.00       $1,034.07       $8.49  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.67%       $1,000.00       $1,016.65       $8.42  
C   Actual     1.67%       $1,000.00       $1,033.27       $8.49  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.67%       $1,000.00       $1,016.65       $8.42  
I   Actual     0.67%       $1,000.00       $1,038.66       $3.41  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.67%       $1,000.00       $1,021.65       $3.39  
R1   Actual     1.67%       $1,000.00       $1,033.12       $8.49  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.67%       $1,000.00       $1,016.65       $8.42  
R2   Actual     1.17%       $1,000.00       $1,035.93       $5.96  
  Hypothetical (h)     1.17%       $1,000.00       $1,019.15       $5.91  
R3   Actual     0.92%       $1,000.00       $1,037.22       $4.69  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.92%       $1,000.00       $1,020.40       $4.65  
R4   Actual     0.67%       $1,000.00       $1,038.63       $3.41  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.67%       $1,000.00       $1,021.65       $3.39  
R6   Actual     0.62%       $1,000.00       $1,038.75       $3.16  
  Hypothetical (h)     0.62%       $1,000.00       $1,021.90       $3.13  

 

(h)

5% class return per year before expenses.

(p)

“Expenses Paid During Period” are equal to each class’s annualized expense ratio, as shown above, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by 183/366 (to reflect the one-half year period). Expenses paid do not include any applicable sales charges (loads). If these transaction costs had been included, your costs would have been higher. In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. If these indirect costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

Notes to Expense Table

Each class with a Rule 12b-1 service fee is subject to a rebate of a portion of such fee. Such rebates are included in the expense ratios above and are outside of the expense limitation arrangement. For Class A shares, this rebate reduced the expense ratio above by 0.17%. See Note 3 in the Notes to Financial Statements for additional information.

Expense ratios include 0.01% of interest expense on uncovered collateral or margin obligations with the broker (See Note 2 of the Notes to Financial Statements) that are outside of the expense limitation arrangement (See Note 3 of the Notes to Financial Statements).

 

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PORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS

5/31/20

The Portfolio of Investments is a complete list of all securities owned by your fund. It is categorized by broad-based asset classes.

 

Issuer    Shares/Par     Value ($)  
Bonds - 1.1%               
U.S. Treasury Obligations - 1.1%               
U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.875%, 6/30/2020 (f)    $ 200,000     $ 200,281  
U.S. Treasury Notes, 2%, 9/30/2020 (f)      200,000       201,188  
U.S. Treasury Notes, 2.375%, 12/31/2020 (f)      200,000       202,539  
U.S. Treasury Notes, 2.25%, 3/31/2021 (f)      200,000       203,398  
U.S. Treasury Notes, 2.625%, 6/15/2021 (f)      200,000       205,024  
U.S. Treasury Notes, 1.125%, 9/30/2021 (f)      200,000       202,492  
Total Bonds (Identified Cost, $1,202,333)            $ 1,214,922  
Investment Companies (h) - 91.5%               
International Stock Funds - 30.6%               
MFS Institutional International Equity Fund      1,350,174     $ 33,133,260  
U.S. Stock Funds - 60.8%               
MFS Growth Fund - Class R6      240,314     $ 32,632,249  
MFS Value Fund - Class R6      857,941       33,219,479  
    

 

 

 
             $ 65,851,728  
Money Market Funds - 0.1%               
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio, 0.19% (v)      52,992     $ 52,997  
Total Investment Companies
(Identified Cost, $83,390,818)
           $ 99,037,985  

 

Underlying/Expiration
Date/Exercise Price
   Put/Call     Counterparty     Notional
Amount
    Par Amount/
Number of
Contracts
        
Purchased Options - 0.1%                       
Market Index Securities - 0.1%                       
S&P 500 Index -
June 2020 @ $2,975
     Put       Exchange Traded     $ 1,522,155       5     $ 20,075  
S&P 500 Index -
September 2020 @ $2,000
     Put       Exchange Traded       3,044,310       10       13,200  
S&P 500 Index -
December 2020 @ $2,625
     Put       Exchange Traded       608,862       2       24,866  
Total Purchased Options (Premiums Paid, $90,521)

 

          $ 58,141  
Other Assets, Less Liabilities - 7.3%                   7,928,603  
Net Assets - 100.0%                                    $ 108,239,651  

 

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(f)

All or a portion of the security has been segregated as collateral for open futures contracts.

(h)

An affiliated issuer, which may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. At period end, the aggregate values of the fund’s investments in affiliated issuers and in unaffiliated issuers were $99,037,985 and $1,273,063, respectively.

(v)

Affiliated issuer that is available only to investment companies managed by MFS. The rate quoted for the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio is the annualized seven-day yield of the fund at period end.

Derivative Contracts at 5/31/20

Futures Contracts

 

Description   Long/
Short
    Currency     Contracts   Notional
Amount
    Expiration
Date
    Value/
Unrealized
Appreciation
(Depreciation)
 
Liability Derivatives            
Equity Futures            
Mini MSCI EAFE Index     Short       USD     340     $29,335,200       June - 2020       $(3,517,977
Mini Russell 1000 Growth Index     Short       USD     311     28,842,140       June - 2020       (5,312,302
Mini Russell 1000 Value Index     Short       USD     525     29,439,375       June - 2020       (3,670,549
           

 

 

 
              $(12,500,828
           

 

 

 

At May 31, 2020, the fund had cash collateral of $7,252,074 and other liquid securities with an aggregate value of $1,214,924 to cover any collateral or margin obligations for certain derivative contracts. Restricted cash and/or deposits with brokers in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities are comprised of cash collateral.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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Financial Statements

 

STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

At 5/31/20

This statement represents your fund’s balance sheet, which details the assets and liabilities comprising the total value of the fund.

 

Assets         

Investments in unaffiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $1,292,854)

     $1,273,063  

Investments in affiliated issuers, at value (identified cost, $83,390,818)

     99,037,985  

Deposit with brokers for

  

Futures contracts

     7,252,074  

Receivables for

  

Fund shares sold

     1,269,146  

Interest

     7,818  

Receivable from investment adviser

     16,692  

Receivable from distributor

     2,306  

Other assets

     226  

Total assets

     $108,859,310  
Liabilities         

Payables for

  

Net daily variation margin on open futures contracts

     $210,811  

Investments purchased

     27,673  

Fund shares reacquired

     295,885  

Payable to affiliates

  

Administrative services fee

     279  

Shareholder servicing costs

     11,618  

Payable for independent Trustees’ compensation

     13  

Accrued expenses and other liabilities

     73,380  

Total liabilities

     $619,659  

Net assets

     $108,239,651  
Net assets consist of         

Paid-in capital

     $103,171,787  

Total distributable earnings (loss)

     5,067,864  

Net assets

     $108,239,651  

Shares of beneficial interest outstanding

     9,365,670  

 

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     Net assets      Shares
outstanding
     Net asset value
per share (a)
 

Class A

     $12,825,954        1,111,198        $11.54  

Class B

     75,338        6,709        11.23  

Class C

     2,462,023        220,200        11.18  

Class I

     78,291,737        6,766,959        11.57  

Class R1

     58,253        5,187        11.23  

Class R2

     59,694        5,198        11.48  

Class R3

     60,369        5,228        11.55  

Class R4

     61,063        5,279        11.57  

Class R6

     14,345,220        1,239,712        11.57  

 

(a)

Maximum offering price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for all share classes, except for Class A, for which the maximum offering price per share was $12.24 [100 / 94.25 x $11.54]. On sales of $50,000 or more, the maximum offering price of Class A shares is reduced. A contingent deferred sales charge may be imposed on redemptions of Class A, Class B, and Class C shares. Redemption price per share was equal to the net asset value per share for Classes I, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6.

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS

Year ended 5/31/20

This statement describes how much your fund earned in investment income and accrued in expenses. It also describes any gains and/or losses generated by fund operations.

 

Net investment income (loss)         

Income

  

Dividends from affiliated issuers

     $697,517  

Interest

     32,517  

Total investment income

     $730,034  

Expenses

  

Management fee

     $183,014  

Distribution and service fees

     39,538  

Shareholder servicing costs

     25,321  

Administrative services fee

     18,473  

Independent Trustees’ compensation

     1,277  

Custodian fee

     11,058  

Shareholder communications

     12,251  

Audit and tax fees

     45,765  

Legal fees

     601  

Registration fees

     144,536  

Miscellaneous

     48,707  

Total expenses

     $530,541  

Reduction of expenses by investment adviser and distributor

     (160,166

Net expenses

     $370,375  

Net investment income (loss)

     $359,659  
Realized and unrealized gain (loss)         
Realized gain (loss) (identified cost basis)   

Unaffiliated issuers

     $198,165  

Affiliated issuers

     (348,334

Capital gain distributions from affiliated issuers

     512,960  

Written options

     55,814  

Futures contracts

     5,866,370  

Net realized gain (loss)

     $6,284,975  
Change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation   

Unaffiliated issuers

     $14,257  

Affiliated issuers

     9,670,743  

Futures contracts

     (12,823,779

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     $(3,138,779

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     $3,146,196  

Change in net assets from operations

     $3,505,855  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS

These statements describe the increases and/or decreases in net assets resulting from operations, any distributions, and any shareholder transactions.

 

     Year ended  
     5/31/20      5/31/19  
Change in net assets              
From operations                  

Net investment income (loss)

     $359,659        $201,677  

Net realized gain (loss)

     6,284,975        927,218  

Net unrealized gain (loss)

     (3,138,779      810,661  

Change in net assets from operations

     $3,505,855        $1,939,556  

Total distributions to shareholders

     $(240,022      $(125,006

Change in net assets from fund share transactions

     $65,580,651        $12,691,789  

Total change in net assets

     $68,846,484        $14,506,339  
Net assets                  

At beginning of period

     39,393,167        24,886,828  

At end of period

     $108,239,651        $39,393,167  

See Notes to Financial Statements

 

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FINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS

The financial highlights table is intended to help you understand the fund’s financial performance for the past 5 years (or life of a particular share class, if shorter). Certain information reflects financial results for a single fund share. The total returns in the table represent the rate that an investor would have earned (or lost) on an investment in the fund share class (assuming reinvestment of all distributions) held for the entire period.

 

Class A   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $10.91       $10.37       $10.14       $10.00       $10.17  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.09       $0.07       $0.04       $0.05       $0.02  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.60       0.51       0.27       0.34       (0.08

Total from investment operations

    $0.69       $0.58       $0.31       $0.39       $(0.06
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.06     $(0.04     $(0.08     $—       $(0.05

From net realized gain

                      (0.25     (0.06

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.06     $(0.04     $(0.08     $(0.25     $(0.11

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.54       $10.91       $10.37       $10.14       $10.00  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    6.30       5.59       3.08       4.09       (0.59
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    1.20       1.43       1.73       1.14       0.99  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.74       0.71       0.75       0.83       0.83  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.77       0.64       0.41       0.48       0.20  

Portfolio turnover

    28       17       18       5       26  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $12,826       $8,205       $4,698       $4,842       $6,319  

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Class B    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $10.66       $10.19       $9.98       $9.92       $10.13  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.01     $(0.03     $(0.04     $(0.04     $(0.07

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.58       0.50       0.25       0.35       (0.08

Total from investment operations

     $0.57       $0.47       $0.21       $0.31       $(0.15
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $—       $—       $—       $—       $—  

From net realized gain

                       (0.25     (0.06

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $—       $—       $—       $(0.25     $(0.06

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $11.23       $10.66       $10.19       $9.98       $9.92  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.35       4.61       2.10       3.30       (1.48
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.96       2.18       2.49       1.90       1.74  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.67       1.65       1.64       1.66       1.66  

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.05     (0.31     (0.42     (0.42     (0.71

Portfolio turnover

     28       17       18       5       26  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $75       $98       $89       $62       $68  
Class C    Year ended  
     5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

     $10.62       $10.15       $9.93       $9.88       $10.09  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

     $(0.02     $(0.03     $(0.04     $(0.03     $(0.06

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

     0.58       0.50       0.26       0.33       (0.08

Total from investment operations

     $0.56       $0.47       $0.22       $0.30       $(0.14
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

     $—       $—       $—       $—       $(0.01

From net realized gain

                       (0.25     (0.06

Total distributions declared to shareholders

     $—       $—       $—       $(0.25     $(0.07

Net asset value, end of period (x)

     $11.18       $10.62       $10.15       $9.93       $9.88  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

     5.27       4.63       2.22       3.22       (1.40
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.94       2.19       2.47       1.87       1.74  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

     1.67       1.65       1.65       1.66       1.66  

Net investment income (loss)

     (0.19     (0.27     (0.40     (0.28     (0.60

Portfolio turnover

     28       17       18       5       26  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

     $2,462       $1,074       $905       $1,668       $3,618  

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Class I   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $10.94       $10.39       $10.17       $10.01       $10.17  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.08       $0.07       $0.08       $0.06       $0.05  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.61       0.52       0.24       0.35       (0.09

Total from investment operations

    $0.69       $0.59       $0.32       $0.41       $(0.04
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.06     $(0.04     $(0.10     $—       $(0.06

From net realized gain

                      (0.25     (0.06

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.06     $(0.04     $(0.10     $(0.25     $(0.12

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.57       $10.94       $10.39       $10.17       $10.01  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    6.33       5.74       3.12       4.28       (0.41
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.94       1.16       1.48       0.87       0.74  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.67       0.65       0.65       0.66       0.66  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.67       0.64       0.73       0.65       0.51  

Portfolio turnover

    28       17       18       5       26  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $78,292       $24,169       $14,632       $17,167       $50,757  
Class R1   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $10.66       $10.19       $9.98       $9.92       $10.13  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $(0.01     $(0.03     $(0.04     $(0.04     $(0.07

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.58       0.50       0.25       0.35       (0.08

Total from investment operations

    $0.57       $0.47       $0.21       $0.31       $(0.15
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $—       $—       $—       $—       $—  

From net realized gain

                      (0.25     (0.06

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $—       $—       $—       $(0.25     $(0.06

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.23       $10.66       $10.19       $9.98       $9.92  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    5.35       4.61       2.10       3.30       (1.48
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    1.96       2.19       2.48       1.90       1.74  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    1.67       1.65       1.65       1.66       1.66  

Net investment income (loss)

    (0.10     (0.29     (0.36     (0.42     (0.71

Portfolio turnover

    28       17       18       5       26  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $58       $55       $53       $52       $50  

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Class R2   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $10.86       $10.33       $10.11       $10.00       $10.15  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.04       $0.02       $0.01       $0.01       $(0.02

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.59       0.51       0.26       0.35       (0.07

Total from investment operations

    $0.63       $0.53       $0.27       $0.36       $(0.09
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.01     $—       $(0.05     $—       $—  

From net realized gain

                      (0.25     (0.06

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.01     $—       $(0.05     $(0.25     $(0.06

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.48       $10.86       $10.33       $10.11       $10.00  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    5.79       5.13       2.66       3.78       (0.89
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    1.46       1.69       1.98       1.40       1.24  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    1.17       1.15       1.15       1.16       1.16  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.40       0.21       0.13       0.08       (0.22

Portfolio turnover

    28       17       18       5       26  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $60       $56       $54       $52       $50  
Class R3   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $10.92       $10.37       $10.15       $10.01       $10.16  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.07       $0.05       $0.04       $0.03       $0.00 (w) 

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.59       0.52       0.25       0.36       (0.07

Total from investment operations

    $0.66       $0.57       $0.29       $0.39       $(0.07
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.03     $(0.02     $(0.07     $—       $(0.02

From net realized gain

                      (0.25     (0.06

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.03     $(0.02     $(0.07     $(0.25     $(0.08

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.55       $10.92       $10.37       $10.15       $10.01  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    6.09       5.49       2.90       4.08       (0.74
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    1.21       1.44       1.73       1.15       0.99  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.92       0.90       0.90       0.91       0.91  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.65       0.45       0.38       0.33       0.03  

Portfolio turnover

    28       17       18       5       26  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $60       $57       $54       $52       $50  

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Class R4   Year ended  
    5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18     5/31/17     5/31/16  

Net asset value, beginning of period

    $10.93       $10.39       $10.17       $10.00       $10.17  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

    $0.10       $0.07       $0.07       $0.06       $0.03  

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

    0.60       0.51       0.25       0.36       (0.08

Total from investment operations

    $0.70       $0.58       $0.32       $0.42       $(0.05
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

    $(0.06     $(0.04     $(0.10     $—       $(0.06

From net realized gain

                      (0.25     (0.06

Total distributions declared to shareholders

    $(0.06     $(0.04     $(0.10     $(0.25     $(0.12

Net asset value, end of period (x)

    $11.57       $10.93       $10.39       $10.17       $10.00  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

    6.43       5.64       3.15       4.39       (0.51
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.96       1.19       1.48       0.90       0.74  

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

    0.67       0.65       0.65       0.66       0.66  

Net investment income (loss)

    0.90       0.71       0.64       0.58       0.28  

Portfolio turnover

    28       17       18       5       26  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

    $61       $57       $54       $53       $50  
Class R6               Year ended  
                5/31/20     5/31/19     5/31/18 (i)  

Net asset value, beginning of period

                    $10.93       $10.39       $10.21  
Income (loss) from investment operations

 

                               

Net investment income (loss) (d)

        $0.09       $0.08       $(0.01

Net realized and unrealized gain (loss)

                    0.61       0.51       0.29  

Total from investment operations

                    $0.70       $0.59       $0.28  
Less distributions declared to shareholders

 

                               

From net investment income

                    $(0.06     $(0.05     $(0.10

Net asset value, end of period (x)

                    $11.57       $10.93       $10.39  

Total return (%) (r)(s)(t)(x)

                    6.44       5.67       2.80 (n) 
Ratios (%) (to average net assets)
and Supplemental data:

 

                               

Expenses before expense reductions (f)(h)

        0.91       1.18       1.53 (a) 

Expenses after expense reductions (f)(h)

        0.62       0.64       0.64 (a) 

Net investment income (loss)

        0.84       0.74       (0.17 )(a)(l) 

Portfolio turnover

        28       17       18  

Net assets at end of period (000 omitted)

                    $14,345       $5,621       $4,348  

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(a)

Annualized.

(d)

Per share data is based on average shares outstanding.

(f)

Ratios do not reflect reductions from fees paid indirectly, if applicable.

(h)

In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying affiliated funds in which the fund invests. Accordingly, the expense ratio for the fund reflects only those fees and expenses borne directly by the fund. Because the underlying affiliated funds have varied expense and fee levels and the fund may own different proportions of the underlying affiliated funds at different times, the amount of fees and expenses incurred indirectly by the fund will vary.

(i)

For Class R6, the period is from the class inception, October 2, 2017, through the stated period end.

(l)

Recognition of net investment income by the fund may be affected by the timing of the declaration of dividends by companies in which the fund invests and the actual annual net investment income ratio may differ.

(n)

Not annualized.

(r)

Certain expenses have been reduced without which performance would have been lower.

(s)

From time to time the fund may receive proceeds from litigation settlements, without which performance would be lower.

(t)

Total returns do not include any applicable sales charges.

(w)

Per share amount was less than $0.01.

(x)

The net asset values and total returns have been calculated on net assets which include adjustments made in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles required at period end for financial reporting purposes.

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(1) Business and Organization

MFS Managed Wealth Fund (the fund) is a diversified series of MFS Series Trust X (the trust). The trust is organized as a Massachusetts business trust and is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, as an open-end management investment company.

The fund is an investment company and accordingly follows the investment company accounting and reporting guidance of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification Topic 946 Financial Services – Investment Companies.

(2) Significant Accounting Policies

General – The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of increases and decreases in net assets from operations during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates. In the preparation of these financial statements, management has evaluated subsequent events occurring after the date of the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities through the date that the financial statements were issued. The fund invests in derivatives as part of its principal investment strategy. Derivatives can be highly volatile and involve risks in addition to the risks of the underlying indicators on which the derivative is based. Derivatives can involve leverage. The fund is a “fund of funds”, which invests the majority of its assets in other MFS mutual funds (underlying funds), which may have different fiscal year ends than the fund. The underlying funds, in turn, may engage in a number of investment techniques and practices, which involve certain risks. Certain underlying funds can invest in foreign securities, including securities of emerging market issuers. Investments in foreign securities are vulnerable to the effects of changes in the relative values of the local currency and the U.S. dollar and to the effects of changes in each country’s market, economic, industrial, political, regulatory, geopolitical, and other conditions. Investments in emerging markets can involve additional and greater risks than the risks associated with investments in developed foreign markets. Emerging markets can have less developed markets, greater custody and operational risk, less developed legal, regulatory, and accounting systems, and greater political, social, and economic instability than developed markets.

The accounting policies of the underlying funds in which the fund invests are outlined in the underlying funds’ shareholder reports, which are available without charge by calling 1-800-225-2606, at mfs.com and on the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) web site at http://www.sec.gov. The underlying funds’ shareholder reports are not covered by this report.

The investment objective of each of the underlying funds held by the fund at May 31, 2020 was to seek capital appreciation.

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Financial Reporting (“ASU 2020-04”), which provides optional, temporary relief with respect to the financial reporting of contracts subject to certain types of modifications due to the planned discontinuation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) and other IBOR-based reference rates as of the end of 2021. The temporary relief provided by ASU 2020-04 is effective for certain reference rate-related contract modifications that occur during the period from March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022. Management is evaluating the impact of ASU 2020-04 on the fund’s investments, derivatives, debt and other contracts that will undergo reference rate-related modifications as a result of the reference rate reform.

Balance Sheet Offsetting – The fund’s accounting policy with respect to balance sheet offsetting is that, absent an event of default by the counterparty or a termination of the agreement, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) Master Agreement, or similar agreement, does not result in an offset of reported amounts of financial assets and financial liabilities in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities across transactions between the fund and the applicable counterparty. The fund’s right to setoff may be restricted or prohibited by the bankruptcy or insolvency laws of the particular jurisdiction to which a specific master netting agreement counterparty is subject. Balance sheet offsetting disclosures, to the extent applicable to the fund, have been included in the fund’s Significant Accounting Policies note under the captions for each of the fund’s in-scope financial instruments and transactions.

Investment Valuations Open-end investment companies (underlying funds) are generally valued at their net asset value per share. The investments of underlying funds managed by the adviser are valued as described below. For purposes of this policy disclosure, “fund” also refers to the underlying funds in which the fund-of-funds invests.

Equity securities, including restricted equity securities, are generally valued at the last sale or official closing price on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Equity securities, for which there were no sales reported that day, are generally valued at the last quoted daily bid quotation on their primary market or exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Debt instruments and floating rate loans, including restricted debt instruments, are generally valued at an evaluated or composite bid as provided by a third-party pricing service. Short-term instruments with a maturity at issuance of 60 days or less may be valued at amortized cost, which approximates market value. Exchange-traded options are generally valued at the last sale or official closing price on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Exchange-traded options for which there were no sales reported that day are generally valued at the last daily bid quotation on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. For put options, the position may be valued at the last daily ask quotation if there are no trades reported during the day. Options not traded on an exchange are generally valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. Foreign currency options are generally valued at valuations provided by a third-party pricing service. Futures contracts are generally valued at last posted settlement price on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Futures contracts for which there were no trades that day for a particular position are generally valued at the closing bid quotation on their primary exchange as provided by a third-party pricing service. Open-end investment companies are generally valued at net asset value per

 

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share. Securities and other assets generally valued on the basis of information from a third-party pricing service may also be valued at a broker/dealer bid quotation. In determining values, third-party pricing services can utilize both transaction data and market information such as yield, quality, coupon rate, maturity, type of issue, trading characteristics, and other market data. The values of foreign securities and other assets and liabilities expressed in foreign currencies are converted to U.S. dollars using the mean of bid and asked prices for rates provided by a third-party pricing service.

The Board of Trustees has delegated primary responsibility for determining or causing to be determined the value of the fund’s investments (including any fair valuation) to the adviser pursuant to valuation policies and procedures approved by the Board. If the adviser determines that reliable market quotations are not readily available, investments are valued at fair value as determined in good faith by the adviser in accordance with such procedures under the oversight of the Board of Trustees. Under the fund’s valuation policies and procedures, market quotations are not considered to be readily available for most types of debt instruments and floating rate loans and many types of derivatives. These investments are generally valued at fair value based on information from third-party pricing services. In addition, investments may be valued at fair value if the adviser determines that an investment’s value has been materially affected by events occurring after the close of the exchange or market on which the investment is principally traded (such as foreign exchange or market) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value, or after the halt of trading of a specific security where trading does not resume prior to the close of the exchange or market on which the security is principally traded. Events that occur after foreign markets close (such as developments in foreign markets and significant movements in the U.S. markets) and prior to the determination of the fund’s net asset value may be deemed to have a material effect on the value of securities traded in foreign markets. Accordingly, the fund’s foreign equity securities may often be valued at fair value. The adviser generally relies on third-party pricing services or other information (such as the correlation with price movements of similar securities in the same or other markets; the type, cost and investment characteristics of the security; the business and financial condition of the issuer; and trading and other market data) to assist in determining whether to fair value and at what value to fair value an investment. The value of an investment for purposes of calculating the fund’s net asset value can differ depending on the source and method used to determine value. When fair valuation is used, the value of an investment used to determine the fund’s net asset value may differ from quoted or published prices for the same investment. There can be no assurance that the fund could obtain the fair value assigned to an investment if it were to sell the investment at the same time at which the fund determines its net asset value per share.

Various inputs are used in determining the value of the fund’s assets or liabilities. These inputs are categorized into three broad levels. In certain cases, the inputs used to measure fair value may fall into different levels of the fair value hierarchy. In such cases, an investment’s level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The fund’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires judgment, and considers factors specific to the investment. Level 1 includes unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities. Level 2 includes other

 

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significant observable market-based inputs (including quoted prices for similar securities, interest rates, prepayment speed, and credit risk). Level 3 includes unobservable inputs, which may include the adviser’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments. Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures contracts. The following is a summary of the levels used as of May 31, 2020 in valuing the fund’s assets or liabilities:

 

Financial Instruments    Level 1     Level 2      Level 3      Total  
Equity Securities      $58,141       $—        $—        $58,141  
U.S. Treasury Bonds & U.S. Government
Agencies & Equivalents
           1,214,922               1,214,922  
Mutual Funds      99,037,985                     99,037,985  
Total      $99,096,126       $1,214,922        $—        $100,311,048  
Other Financial Instruments                           
Futures Contracts – Liabilities      $(12,500,828     $—        $—        $(12,500,828

For further information regarding security characteristics, see the Portfolio of Investments. Please refer to the underlying funds’ shareholder reports for further information regarding the levels used in valuing the underlying funds’ assets or liabilities.

Derivatives – The fund uses derivatives primarily to increase or decrease exposure to a particular market or segment of the market, or security, to increase or decrease interest rate or currency exposure, or as alternatives to direct investments. Derivatives are used for hedging or non-hedging purposes. While hedging can reduce or eliminate losses, it can also reduce or eliminate gains. When the fund uses derivatives as an investment to increase market exposure, or for hedging purposes, gains and losses from derivative instruments may be substantially greater than the derivative’s original cost.

The derivative instruments used by the fund during the period were written options, purchased options, and futures contracts. Depending on the type of derivative, the fund may exit a derivative position by entering into an offsetting transaction with a counterparty or exchange, negotiating an agreement with the derivative counterparty, or novating the position to a third party. The fund’s period end derivatives, as presented in the Portfolio of Investments and the associated Derivative Contract tables, generally are indicative of the volume of its derivative activity during the period.

The following table presents, by major type of derivative contract, the fair value, on a gross basis, of the asset and liability components of derivatives held by the fund at May 31, 2020 as reported in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities:

 

        Fair Value (a)  
Risk   Derivative Contracts   Asset Derivatives     Liability Derivatives  
Equity   Equity Futures     $—       $(12,500,828
Equity   Purchased Equity Options     58,141        
Total       $58,141       $(12,500,828

 

(a)

The value of purchased options outstanding is included in investments in unaffiliated issuers, at value, within the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities. Values presented in this table for futures contracts correspond to the values reported in the fund’s Portfolio of Investments. Only the current day net variation margin for futures contracts is separately reported within the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities.

 

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The following table presents, by major type of derivative contract, the realized gain (loss) on derivatives held by the fund for the year ended May 31, 2020 as reported in the Statement of Operations:

 

Risk    Futures
Contracts
     Unaffiliated
Issuers
(Purchased
Options)
     Written
Options
 
Equity      $5,866,370        $198,165        $55,814  

The following table presents, by major type of derivative contract, the change in unrealized appreciation or depreciation on derivatives held by the fund for the year ended May 31, 2020 as reported in the Statement of Operations:

 

Risk    Futures
Contracts
     Unaffiliated
Issuers
(Purchased
Options)
 
Equity      $(12,823,779      $4,832  

Derivative counterparty credit risk is managed through formal evaluation of the creditworthiness of all potential counterparties. On certain, but not all, uncleared derivatives, the fund attempts to reduce its exposure to counterparty credit risk whenever possible by entering into an ISDA Master Agreement on a bilateral basis. The ISDA Master Agreement gives each party to the agreement the right to terminate all transactions traded under such agreement if there is a specified deterioration in the credit quality of the other party. Upon an event of default or a termination of the ISDA Master Agreement, the non-defaulting party has the right to close out all transactions traded under such agreement and to net amounts owed under each agreement to one net amount payable by one party to the other. This right to close out and net payments across all transactions traded under the ISDA Master Agreement could result in a reduction of the fund’s credit risk to such counterparty equal to any amounts payable by the fund under the applicable transactions, if any.

Collateral and margin requirements differ by type of derivative. For cleared derivatives (e.g., futures contracts, cleared swaps, and exchange-traded options), margin requirements are set by the clearing broker and the clearing house and collateral, in the form of cash or securities, is posted by the fund directly with the clearing broker. Collateral terms are counterparty agreement specific for uncleared derivatives (e.g., forward foreign currency exchange contracts, uncleared swap agreements, and uncleared options) and collateral, in the form of cash and securities, is held in segregated accounts with the fund’s custodian in connection with these agreements. For derivatives traded under an ISDA Master Agreement, which contains a collateral support annex, the collateral requirements are netted across all transactions traded under such counterparty-specific agreement and an amount is posted from one party to the other to collateralize such obligations. Cash that has been segregated or delivered to cover the fund’s collateral or margin obligations under derivative contracts, if any, will be reported separately in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities as restricted cash for uncleared derivatives and/or deposits with brokers for cleared derivatives. Securities pledged as collateral or margin for the same purpose, if any, are noted in the Portfolio of Investments. The fund may be required to make payments of interest on

 

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uncovered collateral or margin obligations with the broker. Any such payments are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

The following table presents the fund’s derivative assets and liabilities (by type) on a gross basis as of May 31, 2020:

 

Gross Amounts of:   Derivative Assets     Derivative Liabilities  
Future Contracts (a)     $—       $(210,811
Purchased Options     58,141        
Total Gross Amount of Derivative Assets and Liabilities Presented in the Statement of Assets & Liabilities     $58,141       $(210,811
Less: Derivatives Assets and Liabilities Not Subject to a Master Netting Agreement or Similar Arrangement     58,141       (210,811
Total Gross Amount of Derivative Assets and Liabilities Subject to a Master Netting Agreement or Similar Arrangement     $—       $—  

 

(a)

The amount presented here represents the fund’s current day net variation margin for futures contracts. This amount, which is recognized within the fund’s Statement of Assets and Liabilities, differs from the fair value of the futures contracts which is presented in the tables that follow the fund’s Portfolio of Investments.

Written Options – In exchange for a premium, the fund wrote put options on securities for which it anticipated the price would increase. At the time the option was written, the fund believed the premium received exceeded the potential loss that could result from adverse price changes in the options’ underlying securities. In a written option, the fund as the option writer grants the buyer the right to purchase from, or sell to, the fund a specified number of shares or units of a particular security, currency or index at a specified price within a specified period of time.

The premium received is initially recorded as a liability in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. The option is subsequently marked-to-market daily with the difference between the premium received and the market value of the written option being recorded as unrealized appreciation or depreciation. When a written option expires, the fund realizes a gain equal to the amount of the premium received. The difference between the premium received and the amount paid on effecting a closing transaction is considered a realized gain or loss. When a written put option is exercised, the premium reduces the cost basis of the security purchased by the fund.

At the initiation of the written option contract, for exchange traded options, the fund is required to deposit securities or cash as collateral with the custodian for the benefit of the broker or directly with the clearing broker, based on the type of option. For uncleared options, the fund may post collateral subject to the terms of an ISDA Master Agreement as generally described above if the market value of the options contract moves against it. The fund, as writer of an option, may have no control over whether the underlying securities may be sold (call) or purchased (put) and, as a result, bears the market risk of an unfavorable change in the price of the securities underlying the written option. Losses from writing options can exceed the premium received and can exceed the potential loss from an ordinary buy and sell transaction. Although the fund’s market risk may be significant, the maximum counterparty credit risk to the fund

 

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is equal to the market value of any collateral posted to the broker. For uncleared options, this risk is mitigated in cases where there is an ISDA Master Agreement between the fund and the counterparty providing for netting as described above.

Purchased Options – The fund purchased put options for a premium. Purchased put options entitle the holder to buy and sell a specified number of shares or units of a particular security, currency or index at a specified price at a specified date or within a specified period of time. Purchasing put options may hedge against an anticipated decline in the value of portfolio securities or currency or decrease the fund’s exposure to an underlying instrument.

The premium paid is initially recorded as an investment in the Statement of Assets and Liabilities. That investment is subsequently marked-to-market daily with the difference between the premium paid and the market value of the purchased option being recorded as unrealized appreciation or depreciation. Premiums paid for purchased call and put options which have expired are treated as realized losses on investments in the Statement of Operations. Upon the exercise or closing of a purchased call option, the premium paid is added to the cost of the security or financial instrument purchased. Upon the exercise or closing of a purchased put option, the premium paid is offset against the proceeds on the sale of the underlying security or financial instrument in order to determine the realized gain or loss on investments.

Whether or not the option is exercised, the fund’s maximum risk of loss from purchasing an option is the amount of premium paid. All option contracts involve credit risk if the counterparty to the option contract fails to perform. For uncleared options, this risk is mitigated in cases where there is an ISDA Master Agreement between the fund and the counterparty providing for netting as described above and, where applicable, by the posting of collateral by the counterparty to the fund to cover the fund’s exposure to the counterparty under such ISDA Master Agreement.

Futures Contracts – The fund entered into futures contracts which may be used to hedge against or obtain broad market exposure, interest rate exposure, currency exposure, or to manage duration. A futures contract represents a commitment for the future purchase or sale of an asset at a specified price on a specified date.

Upon entering into a futures contract, the fund is required to deposit with the broker, either in cash or securities, an initial margin in an amount equal to a specified percentage of the notional amount of the contract. Subsequent payments (variation margin) are made or received by the fund each day, depending on the daily fluctuations in the value of the contract, and are recorded for financial statement purposes as unrealized gain or loss by the fund until the contract is closed or expires at which point the gain or loss on futures contracts is realized.

The fund bears the risk of interest rates, exchange rates or securities prices moving unexpectedly, in which case, the fund may not achieve the anticipated benefits of the futures contracts and may realize a loss. While futures contracts may present less counterparty risk to the fund since the contracts are exchange traded and the exchange’s clearinghouse guarantees payments to the broker, there is still counterparty credit risk due to the insolvency of the broker. The fund’s maximum risk of loss due to counterparty credit risk is equal to the margin posted by the fund to the broker plus any gains or minus any losses on the outstanding futures contracts.

 

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Indemnifications – Under the fund’s organizational documents, its officers and Trustees may be indemnified against certain liabilities and expenses arising out of the performance of their duties to the fund. Additionally, in the normal course of business, the fund enters into agreements with service providers that may contain indemnification clauses. The fund’s maximum exposure under these agreements is unknown as this would involve future claims that may be made against the fund that have not yet occurred.

Investment Transactions and Income – Investment transactions are recorded on the trade date. Interest income is recorded on the accrual basis. All premium and discount is amortized or accreted for financial statement purposes in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Distributions of income and capital gains from the underlying funds are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Recognition of net investment income by the fund is affected by the timing of the declaration of distributions by the underlying funds in which the fund invests. In determining the net gain or loss on securities sold, the cost of securities is determined on the identified cost basis.

The fund and/or the underlying funds may receive proceeds from litigation settlements. Any proceeds received from litigation involving portfolio holdings are reflected in the Statement of Operations in realized gain/loss if the security has been disposed of by the fund or in unrealized gain/loss if the security is still held by the fund. Any other proceeds from litigation not related to portfolio holdings are reflected as other income in the Statement of Operations.

Tax Matters and Distributions – The fund intends to qualify as a regulated investment company, as defined under Subchapter M of the Internal Revenue Code, and to distribute all of its taxable income, including realized capital gains. As a result, no provision for federal income tax is required. The fund’s federal tax returns, when filed, will remain subject to examination by the Internal Revenue Service for a three year period. Management has analyzed the fund’s tax positions taken on federal and state tax returns for all open tax years and does not believe that there are any uncertain tax positions that require recognition of a tax liability.

Distributions to shareholders are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income and capital gain distributions are determined in accordance with income tax regulations, which may differ from U.S. generally accepted accounting principles. Certain capital accounts in the financial statements are periodically adjusted for permanent differences in order to reflect their tax character. These adjustments have no impact on net assets or net asset value per share. Temporary differences which arise from recognizing certain items of income, expense, gain or loss in different periods for financial statement and tax purposes will reverse at some time in the future.

Book/tax differences primarily relate to wash sale loss deferrals and derivative transactions.

The tax character of distributions declared to shareholders for the last two fiscal years is as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
Ordinary income (including any short-term capital gains)      $240,022        $125,006  

 

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The federal tax cost and the tax basis components of distributable earnings were as follows:

 

As of 5/31/20       
Cost of investments      $73,785,974  
Gross appreciation      14,072,566  
Gross depreciation      (48,320
Net unrealized appreciation (depreciation)      $14,024,246  
Undistributed ordinary income      319,996  
Capital loss carryforwards      (9,276,378

As of May 31, 2020, the fund had capital loss carryforwards available to offset future realized gains. These net capital losses may be carried forward indefinitely and their character is retained as short-term and/or long-term losses. Such losses are characterized as follows:

 

Short-Term      $(5,613,717
Long-Term      (3,662,661
Total      $(9,276,378

Multiple Classes of Shares of Beneficial Interest – The fund offers multiple classes of shares, which differ in their respective distribution and service fees. The fund’s income, realized and unrealized gain (loss), and common expenses are allocated to shareholders based on the daily net assets of each class. Dividends are declared separately for each class. Differences in per share dividend rates are generally due to differences in separate class expenses. Class B shares will convert to Class A shares approximately eight years after purchase. Class C shares will convert to Class A shares approximately ten years after purchase. The fund’s distributions declared to shareholders as reported in the Statements of Changes in Net Assets are presented by class as follows:

 

     Year
ended
5/31/20
     Year
ended
5/31/19
 
Class A      $44,601        $28,999  
Class I      161,629        74,190  
Class R2      43         
Class R3      179        95  
Class R4      318        229  
Class R6      33,252        21,493  
Total      $240,022        $125,006  

(3) Transactions with Affiliates

Investment Adviser – The fund has an investment advisory agreement with MFS to provide overall investment management and related administrative services and facilities to the fund. The management fee is computed daily and paid monthly at an annual rate of 0.35% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

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Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this management fee reduction amounted to $5,411, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations. The management fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.34% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

The investment adviser has agreed in writing to pay a portion of the fund’s total annual operating expenses, excluding interest, taxes, extraordinary expenses, brokerage and transaction costs, and investment-related expenses (such as fees and expenses associated with investments in investment companies and other similar investment vehicles), such that total fund operating expenses do not exceed the following rates annually of each class’s average daily net assets:

 

Classes  
A   B     C     I     R1     R2     R3     R4     R6  
0.91%     1.66%       1.66%       0.66%       1.66%       1.16%       0.91%       0.66%       0.63%  

This written agreement will continue until modified by the fund’s Board of Trustees, but such agreement will continue at least until September 30, 2021. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this reduction amounted to $138,305, which is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

In addition to the fees and expenses which the fund bears directly, the fund indirectly bears a pro rata share of the fees and expenses of the underlying funds in which the fund invests. Accordingly, the expense ratio for the fund reflects only those fees and expenses borne directly by the fund.

Distributor – MFS Fund Distributors, Inc. (MFD), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, as distributor, received $2,666 for the year ended May 31, 2020, as its portion of the initial sales charge on sales of Class A shares of the fund.

The Board of Trustees has adopted a distribution plan for certain share classes pursuant to Rule 12b-1 of the Investment Company Act of 1940.

The fund’s distribution plan provides that the fund will pay MFD for services provided by MFD and financial intermediaries in connection with the distribution and servicing of certain share classes. One component of the plan is a distribution fee paid to MFD and another component of the plan is a service fee paid to MFD. MFD may subsequently pay all, or a portion, of the distribution and/or service fees to financial intermediaries.

Distribution Plan Fee Table:

 

     Distribution
Fee Rate (d)
     Service
Fee Rate (d)
     Total
Distribution
Plan (d)
     Annual
Effective
Rate (e)
     Distribution
and Service
Fee
 
Class A             0.25%        0.25%        0.08%        $23,584  
Class B      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        932  
Class C      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        14,020  
Class R1      0.75%        0.25%        1.00%        1.00%        566  
Class R2      0.25%        0.25%        0.50%        0.50%        290  
Class R3             0.25%        0.25%        0.25%        146  
Total Distribution and Service Fees

 

        $39,538  

 

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  distribution and service fee rates disclosed by class represent the current rates in effect at the end of the reporting period. Any rate changes, if applicable, are detailed below.
(e)

The annual effective rates represent actual fees incurred under the distribution plan for the year ended May 31, 2020 based on each class’s average daily net assets. MFD has voluntarily agreed to rebate a portion of each class’s 0.25% service fee attributable to accounts for which there is no financial intermediary specified on the account except for accounts attributable to MFS or its affiliates’ seed money. For the year ended May 31, 2020, this rebate amounted to $16,450 for Class A and is included in the reduction of total expenses in the Statement of Operations.

Certain Class A shares are subject to a contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) in the event of a shareholder redemption within 18 months of purchase. Class B shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within six years of purchase. Class C shares are subject to a CDSC in the event of a shareholder redemption within 12 months of purchase. All contingent deferred sales charges are paid to MFD and during the year ended May 31, 2020, were as follows:

 

     Amount  
Class A      $7  
Class B       
Class C      56  

Shareholder Servicing Agent – MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of MFS, receives a fee from the fund for its services as shareholder servicing agent calculated as a percentage of the average daily net assets of the fund as determined periodically under the supervision of the fund’s Board of Trustees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee was $2,139, which equated to 0.0041% annually of the fund’s average daily net assets. MFSC also receives payment from the fund for out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs which may be paid to affiliated and unaffiliated service providers. Class R6 shares do not incur sub-accounting fees. For the year ended May 31, 2020, these out-of-pocket expenses, sub-accounting and other shareholder servicing costs amounted to $23,182.

Administrator – MFS provides certain financial, legal, shareholder communications, compliance, and other administrative services to the fund. Under an administrative services agreement, the fund reimburses MFS the costs incurred to provide these services. The fund is charged an annual fixed amount of $17,500 plus a fee based on average daily net assets. The administrative services fee incurred for the year ended May 31, 2020 was equivalent to an annual effective rate of 0.0353% of the fund’s average daily net assets.

Trustees’ and Officers’ Compensation – The fund pays compensation to independent Trustees in the form of a retainer, attendance fees, and additional compensation to Board and Committee chairpersons. The fund does not pay compensation directly to Trustees or officers of the fund who are also officers of the investment adviser, all of whom receive remuneration from MFS for their services to the fund. Certain officers and Trustees of the fund are officers or directors of MFS, MFD, and MFSC.

Other – This fund and certain other funds managed by MFS (the funds) had entered into a service agreement (the ISO Agreement) which provided for payment of fees

 

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solely by the funds to Tarantino LLC in return for the provision of services of an Independent Senior Officer (ISO) for the funds. Frank L. Tarantino served as the ISO and was an officer of the funds and the sole member of Tarantino LLC. Effective June 30, 2019, Mr. Tarantino retired from his position as ISO for the funds, and the ISO Agreement was terminated. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fee paid by the fund under this agreement was $19 and is included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations. MFS had agreed to bear all expenses associated with office space, other administrative support, and supplies provided to the ISO.

The fund invests in the MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio which is managed by MFS and seeks current income consistent with preservation of capital and liquidity. This money market fund does not pay a management fee to MFS but does incur investment and operating costs.

At May 31, 2020, MFS held approximately 77% of the outstanding shares of Class B and 100% of the outstanding shares of Class R1, Class R2, Class R3, and Class R4.

(4) Portfolio Securities

For the year ended May 31, 2020, purchases and sales of investments, other than purchased option transactions and short-term obligations, were as follows:

 

     Purchases      Sales  
U.S. Government securities      $667,338        $600,000  
Non-U.S. Government securities      67,751,584        13,516,248  

(5) Shares of Beneficial Interest

The fund’s Declaration of Trust permits the Trustees to issue an unlimited number of full and fractional shares of beneficial interest. Transactions in fund shares were as follows:

 

     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares sold            

Class A

     560,712        $6,354,034        346,988        $3,629,306  

Class B

                   496        5,000  

Class C

     160,345        1,757,588        44,621        462,623  

Class I

     6,246,135        70,818,622        1,433,835        15,139,801  

Class R6

     969,170        11,085,853        173,486        1,855,958  
     7,936,362        $90,016,097        1,999,426        $21,092,688  
Shares issued to shareholders in
reinvestment of distributions

 

        

Class A

     3,993        $44,601        2,818        $28,999  

Class I

     14,444        161,629        7,196        74,190  

Class R2

     4        43                

Class R3

     16        179        9        95  

Class R4

     28        318        23        229  

Class R6

     27        307        22        227  
     18,512        $207,077        10,068        $103,740  

 

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     Year ended
5/31/20
     Year ended
5/31/19
 
     Shares      Amount      Shares      Amount  
Shares reacquired

 

        

Class A

     (205,297      $(2,335,764      (50,987      $(529,876

Class B

     (2,498      (27,502              

Class C

     (41,354      (458,453      (32,613      (331,498

Class I

     (1,703,504      (19,073,479      (639,079      (6,824,608

Class R6

     (243,543      (2,747,325      (77,916      (818,657
     (2,196,196      $(24,642,523      (800,595      $(8,504,639
Net change

 

        

Class A

     359,408        $4,062,871        298,819        $3,128,429  

Class B

     (2,498      (27,502      496        5,000  

Class C

     118,991        1,299,135        12,008        131,125  

Class I

     4,557,075        51,906,772        801,952        8,389,383  

Class R2

     4        43                

Class R3

     16        179        9        95  

Class R4

     28        318        23        229  

Class R6

     725,654        8,338,835        95,592        1,037,528  
     5,758,678        $65,580,651        1,208,899        $12,691,789  

Class T shares were not publicly available for sale during the period. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

Effective June 1, 2019, purchases of the fund’s Class B shares are closed to new and existing investors subject to certain exceptions. Please see the fund’s prospectus for details.

(6) Line of Credit

The fund and certain other funds managed by MFS participate in a $1.25 billion unsecured committed line of credit, subject to a $1 billion sublimit, provided by a syndicate of banks under a credit agreement. Borrowings may be made for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, generally at a rate equal to the highest of one month LIBOR, the Federal Funds Effective Rate and the Overnight Bank Funding Rate, plus an agreed upon spread. A commitment fee, based on the average daily, unused portion of the committed line of credit, is allocated among the participating funds. In addition, the fund and other funds managed by MFS have established unsecured uncommitted borrowing arrangements with certain banks for temporary financing needs. Interest is charged to each fund, based on its borrowings, at rates equal to customary reference rates plus an agreed upon spread. For the year ended May 31, 2020, the fund’s commitment fee and interest expense were $237 and $227, respectively, and are included in “Miscellaneous” expense in the Statement of Operations.

 

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(7) Investments in Affiliated Issuers

An affiliated issuer may be considered one in which the fund owns 5% or more of the outstanding voting securities, or a company which is under common control. For the purposes of this report, the following were affiliated issuers:

 

Affiliated Issuers   Beginning
Value
    Purchases     Sales
Proceeds
    Realized
Gain
(Loss)
    Change in
Unrealized
Appreciation or
Depreciation
    Ending
Value
 
MFS Growth Fund     $11,423,750       $19,925,977       $4,093,556       $99,220       $5,276,858       $32,632,249  
MFS Institutional International Equity Fund     11,473,514       24,045,467       4,146,775       (185,186     1,946,240       33,133,260  
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio     3,660,504       61,344,765       64,954,319       2,329       (282     52,997  
MFS Value Fund     11,370,391       24,941,774       5,275,916       (264,697     2,447,927       33,219,479  
    $37,928,159       $130,257,983       $78,470,566       $(348,334     $9,670,743       $99,037,985  
Affiliated Issuers                               Dividend
Income
    Capital Gain
Distributions
 
MFS Growth Fund

 

          $—       $219,818  
MFS Institutional International Equity Fund

 

        314,598       118,454  
MFS Institutional Money Market Portfolio

 

        48,842        
MFS Value Fund                                     334,077       174,688  
            $697,517       $512,960  

(8) Impacts of COVID-19

The pandemic related to the global spread of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which was first detected in December 2019, has resulted in significant disruptions to global business activity and the global economy, as well as the economies of individual countries, the financial performance of individual companies and sectors, and the securities and commodities markets in general. This pandemic, the full effects of which are still unknown, has resulted in substantial market volatility and may have adversely impacted the prices and liquidity of the fund’s investments and the fund’s performance.

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Shareholders of MFS Managed Wealth Fund and the Board of Trustees of MFS Series Trust X

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities of MFS Managed Wealth Fund (the “Fund”) (one of the funds constituting MFS Series Trust X (the “Trust”)), including the portfolio of investments, as of May 31, 2020, and the related statement of operations for the year then ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund (one of the funds constituting MFS Series Trust X) at May 31, 2020, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended and its financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Trust’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Fund’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Trust in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Trust is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits, we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Trust’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our procedures included confirmation of securities owned as of May 31, 2020, by correspondence with the custodian and others or by other appropriate auditing procedures where replies from others were not received. Our audits also included

 

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evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

 

LOGO

We have served as the auditor of one or more MFS investment companies since 1993.

Boston, Massachusetts

July 17, 2020

 

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TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS — IDENTIFICATION AND BACKGROUND

The Trustees and Officers of the Trust, as of July 1, 2020, are listed below, together with their principal occupations during the past five years. (Their titles may have varied during that period.) The address of each Trustee and Officer is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

INTERESTED TRUSTEES
Robert J. Manning (k) (age 56)   Trustee   February 2004   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Chairman (since January 2017); Director; Chairman of the Board; Chief Executive Officer (until 2015); Co-Chief Executive Officer (2015-2016)   N/A

Robin A. Stelmach (k)

(age 58)

  Trustee   January 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice Chair (since January 2017); Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President (until January 2017)   N/A
INDEPENDENT TRUSTEES    

John P. Kavanaugh

(age 65)

  Trustee and Chair of Trustees   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A

Steven E. Buller

(age 68)

  Trustee   February 2014   134   Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council, Chairman (2014-2015); Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Standing Advisory Group, Member (until 2014); BlackRock, Inc. (investment management), Managing Director (until 2014), BlackRock Finco UK (investment management), Director (until 2014)   N/A

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

John A. Caroselli

(age 66)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   JC Global Advisors, LLC (management consulting), President (since 2015); First Capital Corporation (commercial finance), Executive Vice President (until 2015)   N/A

Maureen R. Goldfarb

(age 65)

  Trustee   January 2009   134   Private investor   N/A
Peter D. Jones
(age 64)
  Trustee   January 2019   134   Franklin Templeton Distributors, Inc. (investment management), President (until 2015); Franklin Templeton Institutional, LLC (investment management), Chairman (until 2015)   N/A
James W. Kilman, Jr. (age 59)   Trustee   January 2019   134   Burford Capital Limited (finance and investment management), Chief Financial Officer (since 2019); KielStrand Capital LLC (family office), Chief Executive Officer (since 2016); Morgan Stanley & Co. (financial services), Vice Chairman of Investment Banking, Co-Head of Diversified Financials Coverage – Financial Institutions Investment Banking Group (until 2016)   Alpha-En Corporation, Director (2016-2019)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s)
Held

with Fund

 

Trustee/Officer

Since (h)

 

Number of
MFS Funds
overseen

by the
Trustee

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

 

Other

Directorships
During the Past
Five Years (j)

Clarence Otis, Jr.

(age 64)

  Trustee   March 2017   134   Darden Restaurants, Inc., Chief Executive Officer (until 2014)   VF Corporation, Director; Verizon Communications, Inc., Director; The Travelers Companies, Director; Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Director (until 2015)

Maryanne L. Roepke

(age 64)

  Trustee   May 2014   134   American Century Investments (investment management), Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (until 2014)   N/A
Laurie J. Thomsen
(age 62)
  Trustee   March 2005   134   Private investor   The Travelers Companies, Director; Dycom Industries, Inc., Director (since 2015)

 

Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

OFFICERS      
Christopher R. Bohane (k) (age 46)   Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Associate General Counsel

Kino Clark (k)

(age 52)

 

Assistant

Treasurer

  January 2012   134  

Massachusetts Financial

Services Company, Vice President

John W. Clark, Jr. (k)

(age 53)

  Assistant Treasurer   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President (since March 2017); Deutsche Bank (financial services), Department Head – Treasurer’s Office (until February 2017)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

Thomas H. Connors (k)

(age 60)

 

Assistant

Secretary and Assistant Clerk

  September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel
David L. DiLorenzo (k)
(age 51)
  President   July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

Heidi W. Hardin (k)

(age 52)

  Secretary and Clerk   April 2017   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Executive Vice President and General Counsel (since March 2017); Harris Associates (investment management), General Counsel (from September 2015 to January 2017); Janus Capital Management LLC (investment management), Senior Vice President and General Counsel (until September 2015)

Brian E. Langenfeld (k)

(age 47)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  June 2006   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Senior Counsel

Amanda S. Mooradian (k)

(age 41)

  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  September 2018   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Assistant Vice President and Senior Counsel
Susan A. Pereira (k)
(age 49)
  Assistant
Secretary and Assistant Clerk
  July 2005   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Kasey L. Phillips (k)

(age 49)

  Assistant Treasurer   September 2012   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President

Matthew A. Stowe (k)

(age 45)

  Assistant Secretary and Assistant Clerk   October 2014   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel

Martin J. Wolin (k)

(age 52)

  Chief Compliance Officer   July 2015   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer (since July 2015); Mercer (financial service provider), Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, North America and Latin America (until June 2015)

 

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Name, Age

 

Position(s) Held

with Fund

  Trustee/Officer
Since (h)
 

Number of

MFS Funds

for which

the Person

is an Officer

 

Principal
Occupations During

the Past Five Years

James O. Yost (k)
(age 60)
  Treasurer   September 1990   134   Massachusetts Financial Services Company, Senior Vice President

 

(h)

Date first appointed to serve as Trustee/officer of an MFS Fund. Each Trustee has served continuously since appointment unless indicated otherwise. For the period from December 15, 2004 until February 22, 2005, Mr. Manning served as Advisory Trustee. From January 2012 through December 2016, Messrs. DiLorenzo and Yost served as Treasurer and Deputy Treasurer of the Funds, respectively.

(j)

Directorships or trusteeships of companies required to report to the Securities and Exchange Commission (i.e., “public companies”).

(k)

“Interested person” of the Trust within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (referred to as the 1940 Act), which is the principal federal law governing investment companies like the fund, as a result of a position with MFS. The address of MFS is 111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199-7618.

Each Trustee (other than Messrs. Jones and Kilman) has been elected by shareholders and each Trustee and Officer holds office until his or her successor is chosen and qualified or until his or her earlier death, resignation, retirement or removal. Messrs. Jones and Kilman became Trustees of the Funds on January 1, 2019. The Trust does not hold annual meetings for the purpose of electing Trustees, and Trustees are not elected for fixed terms. Under the terms of the Board’s retirement policy, an Independent Trustee shall retire at the end of the calendar year in which he or she reaches the earlier of 75 years of age or 15 years of service on the Board (or, in the case of any Independent Trustee who joined the Board prior to 2015, 20 years of service on the Board).

Messrs. Buller, Kilman and Otis and Ms. Roepke are members of the Trust’s Audit Committee.

Each of the Interested Trustees and certain Officers hold comparable officer positions with certain affiliates of MFS.

The Statement of Additional Information for a Fund includes further information about the Trustees and is available without charge upon request by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

 

Investment Adviser   Custodian

Massachusetts Financial Services Company
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

State Street Bank and Trust Company

1 Lincoln Street

Boston, MA 02111-2900

Distributor   Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

MFS Fund Distributors, Inc.
111 Huntington Avenue

Boston, MA 02199-7618

 

Ernst & Young LLP

200 Clarendon Street

Boston, MA 02116

Portfolio Manager(s)  

William Adams

Robert Almeida

Mike Roberge

Barnaby Wiener

 

 

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STATEMENT REGARDING LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

The fund has adopted and implemented a liquidity risk management program (the “Program”) as required by Rule 22e-4 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The fund’s Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated MFS as the administrator of the Program. The Program is reasonably designed to assess and manage the liquidity risk of the fund. Liquidity risk is the risk that the fund could not meet requests to redeem shares issued by the fund without significant dilution of remaining investors’ interests.

MFS provided a written report to the Board for consideration at its April 2020 meeting that addressed the operation of the Program and provided an assessment of the adequacy and effectiveness of the Program during the period from the adoption of the Program on December 1, 2018 to December 31, 2019 (the “Covered Period”). The report concluded that during the Covered Period the Program had operated effectively and had adequately and effectively been implemented to assess and manage the fund’s liquidity risk. MFS also reported that there were no liquidity events that impacted the fund or its ability to timely meet redemptions without dilution to existing shareholders during the Covered Period.

There can be no assurance that the Program will achieve its objectives in the future. Further information on liquidity risk, and other principal risks to which an investment in the fund may be subject, can be found in the prospectus.

 

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PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND INFORMATION

MFS votes proxies on behalf of the fund pursuant to proxy voting policies and procedures that are available without charge, upon request, by calling 1-800-225-2606, by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

Information regarding how the fund voted proxies relating to portfolio securities during the most recent twelve-month period ended June 30 is available by August 31 of each year without charge by visiting mfs.com/proxyvoting, or by visiting the SEC’s Web site at http://www.sec.gov.

QUARTERLY PORTFOLIO DISCLOSURE

The fund files a complete schedule of portfolio holdings with the SEC for the first and third quarters of each fiscal year as an exhibit to its reports on Form N-PORT. The fund’s Form N-PORT reports are available on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. A shareholder can obtain the portfolio holdings report for the first and third quarters of the fund’s fiscal year at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name and then selecting the “Resources” tab and clicking on “Prospectus and Reports”.

FURTHER INFORMATION

From time to time, MFS may post important information about the fund or the MFS funds on the MFS web site (mfs.com). This information is available at https://www.mfs.com/en-us/what-we-do/announcements.html or at mfs.com/openendfunds by choosing the fund’s name.

INFORMATION ABOUT FUND CONTRACTS AND LEGAL CLAIMS

The fund has entered into contractual arrangements with an investment adviser, administrator, distributor, shareholder servicing agent, 529 program manager (if applicable), and custodian who each provide services to the fund. Unless expressly stated otherwise, shareholders are not parties to, or intended beneficiaries of these contractual arrangements, and these contractual arrangements are not intended to create any shareholder right to enforce them against the service providers or to seek any remedy under them against the service providers, either directly or on behalf of the fund.

Under the Trust’s By-Laws and Declaration of Trust, any claims asserted against or on behalf of the MFS Funds, including claims against Trustees and Officers, must be brought in state and federal courts located within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

FEDERAL TAX INFORMATION (unaudited)

The fund will notify shareholders of amounts for use in preparing 2020 income tax forms in January 2021. The following information is provided pursuant to provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

The fund designates the maximum amount allowable as qualified dividend income eligible to be taxed at the same rate as long-term capital gain.

For corporate shareholders, 98.65% of the ordinary income dividends paid during the fiscal year qualify for the corporate dividends received deduction.

 

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FACTS

 

  WHAT DOES MFS DO WITH YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?   LOGO

 

Why?   Financial companies choose how they share your personal information. Federal law gives consumers the right to limit some but not all sharing. Federal law also requires us to tell you how we collect, share, and protect your personal information. Please read this notice carefully to understand what we do.

 

What?  

The types of personal information we collect and share depend on the product or service you have with us. This information can include:

 

 Social Security number and account balances

 Account transactions and transaction history

 Checking account information and wire transfer instructions

 

When you are no longer our customer, we continue to share your information as described in this notice.

 

How?   All financial companies need to share customers’ personal information to run their everyday business. In the section below, we list the reasons financial companies can share their customers’ personal information; the reasons MFS chooses to share; and whether you can limit this sharing.

 

Reasons we can share your
personal information
  Does MFS
share?
  Can you limit
this sharing?

For our everyday business purposes –

such as to process your transactions, maintain your account(s), respond to court orders and legal investigations, or report to credit bureaus

  Yes   No

For our marketing purposes –

to offer our products and services to you

  No   We don’t share

For joint marketing with other

financial companies

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your transactions and experiences

  No   We don’t share

For our affiliates’ everyday business purposes –

information about your creditworthiness

  No   We don’t share
For nonaffiliates to market to you   No   We don’t share

 

   
Questions?   Call 800-225-2606 or go to mfs.com.

 

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Who we are
Who is providing this notice?   MFS Funds, MFS Investment Management, MFS Institutional Advisors, Inc., and MFS Heritage Trust Company.

 

What we do
How does MFS protect my personal information?   To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with federal law. These measures include procedural, electronic, and physical safeguards for the protection of the personal information we collect about you.
How does MFS collect my personal information?  

We collect your personal information, for example, when you

 

 open an account or provide account information

 direct us to buy securities or direct us to sell your securities

 make a wire transfer

 

We also collect your personal information from others, such as credit bureaus, affiliates, or other companies.

Why can’t I limit all sharing?  

Federal law gives you the right to limit only

 

 sharing for affiliates’ everyday business purposes – information about your creditworthiness

 affiliates from using your information to market to you

 sharing for nonaffiliates to market to you

 

State laws and individual companies may give you additional rights to limit sharing.

 

Definitions
Affiliates  

Companies related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share personal information with affiliates, except for everyday business purposes as described on page one of this notice.

Nonaffiliates  

Companies not related by common ownership or control. They can be financial and nonfinancial companies.

 

 MFS does not share with nonaffiliates so they can market to you.

Joint marketing  

A formal agreement between nonaffiliated financial companies that together market financial products or services to you.

 

 MFS doesnt jointly market.

 

 

Other important information
If you own an MFS product or receive an MFS service in the name of a third party such as a bank or broker-dealer, their privacy policy may apply to you instead of ours.

 

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ITEM 2.

CODE OF ETHICS.

The Registrant has adopted a Code of Ethics (the “Code”) pursuant to Section 406 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and as defined in Form N-CSR that applies to the Registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial and accounting officer. During the period covered by this report, the Registrant has not amended any provision in the Code that relates to an element of the Code’s definition enumerated in paragraph (b) of Item 2 of this Form N-CSR. During the period covered by this report, the Registrant did not grant a waiver, including an implicit waiver, from any provision of the Code.

A copy of the Code of Ethics is filed as an exhibit to this Form N-CSR.

 

ITEM 3.

AUDIT COMMITTEE FINANCIAL EXPERT.

Messrs. Steven E. Buller, James Kilman, and Clarence Otis, Jr. and Ms. Maryanne L. Roepke, members of the Audit Committee, have been determined by the Board of Trustees in their reasonable business judgment to meet the definition of “audit committee financial expert” as such term is defined in Form N-CSR. In addition, Messrs. Buller, Kilman, and Otis and Ms. Roepke are “independent” members of the Audit Committee (as such term has been defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission in regulations implementing Section 407 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002). The Securities and Exchange Commission has stated that the designation of a person as an audit committee financial expert pursuant to this Item 3 on the Form N-CSR does not impose on such a person any duties, obligations or liability that are greater than the duties, obligations or liability imposed on such person as a member of the Audit Committee and the Board of Trustees in the absence of such designation or identification.

 

ITEM 4.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES.

Items 4(a) through 4(d) and 4(g):

The Board of Trustees has appointed Deloitte & Touche LLP (“Deloitte”) to serve as independent accountants to certain series of the Registrant and Ernst & Young LLP (“E&Y”) to serve in the same capacity to certain other series of the Registrant (each a “Fund” and collectively the “Funds”). The tables below set forth the audit fees billed to each Fund as well as fees for non-audit services provided to each Fund and/or to each Fund’s investment adviser, Massachusetts Financial Services Company (“MFS”), and to various entities either controlling, controlled by, or under common control with MFS that provide ongoing services to the Funds (“MFS Related Entities”).

For the fiscal years ended May 31, 2020 and 2019, audit fees billed to each Fund by Deloitte and E&Y were as follows:

 

     Audit Fees  
     2020      2019  

Fees billed by Deloitte:

     

MFS Blended Research Growth Equity Fund

     47,436        46,656  

MFS Blended Research Mid Cap Equity Fund

     46,521        45,757  

MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Fund

     49,030        48,224  

MFS Blended Research Value Equity Fund

     47,436        46,656  

MFS International Diversification Fund

     30,276        29,783  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

     220,699        217,076  


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     Audit Fees  
     2020      2019  

Fees billed by E&Y:

     

MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund

     30,382        29,887  

MFS Conservative Allocation Fund

     30,382        29,887  

MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund

     55,734        54,815  

MFS Growth Allocation Fund

     30,382        29,887  

MFS International Growth Fund

     55,853        54,933  

MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

     55,853        54,933  

MFS Managed Wealth Fund

     36,377        35,783  

MFS Moderate Allocation Fund

     30,382        29,887  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

     325,344        320,012  

For the fiscal years ended May 31, 2020 and 2019, fees billed by Deloitte and E&Y for audit-related, tax and other services provided to each Fund and for audit-related, tax and other services provided to MFS and MFS Related Entities were as follows:

 

     Audit-Related  Fees1      Tax Fees2      All Other Fees3  
     2020      2019      2020      2019      2020      2019  

Fees billed by Deloitte:

                 

To MFS Blended Research Growth Equity Fund

     0        0        7,122        7,003        0        0  

To MFS Blended Research Mid Cap Equity Fund

     0        0        7,017        6,900        0        0  

To MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Fund

     0        0        7,122        7,003        0        0  

To MFS Blended Research Value Equity Fund

     0        0        7,122        7,003        0        0  

To MFS International Diversification Fund

     0        0        7,740        7,611        0        0  

Total fees billed by Deloitte To above Funds:

     0        0        36,123        35,520        0        0  


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     Audit-Related  Fees1      Tax Fees2      All Other Fees3  
     2020      2019      2020      2019      2020      2019  

Fees billed by Deloitte:

                 

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS Blended Research Growth Equity Fund*

     0        0        0        0        5,390        5,390  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS Blended Research Mid Cap Equity Fund*

     0        0        0        0        5,390        5,390  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Fund*

     0        0        0        0        5,390        5,390  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS Blended Research Value Equity Fund*

     0        0        0        0        5,390        5,390  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS International Diversification Fund*

     0        0        0        0        5,390        5,390  

 

     Aggregate fees for non-audit
services
 
     2020      2019  

Fees billed by Deloitte:

     

To MFS Blended Research Growth Equity Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     362,512        12,393  

To MFS Blended Research Mid Cap Equity Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     362,407        12,290  

To MFS Blended Research Small Cap Equity Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     362,512        12,393  

To MFS Blended Research Value Equity Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     362,512        12,393  

To MFS International Diversification Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     363,130        13,001  

 

     Audit-Related  Fees1      Tax Fees2      All Other Fees4  
     2020      2019      2020      2019      2020      2019  

Fees billed by E&Y:

                 

To MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund

     0        0        5,498        5,407        1,485        1,483  

To MFS Conservative Allocation Fund

     0        0        5,498        5,407        1,768        1,792  

To MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund

     0        0        10,641        10,482        1,623        1,411  

To MFS Growth Allocation Fund

     0        0        5,498        5,407        2,301        2,352  

To MFS International Growth Fund

     0        0        10,641        10,482        3,207        2,658  

To MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund

     0        0        10,641        10,482        8,280        8,941  

To MFS Managed Wealth Fund

     0        0        8,361        8,231        3,615        2,990  

To MFS Moderate Allocation Fund

     0        0        5,498        5,407        2,448        2,547  

Total fees billed by E&Y To above Funds:

     0        0        62,276        61,305        24,727        24,174  


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     Audit-Related Fees1      Tax Fees2      All Other Fees4  
     2020      2019      2020      2019      2020      2019  

Fees billed by E&Y:

                 

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund*

     1,744,294        1,619,369        0        0        104,750        104,750  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS Conservative Allocation Fund*

     1,744,294        1,619,369        0        0        104,750        104,750  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund*

     1,744,294        1,619,369        0        0        104,750        104,750  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS Growth Allocation Fund*

     1,744,294        1,619,369        0        0        104,750        104,750  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS International Growth Fund*

     1,744,294        1,619,369        0        0        104,750        104,750  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund*

     1,744,294        1,619,369        0        0        104,750        104,750  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS Managed Wealth Fund*

     1,744,294        1,619,369        0        0        104,750        104,750  

To MFS and MFS Related Entities of MFS Moderate Allocation Fund*

     1,744,294        1,619,369        0        0        104,750        104,750  

 

     Aggregate fees for non-audit
services
 
     2020      2019  

Fees billed by E&Y:

     

To MFS Aggressive Growth Allocation Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     2,090,027        1,943,909  

To MFS Conservative Allocation Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     2,090,310        1,944,218  

To MFS Emerging Markets Equity Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     2,095,308        1,948,912  

To MFS Growth Allocation Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     2,090,843        1,944,778  

To MFS International Growth Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     2,096,892        1,950,159  

To MFS International Intrinsic Value Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     2,101,965        1,956,442  

To MFS Managed Wealth Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     2,095,020        1,948,240  

To MFS Moderate Allocation Fund, MFS and MFS Related Entities#

     2,090,990        1,944,973  

 

*  

This amount reflects the fees billed to MFS and MFS Related Entities for non-audit services relating directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Funds (portions of which services also related to the operations and financial reporting of other funds within the MFS Funds complex).

# 

This amount reflects the aggregate fees billed by Deloitte or E&Y for non-audit services rendered to the Funds and for non-audit services rendered to MFS and the MFS Related Entities.

1 

The fees included under “Audit-Related Fees” are fees related to assurance and related services that are reasonably related to the performance of the audit or review of financial statements, but not reported under “Audit Fees,” including accounting consultations, agreed-upon procedure reports, attestation reports, comfort letters and internal control reviews.


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2 

The fees included under “Tax Fees” are fees associated with tax compliance, tax advice and tax planning, including services relating to the filing or amendment of federal, state or local income tax returns, regulated investment company qualification reviews and tax distribution and analysis.

3 

The fees included under “All Other Fees” are fees for products and services provided by Deloitte other than those reported under “Audit Fees,” “Audit-Related Fees” and “Tax Fees”.

4 

The fees included under “All Other Fees” are fees for products and services provided by E&Y other than those reported under “Audit Fees,” “Audit-Related Fees” and “Tax Fees,” including fees for services related to review of internal controls and review of Rule 38a-1 compliance program.

Item 4(e)(1):

Set forth below are the policies and procedures established by the Audit Committee of the Board of Trustees relating to the pre-approval of audit and non-audit related services:

To the extent required by applicable law, pre-approval by the Audit Committee of the Board is needed for all audit and permissible non-audit services rendered to the Fund and all permissible non-audit services rendered to MFS or MFS Related Entities if the services relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Registrant. Pre-approval is currently on an engagement-by-engagement basis. In the event pre-approval of such services is necessary between regular meetings of the Audit Committee and it is not practical to wait to seek pre-approval at the next regular meeting of the Audit Committee, pre-approval of such services may be referred to the Chair of the Audit Committee for approval; provided that the Chair may not pre-approve any individual engagement for such services exceeding $50,000 or multiple engagements for such services in the aggregate exceeding $100,000 in each period between regular meetings of the Audit Committee. Any engagement pre-approved by the Chair between regular meetings of the Audit Committee shall be presented for ratification by the entire Audit Committee at its next regularly scheduled meeting.

Item 4(e)(2):

None, or 0%, of the services relating to the Audit-Related Fees, Tax Fees and All Other Fees paid by the Fund and MFS and MFS Related Entities relating directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Registrant disclosed above were approved by the audit committee pursuant to paragraphs (c)(7)(i)(C) of Rule 2-01 of Regulation S-X (which permits audit committee approval after the start of the engagement with respect to services other than audit, review or attest services, if certain conditions are satisfied).

Item 4(f):

Not applicable.

Item 4(h):

The Registrant’s Audit Committee has considered whether the provision by a Registrant’s independent registered public accounting firm of non-audit services to MFS and MFS Related Entities that were not pre-approved by the Committee (because such services did not relate directly to the operations and financial reporting of the Registrant) was compatible with maintaining the independence of the independent registered public accounting firm as the Registrant’s principal auditors.


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ITEM 5.

AUDIT COMMITTEE OF LISTED REGISTRANTS.

Not applicable to the Registrant.

 

ITEM 6.

INVESTMENTS.

A schedule of investments of the Registrant is included as part of the report to shareholders of such series under Item 1 of this Form N-CSR.

 

ITEM 7.

DISCLOSURE OF PROXY VOTING POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES.

Not applicable to the Registrant.

 

ITEM 8.

PORTFOLIO MANAGERS OF CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES.

Not applicable to the Registrant.

 

ITEM 9.

PURCHASES OF EQUITY SECURITIES BY CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY AND AFFILIATED PURCHASERS.

Not applicable to the Registrant.

 

ITEM 10.

SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS.

There were no material changes to the procedures by which shareholders may send recommendations to the Board for nominees to the Registrant’s Board since the Registrant last provided disclosure as to such procedures in response to the requirements of Item 407 (c)(2)(iv) of Regulation S-K or this Item.

 

ITEM 11.

CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

 

(a)

Based upon their evaluation of the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “Act”)) as conducted within 90 days of the filing date of this report on Form N-CSR, the registrant’s principal financial officer and principal executive officer have concluded that those disclosure controls and procedures provide reasonable assurance that the material information required to be disclosed by the registrant on this report is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rules and forms.

 

(b)

There were no changes in the registrant’s internal controls over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 30a-3(d) under the Act) that occurred during the period covered by the report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.


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ITEM 12.

DISCLOSURE OF SECURITIES LENDING ACTIVITIES FOR CLOSED-END MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES.

Not applicable to the Registrant.

 

ITEM 13.

EXHIBITS.

 

(a)    (1)      Any code of ethics, or amendment thereto, that is the subject of the disclosure required by Item 2, to the extent that the registrant intends to satisfy the Item 2 requirements through filing of an exhibit: Attached hereto as EX-99.COE.

 

  (2)

A separate certification for each principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the registrant as required by Rule 30a-2(a) under the Act (17 CFR 270.30a-2): Attached hereto as EX-99.302CERT.

 

  (3)

Any written solicitation to purchase securities under Rule 23c-1 under the Act (17 CFR 270.23c-1) sent or given during the period covered by the report by or on behalf of the registrant to 10 or more persons. Not applicable.

 

  (4)

Change in the registrant’s independent public accountant. Not applicable.

 

(b)

If the report is filed under Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, provide the certifications required by Rule 30a-2(b) under the Act (17 CFR 270.30a-2(b)), Rule 13a-14(b) or Rule 15d-14(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13a-14(b) or 240.15d-14(b)) and Section 1350 of Chapter 63 of Title 18 of the United States Code (18 U.S.C. 1350) as an exhibit. A certification furnished pursuant to this paragraph will not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act (15 U.S.C. 78r), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section. Such certification will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates it by reference: Attached hereto as EX-99.906CERT.


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Notice

A copy of the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, as amended, of the Registrant is on file with the Secretary of State of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and notice is hereby given that this instrument is executed on behalf of the Registrant by an officer of the Registrant as an officer and not individually and the obligations of or arising out of this instrument are not binding upon any of the Trustees or shareholders individually, but are binding only upon the assets and property of the respective constituent series of the Registrant.


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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

(Registrant) MFS SERIES TRUST X

 

By (Signature and Title)*    /S/ DAVID L. DILORENZO
  David L. DiLorenzo, President

Date: July 17, 2020

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

By (Signature and Title)*    /S/ DAVID L. DILORENZO
 

David L. DiLorenzo, President

(Principal Executive Officer)

Date: July 17, 2020

 

By (Signature and Title)*   /S/ JAMES O. YOST
 

James O. Yost, Treasurer

(Principal Financial Officer

and Accounting Officer)

Date: July 17, 2020

 

*

Print name and title of each signing officer under his or her signature.