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MFS SERIES TRUST XIII

Date Filed : Jun 27, 2022

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Summary Prospectus

June 28, 2022

 

 

MFS®New Discovery Value Fund

 

Beforeyou invest, you may want to review the fund’s prospectus, which contains more information about the fund and its risks.You can find the fund’s prospectus and other information about the fund, including the fund’s reports to shareholders andstatement of additional information, online at funds.mfs.com. You can also get this information at no cost by calling 1-800-225-2606or by sending an e-mail request to orderliterature@mfs.com. The fund’s prospectus and statement of additional information, bothdated June 28, 2022, as may be amended or supplemented from time to time, are incorporated by reference into this summary prospectus.

 

class  ticker
symbol
Class A  NDVAX
Class B  NDVBX
Class C  NDVCX
Class I  NDVIX
Class R1  NDVRX
Class R2  NDVSX
Class R3  NDVTX
Class R4  NDVUX
Class R6  NDVVX

 

Summaryof Key Information

 

InvestmentObjective

 

The fund’s investment objective is to seek capital appreciation.

 

Feesand Expenses

 

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay when youbuy, hold, and sell shares of the fund. Investors may also pay commissions or other fees to their financial intermediaries when theybuy, hold, and sell shares of the fund, which are not reflected below.

 

You may qualify for sales charge reductions if, with respect to Class Ashares, you and certain members of your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $50,000 in MFS funds. More informationabout these and other waivers and reductions is available from your financial intermediary and in “Sales Charges and Waivers andReductions” on page 10 and “Appendix A – Waivers and Reductions of Sales Charges” on page A-1 of thefund’s prospectus.

 

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment):

 

Share Class  A   B   C   I   R1   R2   R3   R4   R6 
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)   5.75%   None    None    None    None    None    None    None    None 
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of original purchase price or redemption proceeds, whichever is less)   1.00%#   4.00%   1.00%   None    None    None    None    None    None 

 

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):

 

Share Class  A   B   C   I   R1   R2   R3   R4   R6 
Management Fee   0.80%   0.80%   0.80%   0.80%   0.80%   0.80%   0.80%   0.80%   0.80%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees   0.25%   1.00%   1.00%   None    1.00%   0.50%   0.25%   None    None 
Other Expenses   0.14%   0.14%   0.14%   0.14%   0.14%   0.14%   0.14%   0.14%   0.04%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses   1.19%   1.94%   1.94%   0.94%   1.94%   1.44%   1.19%   0.94%   0.84%
Fee Reductions and/or Expense Reimbursements1   (0.01)%   (0.01)%   (0.01)%   (0.01)%   (0.01)%   (0.01)%   (0.01)%   (0.01)%   (0.01)%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses After Fee Reductions and/or Expense Reimbursements   1.18%   1.93%   1.93%   0.93%   1.93%   1.43%   1.18%   0.93%   0.83%

 

 

#This contingent deferred sales charge (CDSC) applies to shares purchased without an initial sales charge and redeemed within 18 months of purchase.

1Massachusetts Financial Services Company (MFS) has agreed in writing to waive at least 0.01% of the fund's management fee as part of an agreement pursuant to which MFS has agreed 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. The agreement to waive at least 0.01% of the management fee will continue until modified by the fund's Board of Trustees, but such agreement will continue until at least June 30, 2023.

 

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MFS New Discovery Value Fund

 

Example

 

This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investingin the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds.

 

The example assumes that: you invest $10,000 in the fund for the timeperiods indicated and you redeem your shares at the end of the time periods (unless otherwise indicated); your investment has a 5% returneach year; and the fund’s operating expenses remain the same.

 

Although your actual costs will likely be higher or lower, under theseassumptions your costs would be:

 

   1 YEAR   3 YEARS   5 YEARS   10 YEARS 
Class A Shares  $688   $930   $1,191   $1,934 
Class B Shares assuming1                    
redemption at end of period  $596   $908   $1,246   $2,069 
no redemption at end of period  $196   $608   $1,046   $2,069 
Class C Shares assuming1                    
redemption at end of period  $296   $608   $1,046   $2,069 
no redemption at end of period  $196   $608   $1,046   $2,069 
Class I Shares  $95   $299   $519   $1,154 
Class R1 Shares  $196   $608   $1,046   $2,263 
Class R2 Shares  $146   $455   $786   $1,723 
Class R3 Shares  $120   $377   $653   $1,442 
Class R4 Shares  $95   $299   $519   $1,154 
Class R6 Shares  $85   $267   $465   $1,036 

 

 

1Shares automatically convert to Class A shares approximately eight years after purchase; therefore, the expense examples reflect Class A share expenses after eight years.

 

PortfolioTurnover

 

The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buysand sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costsand may result in higher taxes when shares are held in a taxable account. These transaction costs, which are not reflected in “AnnualFund Operating Expenses” or in the “Example,” affect the fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year,the fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 44% of the average value of its portfolio.

 

PrincipalInvestment Strategies

 

MFS (Massachusetts Financial Services Company, the fund's investmentadviser) normally invests the fund’s assets primarily in equity securities. Equity securities include common stocks, equity interestsin real estate investment trusts (REITs), and other securities that represent an ownership interest (or right to acquire an ownershipinterest) in a company or other issuer.

 

MFS focuses on investing the fund's assets in the stocks of companiesit believes are undervalued compared to their perceived worth (value companies).

 

While MFS may invest the fund’s assets in securities of companiesof any size, MFS primarily invests in securities of companies with small capitalizations.

 

MFS may invest the fund’s assets in foreign securities.

 

MFS normally invests the fund's assets across different industriesand sectors, but MFS may invest a significant percentage of the fund's assets in issuers in a single industry or sector.

 

MFS uses an active bottom-up investment approach to buying and sellinginvestments for the fund. Investments are selected primarily based on fundamental analysis of individual issuers. Quantitative screeningtools that systematically evaluate issuers may also be considered.

 

PrincipalRisks

 

As with any mutual fund, the fund may not achieve its objective and/oryou could lose money on your investment in the fund. An investment in the fund is not a bank deposit and is not insured or guaranteedby the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other governmental agency.

 

The principal risks of investing in the fund are:

 

InvestmentSelection Risk: MFS' investment analysis and its selection of investments may not produce the intended results and/or canlead to an investment focus that results in the fund underperforming other funds with similar investment strategies and/or underperformingthe markets in which the fund invests.

 

EquityMarket Risk/Company Risk: Equity markets are volatile and can decline significantly in response to, or investor perceptionsof, issuer, market, economic, industry, political, regulatory, geopolitical, environmental, public health, and other conditions. Theseconditions can affect a single issuer or type of security, issuers within a broad market sector, industry or geographic region, or theequity markets in general. Certain events can have a dramatic adverse effect on equity markets and may lead to periods of high volatilityin an equity market or a segment of an equity market. The value of an investment held by the fund may decline due to factors directlyrelated to the issuer.

 

ValueCompany Risk: The stocks of value companies can continue to be undervalued for long periods of time and not realize theirexpected value and can be more volatile than the market in general.

 

SmallCap Risk: The stocks of small cap companies can be more volatile and their shares can be less liquid than those of largercompanies.

 

ForeignRisk: Exposure to foreign markets through issuers or currencies can involve additional risks relating to market, economic,industry, political, regulatory, geopolitical, environmental, public health, and other conditions. These factors can make foreign investments,especially those tied economically to emerging and frontier markets, more volatile and less liquid than U.S. investments. In addition,foreign markets can react differently to these conditions than the U.S. market.

 

REITsRisk: The risks of investing in REITs include certain risks associated with the direct ownership of real estate and the realestate industry in general. These include risks related to general, regional and local economic conditions; difficulties in valuing anddisposing of real estate; fluctuations in interest rates and property tax rates; shifts in zoning laws, environmental regulations andother governmental action; cash flow dependency; increased operating expenses; lack of availability of mortgage funds; losses due tonatural disasters; overbuilding; losses due to casualty or condemnation; changes in property values and rental rates; the managementskill and creditworthiness of the REIT manager; and other factors. The securities of smaller real estate-related issuers can be morevolatile and less liquid than securities of larger issuers and their issuers can have more limited financial resources.

 

FocusRisk: Issuers in a single industry, sector, country, or region can react similarly to market, currency, political, economic,regulatory, geopolitical, environmental, public health, and other conditions, and the fund's performance will be affected by the

 

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conditions in the industries, sectors, countries and regions to whichthe fund is exposed.

 

LiquidityRisk: It may be difficult to value, and it may not be possible to sell, certain investments, types of investments, and/orinvestments in certain segments of the market, and the fund may have to sell certain of these investments at prices or times that arenot advantageous in order to meet redemptions or other cash needs.

 

LargeShareholder Risk: From time to time, shareholders of the fund (which may include institutional investors, financial intermediaries,or other MFS funds) may make relatively large redemptions or purchases of fund shares. These transactions may cause the fund to sellsecurities or invest additional cash, as the case may be, at disadvantageous prices. Redemptions of a large number of shares also mayincrease transaction and other costs or have adverse tax consequences for shareholders of the fund by requiring a sale of portfolio securities.Purchases of a large number of shares may adversely affect the fund's performance to the extent that it takes time to invest new cashand the fund maintains a larger cash position than it ordinarily would.

 

PerformanceInformation

 

The bar chart and performance table below are intended to providesome indication of the risks of investing in the fund by showing changes in the fund’s performance over time and how the fund’sperformance over time compares with that of a broad measure of market performance.

 

The fund’s past performance (before and after taxes) does notnecessarily indicate how the fund will perform in the future. Updated performance is available online at mfs.comor by calling 1-800-225-2606.

 

Class ABar Chart. The bar chart does not take into account any sales charges (loads) that you may be required to pay upon purchaseor redemption of the fund’s shares. If these sales charges were included, they would reduce the returns shown.

 

 

Thetotal return for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022, was (2.41)%. During the period(s) shown in the bar chart, thehighest quarterly return was 30.96% (for the calendar quarter ended December 31, 2020) and the lowest quarterly return was (34.36)%(for the calendar quarter ended March 31, 2020).

 

PerformanceTable.

 

Average Annual Total Returns

(For the Periods Ended December 31, 2021)            

 

Share Class  1 YEAR   5 YEARS   10 YEARS 
Returns Before Taxes               
B Shares   28.49%   12.23%   13.99%
C Shares   31.47%   12.48%   14.00%
I Shares   33.74%   13.60%   14.97%
R1 Shares   32.42%   12.47%   13.82%
R2 Shares   33.14%   13.06%   14.41%
R3 Shares   33.44%   13.32%   14.70%
R4 Shares   33.75%   13.60%   14.98%
R6 Shares   33.97%   13.74%   15.08%
A Shares   25.78%   11.99%   14.00%
Returns After Taxes on Distributions               
A Shares   22.68%   10.17%   12.14%
Returns After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares               
A Shares   16.52%   8.90%   10.90%
Index Comparison (Reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes)               
Russell 2000® Value Index   28.27%   9.07%   12.03%

 

After-taxreturns are calculated using the historical highest individual federal marginal income tax rates and do not reflect the impact of stateand local taxes. Your actual after-tax returns will depend on your own tax situation, and may differ from those shown. The after-taxreturns shown are not relevant to investors who hold their shares through tax-advantaged arrangements, such as 401(k) plans or individualretirement accounts. The after-tax returns are shown for only one of the fund’s classes of shares, and after-tax returns for thefund’s other classes of shares will vary from the returns shown.

 

InvestmentAdviser

 

MFS serves as the investment adviser for the fund.

 

PortfolioManager(s)

 

Portfolio Manager  Since  Title
Richard Offen  2019  Investment Officer of MFS
Kevin Schmitz  2011  Investment Officer of MFS

 

Purchaseand Sale of Fund Shares

 

You may purchase and redeem shares of the fund each day the New YorkStock Exchange (the NYSE) is open for trading. You may purchase or redeem shares either by having your financial intermediary processyour purchase or redemption, or through MFS Service Center, Inc. (MFSC) by overnight mail (MFSC, Suite 219341, 430 W 7thStreet, Kansas City, MO 64105-1407), by mail ([Fund Name], P.O. Box 219341, Kansas City, MO 64121-9341), by telephone(1-800-225-2606), or via the Internet at mfs.com(MFS Access).

 

The fund’s initial and subsequent investment minimums generallyare as follows:

 

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Class   InitialMinimum   SubsequentMinimum
Class A, Class B, Class C  

None – automatic investment plans and certain asset-based fee programs

$25 – employer-sponsored retirement plans

$250 – Traditional and Roth IRAs

$1,000 – other accounts

 

$50 – by check and non-systematic written exchange request, and via MFSC telephone representatives

None – other purchases

Class I, Class R1, Class R2, Class R3, Class R4, Class R6   None   None

 

Effective at the close of business on August 14, 2019 (the ClosingDate), the fund is closed to new investors subject to certain exceptions. Shareholders of the fund as of the Closing Date can continueto make additional purchases and reinvest distributions in the fund in any account open as of the Closing Date. Shareholders of the fundas of the Closing Date may also: 1) exercise their one-time Reinstatement Privilege (described in Appendix A of this prospectus) to reinvestin shares of the fund within 90 days of a redemption of fund shares; and 2) transfer some or all of the shares in their account to anotheraccount and such account will be treated as having been open as of the Closing Date.

 

In addition, as of the Closing Date, shares of the fund may be purchasedby the following investors:

 

1)Retirement plans other than traditional IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs, Roth IRAs, SEP plans, and SARSEP plans if the fund was offered or officially selected as an investment option by such plan (or any predecessor plan or other plan sponsored by the same employer) as of the Closing Date;

 

2)Qualified tuition programs established under Section 529 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, if the fund was offered as an investment option by such program on the Closing Date;

 

3)Accounts maintained by a financial intermediary on its books for which investment decisions are determined by the financial intermediary's home office discretionary model portfolios that are controlled by a centralized group responsible for creating such model portfolios and that included the fund as of the Closing Date (approved and recommended fund lists are not included within this exception); and

 

4)Investors approved by the fund, the fund's investment adviser, and the fund's distributor.

 

The fund reserves the right to modify or limit the above exceptions,or re-open the fund at any time without prior notice.

 

Financial intermediaries are responsible for enforcing these restrictionswith respect to their investors. MFS' ability to monitor financial intermediaries' enforcement of these restrictions is limited by operationalsystems and the cooperation of financial intermediaries. In addition, with respect to omnibus accounts, MFS' ability to monitor is alsolimited by a lack of information with respect to the underlying shareholder accounts.

 

Purchases of Class B shares are closed to new and existing investorsexcept through reinvestment of dividends and capital gain distributions. Existing investors may continue to exchange their Class Bshares for the same share class of another MFS fund.

 

Taxes

 

If your shares are held in a taxable account, the fund’s distributionswill be taxed to you as ordinary income and/or capital gains. If your shares are held in a tax-advantaged account, you will generallybe taxed only upon withdrawals from the account.

 

Paymentsto Broker/Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

 

If you purchase shares of the fund through a broker/dealer or otherfinancial intermediary (such as a bank), the fund, MFS, and/or MFS’ affiliates may pay the financial intermediary for the saleof shares of the fund and/or the servicing of shareholder accounts. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing yourbroker/dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your financialintermediary or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

 

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