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Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund (NCA) Competitors

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$8.48 -0.06 (-0.70%)
Closing price 05/2/2025 03:59 PM Eastern
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NCA vs. NMFC, BCSF, MUC, BBDC, AWF, PFLT, HQH, PHK, CGBD, and NXP

Should you be buying Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund include New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund (MUC), Barings BDC (BBDC), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), Abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD), and Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund vs.

Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund (NYSE:NCA) and New Mountain Finance (NASDAQ:NMFC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, earnings, risk, media sentiment, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations and valuation.

Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund received 117 more outperform votes than New Mountain Finance when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.74% of users gave Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund an outperform vote while only 23.08% of users gave New Mountain Finance an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Nuveen California Municipal Value FundOutperform Votes
123
64.74%
Underperform Votes
67
35.26%
New Mountain FinanceOutperform Votes
6
23.08%
Underperform Votes
20
76.92%

21.5% of Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.1% of New Mountain Finance shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of New Mountain Finance shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

New Mountain Finance has a net margin of 30.28% compared to Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund's net margin of 0.00%. New Mountain Finance's return on equity of 11.25% beat Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nuveen California Municipal Value FundN/A N/A N/A
New Mountain Finance 30.28%11.25%4.63%

New Mountain Finance has a consensus price target of $10.50, indicating a potential upside of 5.32%. Given New Mountain Finance's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe New Mountain Finance is more favorable than Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
New Mountain Finance
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund has a beta of 0.4, suggesting that its stock price is 60% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Mountain Finance has a beta of 0.84, suggesting that its stock price is 16% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.35 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. New Mountain Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.8%. New Mountain Finance pays out 123.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

In the previous week, New Mountain Finance had 7 more articles in the media than Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for New Mountain Finance and 1 mentions for Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund. Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat New Mountain Finance's score of 0.36 indicating that Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund Positive
New Mountain Finance Neutral

New Mountain Finance has higher revenue and earnings than Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund$17.68M15.88N/AN/AN/A
New Mountain Finance$123.78M8.69$135.34M$1.049.59

Summary

New Mountain Finance beats Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund on 11 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.

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NCA vs. The Competition

MetricNuveen California Municipal Value FundInvestment offices IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$280.76M$6.78B$11.27B$19.21B
Dividend Yield3.45%6.93%5.75%4.01%
P/E RatioN/A3.5322.2433.50
Price / Sales15.8821.6726.5329.19
Price / CashN/A7.5117.5917.52
Price / BookN/A0.872.714.55
Net IncomeN/A$66.51M$1.03B$1.02B
7 Day Performance1.19%1.42%1.96%2.27%
1 Month Performance-2.81%-0.33%3.55%2.92%
1 Year Performance-3.85%1.67%535.30%4.66%

Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NCA
Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund
N/A$8.48
-0.7%
N/A-2.6%$280.76M$17.68M0.00N/ADividend Announcement
Positive News
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
2.0403 of 5 stars
$10.23
+1.0%
$10.50
+2.6%
-21.1%$1.08B$123.78M9.74N/AUpcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
1.5468 of 5 stars
$15.52
-0.1%
$16.50
+6.3%
-8.0%$1.01B$138.19M7.801,000Upcoming Earnings
Short Interest ↑
MUC
BlackRock MuniHoldings California Quality Fund
N/A$10.40
-0.5%
N/A-1.6%$998.37M$6.39M0.00147,000News Coverage
Positive News
BBDC
Barings BDC
1.352 of 5 stars
$8.87
+0.1%
$9.25
+4.3%
-7.2%$912.84M$123.59M8.5326Upcoming Earnings
News Coverage
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$10.51
-0.2%
N/A+1.7%$906.28M$152.17M0.00N/A
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
2.6463 of 5 stars
$10.24
+0.8%
$11.38
+11.1%
-10.0%$900.23M$114.06M7.31658Positive News
HQH
Abrdn Healthcare Investors
N/A$16.06
+0.4%
N/A-1.5%$865.02M$186.46M0.00147,000Short Interest ↑
PHK
PIMCO High Income Fund
N/A$4.70
-0.2%
N/A-0.6%$803.84M$99.89M0.00147,000Short Interest ↓
News Coverage
Positive News
CGBD
Carlyle Secured Lending
1.473 of 5 stars
$15.05
+1.8%
$15.00
-0.3%
-14.0%$766.90M$99.28M8.41N/AUpcoming Earnings
NXP
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio
N/A$13.93
-0.1%
N/A-0.2%$652.13M$75.19M0.0040,400Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↓
Positive News

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