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Nuveen California Municipal Va (NCA) Competitors

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NCA vs. NMFC, BBDC, BCSF, PFLT, AWF, HQH, PHK, ASA, BTO, and CGBD

Should you be buying Nuveen California Municipal Va stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen California Municipal Va include New Mountain Finance (NMFC), Barings Bdc (BBDC), Bain Capital Specialty Finance (BCSF), PennantPark Floating Rate Capital (PFLT), AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (AWF), abrdn Healthcare Investors (HQH), PIMCO High Income Fund (PHK), ASA Gold and Precious Metals (ASA), John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (BTO), and Carlyle Secured Lending (CGBD). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Nuveen California Municipal Va vs. Its Competitors

Nuveen California Municipal Va (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 risk, earnings, valuation, profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

In the previous week, New Mountain Finance had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen California Municipal Va. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for New Mountain Finance and 0 mentions for Nuveen California Municipal Va. New Mountain Finance's average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Nuveen California Municipal Va's score of 0.00 indicating that New Mountain Finance is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Nuveen California Municipal Va Neutral
New Mountain Finance Positive

New Mountain Finance has a consensus target price of $10.75, suggesting a potential upside of 1.99%. 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 Va.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Nuveen California Municipal Va
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)
4 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00

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

Nuveen California Municipal Va pays an annual dividend of $0.17 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. New Mountain Finance pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 12.1%. New Mountain Finance pays out 168.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

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

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nuveen California Municipal VaN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
New Mountain Finance$371.67M3.02$113.44M$0.7613.87

New Mountain Finance has a net margin of 23.27% compared to Nuveen California Municipal Va's net margin of 0.00%. New Mountain Finance's return on equity of 10.43% beat Nuveen California Municipal Va's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nuveen California Municipal VaN/A N/A N/A
New Mountain Finance 23.27%10.43%4.32%

Nuveen California Municipal Va has a beta of 0.38, suggesting that its share price is 62% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New Mountain Finance has a beta of 0.8, suggesting that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Summary

New Mountain Finance beats Nuveen California Municipal Va on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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NCA vs. The Competition

MetricNuveen California Municipal VaFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$282.76M$3.87B$12.42B$21.20B
Dividend Yield2.04%6.19%5.42%3.48%
P/E RatioN/AN/A228.8029.02
Price / SalesN/A25.2731.5050.23
Price / CashN/A18.0019.0618.29
Price / BookN/A1.152.294.57
Net IncomeN/A$161.89M$1.00B$999.06M
7 Day Performance0.41%0.20%-0.16%-0.01%
1 Month Performance0.41%2.30%4.09%6.50%
1 Year Performance-4.79%1.02%540.35%11.34%

Nuveen California Municipal Va Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NCA
Nuveen California Municipal Va
N/A$8.54
+0.2%
N/A-5.0%$282.76MN/A0.00N/A
NMFC
New Mountain Finance
2.6754 of 5 stars
$10.54
-1.1%
$10.75
+2.0%
-13.4%$1.12B$371.67M13.87N/APositive News
BBDC
Barings Bdc
2.5004 of 5 stars
$9.85
-0.5%
$9.67
-1.9%
-1.4%$1.04B$286.17M10.2626News Coverage
Positive News
High Trading Volume
BCSF
Bain Capital Specialty Finance
1.9804 of 5 stars
$15.60
-1.4%
$16.50
+5.8%
-7.6%$1.01B$292.65M9.401,000Positive News
PFLT
PennantPark Floating Rate Capital
3.269 of 5 stars
$10.19
-0.8%
$10.88
+6.7%
-9.3%$1.01B$89.89M7.28658News Coverage
Positive News
Short Interest ↑
AWF
AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund
N/A$11.27
-0.1%
N/A+0.9%$971.38MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Short Interest ↑
HQH
abrdn Healthcare Investors
N/A$16.62
+0.5%
N/A-12.8%$894.88MN/A0.00147,000Positive News
Short Interest ↓
PHK
PIMCO High Income Fund
N/A$4.96
-0.1%
N/A+2.2%$849.73MN/A0.00147,000News Coverage
ASA
ASA Gold and Precious Metals
N/A$38.55
+2.4%
N/A+93.0%$829.49MN/A0.001,100Positive News
Short Interest ↑
Gap Up
High Trading Volume
BTO
John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund
N/A$37.11
-1.5%
N/A+12.7%$732.55MN/A0.002,719Positive News
Short Interest ↓
CGBD
Carlyle Secured Lending
2.6054 of 5 stars
$13.84
-1.1%
$15.10
+9.1%
-17.6%$705.29M$232.59M11.53N/APositive News
Short Interest ↓

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