Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NIM) Competitors

Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund (NYSE:NIM) and Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (NYSE:TYG) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, community ranking, profitability, media sentiment, earnings, risk and valuation.

Is NIM or TYG a better dividend stock?

Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.36 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Tortoise Energy Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of $3.75 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.3%.

Is NIM or TYG more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure	N/A	N/A	N/A

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer NIM or TYG?

Tortoise Energy Infrastructure received 243 more outperform votes than Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund	N/A	N/A
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 243 69.43%	Underperform Votes 107 30.57%

Which has more risk and volatility, NIM or TYG?

Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund has a beta of 0.22, suggesting that its share price is 78% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tortoise Energy Infrastructure has a beta of 1.03, suggesting that its share price is 3% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer NIM or TYG?

In the previous week, Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Tortoise Energy Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund and 1 mentions for Tortoise Energy Infrastructure. Tortoise Energy Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 1.18 beat Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund's score of 1.00 indicating that Tortoise Energy Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund	Positive
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure	Positive

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, NIM or TYG?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund	$10.65M	10.76	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tortoise Energy Infrastructure	$214.33M	2.02	N/A	N/A	N/A

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of NIM or TYG?

32.2% of Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 32.5% of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Tortoise Energy Infrastructure shares are held by company 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.

Summary

Tortoise Energy Infrastructure beats Nuveen Select Maturities Municipal Fund on 7 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.