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Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI) Competitors

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$9.86 +0.04 (+0.36%)
Closing price 08/12/2025 03:58 PM Eastern
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$9.86 -0.01 (-0.10%)
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NMI vs. MVF, SAR, HQL, LEO, MYN, JOF, ZTR, MIN, TWN, and MHN

Should you be buying Nuveen Municipal Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Municipal Income Fund include BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), Saratoga Investment (SAR), abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL), BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals (LEO), BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund (MYN), Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund (JOF), Virtus Total Return Fund (ZTR), MFS Intermediate Income Trust (MIN), Taiwan Fund (TWN), and BlackRock MuniHoldings New York Quality Fund (MHN). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Nuveen Municipal Income Fund vs. Its Competitors

Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NMI) and BlackRock MuniVest Fund (NYSE:MVF) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership and risk.

Nuveen Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its stock price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, BlackRock MuniVest Fund has a beta of 0.53, indicating that its stock price is 47% less volatile than the S&P 500.

16.6% of Nuveen Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 48.2% of BlackRock MuniVest Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Nuveen Municipal Income Fund shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of BlackRock MuniVest Fund shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Nuveen Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. BlackRock MuniVest Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Nuveen Municipal Income FundN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A
BlackRock MuniVest FundN/AN/AN/AN/AN/A

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Nuveen Municipal Income FundN/A N/A N/A
BlackRock MuniVest Fund N/A N/A N/A

In the previous week, BlackRock MuniVest Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for BlackRock MuniVest Fund and 0 mentions for Nuveen Municipal Income Fund. Nuveen Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.83 beat BlackRock MuniVest Fund's score of 0.80 indicating that Nuveen Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Nuveen Municipal Income Fund Positive
BlackRock MuniVest Fund Positive

Summary

BlackRock MuniVest Fund beats Nuveen Municipal Income Fund on 4 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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NMI vs. The Competition

MetricNuveen Municipal Income FundFIN IndustryFinance SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$101.15M$3.84B$12.20B$20.65B
Dividend Yield2.69%6.60%5.63%3.66%
P/E RatioN/AN/A19.5428.37
Price / SalesN/A57.1027.2760.40
Price / CashN/A17.8821.3222.93
Price / BookN/A1.132.225.38
Net IncomeN/A$161.89M$1.00B$994.60M
7 Day Performance0.46%0.70%1.44%1.47%
1 Month Performance-7.24%1.00%1.31%0.48%
1 Year Performance-3.05%2.20%544.30%14.95%

Nuveen Municipal Income Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NMI
Nuveen Municipal Income Fund
N/A$9.87
+0.4%
N/A-2.8%$101.15MN/A0.00N/A
MVF
BlackRock MuniVest Fund
N/A$6.66
+0.3%
N/A-9.8%$401.67MN/A0.00147,000
SAR
Saratoga Investment
0.8738 of 5 stars
$24.73
+1.0%
$24.25
-1.9%
+14.2%$387.52M$148.85M10.013,211
HQL
abrdn Life Sciences Investors
N/A$13.27
-0.5%
N/A-11.8%$382.99MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Cut
LEO
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals
N/A$5.92
+0.8%
N/A-6.6%$368.51M$2.18M0.00147,000Positive News
MYN
BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund
N/A$9.34
+0.2%
N/A-10.7%$357.62MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
JOF
Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund
N/A$9.97
+1.1%
N/A+41.3%$350.97MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Positive News
Dividend Announcement
ZTR
Virtus Total Return Fund
N/A$6.23
-0.2%
N/A+10.4%$345.80MN/A0.00N/APositive News
MIN
MFS Intermediate Income Trust
N/A$2.70
-0.2%
N/A-1.3%$306.69MN/A0.00N/APositive News
TWN
Taiwan Fund
N/A$46.23
+0.1%
N/A+18.8%$295.41MN/A0.00N/APositive News
MHN
BlackRock MuniHoldings New York Quality Fund
N/A$9.66
+0.3%
N/A-10.3%$291.97MN/A0.00N/A

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