NMI vs. SSSS, BCV, NMT, SWZ, MGF, PCM, NXC, JEQ, KSM, and PFO
Should you be buying Nuveen Municipal Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Municipal Income Fund include SuRo Capital (SSSS), Bancroft Fund (BCV), Nuveen Massachusetts Quality Municipal Income Fund (NMT), The Swiss Helvetia Fund (SWZ), MFS Government Markets Income Trust (MGF), PCM Fund (PCM), Nuveen California Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXC), Abrdn Japan Equity Fund (JEQ), DWS Strategic Municipal Income Trust (KSM), and Flaherty & Crumrine Preferred Income Opportunity Fund (PFO). These companies are all part of the "investment offices, not elsewhere classified" industry.
Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NMI) and SuRo Capital (NASDAQ:SSSS) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations and dividends.
SuRo Capital received 27 more outperform votes than Nuveen Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.49% of users gave SuRo Capital an outperform vote while only 61.54% of users gave Nuveen Municipal Income Fund an outperform vote.
16.6% of Nuveen Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 13.0% of SuRo Capital shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Nuveen Municipal Income Fund shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 4.2% of SuRo Capital shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
SuRo Capital has a consensus target price of $6.00, suggesting a potential upside of 57.07%. Given SuRo Capital's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SuRo Capital is more favorable than Nuveen Municipal Income Fund.
SuRo Capital has a net margin of 76.81% compared to Nuveen Municipal Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Nuveen Municipal Income Fund's return on equity of 0.00% beat SuRo Capital's return on equity.
In the previous week, SuRo Capital had 2 more articles in the media than Nuveen Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for SuRo Capital and 1 mentions for Nuveen Municipal Income Fund. SuRo Capital's average media sentiment score of 0.20 beat Nuveen Municipal Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that SuRo Capital is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Nuveen Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.21, meaning that its share price is 79% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SuRo Capital has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
SuRo Capital has higher revenue and earnings than Nuveen Municipal Income Fund.
Summary
SuRo Capital beats Nuveen Municipal Income Fund on 10 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.
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