NAZ vs. CION, ECC, RMT, IFN, TYG, EVN, MCI, SAR, MVF, and HQL
Should you be buying Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund include CION Investment (CION), Eagle Point Credit (ECC), ROYCE OTC MICRO (RMT), India Fund (IFN), Tortoise Energy Infrastructure (TYG), Eaton Vance Municipal Income Trust (EVN), Barings Corporate Investors (MCI), Saratoga Investment (SAR), BlackRock MuniVest Fund (MVF), and abrdn Life Sciences Investors (HQL). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.
Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund vs. Its Competitors
CION Investment (NYSE:CION) and Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NAZ) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and dividends.
CION Investment presently has a consensus price target of $10.75, suggesting a potential downside of 0.74%. Given CION Investment's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, research analysts clearly believe CION Investment is more favorable than Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund.
CION Investment has higher revenue and earnings than Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund.
CION Investment pays an annual dividend of $1.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.3%. Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.7%. CION Investment pays out -757.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. CION Investment has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years. CION Investment is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
32.0% of CION Investment shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 15.3% of Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of CION Investment shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
CION Investment has a beta of 1.11, suggesting that its share price is 11% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.57, suggesting that its share price is 43% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund has a net margin of 0.00% compared to CION Investment's net margin of -4.57%. CION Investment's return on equity of 9.63% beat Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund's return on equity.
In the previous week, CION Investment had 6 more articles in the media than Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for CION Investment and 0 mentions for Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund. CION Investment's average media sentiment score of 1.21 beat Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that CION Investment is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
CION Investment beats Nuveen Arizona Quality Municipal Income Fund on 13 of the 15 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:NAZ) was last updated on 8/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
