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Nuveen Municipal Income Fund (NMI) Competitors

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$9.83 0.00 (0.00%)
Closing price 08/5/2025 03:58 PM Eastern
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NMI vs. MVF, SAR, HQL, LEO, MYN, ZTR, JOF, KTF, MIN, and TWN

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), Virtus Total Return Fund (ZTR), Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund (JOF), DWS Municipal Income Trust (KTF), MFS Intermediate Income Trust (MIN), and Taiwan Fund (TWN). These companies are all part of the "financial services" industry.

Nuveen Municipal Income Fund vs. Its Competitors

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

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

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

In the previous week, Nuveen Municipal Income Fund had 4 more articles in the media than BlackRock MuniVest Fund. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Nuveen Municipal Income Fund and 1 mentions for BlackRock MuniVest Fund. Nuveen Municipal Income Fund's average media sentiment score of 0.50 beat BlackRock MuniVest Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Nuveen Municipal Income Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

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

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

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

Summary

BlackRock MuniVest Fund beats Nuveen Municipal Income Fund on 3 of the 5 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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$3.82B$12.10B$20.68B
Dividend Yield2.69%6.64%5.65%3.68%
P/E RatioN/AN/A19.8929.31
Price / SalesN/A18.5526.1464.11
Price / CashN/A17.6721.3123.31
Price / BookN/A1.112.124.40
Net IncomeN/A$161.89M$1.00B$995.90M
7 Day Performance-0.10%0.74%0.36%0.27%
1 Month Performance-1.50%-0.49%0.13%0.39%
1 Year Performance-2.09%2.58%544.27%15.57%

Nuveen Municipal Income Fund Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
NMI
Nuveen Municipal Income Fund
N/A$9.83
flat
N/A-1.7%$101.15MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Short Interest ↑
MVF
BlackRock MuniVest Fund
N/A$6.53
+0.5%
N/A-9.4%$393.85M$11.04M0.00147,000News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
SAR
Saratoga Investment
1.4477 of 5 stars
$24.78
-0.9%
$24.25
-2.1%
+13.8%$388.21M$148.85M10.033,211Dividend Announcement
HQL
abrdn Life Sciences Investors
N/A$13.23
-0.5%
N/A-10.0%$382.07MN/A0.00N/A
LEO
BNY Mellon Strategic Municipals
N/A$5.80
+0.1%
N/A-5.5%$360.97MN/A0.00147,000Dividend Announcement
MYN
BlackRock MuniYield New York Quality Fund
N/A$9.19
-0.1%
N/A-11.3%$352.03MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Announcement
ZTR
Virtus Total Return Fund
N/A$6.18
-0.1%
N/A+9.7%$343.02MN/A0.00N/A
JOF
Japan Smaller Capitalization Fund
N/A$9.73
+0.4%
N/A+37.1%$342.73M$8.75M0.00N/A
KTF
DWS Municipal Income Trust
N/A$8.53
+0.2%
N/A-11.0%$333.92MN/A0.00N/A
MIN
MFS Intermediate Income Trust
N/A$2.66
+0.2%
N/A-0.7%$302.14MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
Dividend Cut
TWN
Taiwan Fund
N/A$45.56
+0.6%
N/A+21.4%$291.19MN/A0.00N/ANews Coverage
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