Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NPV) Competitors

Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund (NYSE:NPV) and Carlyle Secured Lending (NASDAQ:CGBD) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, earnings, profitability, analyst recommendations, dividends, valuation, risk and community ranking.

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, NPV or CGBD?

Carlyle Secured Lending has higher revenue and earnings than Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund	$7.23M	32.01	N/A	N/A	N/A
Carlyle Secured Lending	$107.43M	8.56	$92.28M	$1.79	10.09

Is NPV or CGBD a better dividend stock?

Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund pays an annual dividend of $0.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.3%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays an annual dividend of $1.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Carlyle Secured Lending pays out 89.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Is NPV or CGBD more profitable?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a net margin of 40.69% compared to Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund's net margin of 0.00%. Carlyle Secured Lending's return on equity of 12.60% beat Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A
Carlyle Secured Lending	40.69%	12.60%	5.77%

Do insiders and institutionals hold more shares of NPV or CGBD?

11.7% of Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 24.5% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Carlyle Secured Lending shares are owned 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.

Do analysts prefer NPV or CGBD?

Carlyle Secured Lending has a consensus price target of $16.67, suggesting a potential downside of 7.72%. Given Carlyle Secured Lending's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Carlyle Secured Lending is more favorable than Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Carlyle Secured Lending	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	1 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Which has more volatility and risk, NPV or CGBD?

Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Carlyle Secured Lending has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its stock price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media refer more to NPV or CGBD?

In the previous week, Carlyle Secured Lending had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Carlyle Secured Lending and 0 mentions for Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund. Carlyle Secured Lending's average media sentiment score of 0.95 beat Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Carlyle Secured Lending is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund	Neutral
Carlyle Secured Lending	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in NPV or CGBD?

Carlyle Secured Lending received 71 more outperform votes than Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 63.04% of users gave Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund an outperform vote while only 56.84% of users gave Carlyle Secured Lending an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund	Outperform Votes 116 63.04%	Underperform Votes 68 36.96%
Carlyle Secured Lending	Outperform Votes 187 56.84%	Underperform Votes 142 43.16%

Summary

Carlyle Secured Lending beats Nuveen Virginia Quality Municipal Income Fund on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.