Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NXP) Competitors

Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio (NYSE:NXP) and PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:PTY) are both finance companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, risk, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Which has stronger valuation & earnings, NXP or PTY?

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Is NXP or PTY more profitable?

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	N/A	N/A	N/A
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	N/A	N/A	N/A

Which has more volatility and risk, NXP or PTY?

Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio has a beta of 0.34, suggesting that its share price is 66% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund has a beta of 1.01, suggesting that its share price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community prefer NXP or PTY?

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund received 53 more outperform votes than Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.92% of users gave PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund an outperform vote while only 63.96% of users gave Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	Outperform Votes 71 63.96%	Underperform Votes 40 36.04%
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	Outperform Votes 124 64.92%	Underperform Votes 67 35.08%

Is NXP or PTY a better dividend stock?

Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio pays an annual dividend of $0.55 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund pays an annual dividend of $1.43 per share and has a dividend yield of 9.9%.

Do institutionals & insiders believe in NXP or PTY?

16.2% of Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.3% of PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund shares are held by institutional investors. 1.0% of Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media favor NXP or PTY?

In the previous week, PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund had 1 more articles in the media than Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund and 1 mentions for Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio. PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund's average media sentiment score of 1.49 beat Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio's score of 0.59 indicating that PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

PIMCO Corporate & Income Opportunity Fund beats Nuveen Select Tax-Free Income Portfolio on 6 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.