# Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund (JPC) fundamentals

Data as of 2026-09-08. NYSE, United States. Sector: Financial Services / Capital Markets. Price $7.33, market value $2.8 billion.

## Valuation
- **P/E (trailing): 8.1×** (5-yr avg 5.4×, 3-yr avg 5.4×). Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund trades at 8.1× trailing earnings, well above its own five-year average of 5.4×: investors are paying up relative to the company's past. The Financial Services median in the September 2026 study was 13.1×.
- **Price / sales: 7.1×**. Each dollar of revenue is priced at 7.1×.
- **Price / book: 0.9×**. The shares trade below book value, which can signal a bargain or a balance sheet the market doubts.
- **Free-cash-flow yield: -2.9%** (5-yr avg 11.4%). Free cash flow is negative: the business is consuming cash, which is normal for heavy investment phases but a warning otherwise.
- **Earnings yield: 12.3%**. The inverse of the P/E: 12.3% of the price is earned each year.

## Profitability
- **Net margin: 98.6%**. 98.6% of each dollar of sales reaches the bottom line.
- **Return on equity: 14.9%**. 14.9% on shareholders' equity is solid.
- **Return on assets: 9.1%**. Each dollar of assets produces 9.1% of profit; low single digits are normal for banks and insurers.

## Growth
- **Revenue growth (1 yr): 1125.6%**. Revenue grew 1125.6% over the last year.
- **EPS growth (1 yr): 407.9%**. Earnings per share rose 407.9%, slower than revenue, so margins compressed.

## Financial health
- **Piotroski F-score: 3/9**. 3 of 9 checks pass: weak or deteriorating financials.
- **Cash and short-term investments: $48,947**. Leverage ratios are shown differently for banks and insurers, whose balance sheets are built on deposits and reserves; use return on equity and the regulatory capital in the filings instead.

## Dividends
- **Dividend yield: 10.23%** ($0.80 per share, trailing). Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund yields 10.23%, high enough to check carefully: yields this high often precede a cut.
- **Payout ratio: 36%**. 36% of earnings goes out as dividends, leaving room to keep raising it.
- **Consecutive years of increases: 2**. 2 straight years of increases.
- **Dividend growth (5 yr): 3.9%/yr** (1-yr 12.8%). The dividend has grown 3.9% a year over five years.

## Price and momentum
- **Total return (1 yr): -1.6%** (YTD -4.5%, 3-mo -4.6%). The shares are down 1.6% over twelve months including dividends.
- **From 52-week high: -11.7%** (1.5% above the low). Trading 12% below its 52-week high.
- **200-day average: below**. The price sits below its 200-day moving average, the usual definition of a downtrend.
- **RSI (14-day): 28**. An RSI of 28 is oversold; bounces are common, but oversold can stay oversold in a real decline.
- **Beta (1 yr): 0.47** (volatility 12%). Beta of 0.47 against the S&P 500: the shares move much less than the market.

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