reports hero background
Updated: Sep 27, 2026
NKX Logo

Nuveen California

NYSE:NKX·Stock Analysis Report
Day Range
$11.17 - $11.27
Market Cap
611.77M
P/E Ratio
25.2558
Avg Value
$11.77
Year Range
$10.33 - $13.20
$11.20$0.05 (0.45%)
1
General Information
Nuveen California AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund is a closed-end fixed income mutual fund. The Fund's primary investment objective is current income exempt from both regular federal income taxes and Arizona individual income taxes and to enhance portfolio value relative to the municipal bond market by investing in tax-exempt municipal bonds that the Fund's investment adviser believes are underrated or undervalued or that represent municipal market sectors that are undervalued.

It invests across sectors such as healthcare, utilities, transportation, and housing.

2
Nuveen California (NKX) Stock Graph
3
How We Grade Nuveen California (NKX)

We grade stocks based on past performance, their future growth potential, intrinsic value, dividend history, and overall financial health.

The chart below shows how we grade Nuveen California (NKX) across the board compared to its closest peers.

4
Benzinga Edge Rankings

Benzinga Edge stock rankings give you four critical scores to help you identify the strongest and weakest stocks to buy and sell.

Momentum measures a stock's relative strength based on its price movement patterns and volatility over multiple timeframes, ranked as a percentile against other stocks.

Stock Score Locked: Want to See it?
Benzinga Edge Rankings give you vital metrics on any stock – anytime.
5
Past Performance
How has Nuveen California (NKX) performed over the past 5 years?

The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility

Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.

This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.

Nuveen California (NKX) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -1.3822 which is considered to be below average compared to the peer average of 0.0000