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JPC: Preferred Income, Hold Until Conditions Improve
Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund analysis: 11% yield vs weak earnings coverage, leverage risks, and cut odds amid higher yields. Click for more on JPC.
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NYSE · NPFD
Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred & Income Fund
Financial Services · Asset Management - Income
$16.85
Up+$0.20 (+1.20%)
Updated Oct 28, 2026, 1:10 PM
SID Score
4.2/10
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- Market cap
- 471.44M
- P/E ratio
- 9.2
- Dividend yield
- 12.89%
- 52-week range
- $16.55 – $19.47
- Volume
- 64.45K
- Avg. volume
- 78.63K
Price performance · NPFD
NPFD price history
1M range · 21 trading sessions · Daily adjusted prices
Prices through Oct 27, 2026
NPFD closed at $16.85 after 21 trading sessions, down 2.38% for the selected period.
- Last close
- $16.85
- Period change
- -2.38%
- Period low
- $16.58
- Period high
- $17.80
Daily close
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| Date | Open | High | Low | Close | Volume |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 27, 2026 | $16.70 | $16.88 | $16.6301 | $16.85 | 64.45K |
| Oct 26, 2026 | $16.65 | $16.68 | $16.56 | $16.65 | 40.13K |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $16.62 | $16.69 | $16.55 | $16.58 | 98.29K |
| Oct 22, 2026 | $16.90 | $16.90 | $16.58 | $16.62 | 156.31K |
| Oct 21, 2026 | $17.00 | $17.015 | $16.86 | $16.89 | 96.92K |
| Oct 20, 2026 | $17.17 | $17.17 | $16.88 | $16.94 | 116.37K |
| Oct 19, 2026 | $17.21 | $17.39 | $17.02 | $17.13 | 54.74K |
| Oct 16, 2026 | $17.21 | $17.6218 | $17.1663 | $17.29 | 86.16K |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $17.26 | $17.34 | $17.1301 | $17.23 | 66.08K |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $17.80 | $17.84 | $16.99 | $17.39 | 270.37K |
| Oct 13, 2026 | $17.86 | $17.90 | $17.7241 | $17.80 | 83.42K |
| Oct 12, 2026 | $17.70 | $17.86 | $17.6901 | $17.79 | 40.66K |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $17.58 | $17.90 | $17.57 | $17.76 | 69.32K |
| Oct 8, 2026 | $17.54 | $17.71 | $17.37 | $17.56 | 69.6K |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $17.48 | $17.505 | $17.37 | $17.46 | 32.64K |
| Oct 6, 2026 | $17.43 | $17.58 | $17.37 | $17.55 | 66.98K |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $17.52 | $17.5679 | $17.37 | $17.41 | 79.2K |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $17.70 | $17.70 | $17.55 | $17.57 | 64.99K |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $17.41 | $17.68 | $17.2101 | $17.63 | 104.16K |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $17.34 | $17.4078 | $17.20 | $17.31 | 49.88K |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $17.24 | $17.35 | $17.00 | $17.26 | 50.67K |
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Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide a high level of current income and total return. The fund invests a majority of its assets in variable-rate preferred securities and other variable-rate income-producing securities. The rest of its investments can be made in contingent capital securities or contingent convertible securities, convertible securities, corporate debt securities, U.S. government securities, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, fixed-rate preferred securities, senior loans and loan participations and assignments, sovereign debt instruments, debt securities issued by supranational agencies, and/or taxable and tax-exempt municipal bonds.
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