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CET vs NKX

Side-by-side comparison of Central Securities Corporation (CET) and Nuveen California AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund (NKX): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both CET and NKX operate in Finance/Investors Services (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
  • CET is the larger of the two at $12.75B, about 18.4x NKX ($693.3M).
  • Over the past year, CET is up 13.7% and NKX is up 7.8% - CET leads by 5.9 points.
  • CET has hit the wire 2 times in the past 4 weeks while NKX has been quiet.
PerformanceCET+13.66%NKX+7.78%
2025-06-04+0.00%2026-06-03
MetricCETNKX
Company
Central Securities Corporation
Nuveen California AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund
Price
$52.60-0.83%
$12.60-0.16%
Market cap
$12.75B
$693.3M
1M return
-1.06%
+2.02%
1Y return
+13.66%
+7.78%
Industry
Finance/Investors Services
Finance/Investors Services
Exchange
AMEX
NYSE
IPO
1951
2002
News (4w)
2
0
Recent ratings
0
0
CET

Central Securities Corporation

Central Securities Corp. is a publicly owned investment manager. The firm invests in the public equity markets of the United States. It also invests on bonds, convertible bonds, preferred stocks, convertible preferred stocks, warrants, options real estate, or short-term obligations of governments, banks and corporations. Central Securities Corp. was founded on October 1, 1929 and is based in New York, New York.

NKX

Nuveen California AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund

Nuveen California AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund is a closed ended fixed income mutual fund launched by Nuveen Investments, Inc. The fund is co-managed by Nuveen Asset Management, LLC and Nuveen Fund Advisors LLC. It invests in the fixed income markets of California, United States. The fund primarily invests in undervalued municipal securities and other related investments the income which are exempt from regular federal and California income taxes and are rated Baa, BBB or higher with an average maturity of 20.17 years. It employs fundamental analysis with a bottom-up approach to create its portfolio. The fund benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the Standard & Poor's (S&P) California Municipal Bond Index and the S&P National Municipal Bond Index. It was formerly known as Nuveen California AMT-Free Municipal Income Fund. Nuveen California AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund was formed on November 21, 2002 and is domiciled in the United States.

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