profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund
$4.53-0.44% today
-11.2% in 1 year
1-year low $4.471-year high $5.18
Trading close to its lowest price of the past year.
The essentials
Four questions every investor asks, answered in one line each.
more sales each year, on average, 2021 to 2024.
0%20% a year
You pay $6.83 for every $1 of profit it makes in a year.
CheapExpensive
of earnings would pay off all its debt.
No debt5 years
Money in, money out
What Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from $122 million in 2021 to $100 million in 2024, with $98.1 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
$86M
Free cash flow 2024$83M
Bought back its own shares$0
Paid as dividends$86M
Cash vs. debt$277,536 vs. $355M
Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund vs. similar companies
Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund grows the slowest of these 5 and is priced in the middle for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund | 6.8× · Cheap | ||
 PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund | 8.4× · Cheap | ||
 Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund | 36.9× · Expensive | ||
 Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income Fund | 6.9× · Cheap | ||
 Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund | 6.7× · Cheap |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund's last five years, its segments, earnings, insiders and peers, and writes the bull case, the bear case and what the price expects.
Run the AI analysisFull statementsIncome, balance sheet and cash flow, year by year
Income statement
| In millions of USD | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 122 | -44 | 40 | 100 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 120 | -46 | 38 | 98 | |
| – | -0.33 | 0.28 | 0.71 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 98.9% | 103.2% | 94.1% | 97.6% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 1,582 | 1,410 | 1,320 | 1,333 |
| Cash | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| Total debt | 546 | 389 | 355 | 355 |
| Total liabilities | 644 | 583 | 530 | 532 |
| 938 | 827 | 790 | 801 | |
| – | 140 | 137 | 137 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 12.8% | -5.6% | 4.8% | 12.2% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 92 | 81 | 110 | 83 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 92 | 81 | 110 | 83 | |
| Dividends paid | 119 | 66 | 74 | 86 |
| 0 | – | – | 0 | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 6.8×
- –
- –
- 0.9×
- 6.7×
- 8.0×
- –
- 12.4%
- 14.6%
- 13.2%
Profitability
- –
- 78.8%
- 97.6%
- 78.8%
- 5.3%
- 3.9%
- 5.8%
- 3.4%
- 5.3%
- –
Growth
- −6.2%
- –
- +12.0%
- −8.7%
- +2.2%
Financial health
- 6.6×
- 0.61
- 35.1%
- 5.8×
- –
- –
- 0.07
How it ranks in Financial Services
Each dot is where the company stands among every company over $300M in the sector. Further right is better.
Top 47%of 758
Top 7%of 605
Top 15%of 883
Bottom 14%of 880
Top 17%of 927
Recent earnings
Our results feed has not updated since May 21, 2026. Results reported after that are not in this table yet.
| Date | EPS | Expected | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2026 | 0.16 | – | – |
| Oct 2, 2025 | 0.17 | – | – |
| Apr 4, 2025 | 0.29 | – | – |
| Oct 4, 2024 | 0.32 | – | – |
| Apr 3, 2024 | 0.41 | – | – |
| Jul 31, 2023 | 0.17 | – | – |
| Apr 6, 2023 | 0.11 | – | – |
| Oct 7, 2022 | -0.50 | – | – |
13.2%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$132a year at today's yield, before tax
−8.7%2020 to 2025
Raised3 yearsin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$0.59 in 2015 → $0.65 in 2025
How safe it looks
87.9% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 103.6%
News
SPDR Nuveen Barclays Short Term Municipal Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.1082Seeking Alpha · Nov 2, 2026Nuveen Core Plus Impact Fund declares $0.0895 dividendSeeking Alpha · Oct 6, 2026Nuveen Real Asset Income and Growth Fund declares $0.1335 dividendSeeking Alpha · Oct 6, 2026Nuveen New York AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund declares $0.0655 dividendSeeking Alpha · Oct 6, 2026Insider trades
Our insider feed has not updated since May 26, 2026. Trades filed after that are not listed yet.
No insider trades on file.
The seven classic investing rulebooks
2/7Passes 2 of 7. Each bar is how well the company fits that investor's published rules, from 0 to 100; 60 or more counts as a pass.
Warren Buffett
50No pass
Benjamin Graham
67Pass
Philip Fisher
62Pass
Peter Lynch
55No pass
Joel Greenblatt
37No pass
Charlie Munger
52No pass
Terry Smith
53No pass
Questions about Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund
Is Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, and the price looks low. 2 of the 7 famous investors' published rulebooks we apply pass it. Whether it suits you depends on your goals and the price you pay; invest-like never tells anyone to buy or sell. The AI analysis lays out the case for and against. Read the Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund AI analysis
What does Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund do?
Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund is a closed-ended balanced mutual fund launched by Nuveen Investments, Inc. The fund is managed by Symphony Asset Management, LLC. It invests in the fixed income and public equity markets of the United States. It is in Asset Management - Income.
Does Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 13.2% a year, about 88% of its yearly profit. In 2024 it paid out $86.2 million in dividends.
Is Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund stock halal?
No. Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund does not pass our halal screen: its main business, interest-based asset management, is not permitted. How we check
How has Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund stock done over the past year?
Down 11.2% over the past twelve months, to $4.53. It traded between $4.47 and $5.18 and is 12.5% below its high.
Who are Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund, Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund, Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income Fund and Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 13, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.