profit from every $100 of sales.
$0$100
Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund
$8.92+0.11% today
-16.8% in 1 year
1-year low $8.631-year high $10.74
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, 2023 to 2025.
0%20% a year
You pay $73.23 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 Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund sold, what it kept, and what it did with the cash.
Sales went from -$398 million in 2022 to $27.1 million in 2025, with $26.2 million of profit last year.
SalesProfit
Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund handed back more cash to shareholders than it generated last year.
$88M
Free cash flow 2025$24M
Bought back its own shares$0
Paid as dividends$88M
Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund vs. similar companies
Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund grows in the middle of these 5 and is the most expensive for its profits.
| Company | Profit from $100 of sales | Sales growth a year | Price per $1 of profit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund | 73.2× · Very expensive | ||
 PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund | 8.7× · Cheap | ||
 Reaves Utility Income Fund | 4.1× · Cheap | ||
 Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund | 38.0× · Expensive | ||
 Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income Fund | 7.0× · Cheap |
AI analysis
An AI analyst reads Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity 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 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -398 | 9 | 260 | 27 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| -399 | 7 | 259 | 26 | |
| -3.83 | 0.07 | 2.35 | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| 100.2% | 84.8% | 99.5% | 96.7% |
Balance sheet
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total assets | 1,931 | 1,834 | 2,079 | 2,077 |
| Cash | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| Total debt | – | 6 | – | – |
| Total liabilities | 838 | 786 | 831 | 830 |
| 1,093 | 1,048 | 1,249 | 1,247 | |
| 104 | 104 | 110 | – | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| -36.5% | 0.7% | 20.7% | 2.1% |
Cash flow
| In millions of USD | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -161 | 78 | 18 | 24 | |
| – | – | – | – | |
| -161 | 78 | 18 | 24 | |
| Dividends paid | 76 | 63 | 68 | 88 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| – | – | – | – |
Valuation
- 73.2×
- –
- –
- 0.9×
- 70.8×
- 81.5×
- –
- 1.2%
- 1.4%
- 7.8%
Profitability
- 45.2%
- 57.4%
- 96.7%
- 57.4%
- -303.4%
- 0.8%
- 2.1%
- 1.3%
- 2.7%
- –
Growth
- +78.1%
- –
- +283.6%
- +1.4%
- +8.4%
Financial health
- 14.7×
- 0.65
- 39.1%
- 4.1×
- –
- –
- 0.05
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 13%of 604
Bottom 5%of 872
Top 5%of 883
Bottom 34%of 931
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 5, 2026 | 0.55 | – | – |
| Jun 30, 2025 | -0.33 | – | – |
| Jan 6, 2025 | 0.55 | – | – |
| Jul 2, 2024 | 1.78 | – | – |
| Oct 31, 2023 | -0.71 | – | – |
| Apr 30, 2023 | 0.74 | – | – |
| Oct 31, 2022 | -1.79 | – | – |
| Apr 30, 2022 | -2.04 | – | – |
7.8%of the share price, paid each year
On $1,000 invested$78a year at today's yield, before tax
+1.4%2020 to 2025
Raised2 yearsin a row, in our data
Paid per share, each year
$0.92 in 2015 → $0.79 in 2025
How safe it looks
334.9% of its profit
Room to growStretchedMore than it earns: 372.8%
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
1/7Passes 1 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
31No pass
Benjamin Graham
37No pass
Philip Fisher
51No pass
Peter Lynch
98Pass
Joel Greenblatt
13No pass
Charlie Munger
36No pass
Terry Smith
46No pass
Questions about Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund
Is Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund a good stock to buy?
A business with weak numbers, priced as if everything goes right. 1 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 Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund AI analysis
What does Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund do?
Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund is a closed-end fixed income mutual fund launched by Nuveen Investments Inc. The fund is co-managed by Nuveen Fund Advisors LLC and Nuveen Asset Management, LLC. It invests in the fixed income markets of the United States. It is in Asset Management - Income.
Does Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund pay a dividend?
Yes. At today's price the dividend is 7.8% a year. In 2025 it paid out $87.8 million in dividends.
Is Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund stock halal?
No. Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund does not pass our halal screen: its main business, interest-based asset management, is not permitted. How we check
How has Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund stock done over the past year?
Down 16.8% over the past twelve months, to $8.92. It traded between $8.63 and $10.74 and is 16.9% below its high.
Who are Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund's competitors?
The largest listed companies in the same industry are PIMCO Dynamic Income Fund, Reaves Utility Income Fund, Nuveen AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund and Eaton Vance Tax-Managed Global Diversified Equity Income Fund. The peers table on this page compares their profit, growth and price with Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund's.
Prices: daily closes to Nov 11, 2026. Fundamentals: company reports via invest-like data.