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MAIN vs NKX

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

Summary

  • Both MAIN and NKX operate in Finance/Investors Services (Finance), so they compete in similar markets.
  • MAIN is the larger of the two at $4.72B, about 6.8x NKX ($693.3M).
  • Over the past year, MAIN is down 10.5% and NKX is up 7.8% - NKX leads by 18.2 points.
  • MAIN has hit the wire 10 times in the past 4 weeks while NKX has been quiet.
  • MAIN has more recent analyst coverage (12 ratings vs 0 for NKX).
PerformanceMAIN-10.46%NKX+7.78%
2025-06-04+0.00%2026-06-03
MetricMAINNKX
Company
Main Street Capital Corporation
Nuveen California AMT-Free Quality Municipal Income Fund
Price
$50.70-1.70%
$12.60-0.16%
Market cap
$4.72B
$693.3M
1M return
-9.11%
+2.02%
1Y return
-10.46%
+7.78%
Industry
Finance/Investors Services
Finance/Investors Services
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
2007
2002
News (4w)
10
0
Recent ratings
12
0
MAIN

Main Street Capital Corporation

Main Street Capital Corporation is a private equity firm specializes in equity capital to lower middle market companies. The firm also provides debt capital to middle market companies for acquisitions, management buyouts, growth financings, recapitalizations and refinancing. The firm seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams and generally provides "one stop" financing alternatives within its lower middle market portfolio. The firm typically invests in lower middle market companies generally with annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million. The firm's middle market debt investments are made in businesses that are generally larger in size than its lower middle market portfolio companies. It makes majority and minority equity investments. Main Street Capital Corporation was founded in 2007 and is based in Houston, Texas.

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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