JPC CEF — Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund

Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund (JPC)

Updated October 16, 2026.

JPC is a CEF. its distribution rate is 11.15%, its trailing-12-month yield is 11.21%, its expense ratio is 1.7093%. Dividend Vision Distribution Safety Score™ is 71/100 (Generally safe). Total return is 262.7% over the past 23.6 years, 979.6 points behind SPY at 1242.3%.

JPC performance versus SPY

Price and return data through 2026-10-16.

Total return is 262.7% over the past 23.6 years, 979.6 points behind SPY at 1242.3%. Over the past year its total return — price change plus distributions reinvested — is -8.0%. Its deepest 1-year drawdown was 14.9%.

JPC key facts

Distribution Safety Score™

71 · Generally safe

Safety-Adjusted Yield

7.92%

Issuer

Nuveen

Asset type

CEF

Asset class

Fixed Income

Inception date

03/27/2003

Expense ratio

1.7093%

Distribution rate

11.15%

Distribution frequency

Monthly

Trailing yield

11.21%

5-year average yield

8.48

Last close

$6.78 (as of 2026-10-16)

NAV

$7.59 as of 2026-09-30; source eodhd (stale)

Premium / discount

N/A (price 2026-10-16, NAV 2026-09-30) (NAV stale)

Market cap

$2,555,987,456

Average volume

2671675.0

Dividend

$0.063

Ex-dividend date

10/15/2026

Payment date

11/02/2026

Beta

0.725

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How Dividend Vision calculates yield and returns

Distribution rate (11.15%) uses calculation basis unavailable. Issuer rates can use a different denominator and date, including ex-date NAV. Trailing-12-month yield (11.21%) is the sum of split-adjusted cash distributions with ex-dates in the last 12 months, divided by the published price. It lags a recent raise or cut. Total return uses split-adjusted close with distributions reinvested on the ex-dividend date (a modeling convention, not the cash-settlement date) from the first stored bar on or after inception through the latest bar, compared with the same window on the benchmark. That is the security's total return, not your personal gain/loss.

Yield and safety methodology · Distribution rate methodology · Distribution Safety Score methodology

Sources and review

Primary sources: Nuveen or company page; prices and distributions from Dividend Vision, derived from vendor EOD data.

Reviewed by Bert Sweet, CEO and Co-owner of Dividend Vision. Methodology: Distribution Safety Score.

JPC risks and drawbacks

Total return has trailed SPY over the available window. The deepest 1-year drawdown on record here is 14.9%.

Who may consider JPC — and who may not

It is a weaker fit for investors whose main goal is matching SPY total return. This is educational context, not a recommendation to buy or sell.

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