This is therefore a comparing of the risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, earnings and valuation, institutional ownership in CM Finance Inc. (NASDAQ:CMFN) and Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund (NYSE:NMZ). The two are both Asset Management companies that compete with one another.

Earnings and Valuation

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
CM Finance Inc.	43.17M	2.44	N/A	-0.02	0.00
Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund	68.97M	12.19	2.81M	0.04	295.91

Table 1 shows top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation of the two companies.

Profitability

Table 2 has CM Finance Inc. and Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund’s net margins, return on assets and return on equity.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
CM Finance Inc.	0.00%	0%	0%
Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund	4.07%	0%	0%

Dividends

CM Finance Inc. pays out a $1 per share dividend on a yearly basis and it also offers 12.86% dividend yield. Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund also pays out annual dividends at $0.74 per share and at a 5.69% dividend yield.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

CM Finance Inc. and Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund has shares held by institutional investors as follows: 50.31% and 10.2%. Insiders held 1.88% of CM Finance Inc. shares.

Performance

In this table we provide the Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Half Yearly, Yearly and YTD Performance of both pretenders.

	Performance (W)	Performance (M)	Performance (Q)	Performance (HY)	Performance (Y)	Performance (YTD)
CM Finance Inc.	-2.13%	1.83%	0.65%	-14.62%	-6.02%	24.8%
Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund	0.62%	5%	11.09%	-0.76%	0.62%	11.86%

For the past year CM Finance Inc. was more bullish than Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund.

Summary

On 6 of the 9 factors Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund beats CM Finance Inc.

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. The fund primarily invests in investment grade tax-exempt municipal securities. The fund was formerly known as Nuveen Municipal High Yield Opportunity Fund. Nuveen Municipal High Income Opportunity Fund was founded in November 19, 2003 and is based in the United States.