Both First Trust New Opportunities MLP & Energy Fund (NYSE:FPL) and Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund (NYSE:NVG) compete on a level playing field in the Asset Management industry. We will evaluate their performance with regards to dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, earnings and valuation.

Valuation and Earnings

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
First Trust New Opportunities MLP & Energy Fund	N/A	0.00	N/A	0.00	0.00
Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund	242.02M	12.79	14.48M	-0.07	0.00

Table 1 showcases the top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation of First Trust New Opportunities MLP & Energy Fund and Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund.

Profitability

Table 2 demonstrates the return on equity, return on assets and net margins of First Trust New Opportunities MLP & Energy Fund and Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
First Trust New Opportunities MLP & Energy Fund	0.00%	0%	0%
Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund	-5.98%	0%	0%

Dividends

Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund has an annual dividend pay of $0.84 per share while its annual dividend yield is 5.51%. First Trust New Opportunities MLP & Energy Fund does not pay a dividend.

Insider & Institutional Ownership

The shares of both First Trust New Opportunities MLP & Energy Fund and Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund are owned by institutional investors at 27.14% and 11.48% respectively.

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)
First Trust New Opportunities MLP & Energy Fund	-3.26%	-3.15%	2.87%	-15%	-25.13%	14.19%
Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund	0.96%	1.17%	8.24%	-1.75%	2.15%	4.86%

For the past year First Trust New Opportunities MLP & Energy Fund’s stock price has bigger growth than Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund.

Summary

First Trust New Opportunities MLP & Energy Fund beats on 4 of the 7 factors Nuveen AMT-Free Municipal Credit Income Fund.