Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund
JQC NYSE
The closed-end Fund primarily invests in senior loans, high yield corporate debt, and collateralized loan obligation (CLO) debt. The Fund may invest without limitation in instruments rated below investment grade (rated BB+/Ba1 or lower at the time of investment or unrated but judged to be of compar...
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- Dividend yield
- 13.28% Trailing 12 months
- Volatility · 1Y
- 11.4% High Risk
- Beta
- 0.43 vs the market
- 52-week range
- 4.324.70
How JQC has paid off
Price return over every period, and total return with dividends reinvested, set against its benchmark.
Return by period
Price · to Nov 4Total return vs benchmark
Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 IndexOver 1 year, JQC returned +15.4% with dividends reinvested — −29.8 pts behind its benchmark.
How bumpy is the ride?
Return only means something next to the risk taken to earn it. Volatility, drawdowns and market sensitivity over 1 year.
Volatility
Annualized · 1YA typical year sees the price swing about ±11% around its trend.
Drawdown from peak
How far below its previous high the price has been Deepest fall −8.0% on Mar 27, 2026 — 56 days after the previous high
More than 5% below a high 7% of the time.
Risk vs reward
1YOver 1 year, JQC delivered less return, with less risk than its benchmark.
Market sensitivity
BetaA beta of 0.43 means JQC has moved less than the market.
Trend & momentum
Where the price sits against its moving averages, and how stretched the recent move is.
Price vs moving averages
Uptrend- 12-day average4.56 +1.1%
- 26-day average4.56 +1.0%
- 50-day average4.58 +0.6%
- 200-day average4.58 +0.7%
The price is above 4 of 4 averages. The 50-day average is above the 200-day, a sign of a rising longer-term trend.
Relative strength (RSI)
NeutralRSI compares recent gains with recent losses on a 0–100 scale. Above 70 a move is often considered stretched, below 30 washed out.
Technical indicators describe past prices. They are not a forecast.
What it pays you
Cash distributions over the last twelve months, and how they have grown.
About 133 USD a year for every 1,000 USD invested at today's price.
- Per share
- 0.61
- Last paid
- Oct 15, 2026
Last 12 months
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About Nuveen Credit Strategies Income Fund
The closed-end Fund primarily invests in senior loans, high yield corporate debt, and collateralized loan obligation (CLO) debt. The Fund may invest without limitation in instruments rated below investment grade (rated BB+/Ba1 or lower at the time of investment or unrated but judged to be of comparable quality) but no more than 30% in investments rated CCC/Caa or lower at the time of investment (or unrated but judged to be of comparable quality)
- Featured in 1 curated theme
- Ticker
- JQC
- Exchange
- NYSE
- ISIN
- US67073D1028
- CUSIP
- 67073D102
- Currency
- U.S. Dollar (USD)
- Country
- USA
- Sector
- Corporate
- Industry
- Floating Rate
- Benchmark
- Total Market US Cap Weighted 1200 Index
All key statistics
Details
Shareas of Nov 4, 2026
Dataas of Nov 5, 2026
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