CMCO vs NPFD Comparison

Columbus McKinnon Corp is a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of intelligent motion solutions, including motion control products, technologies, automated systems, and services that efficiently and ergonomically move, lift, position, and secure materials. Its key products include hoists, crane components, precision conveyors, actuators, rigging tools, light rail workstations, and digital power and motion control systems. The company's targeted market verticals include general industries, process industries, industrial automation, and e-commerce/supply chain/warehousing among others. Geographically, the company generates a majority of its revenue from the United States and the rest from Germany, Canada, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Nuveen Variable Rate Preferred&Income is a diversified, closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide a high level of current income and total return. The fund invests a majority of its assets in variable-rate preferred securities and other variable-rate income-producing securities. The rest of its investments can be made in contingent capital securities or contingent convertible securities, convertible securities, corporate debt securities, U.S. government securities, residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, fixed-rate preferred securities, senior loans and loan participations and assignments, sovereign debt instruments, debt securities issued by supranational agencies, and/or taxable and tax-exempt municipal bonds.