ENTA vs NPFD Comparison

Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biotechnology company that uses a chemistry-based drug discovery approach to develop small-molecule candidates for virology and immunology applications. It focuses on Virology and Immunology. Its active development programs in virology are focused on respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, and SARS-CoV-2, and Hepatitis B virus. In immunology, the company is engaged in designing and developing potent and selective, oral small molecule inhibitors for the treatment of type 2 inflammatory disease. The company has collaborated with AbbVie, which markets its protease inhibitor paritaprevir, with additional inhibitors in development. The company generates the majority revenue in the form of royalty revenue.

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.