FSTR vs NCA Comparison

L.B. Foster Co is a U.S-based firm engaged in the manufacturing, fabrication, and distribution of products and services, especially for the rail, construction, energy, and utility industries. The company operates its business through two segments: Rail Technologies and Services and Infrastructure Solutions. Its principal business activity involves providing new and used rail, trackwork, and accessories, producing concrete railroad ties, insulated rail joints, power rail, track fasteners, cover boards, and sales of sells and rents steel sheet piling, H-bearing pile, and other piling products for foundation and earth retention requirements. It generates the majority of its revenues from the Rail Technologies and Services segment.

Nuveen California Municipal Value Fund Inc is a diversified closed-end management investment company. Its primary objective is to provide current income exempt from regular federal and California income taxes. The fund's secondary objective is to enhance portfolio value relative to the California municipal bond market by investing in tax-exempt California municipal securities that the Fund's investment adviser and/or the Fund's sub-adviser believes are underrated or undervalued or that represent municipal market sectors that are undervalued.