NPFD vs GEVO Comparison

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.

Gevo Inc is a growth-oriented company that focuses on hard to decarbonize market sectors such as jet fuel, certain specialty fuels, on-road fuels, chemicals and materials, and certain products for the food chain such as protein and feeds made as co-products from its processes. It produces and sells competitively priced, renewable, drop-in products for these sectors, and generate carbon abatement value through its plant design and business systems. It owns and operates an ethanol plant with an adjacent CCS facility, Class VI carbon-storage well, and others. The group is currently developing the world's first large-scale ATJ facility to be co-located at the North Dakota site.