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RiverNorth Flexible Municipal Income Fund II Inc

RFMZNYSE

SectorFinancials

IndustryAsset Management & Custody Banks

Beta (adjusted)0.80

Intrinsic Value

Insufficient data for a value estimateNot enough reliable inputs to publish a fair value for this company yet.

Market Price $11.82Price as of 1 Oct 2026

Data confidenceNot applicable

Market Cap $287.8M

Enterprise Value $528.4M

Shares Outstanding 24.4M diluted

Last ex-dividend14 Aug 2026

All prices and values are periodic snapshots, not live quotes. Source dates are shown for reference.

Thesis

Street consensus, scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggers

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Thesis Summary

RiverNorth Flexible Municipal Income Fund II, Inc. (RFMZ) offers tax-conscious investors an opportunistic hybrid strategy combining direct municipal bond management with tactical closed-end fund (CEF) discount trading. While the fund trades at an attractive discount to NAV of -7.13% (as of June 17, 2026) and provides a high distribution yield, its performance remains highly sensitive to interest rate volatility and yield curve dynamics. Furthermore, a significant portion of its monthly distributions is currently classified as return of capital, raising concerns about long-term distribution sustainability and capital preservation.

This section is the 12-month view: analyst targets and the probability-weighted scenarios built from them. The intrinsic value at the top of this page answers a different question: what the business is worth today.

Our research · scenarios, merits, risks, and invalidation triggersResearch as of 20 Jun 2026

Scenarios · 12-month scenario targetsAnchored at research date

Bear CaseDownside scenario

$12.00

Persistent inflation or renewed interest rate hikes put upward pressure on long-duration assets and increase floating-rate leverage costs. Destructive return of capital continues to erode the fund's NAV, forcing a downward reset of the level distribution policy at the next annual reset, causing the market discount to widen past 10%.

Base CaseCentral scenario

$13.50

The Federal Reserve maintains a stable or slightly easing interest rate environment, allowing municipal CEF discounts to stabilize. The fund continues to pay its monthly distribution of $0.0804 per share, supported by a mix of tax-exempt interest income and tactical trading gains, while trading at a persistent discount of 6% to 8% to NAV.

Scenarios reflect our research view at the research date.

Key Investment Merits

Attractive valuation with the fund trading at a -7.13% discount to NAV as of mid-June 2026.
Tax-exempt monthly distributions under a level distribution policy, appealing to high-bracket investors.
Flexible allocation strategy leveraging both RiverNorth's CEF trading expertise and MacKay Shields' institutional municipal bond management.

Key Investment Risks

High sensitivity to interest rate volatility and yield curve inversion, which increases leverage costs and pressures valuations.
Significant reliance on return of capital (estimated at over 60% of recent distributions) to maintain the level distribution rate, which can erode NAV over time.
Leverage risk, which amplifies both positive and negative returns in volatile fixed-income markets.

Thesis Invalidation Triggers

A sharp increase in short-term interest rates that drives leverage costs above the yield of the underlying municipal portfolio.
A substantial reduction in the annual reset distribution rate below 6.00% of NAV.
A severe widening of the weighted average discount of the underlying CEF portfolio beyond historical norms.

All scenarios are estimates and subject to change. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

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