MQY - BlackRock MuniYield Quality Fund

What this means for you

RiverNorth specializes in closed-end funds trading below the value of their holdings - not a bank or an index fund holding shares for clients - and has told the regulator it is not seeking changes. One other large investor owns more than 5% of this fund and has said the same; that is common for banks, brokers and index funds that hold shares for their clients.

Nothing is required of you. If an investor changes its mind, it must file a new notice within days, and it will show up here.

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What happened, and when

1. Sept 10, 2026

   The fund said it will repay some borrowed money on Oct 2, 2026.

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2. Sept 10, 2026

   The fund said it will repay some borrowed money on Oct 2, 2026.

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3. Sept 10, 2026

   The fund said it will repay some borrowed money on Oct 2, 2026.

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4. May 15, 2026

   RiverNorth now owns 5.3%, as a passive investor.

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5. March 2, 2026

   JPMorgan Chase & Co. sold down below 5% of the fund's preferred shares and stopped reporting.

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About this fund

• Run by BlackRock Advisors, LLC. Part of the BlackRock-advised Funds fund family. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• Size: about $1.81 billion of holdings, as of July 31, 2026. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Borrowing: the fund borrows about 42% on top of its own money, as of July 31, 2026. Borrowed money makes gains and losses bigger. About 63% of that is money the fund has borrowed by selling preferred shares. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Costs: 0.6% a year in management fees; 3.3% a year in total, including interest on borrowed money. Fiscal year ended July 31, 2026. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
  Among the 76 funds we follow that invest in tax-free municipal bonds, 24 charge a lower management fee and 50 charge less in total, at their last yearly reports. Both numbers are measured against the fund's own money, not the money it borrows on top, so a fund that borrows more shows higher costs on both counts.
• Payouts: last fiscal year (ended July 31, 2026) the fund paid $0.70 a share, all of it income. Most funds announce their monthly or quarterly payout on their own website, not in a filing with the regulator, so a cut or a raise there does not show up here until the next yearly report. A few funds do file a notice about a fixed payout; those appear under What happened, and when. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Value of holdings per share at the last fiscal year end (July 31, 2026): $12.06. The shares traded at $11.20, about 7.1% below that. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's yearly report. Original document →
• How the holdings did: down 0.7% over the last three months we have (May-July 2026), before the share price is taken into account. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• First reported to the regulator in 1994.

How this has changed

• Payouts per share: $0.70 in the fiscal year ended July 31, 2026; $0.70 in the year ended July 31, 2025; $0.64 in the year ended July 31, 2024.As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Of that, your own money back rather than income: none in the year ended July 31, 2026; $0.22 in the year ended July 31, 2025; $0.08 in the year ended July 31, 2024.As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Costs, including interest on borrowed money: 3.27% a year in the fiscal year ended July 31, 2026; 3.2% a year in the year ended July 31, 2025; 3.17% a year in the year ended July 31, 2024.As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Size of the holdings: about $1.81 billion at July 31, 2026; $844 million at July 31, 2025; $948 million at July 31, 2024. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: July 31, 2026 →, July 31, 2025 →, July 31, 2024 →.
• Borrowing: about 42% on top of its own money at July 31, 2026; 42% at July 31, 2025; 36% at July 31, 2024. From the fund's quarterly holdings reports. Original documents: July 31, 2026 →, July 31, 2025 →, July 31, 2024 →.
• The fund had about 150 million shares at July 31, 2026, up 109.4% from July 31, 2024.As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
  In between, the fund said it may sell new shares. Original document →

What these lines mean: a payout that is your own money back, what a fund costs, borrowing.

What a holder made

• The year ended July 31, 2026: the shares returned +8.6%, counting payouts; the holdings +9%. The holdings figure is what the fund's investments earned, before the share price is taken into account. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended July 31, 2025: the shares returned -6.2%, counting payouts; the holdings -5.6%. As of July 31, 2025, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended July 31, 2024: the shares returned +10.3%, counting payouts; the holdings +5.4%. As of July 31, 2024, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The year ended July 31, 2023: the shares returned -5.1%, counting payouts; the holdings -0.1%. As of July 31, 2023, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• Those four years together: the shares returned +6.5%. $10,000 of shares bought at the start (Aug 1, 2022) would have become about $10,700 by July 31, 2026, with every payout counted, before tax. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• The holdings over the last twelve months we have, to July 31, 2026: +9%. The quarterly reports carry no share price, so this is the holdings alone. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →
• Of the 33 funds that invest in tax-free municipal bonds with a fiscal year ending within six months of this one, 22 reported a higher share return for that year and 10 a lower one. As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's annual report. Original document →
• A past year says nothing about the next one. All figures are the fund's own, from its reports to the regulator.

Why the shares and the holdings can differ: the gap between price and value. Why payouts count: a payout that is your own money back.

What the fund holds

Mostly tax-free municipal bonds (99%), the rest cash and short-term holdings. All of it issued in the U.S.

1. Puerto Rico Sales Tax Financing Corp Sales Tax Revenue, Puerto Rico Sales Tax Fing Corp Sales Tax Revenue - 2%
2. Cash and short-term - 1.7%
3. Tampa Bay Water, Tampa Bay FL Wtr Regl Wtr Sply Auth Utility Sys Revenue - 1.4%
4. New York Transportation Development, New York St Transprtn Dev Corp Spl Fac Revenue - 1.4%
5. Tennessee Energy Acquisition Corp Commodity Project Revenue - 1.2%
6. Town of Queen Creek AZ, Queen Creek AZ Cops - 1.1%
7. Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, Pennsylvania St Hsg Fin Agy Sf Mtge Revenue - 1.1%
8. Black Belt Energy Gas District, Black Belt Energy Gas Dist Al Gas Project Revenue - 1.1%
9. Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority Sales Tax Revenue, Triborough NY Bridge & Tunnel Auth Sales Tax Revenue - 1%
10. Hillsborough County Industrial Development Authority, Hillsborough Cnty Fla Indl Devauth Health Sys Revenue - 1%

As of July 31, 2026, from the fund's quarterly holdings report. Original document →