INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO (unaudited)

 

 

 

As of December 31, 2024    NexPoint Climate Tech Fund

 

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          Value ($)  
               
 

Common Stock — 74.9%

 
 

CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY 2.2%

 
  2,250      BorgWarner, Inc.(a)      71,528  
  7,039      Goodyear Tire & Rubber(a)(b)      63,351  
     

 

 

 
        134,879  
     

 

 

 
 

CONSUMER STAPLES — 8.6%

  
  5,600      Darling Ingredients, Inc. (a)(b)      188,664  
  5,400      Primo Brands Corp.(a)      166,158  
  4,600      Vital Farms, Inc.(b)      173,374  
     

 

 

 
        528,196  
     

 

 

 
 

ENERGY — 6.7%

  
  26,200      Clean Energy Fuels Corp.(b)      65,762  
  7,300      Green Plains, Inc.(a)(b)      69,204  
  50,237      John Wood Group PLC(b)      41,273  
  6,300      New Fortress Energy, Inc., Class A(a)      95,256  
  15,000      Ur-Energy, Inc.(b)      17,250  
  20,000      Yellow Cake PLC(b)      125,190  
     

 

 

 
        413,935  
     

 

 

 
 

INDUSTRIALS — 17.6%

 
  1,120      AECOM(a)      119,638  
  2,000      Chart Industries, Inc.(a)(b)      381,680  
  780      Clean Harbors, Inc.(a)(b)      179,509  
  7,612     

Montrose Environmental Group,
Inc.(a)(b)

     141,203  
  1,250      MYR Group, Inc.(a)(b)      185,963  
  16,200      SGL Carbon(b)      67,100  
  9,000      Stem, Inc.(b)      5,427  
     

 

 

 
        1,080,520  
     

 

 

 
 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY — 2.0%

 
  30,000     

indie Semiconductor, Inc.,
Class A(a)(b)(c)

     121,500  
     

 

 

 
 

MATERIALS — 20.7%

  
  3,000      Aspen Aerogels, Inc.(a)(b)      35,640  
  1,100      Crown Holdings, Inc (a)      90,959  
  48,000      DS Smith PLC      325,823  
  26,705      Ecovyst, Inc.(a)(b)      204,026  
  3,200      Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.(a)      121,856  
  11,982      MP Materials Corp.(a)(b)      186,919  
  1      Southern Copper Corp.      84  
  7,565      Teck Resources, Ltd., Class B(a)      306,609  
     

 

 

 
        1,271,916  
     

 

 

 
 

UTILITIES — 17.1%

  
  7,000      AES Corp.(a)      90,090  
  30,000      Altus Power, Inc., Class A (a)(b)      122,100  
  9,600      Brookfield Renewable Partners L.P (a)      218,784  
  12,100      Clearway Energy, Inc., Class C(a)      314,600  
  10,350      RWE      308,982  
     

 

 

 
        1,054,556  
     

 

 

 
  

Total Common Stock
(Cost $5,917,886)

     4,605,502  
     

 

 

 
 

Corporate Obligation — 6.2%

  

Principal Amount ($)

      
        
 

UTILITIES — 6.2%

  
  400,000     

Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure PLC
4.13%, 06/15/28 (d)

     378,188  
     

 

 

 
  

Total Corporate Obligation
(Cost $400,974)

     378,188  
     

 

 

 

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Preferred Stock — 4.8%

 
 

UTILITIES — 4.8%

  
  7,200     

NextEra Energy, Inc. 6.93%,
09/01/2025(b)

     294,624  
     

 

 

 
  

Total Preferred Stock
(Cost $355,293)

     294,624  
     

 

 

 
 

Convertible Bond — 3.4%

 

Principal Amount ($)

      
        
 

UTILITIES — 3.4%

  
  350,000     

Sunnova Energy International, Inc.
0.25%, 12/01/26

     210,542  
     

 

 

 
  

Total Convertible Bond
(Cost $235,939)

     210,542  
     

 

 

 
 

Master Limited Partnership — 3.2%

 
 

ENERGY — 3.2%

  
  10,072      Energy Transfer L.P. (a)      197,310  
     

 

 

 
  

Total Master Limited Partnership
(Cost $177,291)

     197,310  
     

 

 

 
 

Rights — 0.1%

  

Units

             
               
 

HEALTHCARE — 0.1%

  
  64,770      Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.      5,182  
     

 

 

 
  

Total Rights
(Cost $–)

     5,182  
     

 

 

 
 

Warrants — 0.0%

  

Units

             
               
 

ENERGY — 0.0%

  
  15,000      Ur-Energy, Inc., Expires 02/20/2026(b)      1,650  
     

 

 

 
  

Total Warrants
(Cost $150)

     1,650  
     

 

 

 

 

Principal Amount ($)

   Value ($)  
        
 

Repurchase Agreement(e)(f) — 0.0%

  
 
     
1
 
 
  

Daiwa Capital Markets 4.470%, dated 12/31/2024 to be repurchased on 01/02/2025, repurchase price $1 (collateralized by U.S. Government obligations, ranging in par value $0, 0.000% - 7.500%, 03/27/2025 - 01/01/2055; with total market value $1)

     1  
     

 

 

 
  

Total Repurchase Agreement
(Cost $1)

     1  
     

 

 

 
 


INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO (unaudited) (concluded)

 

 

 

As of December 31, 2024   NexPoint Climate Tech Fund

 

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Cash Equivalents — 3.4%

  
 

MONEY MARKET FUND(g) — 3.4%

  
  209,542     

Dreyfus Treasury Obligations Cash Management, Institutional Shares 4.340%

     209,542  
     

 

 

 
  

Total Cash Equivalents
(Cost $209,542)

     209,542  
     

 

 

 
 

Total Investments—96.0%
(Cost $7,297,076)

     5,902,541  
     

 

 

 

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Securities Sold Short— (12.8)%

  
 

Exchange-Traded Fund — (1.0)%

  
  (1,650)      Global X Copper Miners ETF      (62,997
     

 

 

 
  

Total Exchange-Traded Fund
(Proceeds $69,371)

     (62,997
     

 

 

 
 

Common Stock — (11.8)%

  
 

INDUSTRIALS — (7.3)%

  
  (1,100)      EnerSys      (101,673
  (800)      Generac Holdings, Inc. (h)      (124,040
  (7,000)      Joby Aviation, Inc. (h)      (56,910
  (280)      Watsco, Inc.      (132,689
  (1,508)     

ZIM Integrated Shipping Services,
Ltd.

     (32,377
     

 

 

 
        (447,689
     

 

 

 
 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY — (1.4)%

 
  (3,400)      JinkoSolar Holding Co, Ltd. ADR      (84,660
     

 

 

 
 

MATERIALS — (3.1)%

  
  (150)      Avery Dennison Corp.      (28,070
  (320)      Ecolab, Inc.      (74,982
  (190)      Packaging Corp of America      (42,775
  (506)      Southern Copper Corp.      (46,104
     

 

 

 
        (191,931
     

 

 

 
  

Total Common Stock
(Proceeds $653,619)

     (724,280
     

 

 

 
  

Total Securities Sold Short - (12.8)%
(Proceeds $722,990)

     (787,277
     

 

 

 
 

Other Assets & Liabilities, Net — 16.8%(i)

     1,034,581  
     

 

 

 
 

Net Assets — 100.0%

     6,149,845  
     

 

 

 

 

(a)

All or part of this security is pledged as collateral for short sales. The fair value of the securities pledged as collateral was $3,617,873.

(b)

Non-income producing security.

(c)

Securities (or a portion of securities) on loan. As of December 31, 2024, the fair value of securities loaned was $54,675. The loaned securities were secured with cash and/or securities collateral of $56,525. Collateral is calculated based on prior day’s prices.

(d)

Securities exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the 1933 Act. These securities may only be resold in transactions exempt from registration to qualified institutional buyers. The Board has determined these investments to be liquid. At December 31, 2024, these securities amounted to $378,188 or 6.1% of net assets.

(e)

Tri-Party Repurchase Agreement.

(f)

This security was purchased with cash collateral held from securities on loan. The total value of such securities as of December 31, 2024 was $1.

(g)

Rate reported is 7 day effective yield.

(h)

No dividend payable on security sold short.

(i)

As of December 31, 2024, $787,355 in cash was segregated or on deposit with the brokers to cover investments sold short and is included in “Other Assets & Liabilities, Net”.

 


NOTES TO INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO (unaudited)

 

 

 

As of December 31, 2024    NexPoint Funds II

Organization

NexPoint Funds II (the “Trust”) is a Massachusetts business trust organized on August 10, 1992. The Trust is registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended (the “1940 Act”), as an open-end management investment company with one portfolio offered as of June 30, 2024, that is diversified. This report covers information for the period ended December 31, 2024 for the NexPoint Climate Tech Fund (the “Fund”).

Valuation of Investments

Pursuant to Rule 2a-5 under the 1940 Act, the Board of Trustees (the “Board”) has designated NexPoint Asset Management, L.P. (“NexPoint” or the “Investment Adviser”) as the Fund’s valuation designee to perform the fair valuation determination for securities and other assets held by the Fund. NexPoint acting through its “Valuation Committee”, is responsible for determining the fair value of investments for which market quotations are not readily available. The Valuation Committee is comprised of officers of NexPoint and certain of NexPoint’s affiliated companies and determines fair value and oversees the calculation of the net asset value (“NAV”). The Valuation Committee is subject to Board oversight and certain reporting and other requirements intended to provide the Board the information it needs to oversee NexPoint’s fair value determinations.

The Fund’s investments are recorded at fair value. In computing the Fund’s net assets attributable to shares, securities with readily available market quotations on the New York Stock Exchange (“NYSE”), National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation (“NASDAQ”) or other nationally recognized exchange, use the closing quotations on the respective exchange for valuation of those securities. Securities for which there are no readily available market quotations will be valued pursuant to policies and procedures established by NexPoint and approved by the Board. Typically, such securities will be valued at the mean between the most recently quoted bid and ask prices provided by the principal market makers. If there is more than one such principal market maker, the value shall be the average of such means. Securities without a sale price or quotations from principal market makers on the valuation day may be priced by an independent pricing service. Generally, the Fund’s loan and bond positions are not traded on exchanges and consequently are valued based on a mean of the bid and ask price from the third-party pricing services or broker-dealer sources that the Investment Adviser has determined to have the capability to provide appropriate pricing services.

Securities for which market quotations are not readily available, or for which the Fund has determined that the price received from a pricing service or broker-dealer is “stale” or otherwise does not represent fair value (such as when events materially affecting the value of securities occur between the time when market price is determined and calculation of the Fund’s NAV) will be valued by the Fund at fair value, as determined by the Valuation Committee in good faith in accordance with policies and procedures established by NexPoint and approved by the Board, taking into account factors reasonably determined to be relevant, including, but not limited to: (i) the fundamental analytical data relating to the investment; (ii) the nature and duration of restrictions on disposition of the securities; and (iii) an evaluation of the forces that influence the market in which these securities are purchased and sold. In these cases, the Fund’s NAV will reflect the affected portfolio securities’ fair value as determined in the judgment of the Valuation Committee instead of being determined by the market. Using a fair value pricing methodology to value securities may result in a value that is different from a security’s most recent sale price and from the prices used by other investment companies to calculate their NAVs. Determination of fair value is uncertain because it involves subjective judgments and estimates.

There can be no assurance that the Fund’s valuation of a security will not differ from the amount that it realizes upon the sale of such security. Those differences could have a material impact to the Fund. The NAV shown in the Fund’s financial statements may vary from the NAV published by the Fund as of its period end because portfolio securities transactions are accounted for on the trade date (rather than the day following the trade date) for financial statement purposes.


NOTES TO INVESTMENT PORTFOLIO (unaudited) (concluded)

 

 

 

As of December 31, 2024   NexPoint Funds II

 

Fair Value Measurements

The Fund has performed an analysis of all existing investments and derivative instruments to determine the significance and character of inputs to its fair value determination. The levels of fair value inputs used to measure the Fund’s investments are characterized into a fair value hierarchy. Where inputs for an asset or liability fall into more than one level in the fair value hierarchy, the investment is classified in its entirety based on the lowest level input that is significant to that investment’s valuation. The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are described below:

 

Level 1  

   Quoted unadjusted prices for identical instruments in active markets to which the Fund has access at the date of measurement;
Level 2      Quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active, but are valued based on executed trades; broker quotations that constitute an executable price; and alternative pricing sources supported by observable inputs are classified within Level 2. Level 2 inputs are either directly or indirectly observable for the asset in connection with market data at the measurement date; and
Level 3      Model derived valuations in which one or more significant inputs or significant value drivers are unobservable. In certain cases, investments classified within Level 3 may include securities for which the Fund has obtained indicative quotes from broker-dealers that do not necessarily represent prices the broker may be willing to trade on, as such quotes can be subject to material management judgment. Unobservable inputs are those inputs that reflect the Fund’s own assumptions that market participants would use to price the asset or liability based on the best available information.

The Investment Adviser has established policies and procedures, as described above and approved by the Board, to ensure that valuation methodologies for investments and financial instruments that are categorized within all levels of the fair value hierarchy are fair and consistent. A Valuation Committee has been established to provide oversight of the valuation policies, processes and procedures, and is comprised of personnel from the Investment Adviser and its affiliates. The Valuation Committee meets monthly to review the proposed valuations for investments and financial instruments and is responsible for evaluating the overall fairness and consistent application of established policies.

As of December 31, 2024, the Fund’s investments consisted of common stocks, preferred stocks, master limited partnerships, exchange-traded funds, corporate obligations, convertible bonds, warrants, repurchase agreements, cash equivalents, and securities sold short.

The fair value of the Fund’s common stocks and preferred stocks, that are not actively traded on national exchanges, are generally priced using quotes derived from implied values, indicative bids, or a limited amount of actual trades and are classified as Level 3 assets because the inputs used by the brokers and pricing services to derive the values are not readily observable.

At the end of each calendar quarter, the Investment Adviser evaluates the Level 2 and 3 assets and liabilities for changes in liquidity, including but not limited to: whether a broker is willing to execute at the quoted price, the depth and consistency of prices from third party services, and the existence of contemporaneous, observable trades in the market. Additionally, the Investment Adviser evaluates the Level 1 and 2 assets and liabilities on a quarterly basis for changes in listings or delistings on national exchanges.

Due to the inherent uncertainty of determining the fair value of investments that do not have a readily available market value, the fair value of the Fund’s investments may fluctuate from period to period. Additionally, the fair value of investments may differ significantly from the values that would have been used had a ready market existed for such investments and may differ materially from the values the Fund may ultimately realize. Further, such investments may be subject to legal and other restrictions on resale or otherwise be less liquid than publicly traded securities.

For more information with regard to significant accounting policies, see the most recent annual or semi-annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.