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JOHN HANCOCK CLOSED-END FUNDS RELEASE EARNINGS DATA
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JOHN HANCOCK CLOSED-END FUNDS ANNOUNCE RENEWAL OF SHARE REPURCHASE PLANS
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JOHN HANCOCK CLOSED-END FUNDS DECLARE QUARTERLY DISTRIBUTIONS
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The fund's investment objective is to provide total return with a focus on current income and gains and also consisting of long-term capital appreciation. The fund seeks to provide investors with a portfolio that will generate attractive long-term total returns with downside equity market protection. Under normal market conditions, the fund’s portfolio management team invests at least 80% of the fund’s net assets (plus borrowing for investment purposes) in equity and equity-related securities. The team will also seek to generate income and provide a measure of downside protection by selling call options and equity futures. The fund can invest in fixed income securities, including high yield bonds, up to 20% of its total assets.
John Hancock Hedged Equity & Income trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol HEQ.
As of January 21, 2026, HEQ stock price climbed to $10.96 with 15,839 million shares trading.
HEQ has a beta of 0.60, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. HEQ has a correlation of 0.68 to the broad based SPY ETF.
HEQ has a market cap of $132.55 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, HEQ traded as high as $12.97 and as low as $9.08.
HEQ has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +15.2%, while SPY returned +16.4%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in HEQ shares. However, HEQ has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +5.5% and +1.1%, while SPY returned +2.9% and -0.5%, respectively. This indicates HEQ has been having a stronger performance recently.
HEQ support price is $10.84 and resistance is $11.03 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that HEQ shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
