HEQ Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (John Hancock Hedged Equity & Income | NYSE:HEQ)

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 September 18, 2026, HEQ stock price climbed to $11.45 with 49,666 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 0.43 to the broad based SPY ETF.

HEQ has a market cap of $136.58 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, HEQ traded as high as $12.00 and as low as $9.08.

HEQ has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +19.1% while the SPY ETF gained +16.7%. However, in the short term, HEQ had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +2.6% vs +3.3% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, HEQ shares have fared better than the market returning -0.5% compared to SPY -1.5%.

HEQ support price is $11.20 and resistance is $11.54 (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.