JHS Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (John Hancock Income Securities Trust | NYSE:JHS)

The Fund’s primary objective is to generate a high level of current income consistent with prudent risk. The Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in income securities, which include a diversified portfolio of corporate and government bonds. In choosing bonds for the portfolio, the Fund’s managers evaluate the full spectrum of bonds in the marketplace and diversifies across a number of industries. It is contemplated that the Fund may invest up to 25% of the value of its total assets in debt securities that have a rating of below-investment grade by Moody's and Standard & Poor's at the time of purchase.

John Hancock Income Securities Trust trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol JHS.

As of January 30, 2026, JHS stock price climbed to $11.81 with 7,457 million shares trading.

JHS has a market cap of $137.55 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, JHS traded as high as $12.09 and as low as $9.76.

JHS has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +10.9%, while SPY returned +15.6%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in JHS shares. However, JHS has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +4.2% and +0.2%, while SPY returned +2.1% and 0.0%, respectively. This indicates JHS has been having a stronger performance recently.

JHS support price is $11.71 and resistance is $11.89 (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 JHS shares will trade within this expected range on the day.