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 April 19, 2024, JHS stock price climbed to $10.96 with 5,433 million shares trading.

JHS has a beta of 0.56, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. JHS has a correlation of 0.45 to the broad based SPY ETF.

JHS has a market cap of $127.65 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, JHS stock traded as high as $17.59 and as low as $9.76.

JHS has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +3.9%, while the SPY ETF gained +21.2%. In the last 3 month period, JHS fell short of the market, returning +1.2%, while SPY returned +4.3%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks JHS has outperformed the stock market by returning -0.2%, while SPY returned -3.5%.

JHS support price is $10.82 and resistance is $11.00 (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 stock will trade within this expected range on the day.