HPF — JOHN HANCOCK PREFERRED INCOME FUND II

US equity
15.61 -0.70% today
USD · as of 2026-08-21

Price · 2024-08-26 → 2026-08-21

499 daily closes shown
52w low 15.13 · high 17.06

Anonymous view is capped at two years of history. A free account extends it to five, and Pro opens the whole archive back to 2016-01-04.

Performance

1 day-0.70%
1 week-1.58%
1 month-1.08%
3 months-1.20%
6 months-3.76%
Year to date-3.28%
1 year-3.05%
3 years+3.79%
5 years-31.17%

Technicals

RSI 1425.9
vs 50-day avg-1.59%
vs 200-day avg-2.41%
Volatility 1y8.5%
Max drawdown 1y-11.31%
Avg volume 30d26.8K
Daily bars held2,674
History from2016-01-04

Dividends

Yield (trailing 12m)9.49%
Paid last 12m1.4820
Payments in 12m12
Paying since2016-01-12

Insider transactions (Form 4)

dateinsiderwhatshares pricevalue
2026-05-06Hurtsellers Christine
Director
Open-market purchase30016.134.8K
2026-05-06Hurtsellers Christine
Director
Open-market purchase19916.133.2K
2026-05-06Hurtsellers Christine
Director
Open-market purchase14416.132.3K
2026-05-06Hurtsellers Christine
Director
Open-market purchase10016.131.6K
2026-05-06Hurtsellers Christine
Director
Open-market purchase116.1115
2026-01-26Phelan Kenneth J
Director
Open-market purchase61816.1810.0K
2025-04-08Wright Thomas Rowe
Director
Open-market purchase71515.3911.0K
2025-01-14Bacic William K
Open-market purchase62416.0610.0K
2024-12-23Ellison Noni L
Open-market purchase33716.685.6K
2024-12-23Ellison Noni L
Open-market purchase33816.305.5K

Open-market purchases (code P) are the informative ones. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are compensation mechanics, not decisions. How to read a Form 4 →

Largest institutional holders

managervalueshares
GUGGENHEIM CAPITAL LLC5.8M369.3K
UBS Group AG5.5M353.6K
Axim Planning & Wealth4.2M272.3K
MORGAN STANLEY2.7M176.2K
Invesco Ltd.2.3M148.5K
LPL Financial LLC1.5M95.9K
WELLS FARGO & COMPANY/MN1.3M82.0K
Kestra Advisory Services, LLC1.1M69.4K
Everstar Asset Management, LLC870.4K55.8K
BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/733.1K47.0K

13F positions as of 2026-03-31, filed up to 45 days after quarter end. Long-only US equity — shorts and derivatives never appear. What 13F does and does not show →

Short selling

Avg short volume, 90d53.5% of tape
Days observed61

This is off-exchange short volume, not short interest: it is flow, not position, and 40–50% is normal because market makers short to fill your buy. Why that number misleads →

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