HPS — JOHN HANCOCK PREFERRED INCOME FUND III

US equity
13.96 -0.14% today
USD · as of 2026-08-21

Price · 2024-08-26 → 2026-08-21

499 daily closes shown
52w low 13.83 · high 15.65

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Performance

1 day-0.14%
1 week-1.76%
1 month-1.90%
3 months-3.11%
6 months-5.29%
Year to date-3.92%
1 year-5.23%
3 years+1.45%
5 years-27.56%

Technicals

RSI 1429.0
vs 50-day avg-2.51%
vs 200-day avg-3.99%
Volatility 1y9.9%
Max drawdown 1y-11.63%
Avg volume 30d50.8K
Daily bars held2,674
History from2016-01-04

Dividends

Yield (trailing 12m)9.46%
Paid last 12m1.3200
Payments in 12m12
Paying since2016-01-12

Insider transactions (Form 4)

dateinsiderwhatshares pricevalue
2026-05-06Hurtsellers Christine
Director
Open-market purchase79114.8311.7K
2026-05-06Hurtsellers Christine
Director
Open-market purchase1714.83252
2026-05-06Hurtsellers Christine
Director
Open-market purchase114.8413
2026-01-26Phelan Kenneth J
Director
Open-market purchase68314.6510.0K
2025-04-08Wright Thomas Rowe
Director
Open-market purchase79413.7910.9K
2025-01-14Bacic William K
Open-market purchase70614.2510.1K
2024-12-23Ellison Noni L
Open-market purchase74015.2611.3K
2024-01-02Garfield Dean
Director
Open-market purchase1.2K13.8816.2K
2023-10-12Ellison Noni L
Director
Open-market purchase87912.6011.1K

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
UBS Group AG17.5M1.2M
MORGAN STANLEY11.0M776.0K
LPL Financial LLC4.5M315.7K
Invesco Ltd.3.1M215.0K
AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL INC2.4M168.3K
Cetera Investment Advisers2.4M166.7K
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA2.3M164.9K
BANK OF AMERICA CORP /DE/2.1M147.0K
GUGGENHEIM CAPITAL LLC1.6M112.9K
Fiera Capital Corp1.6M110.7K

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, 90d45.4% 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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