Short interest in John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (NYSE:BTO) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 24.60K to 19.52K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for John Hancock Finl Opps gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of John Hancock Finl Opps's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 38.72K shares traded per day, it would take 1 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.