Short interest in John Hancock Financial Opportunities Fund (NYSE:BTO) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 6.35K to 8.93K. 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 35.81K 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.