Short interest in John Hancock Hedged Equity & Income Fund (NYSE:HEQ) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 18.50K to 24.14K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 72.03K 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.