Short interest in John Hancock Premium Div Fund (NYSE:PDT) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 36.11K to 62.21K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

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

Based on the recent average volume of 174.58K 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.