Short interest in John Hancock Preferred Income Fund II (NYSE:HPF) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 82.59K to 129.69K. This put -% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 42.86K shares traded per day, it would take 3.03 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.