JHCR - John Hancock Exchange-Traded Fund Trust - John Hancock Core Bond ETF
JHCR is designed to provide a reliable income stream while safeguarding capital and ensuring liquidity. It invests primarily in high-quality bonds, focusing on maintaining investment-grade ratings to manage risk. The fund emphasizes bonds such as corporate notes, mortgage-backed securities, and US government securities, deliberately avoiding foreign securities and lower-rated debt to keep risks in check.
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Asset Management
- Market Cap
- $2.45B
- Beta
- 0.05
- 52-Week Range
- 23.89-25.9
- Dividend Yield
- $1.05
- IPO Date
- Dec 18, 2024
- Exchange
- AMEX
JHCR Options Snapshot
Options pricing data for JHCR is refreshed daily after the close. When listed contracts exist, this page surfaces the latest at-the-money implied volatility, max pain strike, dealer gamma exposure (GEX), and 25-delta skew. Listed contracts and live snapshots appear once the options chain has been published by the exchange for the most recent session.
What This Page Covers
The JHCR overview links into per-metric analysis views: max pain, gamma exposure, volatility skew, expected move, options chain, open interest history, and aggregate Greeks. Microstructure data is available on short interest, short volume, fail-to-deliver, and market structure.
JHCR fund facts: expense ratio 0.29%, assets under management $2.51B, NAV $23.99 as of the data source's update on Oct 8, 2026, 990 holdings in its latest file, launched Dec 18, 2024, issued by John Hancock Investments. See the JHCR holdings.
Frequently asked JHCR overview questions
- What is JHCR?
- JHCR is the ticker symbol for John Hancock Exchange-Traded Fund Trust - John Hancock Core Bond ETF, an listed exchange-traded fund. JHCR is designed to provide a reliable income stream while safeguarding capital and ensuring liquidity. It invests primarily in high-quality bonds, focusing on maintaining investment-grade ratings to manage risk. Listed on AMEX. JHCR is the ETF ticker shown on this page; ETF traders use the fund for diversified exposure to its underlying basket, for sector and factor rotation, and for hedging or replication strategies via the listed options chain.
- What are JHCR's key statistics?
- John Hancock Exchange-Traded Fund Trust - John Hancock Core Bond ETF (JHCR) carries a market capitalization of $2.45B, 52-week range of 23.89-25.9. Full holdings disclosure, expense ratio, and tracking-error history live on the per-ticker fundamentals page or the sponsor's site; daily NAV and premium/discount-to-NAV are accessible from the same view. These structural inputs frame how the ETF options market prices implied volatility relative to its constituents.
- What sector or industry does JHCR belong to?
- John Hancock Exchange-Traded Fund Trust - John Hancock Core Bond ETF operates in the Financial Services sector, in the Asset Management industry. Sector classification affects how the ticker correlates with sector ETFs, how it reacts to macro factors like rate moves and commodity prices, and how its options pricing compares to sector peers. Compare JHCR's implied volatility and skew against sector benchmarks to gauge whether the options market is pricing single-name or systemic risk relative to the broader peer group.
- How current is the JHCR data on this page?
- Options snapshots refresh after each trading session; if no snapshot is currently posted for JHCR, it usually reflects low options liquidity or a recently listed name. Fund-level fields (sponsor, expense ratio, holdings concentration where available) refresh from the vendor feed nightly. ETF-specific filings (N-CSR, N-PX, N-CEN) update on the SEC EDGAR cadence. FINRA microstructure data refreshes on the source's cadence; for ETFs the off-exchange volume signal is dominated by authorized-participant creation and redemption rather than directional flow.