The market has been high on Dreyfus High Yield Strategies Fund Common Stock (DHF) stock recently. DHF gets a Bullish score from InvestorsObserver's Stock Sentiment Indicator.
What is Stock Sentiment?
In investing, sentiment generally means whether or not a given security is in favor with investors. It is typically a pretty short-term metric that relies entirely on technical analysis. That means it doesn’t incorporate anything to do with the health or profitability of the underlying company.
Recent trends are a good indicator of current market sentiments. In its most basic form, stocks that are trending up are desirable by investors while stocks currently falling must be unattractive.
InvestorsObserver's Sentimental Indicator tracks both changes in price and volume to analyze the most recent trends. Typically an increase in volume indicates ongoing trends are getting stronger, while a decrease in volume usually signals an end to the current trend.
Available options can also represent current sentiments for a given stock. Since investors are able to bet on future trends of stocks using options, we consider the ratio of calls to puts when analyzing market sentiments .
What's Happening With DHF Stock Today?
Dreyfus High Yield Strategies Fund Common Stock (DHF) stock is trading at $2.96 as of 3:07 PM on Monday, Nov 23, a gain of $0.02, or 0.85% from the previous closing price of $2.93. The stock has traded between $2.93 and $2.96 so far today. Volume today is light. So far 1,023,165 shares have traded compared to average volume of 2,057,515 shares.
More About Dreyfus High Yield Strategies Fund Common Stock
BNY Mellon High Yield Strategies Fund is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company. The fund's primary investment objective is to seek high current income and its secondary objective is capital appreciation. It invests primarily in fixed-income securities of below-investment-grade credit quality.
