HIX

Western Asset High Income Fund II Inc.
NYSEUSDEQUITY Financial Services DELAYED
Last price
3.54
▲ 0.03 (0.85%)
MARKET · —

Price

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Open
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Prev close
3.51
Day high
3.54
Day low
3.50
Volume
272.29K
Market cap
$318.85M
P/E (TTM)
7.08
52W range
3.46 – 4.39

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+0.28% -1.7%
1M
-8.76% -9.9%
3M
-10.15% -14.7%
6M
-11.06% -29.2%
YTD
-14.90% -29.2%
1Y
-18.06% -34.5%
3Y
-20.63% -102.9%
5Y
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Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

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Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
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Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

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Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
0
Net selling
Buy transactions
0
0 shares
Sell transactions
0
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Net transactions
0
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
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Not enough filings
Insider-held shares
2.70K
Total on file

Insider transactions

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DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
May 27, 25
GRILLO ANTHONY A
Director
BUY 2.50K $10.35K Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

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Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

1 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
GRILLO ANTHONY A
Director 2.50K Purchase

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$318.85M
Enterprise value$485.51M
Revenue (TTM)$48.61M
Gross profit$48.61M
EBITDA—
Net income$45.78M
EPS (TTM)$0.50
Free cash flow$28.69M
Total cash$6.00M
Total debt$172.66M
Book value / share$4.18
Shares outstanding90.07M
Float—
Short % of float—
Dividend yield16.61%
Beta (5Y)0.93

Valuation & profitability ratios

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Trailing P/E7.08
Forward P/E—
PEG ratio—
Price / sales—
Price / book0.85
EV / revenue9.99
EV / EBITDA—
Gross margin100.00%
Operating margin88.94%
Profit margin94.18%
Return on equity12.05%
Return on assets4.71%
Debt / equity45.85
Current ratio0.12
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Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 5 years · 3 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item20262025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $46.44M$32.72M$30.23M-$29.72M— +41.9%
Operating revenue $46.44M$32.72M$30.23M-$29.72M— +41.9%
Selling, general & admin $861.11K$696.70K$678.34K$579.17K— +23.6%
Total operating expense $656.57K$463.27K$923.45K$792.93K— +41.7%
Pre-tax income $45.78M$32.25M$29.31M-$30.51M— +42.0%
Net income $45.78M$32.25M$29.31M-$30.51M— +42.0%
Net income to common $45.78M$32.25M$29.31M-$30.51M— +42.0%
Basic EPS —0.360.49-0.47-0.69 —
Diluted EPS —0.360.49-0.47-0.69 —
Basic shares —89.59M90.03M64.76M59.83M —
Diluted shares —89.59M90.03M64.76M59.83M —

Options analytics

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Put / call volume
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Put / call open interest
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Positioning, not flow
Max pain
—
—
ATM implied vol
—
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
—
—
Call volume
0
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
0
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
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—
Heaviest put OI
—
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Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

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Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jan 2011 —0.39 —
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter — — $0 —
Next quarter — — $0 —
Current year — — $0 —
Next year — — $0 —

Analyst targets & ownership

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Mean target—
High target—
Low target—
Implied upside—
Analyst count—
ConsensusNONE
Strong buy / Buy— / —
Hold—
Sell / Strong sell— / —
Held by insiders0.00%
Held by institutions24.90%
Institutions holding79
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Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
3.54
-0.06% from price
SMA 20
3.66
-3.34% from price
SMA 50
3.81
-7.18% from price
SMA 100
3.89
-8.90% from price
SMA 200
3.98
-11.17% from price
EMA 12
3.58
-1.24% from price
EMA 26
3.68
-3.77% from price
EMA 50
3.77
-6.04% from price
RSI (14)
27.9
Oversold
MACD (12,26,9)
-0.09
Hist -0.01
ATR (14)
0.07
2.00% of price
Realised vol 30D
15.4%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
3.91
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
3.41
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Death
3.81 vs 3.98
Trend bias
Below 200
-11.17%

Options chain

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Expiry
Spot 3.54
Calls
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Puts
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Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.50
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.44
Loosely linked
Realised vol 30D
15.4%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-19.9%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-52.1%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
0.07
2.00% of price
Beta (reported)
0.93
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
476.42K
Prior 352.56K
Change vs prior
+35.1%
Shorts adding
% of float
—
—
% of shares out
0.53%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
1.4
Liquid
Float
—
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$0.59 / yr
Forward yield16.61%
5-year avg yield12.32%
Payout ratio116.73%
Ex-dividend dateOct 23, 2026
Next pay dateMar 1, 2019
Last split—
Split date—

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