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Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund

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Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund

GOF·NYSE·Finance·CIK 0001380936

Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund is a closed-ended balanced mutual fund that invests in public equity and fixed income markets globally. The fund is managed by Guggenheim Funds Investment Advisors, LLC, with co-management by Guggenheim Partners Investment Management LLC. For its equity investments, the fund directly invests in stocks and uses derivatives, such as writing covered call and put options, focusing on value stocks of companies across all capitalizations and diversified sectors. The equity portion of the portfolio is benchmarked against the S&P 500 Index. For its fixed income investments, the fund targets securities including corporate bonds, loans, loan participations, structured finance investments, and U.S. government and agency securities. These fixed income securities must not be rated below CCC by S&P or Caa2 by Moody's. The fixed income part of the portfolio is benchmarked against the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index. The fund employs a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis to construct its portfolio. Formed on November 13, 2006, Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund is domiciled in the United States and was formerly known as Claymore/Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund.

Guggenheim Strategic Opportunities Fund (NYSE:GOF) is a publicly traded company in the Finance sector. Wiseek has independently scored 3 items for GOF at importance 7 or higher on its 1–10 market-impact scale. Its most recent item scored 7 or higher is dated 2026-08-21, rated 8/10. Across its 3 most recent items scored 7 or higher, the top rating is 8/10, with 2 rated 8 or above. Recent SEC coverage for GOF spans APP NTC.

Recent high-impact activity:

  • Guggenheim Fund Sinks to 17-Year Low as Short-Seller Claims Mount
  • Short Report Alleges GOF's Dividend Model Is Unsustainable, Stock Hits 52-Week Low
  • Guggenheim Funds Seek SEC Approval for Affiliated Co-Investment

Short Interest & Short Volume

1.00 days to cover

FINRA reported short interest of 2,266,158 shares in GOF as of the September 15, 2026 settlement, a 9.5% increase from the prior period — about 1.0 days to cover at its recent average daily volume. On October 2, 2026, 35.4% of GOF volume reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities was marked short.

Short interest (bi-monthly positions)2,266,158 shares as of September 15, 2026
Change vs prior period▲ 9.5%
Days to cover1.00 at avg daily volume of 2,841,942
Daily short volume (FINRA facilities)35.4% of 1,135,231 shares on October 2, 2026
5-day average short volume35.7%

Daily short sale volume covers trades reported to FINRA trade-reporting facilities and is not the same as short interest (bi-monthly reported positions). Source: FINRA — FINRA is the owner and source of this short interest and short sale volume data; it may not be redistributed.

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$8.71 -0.03% today
52-week range · as of 2026-05-01 $8.71 – $15.2
Market cap
$1.85B
Volume
2.6M (0.8× avg)
3-mo avg 3.3M
Live data · 2026-10-05 04:24 UTC · Market overnight

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GOF
Aug 21, 2026, 11:17 AM EDT
Source: Reuters
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $9.03
Real-time Price: $8.71 info
Change: -$0.319 (-4%) info
Market Cap: $1.853B info
GOF
Aug 20, 2026, 12:49 PM EDT
Source: Benzinga
Importance Score:
8
Price at Filing: $9.31
Real-time Price: $8.71 info
Change: -$0.6039 (-6%) info
Market Cap: $1.853B info
GOF
May 01, 2026, 9:41 AM EDT
Filing Type: APP NTC
Importance Score:
7
Price at Filing: $11.40
Real-time Price: $8.71 info
Change: -$2.69 (-24%) info
Market Cap: $1.853B info
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