Published on 10 Nov 2021 on Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance

Were Hedge Funds Right About JetBlue Airways Corporation (JBLU)?

A whopping number of 13F filings filed with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been processed by Insider Monkey so that individual investors can look at the overall hedge fund sentiment towards the stocks included in their watchlists. These freshly-submitted public filings disclose money managers’ equity positions as of the end of the three-month period that ended June 30th, so let’s proceed with the discussion of the hedge fund sentiment on JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ:JBLU).

JetBlue Airways Corporation (NASDAQ:JBLU) was in 30 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of June. The all time high for this statistic is 42. JBLU has experienced an increase in support from the world's most elite money managers in recent months. There were 29 hedge funds in our database with JBLU positions at the end of the first quarter. Our calculations also showed that JBLU isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q2 rankings).

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