Published on 25 Oct 2021 on Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance
Hedge Funds Are Souring On Ventas, Inc. (VTR)
Many prominent investors, including Warren Buffett, David Tepper and Stan Druckenmiller, have been cautious regarding the current bull market and missed out as the stock market reached another high in recent weeks. On the other hand, technology hedge funds weren't timid and registered double digit market beating gains. Financials, energy and industrial stocks initially suffered the most but many of these stocks delivered strong returns since November and hedge funds actually increased their positions in these stocks. In this article we will find out how hedge fund sentiment towards Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR) changed recently.
Ventas, Inc. (NYSE:VTR) was in 25 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of the second quarter of 2021. The all time high for this statistic is 29. VTR investors should be aware of a decrease in hedge fund interest recently. There were 27 hedge funds in our database with VTR holdings at the end of March. Our calculations also showed that VTR isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q2 rankings).
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