Published on 29 Oct 2021 on Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance

Is American Financial Group, Inc. (AFG) Going to Burn These Hedge Funds?

The latest 13F reporting period has come and gone, and Insider Monkey is again at the forefront when it comes to making use of this gold mine of data. We have processed the filings of the more than 873 world-class investment firms that we track and now have access to the collective wisdom contained in these filings, which are based on their June 30th holdings, data that is available nowhere else. Should you consider American Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:AFG) for your portfolio? We'll look to this invaluable collective wisdom for the answer.

Is American Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:AFG) worth your attention right now? Prominent investors were becoming less confident. The number of long hedge fund bets retreated by 2 recently. American Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE:AFG) was in 19 hedge funds' portfolios at the end of June. The all time high for this statistic is 30. Our calculations also showed that AFG isn't among the 30 most popular stocks among hedge funds (click for Q2 rankings). There were 21 hedge funds in our database with AFG positions at the end of the first quarter.

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