overweight
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He urged dip buying in early 2024 and went maximum overweight stocks in late March, both of which were timely calls.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
Hong Leong maintains an overweight rating on the Malaysian telco sector, pegging Telekom Malaysia and CelcomDigi as its top picks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Hong Leong maintains an overweight rating on Malaysia’s renewable energy sector.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
He cut his rating on HPE’s stock to neutral from overweight as well.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
In the six weeks since the shooting, Garfield had lost nearly 80 pounds and changed from a robust and slightly overweight man weighing 210 pounds to a skeletal figure.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
Such overweights relative to the float create an artificial demand for a stock that is greater than its publicly available supply, which could pose risks for index investors.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Yardeni said he’s instead recommending market-weighting those two combined sectors and rebalancing by adding overweights in S&P 500 financials and industrials.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
If she overweights these achievements, it may be because people are so disinclined to give her any credit.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2020
“My overweights change based on where I find good investments, and I see great stuff in tech now.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2017
They had charades during the rest hour that afternoon, the overweights headed by the bishop, against the underweights headed by Mr. Moody.
From Where There's a Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart
Information technology and communication services, which we overweighted for a long time, moved back to market weight toward the end of last year.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Managers overweighted both investment-grade corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities in credit and underweighted Japanese government bonds, expecting that the Bank of Japan would raise rates.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
Maybe they overweighted cost of living, climate and activities too much.
From Forbes ● Sep. 5, 2014
Then there is his character, a relentlessly lively presence in a team otherwise overweighted towards introspection.
From BBC ● Dec. 22, 2013
Since the canoe is as round-bottomed as the trunk from which it was carved, the least imbalance in weight distribution tips the canoe toward the overweighted side.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Bank of America strategists are overweighting financials and healthcare along with materials but are keeping tech stocks at market weight, citing concerns over an artificial-intelligence bubble.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 8, 2025
Lately, that’s meant overweighting sectors, such as energy and industrials, and underweighting tech, a move that’s hurt performance in recent years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2025
"Some sovereign wealth funds are overweighting China," he said.
From Reuters ● Oct. 10, 2023
This is exactly what would be expected if hallucinations in psychosis depended on an overweighting of perceptual priors so that they overwhelmed sensory prediction errors, unmooring perceptual best guesses from their causes in the world.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 27, 2019
The front wheels are sinking faster, overweighting the harness.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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