coattails

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Investors trying to ride the coattails of funds by buying SpaceX just before it gets included in the Nasdaq 100 or the S&P 500 may find themselves in a crowded trade.

From Barron's • May 22, 2026

Next is competition — Rival food companies quickly rolled out their own plant-based fares to try to ride Beyond Meat’s coattails.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 12, 2026

The outsize stake is unusual for a buyout, where sovereign-wealth funds would typically ride on the coattails of traditional private-equity firms as minority investors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

“The other thing is the resiliency and the availability of the infrastructure. Cloud providers have designed and architected their infrastructure really well. We can ride on the coattails of their innovation.”

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2024

The argument went on that way with Strauss saying that Nemur had his eye on the Chair of Psychology at Hallston, and Nemur saying that Strauss was riding on the coattails of his psychological research.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes