fraction

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Research by Hendrik Bessembinder indicates that almost all the wealth creation from equity investing was produced by a tiny fraction of individual stocks.

From The Wall Street Journal

Murphy said only a fraction of the new committee members “appear to have any meaningful experience in vaccines.”

From The Wall Street Journal

While EV charging infrastructure grew in 2025, most public chargers have a fraction of the power needed to propel a Semi across America promptly—let alone fleets of them.

From The Wall Street Journal

Some 13,000 free tickets were snapped up instantly when reservations opened last month, a fraction given that more than 100,000 people had been queuing online.

From BBC

Devoting even a fraction of the company’s capacity to measuring crop health, he reasons, could save farmers a lot of water and benefit food security—a payoff for time spent scanning the Strait of Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal