outperform

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Larger teams outperform small ones up to about five members, Uzzi says, but after that, you tend to get diminishing returns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

Some investors say they still expect big tech shares to outperform value stocks in the long run.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

"It's a sign that quantum batteries could one day outperform conventional energy-storage technologies."

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

He also argued that markets tend to outperform following a pullback, with the S&P 500 higher over the 12 months following a 10% correction around 88% of the time.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

Or that the upper triple-A-rated floor of some subprime mortgage bond would outperform the lower, triple-B-rated, floor.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis