alpha
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“This is the alpha you want to walk away with,” he told the audience, referring to the investment’s edge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
“What I am looking for is companies that track the metals price and have compounding alpha on top of that,” Kim said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Researchers place the PVC in a solvent, then add aluminum trichloride and alpha olefins.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 29, 2026
“I think he really loves playing the alpha male who’s starting to crumble.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
“It’s the hardest job. It’s the most important job. And since I’m the alpha, I’m the lookout.”
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
“This guy is a serial winner. I can also tell you how hard it is to have a lot of alphas and make sure that only one will be the alpha.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
The table below lists the four S&P 1,500 sub-industry indexes with trailing two-year alphas of at least 100 percentage points, along with the two largest-cap stocks within each.
From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026
The two alphas publicly questioning the mentality of the England team is something that could come back to haunt them later in the tour.
From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2025
Dr. Phil, however, offered a different perspective, claiming both Swift and Kelce are alphas and pointed to their individual successes.
From Salon ● Feb. 29, 2024
We fired alphas, gammas, betas, the works, in wide dispersion, concentrated beam and just plain exposure.
From Make Mine Homogenized by Kelly Freas
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