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alpha

[al-fuh] / ˈæl fə /
NOUN
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I am unaware of any other stock-selection approach whose annualized alpha — either positive or negative — is this far from zero.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

“I think he really loves playing the alpha male who’s starting to crumble.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

He also courted strong and straight — and unavailable — alpha men to whom he appeared happy to play the beta role of political ingénue.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

Hydrogen alpha light allows astronomers to pinpoint some of the youngest stars hidden inside the glowing gas.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

One day he told Seaborg triumphantly that he had found an alpha emitter and had already ruled out that it could be an isotope of element 91, 92, or 93.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

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

“Everyone on the internet is really scared of Gen Alpha,” said Gen Z influencer Rivata Dutta, aka Riv, whose content is popular with alphas on TikTok.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

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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