alpha

With every merger there’s a dominant and a submissive, an alpha and a beta, a winner and a loser.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

And in one sense the researchers’ finding is too good to be true, since they reported that this hypothetical portfolio had an alpha close to zero after paying the stocks’ sky-high borrow costs.

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

Male chimps cannot gather in a constitutional assembly to abolish the office of alpha male and declare that from here on out all chimps are to be treated as equals.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

He and coach Brendon McCullum are two alphas in the England dressing room, possibly leaving little room for the growth of other characters.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2026

In recent months, the alphas have emerged as TikTok’s newest supervillain, a designation that has followed them into mainstream media.

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