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outperform

[out-per-fawrm] / ˌaʊt pərˈfɔrm /


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That contrasted with some other high-profile names, who Haas have continued to outperform this year.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Macquarie keeps an outperform rating on Life360’s Australia-listed stock and trims its target price by 3.1% to 30.10 Australian dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

Macquarie raises its target price 14% to 31.69 Singapore dollars and reiterates its outperform rating.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

That puts the equal-weight ETF on pace to outperform the S&P 500 for the first time since 2022, as the chart below shows.

From MarketWatch Aug. 9, 2026

Children in those countries outperform our children, as nearly every story says.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

Kimi 3 boasts 2.8 trillion parameters and, according to industry experts, outperforms all other models with the exception of Anthropic’s Fable and OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.6.

From MarketWatch Jul. 21, 2026

The company says its model outperforms some cutting-edge U.S. systems, the latest sign that Chinese labs can rival American counterparts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

In terms of attacking metrics for their clubs this season, Mbappe outperforms Haaland in shots, touches and chances created, although the City striker recorded more assists in 2025-26.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

Geiser said that the high school GPA outperforms the SAT in predicting first-year student success once income and race are controlled.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 11, 2026

The hybrid approach outperforms leading models that rely only on conventional computers.

From Science Daily Apr. 17, 2026

Yuval Raphael's song, New Day Will Rise, placed 15th with the contest's juries - but outperformed every other participant in the public vote, scoring 297 points.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2026

For most of the past 100 years, research has found that an equally weighted portfolio of stocks has generally outperformed the traditional index, which weights the different stocks according to their market value.

From MarketWatch Aug. 12, 2026

Micron stock was rallying alongside other chip names on Wednesday but Korean standouts SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics outperformed following a report of a massive investment.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Additionally, despite the tough results, gaming ads still significantly outperformed the market, the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

Hermione’s expression could not have been any smugger; she had loathed being outperformed in every Potions class.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

When I reported on the business of Starbucks last year, analysts pointed to a major shift happening in the drinks market: concept-forward drinks are outperforming other traditional mainstays in the landscape.

From Slate Aug. 14, 2026

The group added that a core profit measure that strips out certain items more than doubled to $5.7 billion in the quarter, outperforming expectations.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

In a strange way, AI starts to become the market itself, and outperforming the market means knowing when the AI is wrong.

From MarketWatch Jul. 27, 2026

On Monday, Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed stock rose as much as 5.6% before paring gains to 5.15% at midday, outperforming the Nasdaq-like Hang Seng Tech Index’s 2.9% increase.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 20, 2026

“She’s just never got over you outperforming her in Potions,” said Ron, returning to his copy of One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling




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